This means that any sysadmin could plant a backdoor for later use.
and/or someone "renting" a bare metal server from such a provider too.
Readit Newsahdanggit commented on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/zdw
ahdanggit commented on Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 64jim64.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
It pains me to mention this but I don't think it's responsible not to:
https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/issues/4030
At time of writing (2025-09-27, plus or minus a timezone), there does not appear to be any serious attempt to secure application-layer message contents. (At least, not yet)
My hope is that this cool new radio link option will still gain traction and grow and develop without painting itself into a corner, security-wise.
To wit- security hints on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model have improved substantially since my last readthrough.
I appreciate you pointing that out. I've been curious about meshastatic and wondered how well the encryption was being handled.
got is a waste of time, imo.
they could just port the multiprocess pledge stuff to git (and benefit linux too with namespaces)
then all the userfacing changes (i.e. work on git bare instrad of wc) I've been doing for the last decade with a couple lines on my gitconfig file.
Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)
> Introducing Rust is impossible for some platforms and hard for
others.
Please could someone elaborate on this.
Rust doesn't support as many CPU architectures as C does (SH4 for example, though there's likely many more better examples.)
This might make a much more interesting case for GOT than before https://www.gameoftrees.org/
ahdanggit commented on Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity? kyrylo.org/software/2025/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).
I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.
ahdanggit commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell
Strong disagree. Web Components are react in different clothing. You don’t need this component-based framework style architecture to write applications for the browser.
I promise writing applications for the browsers is not challenging. You don’t need big frameworks or component madness that’s more of the same.
HARD AGREE!
It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)
ahdanggit commented on Use One Big Server (2022) specbranch.com/posts/one-... · Posted by u/antov825
I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.
ahdanggit commented on Use One Big Server (2022) specbranch.com/posts/one-... · Posted by u/antov825
I used to say "oh yeah just run qemu-kvm" until my girlfriend moved in with me and I realized you do legitimately need some kind of infrastructure for managing your "internal cloud" if anyone involved isn't 100% on the same page and then that starts to be its own thing you really do have to manage.
Suddenly I learned why my employer was willing to spend so much on OpenStack and Active directory.
> until my girlfriend moved in with me
lol, why was this the defining moment? She wasn't too keen on hearing the high pitch wwwwhhhhuuuuurrrrrrr of the server fans?
ahdanggit commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique
> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".
I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.
If you live outside the US, it's even worse with WhatsApp.
If for whatever reason you dislike WhatsApp, you just can't also be a society's functioning member.
Some companies have decided to deprecate email and phone support and only have a WhatsApp chat, potentially with AI slop. I've had to discontinue my services with some of these companies because of that.
Even some government services are going through WhatsApp; I've had to be there in person, among senior citizens just because of their tech choices.
I pretty much vouch for "vote with your wallet," but I am running out of alternatives.
In the Philippines everyone uses Facebook because you can use Messenger for free without data charges.