Author: hrbrmstr
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2018 IEEE Security & Privacy (Filtered) Paper Dump
The 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy Conference is in May but they've posted their full proceedings and it's better to grab them early than to wait for it to become part of a paid journal…
Nykolas Z Updates Global Alternative DNS Speed Test to Include Cloudflare (1.1.1.1)
A while back, Medium blogger 'Nykolas Z' posted results from a globally distributed DNS resolver test to find the speediest provider (NOTE: speed is not the only consideration when choosing an alternative DNS provider). While the test…
More Options For Querying DNS From R with 1.1.1.1
You have to have been living under a rock to not know about Cloudflare's new 1.1.1.1 DNS offering. I won't go into "privacy", "security" or "speed" concepts in this post since that's a pretty huge topic to distill for folks given the, now,…
Compute/Visualize Drive Space Consumption of Your Installed R Packages
The fs package makes it super quick and easy to find out just how much "package hoarding" you've been…
R⁶ — Capturing [YouTube] Captions
@yoniceedee suggested I look at the Cambridge Analytics "whistleblower" testimony…
On MIMEs, software versions and web site promiscuity (a.k.a. three new packages to round out the week)
A quick Friday post to let folks know about three in-development R packages that you're encouraged to poke the tyres o[fn] and also jump in and file issues or PRs…
Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post
(FWIW I think I even caused myself pain due to the title of this blog…
Handling Semantic Version Strings Like a Boss with the semver Package
I work with internet-scale data and do my fair share of macro-analyses on vulnerabilities. I use the R semver package for most of my work and wanted to blather on a bit about it since it's super-helpful for this work and doesn't get the…
Comparing 2017 Maine Lobster Landings To Historical Landings
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine…
Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package
The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be…