brkcmd

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013) on Friday November 01, 2013 @10:30AM (#6653956)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (preferred) or Portland, Maine

Experienced developer available for work on new projects. Some of my recent projects have included web scraping/data processing, NLP/sentiment analysis, and custom video compositing. I’m particularly passionate about testing and a stickler for details; there's few things I like better than finding ways to break things.

Keywords: Python, Ruby, Go, JS, PHP, QA, Selenium, django-webtest, factory-boy, CasperJS, mitmproxy, nltk, scrapy

Github: https://www.github.com/brkcmd

Blog: http://brkcmd.github.io

Email: work [at] sporesmoldsandfungus.com

Is TrueCrypt Audited Yet?

Posted by brkcmd on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:31AM
from the istruecryptauditedyet.com dept.

http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

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Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

Posted by brkcmd on Friday October 04, 2013 @11:10AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa-users-online-anonymity

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The future of HTTPS on Wikimedia projects

Posted by brkcmd on Thursday August 01, 2013 @04:25PM
from the blog.wikimedia.org dept.

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-projects/

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Understanding OpenStack Authentication: Keystone PKI

Posted by brkcmd on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:18PM
from the mirantis.com dept.

http://www.mirantis.com/blog/understanding-openstack-authentication-keystone-pki/

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Re:MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:18AM (#5904857)

According to mysql bug 69512 [1] this particular issue was the result of a build process error and was not intentional.

[1]: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=69512

Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB

Posted by brkcmd on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:55PM
from the blog.wikimedia.org dept.

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariadb/

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Things to try before abandoning SQL

Posted by brkcmd on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:12PM
from the blog.awe.sm dept.

http://blog.awe.sm/2013/02/25/medium-data-things-to-try-before-abandoning-sql/#awesm=9441f68291645b725d81ce1c161b3de6

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Putting Users in Control of Plugins

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:33AM
from the blog.mozilla.org dept.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/29/putting-users-in-control-of-plugins/

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AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @05:16PM
from the blog.awe.sm dept.

http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

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MariaDB Foundation to Safeguard Leading Open Source Database

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:43AM
from the blog.mariadb.org dept.

http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-foundation-to-safeguard-leading-open-source-database/

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The Mobile Earthquake

Posted by brkcmd on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:58PM
from the groklaw.net dept.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110815131443415

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Good Defensive Patents Are Bad Patents

Posted by brkcmd on Friday July 29, 2011 @08:42AM
from the juliansanchez.com dept.

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2011/07/28/good-defensive-patents-are-bad-patents/

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To defend Android, Google must attack software patents

Posted by brkcmd on Monday July 11, 2011 @11:28AM
from the h-online.com dept.

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/To-defend-Android-Google-must-attack-software-patents-1276948.html

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The Data Liberation Front Delivers Google Takeout

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:31PM
from the dataliberation.blogspot.com dept.

http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/2011/06/data-liberation-front-delivers-google.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20blogspot/qOQU%20(Data%20Liberation)&utm_content=Google%20Reader

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SSL session caching in nginx

Posted by brkcmd on Monday June 27, 2011 @05:51PM
from the hezmatt.org dept.

http://hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/general/ssl_session_caching_in_nginx.html

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The Failed Experiment of Software Patents

Posted by brkcmd on Monday June 27, 2011 @08:08AM
from the blogs.computerworlduk.com dept.

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/06/the-failed-experiment-of-software-patents/index.htm

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BitTorrent - It's not just about copyright any more

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @09:41AM
from the groklaw.net dept.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110620131823846

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The laptop I want, 2011 edition

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @01:13AM
from the kryogenix.org dept.

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2011/06/20/the-laptop-i-want-2011-edition

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Creating Public AMIs Securely for EC2

Posted by brkcmd on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @01:11AM
from the alestic.com dept.

http://alestic.com/2011/06/ec2-ami-security/

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AVM v. Cybits: An Attack that Goes to the Heart of Free Software

Posted by brkcmd on Monday June 20, 2011 @03:44PM
from the blogs.computerworlduk.com dept.

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/06/an-attack-that-goes-to-the-heart-of-free-software/index.htm

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Re:LexisNexis Announces HPCC Systems, Open Source, ~4x Hadoop performa... on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @02:48PM (#2658498)

Interesting that they are choosing to release the community edition under the Affero GPL3. (They also mention a "contributory agreement" which probably means a copyright assignment.)

https://hpccsystems.com/faq/licensing

How GitHub Saved OpenSource

Posted by brkcmd on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @08:08AM
from the eaves.ca dept.

http://eaves.ca/2011/06/14/how-github-saved-opensource/

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CLA Redux - The Donation of OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation

Posted by brkcmd on Saturday June 04, 2011 @09:42AM
from the groklaw.net dept.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2011060314010442

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