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coding_unit_1 | 3 years ago | on: Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)

Biometrics are not being used as a password directly. They are typically used as an identifier to unlock the secrets store on the device and then retrieve an access token (which has previously been obtained via username/password authorisation).

The biometric information never leaves the device.

coding_unit_1 | 3 years ago | on: Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg

How is the government (a publicly elected body that is subject to being held to account by that same public) telling when you can spend you money somehow worse than a private company (without any accountability) deciding their shitcoin is no longer allowed to trade or that they don't fancy pegging it properly anymore?

coding_unit_1 | 4 years ago | on: The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices

People see this as a waste, but that is how team relationships are formed. Jeff from accounts may be eating up time today talking about Batman, but 3 months down the line you'll be ringing him up saying "hey buddy, I need a favour on those TPS reports" and he'll oblige because you've formed a bond. It's human nature.

I found WFH was great when we all left the office en masse and had already got a close-knit team. Changing jobs during the pandemic and trying to build new relationships remotely was really, really hard because that human-level interaction wasn't there.

coding_unit_1 | 4 years ago | on: Starting the World's First V8 Powered Tesla [video]

You can’t generalise Tesla as representing all EVs. They’re the only ones who have this remote control of your car and restricted availability of parts. No other manufacturer does this.

I agree it’s not a healthy model long-term, just hoping it stays niche with Tesla rather than other manufacturers joining in.

coding_unit_1 | 5 years ago | on: UK to depart from GDPR

The guidelines are pretty clear on what processing is, what data it covers and who controllers are in those circumstances. The biggest flaw I see is people don't read them and assume any data in any context is bound by it and it becomes a stick to beat everything with when it's not required.

I'm afraid your example is a prime case of that - leaving a hat at school that happens to have your name on it clearly doesn't fall within the remit of data processing under GDPR, it's a strawman (straw boater?) argument

I also don't agree it's a bad thing to make no distinction on size of company, doing so would leave a grey area of when a thing becomes "big enough" to transition from outside to inside scope and therefore gaps in the enforcement.

If you want to build a hobby forum, you're free to do it without requiring my personal data. If you want to collect my data for analysis or marketing then I absolutely want you to abide by the rules and look after it even if you're a lone programmer in his basement.

coding_unit_1 | 5 years ago | on: When will web browsers be complete?

This is true for a great number of things. Our industry has a terrible collective memory - we're at such a rush to push aside the old in favour of new shiny stuff only to have to rediscover why it was useful (or not) later.

coding_unit_1 | 5 years ago | on: Ferrari is bricked during upgrade due to no mobile reception while underground

The posts on reddit said it went into some uber-lockdown because it also didn't have reception so even adding cell or wifi repeaters wouldn't have worked.

My guess is this some serious anti-theft for when your very expensive car gets stuffed in a shipping container - it bricks itself until you present it physically at a dealer (at which point you'd hope it gets flagged as stolen).

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