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1 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I was wondering where this has been coming from, as discussions of hacks-du-jour seem to mention "cloud" as a solution.

For those readying at home: the idea is nonsense.
The solutions to your problems may involved "cloud" thingies, incidentally, but a cloud thingy is not the solution to your problems. Those pushing "cloud" thingies as the forefront of their solution to your problems, e.g. Brad Smith, are pushing, well, snake oil.
It's like that recent municipal water "hack". Nobody knows what happened, or even if it was a "hack". Yet everyone is promoting their solutions to the problem.

If you are promoting a solution and can't tell me how the hack happened, then your solution to the "hack" is snake oil.
No, I have not diagnosed why you have a cough. However, I have the solution right here for it. Image
By definition, a "cure-all" is something that cure's your ill without me needing to diagnose it.

Cloud is a cure-all.

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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham😷, provocateur Profile picture
1 Mar
I need to dribble out JSON output a few times second, each looking like {stuff}. How should I do it:

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Thanks the twitters! My answer is #2. I changed the option in the code to say "--ndjson-status" to communicate what's going on. Here are the two references people pointed me to:
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It's always "them" who don't understand, not "us". "We" have the clue, "they" don't.

In fact, it's this person who doesn't understand climate change. That's why deniers exist -- while climate change is real and important, those on the other side still misrepresent it.
It's like being correct that God exists -- and then claiming thus anybody who disputes "indulgences" is a heretic and must be excommunicated as a denier. No, Martin Luther believed in God, he just didn't believe in the excesses of the church.
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One of the things I hate about open-source is the paranoia that this "pull request" containing a useful update to my code is actually a trojan vuln/backdoor. github.com/robertdavidgra…
This sounds like a really useful feature, but at the same time, is enough code I can't simply press the "accept" button to accept the changes.
I'm tweeting about this because there are legal concerns. Whenever I talk to law enforcement, they demand it's my responsibility to verify that contributors aren't just adding code to help illegal activities.
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16 Jan
If this sounds like a wackjob conspiracy theory, it's because this is a wackjob conspiracy theory. Signal's source code and algorithms are open. Just because some government departs have given it funding doesn't mean it's a secret plot by the CIA.
Signal uses well-known crypto algorithms. If they are insecure, well, then all cryptography is insecure and it doesn't matter which encrypted messaging app you use.
If there's a backdoor in the code, well, the code is open source and people would be able to find it.
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16 Jan
This is why I feel like Winston Smith in the opening of Nineteen Eighty Four, I remember a time when this issue meant something different.
Here's is the "censorship episode" of the show "WKRP in Cincinnati", where you see Andy (radio station program director) argue "free enterprise" against preacher "Dr. Bob Hallier" who is using boycotts to get them to remove music from the radio:
Or, if you prefer a transcript of that scene:
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I was an early 1980s Internet hacker. Let me explain why "Bugtraq" is probably the most important achievement in the world of cybersecurity.
Most of what you know of the 1980s hacking scene wasn't Internet, but "phone phreaking" and "BBSs". I don't know much about those things. I was an Internet hacker instead -- on the net since back before DNS was a thing (when 'hosts.txt' was distributed by hand).
By the late 1980s, computers from Sun Microsystems were a big deal. Yet, Sun (and other manufacturers) were immune to notifications of vulnerabilities. Issues had to be handle by tech support, and if you didn't have a support contract, you didn't matter.
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