Any version of Android prior to 4.4.x lacks support for TLS 1.1 / 1.2 - without these, you cannot access PCI DSS compliant web site. Have fun with that!
More like "Hacker turns NES into a glictchy as fuck Pi video card, and then emulates SNES on Pi, on an 'unmodified' NES with a heavily modified NES game PCB"
Wheres the mod points when I need em. I came here to say exactly just this! Alexa additionally only monitors those that have it installed, which would be more of a Reddit crowd and less of a Facebook crowd anyways too!
Crazy enough to think about it, but PC is honestly where its at for single-system local multi-player games now. Steam is absolutely FULL of amazing, fun, simple, quick to pick up games. Its funny to think how the industry did an absolute 180 in this regards, where PC was traditionally a single-person system with consoles being multi-player, and now it is the other way around entirely.
I'm not sure about CURRENT video games, but I know games in the mid-2000s used them. The Unreal engine was specifically designed for OGG playback to help reduce the size of music in games.
I still use HP LaserJet 2100 printers in production. They are a little slow and clunky, but are otherwise perfect. No maintenance needed after setup other than paper filling once a week and toner every several months. They have a "web" based configuration interface though, and by web I mean it loads a bunch of Java applets (one per menu, and another for the main body). I keep a WinXP VM around with Java 6 and Internet Explorer 6 just for this particular case. I'd honestly suggest building things like this now while it is still possible. It is getting harder and harder to find installers for older versions of Java.
Don't even need a web site to look up physical locations of virtually everyone with my old ISP. They had the dumb ass bright idea to include the connect device's MAC address listed in the reverse IP address lookup of everyone on their/16 block. Add or subtract 1 or 2 from their MAC address (the WAN port on their router) to get the Wifi MAC address. Use that MAC address with online public Wifi geolocation databases. BAM. I instantly have physically mapped locations of virtually every single user of the ISP based on IP address alone. Which, again, the IP addresses are not hard to figure out, since the ISP is all contained in a single/16 block.
"I have more issues of GBoard picking the *wrong* word"
100% THIS. I NEVER had these issues with Swype back in the day. Can we just get some competent devs back!?
With GBoard, I'm absolutely tired of typing/swiping a word correctly, it shows up correct, and then the word AFTER it, GBoard thinks shouldn't follow the previous correct word, so it changes that previous word. This is by far the most annoying feature I've ever seen in a keyboard for any device and is honestly the #1 cause of "typos" in all of my online communications.
Totally this. I found a bug where a 6 mile stretch of a road in Google Maps would all geolocate to the exact same coordinates when searched for (basically 1000-6000 house address on a street would all locate to a completely different part of the city, all the EXACT same location). Took over a year of "reporting" the issue to get is solved. And how did it get solved? I finally found a mutual friend with a GMaps dev and contacted them directly. Or how about when my name was fucked on my Google Fi account, preventing me from purchasing a phone? Yeah, this took about six weeks of back and forth emails to get resolved. Or what about the time Chrome broke printer support. Yeah, not too many people print to paper these days, but it absolutely crippled a business that uses it to print invoices. This one took about two months to resolve.
In *ALL* of these cases, plus the countless others I've dealt with in concerns to Google's products, their response is ALWAYS the same: "its user error" - they always and instantly default to "Google is PERFECT, users are idiots", regardless if those "idiots" are software engineers with significantly more industry experience than the people responding to the requests. They just don't care one bit at all about their users.
OPNsense, a fork of pfSense, which is a fork of m0n0wall. It is based on Hardended BSD, with a ton of additional security extensions not available in normal FreeBSD or pfSense.
But really, security isn't just one device. Secure ALL of your shit.
Put in a mandate that all government algorithms most be open sourced in an easily accessible fashion, and all data passed through them must also be easily accessed. This will enable 3rd parties, ANY 3rd party, not just contracted "companies" (usually in the pockets of the people making decisions) to audit the code and data for flaws.
One of the largest issues I've seen in the past with these systems is that they falsely assume correlation = causation. And quite often, the cause and effect are backwards, too. One example I always liked was that "overhead high voltage power lines caused health issues for those that live near them" - when once the data was updated with more inputs, it was discovered that it was an entirely different cause all together. High voltage power lines are unsightly, causing housing values around them to be below the average for the community. Poorer families were buying/renting them. Poorer families are more likely to have health issues due to financial constraints. In the end, the correlation wasn't causation, but each item both shared a similar root cause.
The counter argument is that it isn't JUST storage though. Add in the power and maintenance costs. Add in the data redundancy/resiliency. Add in the ability to easily share the content stored on GDrive with others. If you only look at the cost from just a raw storage standpoint, yes local storage is cheaper. But as soon as your single drive dies, you lose everything. GDrive, AWS S3, BackBlaze, etc all use redundant storage with file chunks spread across multiple disks in multiple servers across multiple full racks. Now, if that isn't worth something to you, that's perfectly fine and you're more than welcome to purchase your own local storage. But if you care are off-site copies of content stored in a redundant fashion, these services are great.
As an FYI, one of my tasks was to help rebuild a business after they had a 100% total loss of all local computer and server systems after a fire destroyed their building. Using one of these "expensive" cloud providers, I was able to simply have them purchase a new server, log into their cloud account, and re-sync all of their content. Their new servers were already up and running long before they even had the office rebuilt and occupied. In this particular instance, remote storage was invaluable to the business.
In case you're not aware, that list isn't just entities that wrote software that works on top of Linux, they're all very significant kernel contributors. So yes, I personally also believe they're just as important as any other kernel contributor, but listing significant contributors along with the name of the kernel itself just seem asinine at this point.
Now imagine if this database were to be stored on a ZFS volume with regular snapshots, and those snapshots were sent to other remote machines for backup... The entire database could have been recovered in minutes with just a few simple commands to re-mount the ZFS partition to a given snapshot, restart the database server software, and you're up and running again...
Oh wait, that's right. I'm too old for tech nowadays. There are all these kids fresh out of college using newfangled technology that don't know two shits about information security or data integrity to even give this a thought in the first place. And thus the cycle continues where us old-hats are "over paid" and forced out of work in favor of these new younger generations of "tech wizards"!
Let us take a moment to remember the Earth Simulator, at its time it was the fastest super computer in the world and built specifically for global weather pattern simulations. Super computers obviously have come a long way since then, but this one specifically marked a major milestone in large computing power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'll just assume you've never actually USED a Yubikey then? Because it isn't easily spoofed or guessed. Plus to use certain modes on it, they're protected by pin codes, making the device itself require two factors (something you have and something you know).
"rather than something in our possession" - that is EXACTLY what a Yubikey is though, a physical device that you possess, and can have multiple types authentication credentials stored on it.
If you take New York City as a whole, no, because it is extremely large. If you look at what people commonly refer to as "New York" from outside of the city, that being just Manhattan, then yes, it would be ranked 6th on the list you provided. Plus consider that Central Park is ~5% of the land area as well, the rest of the area is actually denser taking this into consideration. So yes, it is quite over-crowded at its center.
In theory, HTML5 based installer sounds awesome. The core system management would still be the same, just a few shell commands initiated from JavaScript within a minimalistic browser environment...
But then I looked into what this "Electron" framework actually is, and who's using it for what.
1) Skype - buggy as fuck 2) GitHub Desktop - clunky as fuck 3) Atom Editor - slow as fuck 4) WordPress - need I say more..? 5) Slack - too many issues to even name any 6) Discord - known for literally blue-screening computers 7) Visual Studio Code - classic VS was amazing, why fuck up a good thing?
I'm all for rapid development within HTML5 + JS + CSS, but PLEASE, for the fucking love of god, use tool sets that don't have such a horrendous reputation!?
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Any version of Android prior to 4.4.x lacks support for TLS 1.1 / 1.2 - without these, you cannot access PCI DSS compliant web site. Have fun with that!
More like "Hacker turns NES into a glictchy as fuck Pi video card, and then emulates SNES on Pi, on an 'unmodified' NES with a heavily modified NES game PCB"
Wheres the mod points when I need em. I came here to say exactly just this! Alexa additionally only monitors those that have it installed, which would be more of a Reddit crowd and less of a Facebook crowd anyways too!
Crazy enough to think about it, but PC is honestly where its at for single-system local multi-player games now. Steam is absolutely FULL of amazing, fun, simple, quick to pick up games. Its funny to think how the industry did an absolute 180 in this regards, where PC was traditionally a single-person system with consoles being multi-player, and now it is the other way around entirely.
I'm not sure about CURRENT video games, but I know games in the mid-2000s used them. The Unreal engine was specifically designed for OGG playback to help reduce the size of music in games.
I still use HP LaserJet 2100 printers in production. They are a little slow and clunky, but are otherwise perfect. No maintenance needed after setup other than paper filling once a week and toner every several months. They have a "web" based configuration interface though, and by web I mean it loads a bunch of Java applets (one per menu, and another for the main body). I keep a WinXP VM around with Java 6 and Internet Explorer 6 just for this particular case. I'd honestly suggest building things like this now while it is still possible. It is getting harder and harder to find installers for older versions of Java.
Don't even need a web site to look up physical locations of virtually everyone with my old ISP. They had the dumb ass bright idea to include the connect device's MAC address listed in the reverse IP address lookup of everyone on their /16 block. Add or subtract 1 or 2 from their MAC address (the WAN port on their router) to get the Wifi MAC address. Use that MAC address with online public Wifi geolocation databases. BAM. I instantly have physically mapped locations of virtually every single user of the ISP based on IP address alone. Which, again, the IP addresses are not hard to figure out, since the ISP is all contained in a single /16 block.
"I have more issues of GBoard picking the *wrong* word"
100% THIS. I NEVER had these issues with Swype back in the day. Can we just get some competent devs back!?
With GBoard, I'm absolutely tired of typing/swiping a word correctly, it shows up correct, and then the word AFTER it, GBoard thinks shouldn't follow the previous correct word, so it changes that previous word. This is by far the most annoying feature I've ever seen in a keyboard for any device and is honestly the #1 cause of "typos" in all of my online communications.
Totally this. I found a bug where a 6 mile stretch of a road in Google Maps would all geolocate to the exact same coordinates when searched for (basically 1000-6000 house address on a street would all locate to a completely different part of the city, all the EXACT same location). Took over a year of "reporting" the issue to get is solved. And how did it get solved? I finally found a mutual friend with a GMaps dev and contacted them directly. Or how about when my name was fucked on my Google Fi account, preventing me from purchasing a phone? Yeah, this took about six weeks of back and forth emails to get resolved. Or what about the time Chrome broke printer support. Yeah, not too many people print to paper these days, but it absolutely crippled a business that uses it to print invoices. This one took about two months to resolve.
In *ALL* of these cases, plus the countless others I've dealt with in concerns to Google's products, their response is ALWAYS the same: "its user error" - they always and instantly default to "Google is PERFECT, users are idiots", regardless if those "idiots" are software engineers with significantly more industry experience than the people responding to the requests. They just don't care one bit at all about their users.
In other words, "Public Domain" doesn't exist anymore.
OPNsense, a fork of pfSense, which is a fork of m0n0wall. It is based on Hardended BSD, with a ton of additional security extensions not available in normal FreeBSD or pfSense.
But really, security isn't just one device. Secure ALL of your shit.
Put in a mandate that all government algorithms most be open sourced in an easily accessible fashion, and all data passed through them must also be easily accessed. This will enable 3rd parties, ANY 3rd party, not just contracted "companies" (usually in the pockets of the people making decisions) to audit the code and data for flaws.
One of the largest issues I've seen in the past with these systems is that they falsely assume correlation = causation. And quite often, the cause and effect are backwards, too. One example I always liked was that "overhead high voltage power lines caused health issues for those that live near them" - when once the data was updated with more inputs, it was discovered that it was an entirely different cause all together. High voltage power lines are unsightly, causing housing values around them to be below the average for the community. Poorer families were buying/renting them. Poorer families are more likely to have health issues due to financial constraints. In the end, the correlation wasn't causation, but each item both shared a similar root cause.
"[website] WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION. "
This is already one of the absolute most annoying parts of the entire internet.
Now we'll just have more of the same "request" dialogs for every little thing a web site wants to do.
This is Windows Vista all over again!
The counter argument is that it isn't JUST storage though. Add in the power and maintenance costs. Add in the data redundancy/resiliency. Add in the ability to easily share the content stored on GDrive with others. If you only look at the cost from just a raw storage standpoint, yes local storage is cheaper. But as soon as your single drive dies, you lose everything. GDrive, AWS S3, BackBlaze, etc all use redundant storage with file chunks spread across multiple disks in multiple servers across multiple full racks. Now, if that isn't worth something to you, that's perfectly fine and you're more than welcome to purchase your own local storage. But if you care are off-site copies of content stored in a redundant fashion, these services are great.
As an FYI, one of my tasks was to help rebuild a business after they had a 100% total loss of all local computer and server systems after a fire destroyed their building. Using one of these "expensive" cloud providers, I was able to simply have them purchase a new server, log into their cloud account, and re-sync all of their content. Their new servers were already up and running long before they even had the office rebuilt and occupied. In this particular instance, remote storage was invaluable to the business.
In case you're not aware, that list isn't just entities that wrote software that works on top of Linux, they're all very significant kernel contributors. So yes, I personally also believe they're just as important as any other kernel contributor, but listing significant contributors along with the name of the kernel itself just seem asinine at this point.
Now imagine if this database were to be stored on a ZFS volume with regular snapshots, and those snapshots were sent to other remote machines for backup... The entire database could have been recovered in minutes with just a few simple commands to re-mount the ZFS partition to a given snapshot, restart the database server software, and you're up and running again...
Oh wait, that's right. I'm too old for tech nowadays. There are all these kids fresh out of college using newfangled technology that don't know two shits about information security or data integrity to even give this a thought in the first place. And thus the cycle continues where us old-hats are "over paid" and forced out of work in favor of these new younger generations of "tech wizards"!
Let us take a moment to remember the Earth Simulator, at its time it was the fastest super computer in the world and built specifically for global weather pattern simulations. Super computers obviously have come a long way since then, but this one specifically marked a major milestone in large computing power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Source: https://developers.yubico.com/...
This is something I use on a daily basis. It does indeed exist.
I'll just assume you've never actually USED a Yubikey then? Because it isn't easily spoofed or guessed. Plus to use certain modes on it, they're protected by pin codes, making the device itself require two factors (something you have and something you know).
"rather than something in our possession" - that is EXACTLY what a Yubikey is though, a physical device that you possess, and can have multiple types authentication credentials stored on it.
Windows Subsystem for Linux? SmartOS LX Branded Zones?
If you take New York City as a whole, no, because it is extremely large. If you look at what people commonly refer to as "New York" from outside of the city, that being just Manhattan, then yes, it would be ranked 6th on the list you provided. Plus consider that Central Park is ~5% of the land area as well, the rest of the area is actually denser taking this into consideration. So yes, it is quite over-crowded at its center.
Music? This is Apple. They forced EVERYTHING to that single port.
But this is Apple we're talking about here! Some people still enjoy listening to music over their headpho... erm... Lightning port...
In theory, HTML5 based installer sounds awesome. The core system management would still be the same, just a few shell commands initiated from JavaScript within a minimalistic browser environment...
But then I looked into what this "Electron" framework actually is, and who's using it for what.
1) Skype - buggy as fuck
2) GitHub Desktop - clunky as fuck
3) Atom Editor - slow as fuck
4) WordPress - need I say more..?
5) Slack - too many issues to even name any
6) Discord - known for literally blue-screening computers
7) Visual Studio Code - classic VS was amazing, why fuck up a good thing?
I'm all for rapid development within HTML5 + JS + CSS, but PLEASE, for the fucking love of god, use tool sets that don't have such a horrendous reputation!?