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Andrey Andreev retweeted
Steam has a dominant position in the market mostly because it provides a better platform for both the gamers and the developers, not because they do monopolistic tactics like some other alternatives.
Those who come up with these lawsuits don't really care about the gamers/consumers, they only care about making money for themselves. That's why if Valve was to lose one of these ridiculous lawsuits, you as a consumer would not see any financial compensation.
Something to think about.
Valve is being sued in the UK for $843 million for "overcharging 14 million PC gamers and abusing its dominant position" in the market. trib.al/xKp03bd
Andrey Andreev retweeted
Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/
Andrey Andreev retweeted
"Sanitize user input" is bad security advice.
A string can be *escaped* when being inserted into another language like HTML, but correct escaping depends on the target language.
There's no such thing as a "sanitized" input. It's impossible to make a string safe for all uses.
Andrey Andreev retweeted
I *rarely* call out journalists. But this is an exception.
Hey @dannyjpalmer, this article you wrote is everything that is wrong in infosec.
zdnet.com/article/why-do-phi…
ding ding schools in session!
1/?
Andrey Andreev retweeted
How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts | by Ethan Elshyeb ethanblake4.medium.com/how-i…
Andrey Andreev retweeted
The eight fallacies of distributed computing:
1. The network is reliable;
2. Latency is zero;
3. Bandwidth is infinite;
4. The network is secure;
5. Topology doesn’t change;
6. There is one administrator;
7. Transport cost is zero;
8. The network is homogeneous.
— L Peter Deutsch
Andrey Andreev retweeted
I’m 22 years old and I tested positive for COVID-19.
I’ve been debating on posting, but I want to share my experience especially with those around my age to help bring awareness, and to relieve any stress/anxiety some may have due to the pandemic.
Andrey Andreev retweeted
"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want."- Niklaus Wirth
Andrey Andreev retweeted
Reasons why companies protect their customers' data:
- GDPR
- insurance rates
- Fear of image loss
Reasons why companies SHOULD protect their customers' data:
- Because the customers trust them
- Feeling responsible
- Moral obligation
- ...
Andrey Andreev retweeted
Linday Graham just described WhatsApp as a tool “that terrorists use.” WhatsApp has 1.5 billion active users. You might as well describe oxygen as “a gas that terrorists breathe."
Andrey Andreev retweeted
Short open tags <? will be deprecated in 7.4 and dropped in 8.0. <?= stays available. This RFC by @Girgias was (as expected) rather controversial, but managed to pass by a narrow margin.
wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_p…
Andrey Andreev retweeted
Open source developers do NOT have to:
• Make your issue a priority, just because you say so.
• Merge patches, just because someone sent them.
• Give you any sort of "timetable", or explanation for why it's "taking too long".
Check your entitlement. Nobody owes you anything.
Andrey Andreev retweeted
"When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code." - Richard Pattis
On a related note about LTS OSes ... *nix distros need to stop treating minor PHP releases as major ones.