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App Analysis: Air Canada
This blog series focuses on the collection of device data by various popular mobile apps. Data is often collected in the name of advertising, error monitoring, fraud detection, and social media integration.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 356 posts.
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Disassembling the Sony FE 135mm F/1.8 GM
When we optically tested the Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM we were mighty impressed. Then I threw up in my mouth a little when I read a couple of reviewers comment on the build quality. Because holding a…
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Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning
Static analysis tools (SAST) are perhaps the most common tool for an AppSec team in the endless effort to move security to the left. They can be integrated into development pipelines in order to of…
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Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy
In order to hide your IP address and to try and limit throttling when web scraping, it might be a good idea to use a proxy such as Tor. This post describes how to use Python based web scraping tools and Tor to hide yourself when scraping websites for data. However, it can also be used more broadly when using Python to…
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How to Automatically Backup a Linux VPS to a Separate Cloud Storage Service
A walkthrough for backing up a Linux server to an external storage provider like Amazon S3 automatically.
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If you must run Windows 10
Barring divine intervention, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 ( formerly LTSB ) may be the least bad option:
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CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses
Every day, local small businesses receive 400 million calls from consumers. CallJoy’s phone technology helps them answer with intelligence.
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Goodbye Docker: Purging Is Such Sweet Sorrow
This was triggered by a recurring incident I faced where the Docker daemon was using 100% CPU on multiple cores that made the host effectively unusable.
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The Essential Tools of Scientific Machine Learning
Scientific machine learning is a burgeoning discipline which blends scientific computing and machine learning. Traditionally, scientific computing focuses on large-scale mechanistic models, usually differential equations, that are derived from scientific laws that simplified and explained phenomena. On the other hand…
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Bazel 2.0
A new major version of Bazel, Bazel 2.0 has just been released. In particular, it brings some important flag flips that did not make it into Bazel 1.0 .
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How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
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How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too
First published Jan. 17, 2019; updated Nov. 15, 2019 Let me briefly tell my Linux story. If you're thinking about moving to Linux, and wondering how you'd do so, it might give you some pointers and inspiration. The back story My first introduction to the command line was in the 80s when I f
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Dependabot is now free
Nimble Industries builds purpose-driven software like StatusGator, TrackSSL, and VimTricks – high-impact products solving real problems with clarity, reliability, and performance, trusted by teams worldwide.
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Technology Preview for secure value recovery
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Technologies like p...
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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Get ready for medium data
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Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
Not so much work remains to be done to turn /e/ into a desktop operating system. Using an /e/ smartphone as a desktop PC with an external screen, keyboard and mouse is already possible with good usability. Using an /e/ smartphone as a laptop is also possible with scrcpy although some minor improvements are still…
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Podman and Buildah for Docker Users
What docker users need to know to move from Docker to Podman and Buildah and the advantages of doing so. Developers/operators can easily move to Podman, do all the fun tasks that they are familiar
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Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with an easy deployment.
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Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (2017)
Read the latest thinking, news and research from the team at Container Solutions in our Cloud Native Blog.
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Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits
Updated 2023-04-16 Or how to serve half a billion placeholder images a month on a budget. Lorem Picsum is one of the most popular placeholder sites on the internet. It started as a small side project written in NodeJS five years ago to cover my own needs and has since gone through several iterations as it has grown…
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The Guide to Writing Online
Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.
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Visual Studio online available for public preview
GitHub Codespaces gets you up and coding faster with fully configured, secure cloud development environments native to GitHub.
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Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
Question: Is the Raspberry Pi 4 any good? Answer: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors.
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How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers
Time tracking can be beneficial for software developers. Want to know how? Follow our best practices and see what mistakes to avoid.
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