Ted Unangst

[Ted Unangst @tedunangst]

Verifying an RSA signature by signing the message again with the private key, and then comparing signatures seems an unusual way to do things.

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Dear interwebs, my server does not support the image/php mime type. You may stop sending such requests my way.

[Ted Unangst @tedunangst]

"Linux hardware support is great. In a parallel universe everything would have worked perfectly."

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Seven dirty words: the session tickets have not been compromised.

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Not sure how much faith I place in IDS, but "somebody on HN writes sql by hand" seems like a poor reason to disable the analogous query detector.

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TIL there are people who don't like siphash. As in really, really, don't like siphash.

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There's a bug in chrome. Urgently requesting expert analysis: is it more appropriate to call it a vuln or a vulnerability?

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Pro tip: if you put all the 12 line code samples on your blog post inside 10 line high divs, you can create dozens of regions that capture scroll events, easily quadrupling the time it takes readers to get to the bottom.

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New life goal: be the guy who comes into a bar, sits down, and unloads three phones on the bar.

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"Dubbed New York's Staircase, and with a budget north of $150 million, it may be one of the most expensive selfie magnets ever built."

After reading this, I now urgently require a list of the 17 most expensive selfie magnets.

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"Some friends built The Reading Gym for testing your reading speed and learning to improve it. I don’t know how well it works – when I tried it it broke because it didn’t expect an initial test result of more than 900 words per minute."

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This remains one of my favorite infographics. Published in a real magazine, with editors and everything.

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[90493:-199846336:0227/150421.784381:ERROR:socket_manager.cc(110)] Failed to resolve address for dummysrv. dummyserver. com. nowhere., errorcode: -105

[Ted Unangst @tedunangst]

"the weight equivalent of more than 17 blue whales"

Good thing I know just how much a blue whale weighs.

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My phone autocorrected tastykake to tasty kale. This is false.

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"He said he can’t remember the names of everyone who has access to his phone."

It's a phone, not the shed behind your lake house. How do you not know where it is?

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It's totally safe for me to run unknown javascript with node on my laptop because my production server sets the CSP header. TIL.

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The API is not well documented, requires root and, from our experience, is slightly buggy.

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I would not have phrased the error message this way, but I like it.

"lookup https://t.co/JEYFPEVGhM on 172.20.10.1:53: server misbehaving"

[Ted Unangst @tedunangst]

"A decent programmer would never trust the remote end"