cipherpunk

We're hosted in AWS and pretty much all of our servers are now unreachable.

This is going to be a nightmare.

Haha, I came here to post the exact same thing. For those that don't know: http://technoanimal.net./ap.html

Traitors to America? What the hell does that even mean in this context?

Are all anti-capitalists traitors to America?

The company I am with just moved from plaintext in-database password storage to using bcrypt with their latest product release, FWIW. It was either that or I left, heh.

This title is ambiguous unfortunately. I clicked, expecting ML the language family.

Before tax. Rent is 3400 DKK, in a nice house share with two developers. Our lease is up in January (original owner wants it back), but it has been nice otherwise. 10 months here.

You can extrapolate the wage from this, but it's not high in the field at all.

Most of my friends live in Amager, Østerbro, etc. Anyone expecting to find affordable, modern accommodation easily in historic city centres is deluding themselves to a degree. Copenhagen has one of the more modern transportation systems in the world, so commuting is hardly an effort.

You use American spelling. I call shenanigans. At the very least, your view comes across as definitively US-centric.

Nevermind that Copenhagen is arguably one of the nicest cities in the world, in one of the most "civilised" nations in the world. Ugh.

I moved to Copenhagen from the UK in February and had no problem. You just approached it terribly -- Copenhagen is not in America, and different places have different ways of doing things. You can't just expect foreign cultures to play by your rules. You have to do your research and find out how the locals do it. I got to see several nice apartments and they were decently priced, and am spending approx. 10% of my monthly wage on rent.

"Donating half of my paycheck to the taxman in order to live in a city overpriced by any measure is one thing."

Copenhagen has some of the highest wages in Europe. It also has fantastic levels of social welfare, income equality, universal education and healthcare, etc. Whining about high taxes also just comes across as so bloody stereotypical.

>>it proves that a psychotic mob of minutiae obsessed sufferers of Autism are capable of incredible productivity in spite of anachronistic tooling

>That should've been your hint that I have an admiration for them and their project.

You called the developers a psychotic mob of Autism sufferers. A hint of admiration, you say?

OpenBSD developers are autistic and psychotic?

Fuck off, and die.

Most likely: "andrew@ducker.org.uk"@some-ms-xmpp-url

Puts me on the opposite end of the country. Sigh.

The black bloc tactics would seem to be far superior to the use of such `V' masks, due to the highly generic nature of black clothing, scarves, etc. Alas.

But of course. Preaching to the choir.

Management made the decision that my trivial change to eliminate replay attacks was "too much effort". I am inclined to agree, since even with such a change the effort required to circumvent their entire so-called security is minimal.

Next quarter they're introducing e-commerce solutions. Dear god.

Are they suggesting to use the same RSA key for encryption and signing?

If you're in a position to intercept the traffic, then you can likely rewrite it. That includes the JS.

The company I work for (who for obvious reasons I will refuse to mention) refuses to implement standard cryptographic practises in its product. Several months after starting there, and after a lot of loud complaining, I managed to get them to switch to using bcrypt instead of plaintext passwords in the backend database. Only in the next release are they switching to using TLS for logins, and even then sometimes defaulting to a clearly fucked Javascript implementation of cryptography to send the password (using public key crypto with global server key that only changes on server restart, with replay attacks galore).

The one thing I can say about the JS cryptography is that it normally protects somewhat against passive sniffing attacks, but when it's as broken as this, it doesn't even accomplish that task.

This sort of thing seems chronic in the industry, and it's dismaying.

Where's my Swedish option? :(

:D

A remote exploit in the Skype application that allows account theft is `minor', because, ``as you can imagine, someone who you deal with frequently is probably unlikely to take advantage of this bug anyways.''

Give me a moment to collect my jaw from the floor.

Yes. Pretty sure that hasn't been done before! :D

Here's a free software replacement for last.fm scrobbling: http://libre.fm/

I still use last.fm myself though.

rolleyes

Indeed. I wasn't offering a dissenting view, just reiterating that this isn't sexist. Apologies for confusion :)

It is inappropriate to call people names in public. It is distasteful. What this isn't is sexism, and it's certainly not offensive to the entire female gender.

Nothing I said in my comment was sexist, and calling me disgusting is utterly uncalled for. What's your problem exactly? How do you link the word "bitch" to rape and battery? How do you differentiate the fact that this was an ex girlfriend to the situation with an ex boss? What does any of this have to do with work standards?

You just come across as bitter and incredibly rude. Sort it out.

Oh for crying out loud. Someone got angry at a picture of an ex-girlfriend with "bitch" on her face -- WHY?

It might be a bit distasteful, but what the fucking hell is offensive about it unless you were the ex?

If I put a photo up of my ex-boss and it had the word "cock" on his face would males in the crowd start getting really offended and start throwing bottles at stage? If so, I think the problem is in the audience. This has nothing to do with sexism.

I would also suggest one more thing: http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/

Since you say you have dabbled with physics, you may find this sort of method useful.