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2 points·by kailanb·2 years ago·1 comments

Microsoft subdomain takeover

cseo-coherence.microsoft.com
271 points·by kailanb·4 years ago·66 comments

Identifying ad fraud on Twitter [thread]

twitter.com
3 points·by kailanb·4 years ago·0 comments

The next frontier after remote work is async

levels.io
4 points·by kailanb·4 years ago·0 comments

Cloudflare publishes flawed competitor benchmarks, again

twitter.com
2 points·by kailanb·4 years ago·0 comments

Atlassian drops native Jira app for macOS, upsetting users

community.atlassian.com
5 points·by kailanb·4 years ago·2 comments

Cloudflare publishes flawed competitor benchmarks

twitter.com
25 points·by kailanb·5 years ago·3 comments

Security researcher penalised $3750 by Facebook for verifying vulnerability

philippeharewood.com
46 points·by kailanb·5 years ago·3 comments

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kailanb
·3 years ago·discuss
They launched this with one of the most memorable TV adverts of all time, in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYEcZh2QtwA
kailanb
·3 years ago·discuss
Transport for London does the same. If you add your (real, CPAN) card number to the "Contactless and Oyster" web service, it will also add all of the DPANs you have tapped in with on their network as separate cards.
kailanb
·3 years ago·discuss
It’s called out later in the article.
kailanb
·3 years ago·discuss
it's back!

worth noting that anyone can remix the project :) https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wobble-clock
kailanb
·4 years ago·discuss
The team over at Swift Cloud are making it run on the edge.

https://swift.cloud/
kailanb
·4 years ago·discuss
I recently discovered PocketSmith[0] which is not free nor open-source, but I have found it to be the easiest to keep up to date. It automatically pulls transactions from most banks and credit providers, which I've been unable to replicate with other solutions.

[0]: https://www.pocketsmith.com/
kailanb
·4 years ago·discuss
A nice write-up, however it looks to me that the Compute@Edge tests were being run on a free tier service (adding a credit card to Fastly account does not upgrade your service automatically, I know because I work at Fastly).

I'd love to see results from the same tests run on the full version of the platform.
kailanb
·4 years ago·discuss
Mozilla are not the only ones doing this [0][1].

[0]: https://www.wigle.net/ [1]: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en-GB
kailanb
·4 years ago·discuss
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but this looks like an end-user authentication system that you would implement in your own app rather than a corporate directory like Okta. Different use cases.
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
Sorry, I was trying to clarify in my comment but failed to put it through clearly. When I say "We ran our own benchmark" I mean Fastly ran a benchmark on a Fastly Compute@Edge service.
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
does the language that you use matter when the real goal is to serve a webpage to the end user in the shortest time possible?
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
To clarify, Fastly did not perform any benchmarks on Cloudflare's network. We ran our own benchmark, comparable to the one that Cloudflare ran on our platform, and compared those results to the ones that Cloudflare published as part of the original blog post.

The Cloudflare terms prohibit benchmarking without their explicit permission.
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
Vicious attack? Or defending your place in the market?
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
It definitely comes down to the language — JavaScript is an interpreted language, which requires an engine. Rust is statically compiled and runs by itself.
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
For context see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288393
kailanb
·5 years ago·discuss
An unfortunate comparison at the start there, considering that the "native" and recommended language for performance on Fastly Compute@Edge is Rust. JavaScript support is in beta.

Try the experiment again with a Rust service compiled to WebAssembly and I'm sure the results will speak for themselves.