Tag: rant
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C programming old bad practices
So I’ve just started learning C. C is a really, really old language, and with it comes bad practices from the past. Learning C is like traveling in time to decades ago, almost but not really. C is much closer to the architecture, meaning you must consider memory management, pointers and more. There is lots […]
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Our programming tools are stuck in the past
Recently I decided to start automating my infrastructure. Before this it had never occurred to me how stuck in the past our ancient tools are. These days we have the cloud. We can fire instances up in seconds. But to do this we need ways of automating things. Tools such as SSH, SSL, GIT etc. […]
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Forced password changes are not good security policy
To combat this unintelligent BS I am now starting a list of idiots that do this. For so long I have read and heard that a GREAT security feature is to force your users to change passwords every so many days/months. Linux even has a built in feature for this. This is a really stupid […]