Apple brass discussed disclosing 128M iPhone hack, then decided not to 5 years ago“Brass” in this context means “leadership.” See: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/top+brass 0ThreadHN
JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016) 7 years agoAvoiding lightweight markup languages and sticking to real programming languages for configuration has a lot of benefits.On that: https://youtu.be/0pX7-AG52BU 0ThreadHN
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. 13 years agoI assumed that this meant the attackers logged into their own social network accounts while they were "inside" (i.e. using) compromised machines in the target locations. 0ThreadHN
Linode Simplifies Plans, Reveals CPU Priority 14 years agoAnother potential option is using a Linode 512 with "extra" RAM (see the Extras tab in the Linode Manager).Additionally, I've always found the Linode support folks to be fairly accommodating, so maybe it's worth asking if they can still provision 768s. 0ThreadHN