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2:00 AM

I wonder if in 10 years humanity will finally launch JavaScript-powered spacecraft into deep space

Tweeted by controlflow on March 21, 2015 at 3:09 PM

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Journeyman Geek

9:05 AM

@TerryChia: we're doomed to be stuck on the planet

Lucas Kauffman

9:40 AM

I wanted to tell the guy with the NSA/Pentagon questions this: First of all they use very special programs like Swordfish. Then when they get in they take over the camera network and use the CSI software to enhance one pixel to a single image (cyber photon synergy). Afterwards they connect it to the grid and race digital motorbikes to battle the firewall.

@LucasKauffman Hmm. you're forgetting the effect of the Scorpion geniuses, handling world problems only they can solve.

When Bill Joy predicted 1GHz processors back when, who thought they would be needed to keep up with typing one char per sec. in Javascript?

Tweeted by rob_pike on March 21, 2015 at 4:54 AM

Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to

Tweeted by bhalp1 on March 20, 2015 at 2:27 PM

@AviD Huh, Rob Pike has Twitter.

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Rory Alsop

12:20 PM

Huh, who is Rob Pike?

Rоry McCune

@RoryAlsop well as @TerryChia knows about him, he'll be some kind of hipster dude. from his twitter I'm guessing something to do with Go-lang

@RоryMcCune @RoryAlsop Dude, he's the co-inventor of Unix and plan9.

And yes, golang.

12:44 PM

and UTF-8

Q: Is it unwise to use Redis to store private keys and other secrets?

I'm reviewing a system that is using Redis to store all client secrets, private keys, and other things. The problem is that Redis loads the entire DB into RAM Since SSL, Rowhammer, and other hacks are known to expose memory to untrusted users, I would think that any other similar hack might exp...

He asks very stupid questions.

> The problem is that Redis loads the entire DB into RAM

SO DOES EVERY OTHER FREAKING DATABASE.

Most databases only load part of the DB into RAM

@CodesInChaos Most of them tries to load as much of the DB as possible into RAM, constrained only by how much RAM you have.

Lucas Kauffman

1:42 PM

@TerryChia answered that

@TerryChia he's being extremely short sighted on the actual risks involved

Adi

2:20 PM

@TerryChia He makes me very angry

Journeyman Geek

SMASH?

Don't Make Me Angry - You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry

A group of wolves is called a pack. A group of crows is called a murder. A group of developers is called a merge conflict.

Tweeted by SkylerFoxy on March 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM

@Adi well then take a chill pill, bill

he's just a dev trying to learn on the edge of what he knows. sometimes its not as much as he thinks.

Lucas Kauffman

2:44 PM

@Adi Adnan smash?

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3:43 PM

so I just set up an open wifi network and ran Wireshark on it. Eeeeeeek

1 hour later…

4:59 PM

@Undo hm?

@CodesInChaos Grabbed an old Airport Express and set it up, ran Wireshark on my machine and connected a couple things to it. Scary how much one can see

Scary because so much is unencrypted or because so many things phone home?

@CodesInChaos both

I need to sniff my cheap-ass android tablet some time.

Came with some crapware you can't uninstall where I'd like to know what it does.

@CodesInChaos whats an assandroid?

5:10 PM

@AviD Crap that comes out of google of course.

oh of course.

I was worried it was more like a posterior-bot.

@CodesInChaos this of course...:

@AviD I bought it in Germany, not Japan.

lol

Though a (German) friend owns those Japan style ass showering toilets.

Rоry McCune

5:45 PM

@CodesInChaos @Undo if you're interested in seeing programs "phone home" Little Snitch on Mac or Glasswire on windows are very interesting as they alert when programs start connecting to the Internet