It was kind of a scary five minutes. GPT and Claude both went silent. I could hear my own thoughts again.
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mcgroarty commented on Microsoft Fluid Framework Preview fluidpreview.com... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
So far, it basically looks like it wants to become Atlassian Confluence. Presumably it will become more tightly integrated with Office 365 than Confluence can be.
mcgroarty commented on Steam hit by major security breach masterherald.com/steam-hi... · Posted by u/aestetix
> Steam accepted blank recovery codes for password resets
Sample buggy code (that I just made up):
(user_token is user supplied token, token is the correct token)
for(i = 0; i < strlen(user_token); i++) {
if(user_token[i] != token[i]) return false;
}
return true;
I'm trying to think of a bug where blank fails, but truncated versions do not.
That's one possibility. Another possibility is they were merely comparing the submitted nonce to the nonce on file. If a nonce had never been generated for a user, the database may have contained an empty string. An empty string in the db would match an empty string submitted by an attacker.
mcgroarty commented on Scott Forstall leaves Apple apple.com/pr/library/2012... · Posted by u/FredericJ
Does anyone but me here listen incessantly to podcasts?
The latest Podcasts App from iTunes is a skeuomorphic mess. It has a superfluous animation of a reel-to-reel player of course. But it utterly fails at its most basic task: playing a goddamn podcast. But don't take my word for it, it has a 1.5 star rating on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podcasts/id525463029
Not to mention crashes... Apple used to make jokes about the Windows blue screen of death. Well, that's my new day-to-day experience with iOS apps. I'm constantly restarting crashed apps over and over.
Honestly, this is good news if Forstall really is the driving force behind the deteriorating user experience of many apps.
The Podcast app and the iPad Music app are both a mess, and both happened under Forstall as I understand it.
Trade away the lyric and podcast show info displays for kitsch wood veneer? And a reel-to-reel tape recorder simulator? Move seek controls to weird locations? Replace the easy-to-spot seek knob with a radio needle? Why? So many small steps backward, even if no single one was a deal breaker... negative trajectory is negative trajectory.
If this means they walk some of that silliness back, it's the best Apple news in ages. It started to look like designers who didn't actually use the apps were taking over.