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windowsworkstoo··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
thats chainguard’s entire value prop (they are quite well known in this sphere)
windowsworkstoo··on Friendship Begins at Home
1000% correct. the second you look in the mirror and you're happy with what you see, baby, you just lost the battle.
windowsworkstoo··on A criminal enterprise run by monkeys
The amount of ideas Karl had that have since come to fruition is quite remarkable
windowsworkstoo··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
Agree, when MS moved their office file formats to xml, I made plenty of money building extremely customizable templating engines all based on a very small amount of XSLT - it worked great given all the structure and metadata available in xml
windowsworkstoo··on (Reasonably) secure Azure Pipelines on-prem deployments
Probably the only improvements I can think is running the runner as a gMSA and applying the relevant ACL's to that, so you can avoid needing to supply creds.

Otherwise, on our fleet of hundreds of IIS, we've had success just pointing IIS to a hardlink, deploying the new version to a new folder and updating the hardlink - from memory this does trigger an app pool restart but its super fast, lets you go back and forth very easily.

windowsworkstoo··on Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
This is just to make it an IdP initiated flow (instead of a SP initiated flow) and its to prevent the extra hop back and forwards between Okta/IdP and the application.
windowsworkstoo··on The weirdest bug I've seen yet
Very well said - even with open source there seems to be a general lack of willingness to actually read code, let alone crack open the disassembler or attach a debugger - the skill is apparently not taught anymore
windowsworkstoo··on Call the Routing Police
In AU, even for aerial powerlines, we run our own mix of fibre and radio comms between zone subs and stuff like ACR's... in fact I dont think any of the transmission or distribution operators utilise any telco stuff for their control networks
windowsworkstoo··on 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
Yah, this is why third party risk management is a thing. When I ran sec training, I always hammered home the point that a third party security issue is your issue.

Now, sure, technically there may be circumstances when you can technically/legally shift liability. But your customers don't care - they have the relationship with you. So the third parties problems, are your problems.

windowsworkstoo··on Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code
Global namespace shared resources, regional namespace shared resources, then each app provisions its own bit, consuming/linking the two aforementioned layers.

Everyone gets here eventually and you can just fight over stuff like “is an alb shared regional or app specific”

windowsworkstoo··on The future of the web is VNC
No, this is the new trend, browser isolation - see Island Browser for example
windowsworkstoo··on The man who broke bowling
bowling is fucken weird..I was a junior almost pro bowler and I know Belmo, being around the same age, coming up at the same time and in the same area as him…he’s a freak in the best sense of the word. I remember some other kids who would bowl with a bigger hook (and their thumbs) but Belmo was just super consistent…knew he would do great and very glad he has, despite all the haters
windowsworkstoo··on Kenny Log-Ins
The amount of ideas that Karl had which came to reality, that Steve and Ricky dismissed as mental is what keeps me listening to Youtube compilations of their show to this very day :D
windowsworkstoo··on CDC File Transfer
Microsoft have this for DFS-R and the spec is open https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol... - its pretty straight forward to implement.
windowsworkstoo··on American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants
There are API’s, just not public ones - only available under commercial agreement
windowsworkstoo··on Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub
Yah, that's the OAuth Client Credentials flow but as noted, you still have a static set of creds that are required to generate the short lived access token. Besides being useful for being able to limit scope in some circumstances, the main point of the client cred flow is to appease eager sec arch's who insist on OAuth.
windowsworkstoo··on Okta Exposes Passwords in Clear Text for Possible Theft
To answer the why plain text, the feature this talks about is the Okta Secure Web App - basically if an app cant do proper SSO you can set it up as SWA which just acts like a password manager. The Okta browser plugin will just fill out the login form of whatever site for you. One bonus feature with SWAs is the admin can set a password for all users, making it a cheap way to share an account transparently for all your users.

In the words of Raymond Chen this exploit is basically being on the other side of the air tight hatch

windowsworkstoo··on How to Bypass Cloudflare: A Comprehensive Guide
Yes, Google and most major search engines enable a RDNS lookup to validate they are really a googlebot
windowsworkstoo··on Ask HN: What are the ways you go about getting comfortable with a new codebase?
Yep, underrated advice. Run it, read the code, fiddle some bits and make sure what you fiddled matches your mental model.

Honestly, learning to read code and execute it in your head is a super power

windowsworkstoo··on After the first tech job
Heh your bit about Github resonates. I hire plenty of devs and the whole "make sure you have a GH body of work" has become such a meme that when people do include it on their CV, it's usually just a big list of forked repos with no contributions.

For me, Github/personal projects have not been a useful signal either way, but it is apparent in recentish years that the advice has been to have one regardless.

windowsworkstoo··on It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV
Don’t know your exact specs or the premium you pay over consumer level but I buy/install commercial display panels and when I need a new TV or such, I just grab one of them. No extra stuff, fast input switching etc etc
windowsworkstoo··on Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
Yeh this is bang on - I find that type of person tends to say they know something, where in fact they know the name of something and thats’s about it - there’s nothing below the surface.
windowsworkstoo··on Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers, including hospitals
That's a pigment company...
windowsworkstoo··on Amazon Linux 2022
Yep we do this, works good - you can either trigger a server refresh from SNS (AWS notifies you of certain AMI updates) or we just rebuild our underlying fleet each week with the most current AL2 AMI
windowsworkstoo··on What it's like to ride 900 km in a day
It’s not really, ask all us audax riders. it’s surprising to think that 250km in a day was so life changing when I/we do 1200km in 3 days regularly and at a leisurely pace
windowsworkstoo··on Postgres audit tables saved us from taking down production
Yes (sort of). This is just a bunch of triggers that populate audit tables. In Mongo you'd use change streams (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/changeStreams/) which are based off the oplog.

Thus it requires a "replicaset" but it's fine to run a single node replicaset.

windowsworkstoo··on Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale
bang on - I assume these people collected a monthly pay packet? If so, what is the best problem? Such naive entitlement.
windowsworkstoo··on Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage
Youre downvoted but you’re right - this is entry level stuff and it seems to get routinely not taught or simply forgotten and ignored.

Everyone seems to want to worry about “nation state actors” and getting with novel 0 days when in fact missing the basic low hanging fruit is likely to result in far more damage

windowsworkstoo··on The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux
Yes and the audits around this change arbitrarily each year and you will be denied coverage if you are doing something otherwise competent but miss their particular flavour of the year
windowsworkstoo··on Observing my cellphone switch towers
Correct, enterprise wifi is usually just APs with a common SSID and security configuration and some tuning to try to force clients to roam sensibly. There’s no AP to AP comms, it all goes back to the switchport
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