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Air Gapped Secrets Management
Security Devops Programming Backend Cloud
18 days ago 73.8M views 0 shares
Air Gapped Secrets Management
Someone just solved the entire secrets management industry with a sticky note, a webcam, and OCR. While everyone's busy setting up HashiCorp Vault clusters and AWS Secrets Manager with rotation policies, this genius is literally reading passwords off their desk through a camera feed and keeping them in RAM only. Zero persistence, maximum jank. The "air gap" here is the physical space between the sticky note and the computer. Technically more secure than committing your .env to GitHub, which is the bar we're working with these days. The OCR script probably fails half the time because of handwriting recognition, but hey, that's just built-in rate limiting. Fun fact: This is unironically more secure than what half of production environments are running. At least there's no plaintext in the git history.

Deja Vu
Javascript Backend Security Programming Webdev
3 months ago 9.8M views 0 shares
Deja Vu
Two completely valid reasons to despise the same framework, yet somehow you're the unreasonable one for suggesting literally any alternative at the standup. The privacy advocate hates Tesseract because it phones home to Google. The backend dev hates it because they have to npm install 47 packages just to OCR a receipt. Both are correct. Both are suffering. Neither will win the argument with the PM who already put it in the sprint. Fun fact: Tesseract was originally developed by HP in the 1980s and later open-sourced. Google picked it up in 2006, which is when the trust issues began.

OCR Is Infuriating
AI Programming Debugging Testing
1 year ago 540.9K views 1 shares
OCR Is Infuriating
The sweet irony of OCR technology! Nothing quite matches that special rage when your computer—with its fancy machine learning algorithms—somehow can't recognize text in a font IT LITERALLY INSTALLED ITSELF. It's like having a roommate who stocks the fridge with beer but then forgets what beer looks like. "What's this strange amber liquid in bottles? Never seen it before!" And yet we keep trusting computers with increasingly complex tasks while they still struggle with the digital equivalent of "is this my hand?"