Being part of design meetings, it's amazing how many endless customizations and workflow adjustments people like project managers and consultants like to request for a new piece of software. But when it comes down to it, most users don't want a complex, hard to understand interface that has so many features it's supposed to improve everyone's productivity. Most people want to use their spreadsheet, their Outlook calendar and their IE browser. Not because it's best at the task, but because that's what they know and are used to.
Readit Newsdendory commented on The world needs a better spreadsheet blog.voyager.vc/the-world... · Posted by u/mmonihan
dendory commented on Personal data for more than 130K U.S. Navy sailors hacked reuters.com/article/newsO... · Posted by u/petethomas
Obvious question I know.. but why were the SSNs of sailors on some HP contractor's laptop?
I think there's multiple things there and I don't think taking any particular stance is wrong. I love technology, in the sense that if I get a problem to solve which makes me dig deeper into an area to figure out how things work under the hood, I really dig that. But I don't use Facebook, Netflix, Siri, Alexa or any of those things. I want nothing to do with the Internet of things. I suspect this is common among those of us who grew up with technology, as opposed to those who had technology by the time they grew up. They see technology as a service they should always have available in every facet of their lives, while we see it as something that used to be cool and mysterious, but now has been wrapped by so many commercial interests.
dendory commented on Update Regarding DDoS Event Against Dyn Managed DNS on Oct 21 dynstatus.com/incidents/5... · Posted by u/sajal83
Arent most IOT devices behind a router and thus unexposed directly to the internet (excepting routers)?
This part of these attacks confuses me.
Pretty much every router is sold with UPnP turned on.
Many IOT devices use UPnP to open their interface to the world.
I don't consider myself a programmer, just someone working in IT that writes a lot of code, and to this day when I want to write any type of web page or web based "app" PHP is my goto tool. I can write my HTML and add PHP logic directly inline whenever I need it, and get the job done in no time. Sure I could spin up a node.js framework, use routing, create classes and objects, etc.. But to 99% of my needs it's just not worth the extra time.
dendory commented on The oldest computer in use by the U.S. government muckrock.com/news/archive... · Posted by u/danso
In the short term, there's always a lot more risks in scraping an old system and spinning up a new one, especially in large complex organizations. However, in the long term you're really better off with modern systems.
So it really is a difficult trade off.
Private key stored in a passworded file on an encrypted disk, plus a key fob as second factor.
Pretty hard to get better security.
It's a bit of a catch 22, if you lose your iPhone then you need some way to locate it / erase it without having your iPhone. I don't think it's a big deal, you should have backups anyways.
One thing they could do is, if you have more than 1 device on your account, then force you to use another device for 2fa.
dendory commented on Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/kawera
I'm not sure I get the point of this article. Travel nomads are a real thing, and more and more numerous. They typically don't have a lot of money and often work at local menial jobs or by doing freelance gigs online, but then again it's no coincidence that Tailand is the world's digital nomad capital. When your cost of living is ridiculously low, it's not impossible to work from the beach and spend your time traveling.
dendory commented on SyntaxDB – Quickly look up syntax for programming languages syntaxdb.com/... · Posted by u/sidcool
I made https://dendory.net/coding a while back as a cheatsheet of syntax between languages.