Readit Newsbartekrutkowski commented on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud ashishb.net/programming/g... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
The obvious go-to choice was Cloudflare for us too, but then it turned out you can't use CF just as a registrar (at least on the basic plan or equivalent), you need to use Cloudflare's nameservers as well... But we use Google's Cloud DNS for everything, so that was a showstopper. In the end we went with AWS Route 53.
CF could probably get a lot more customers if they would allow you to use custom nameservers for your domain.
If I'm not mistaken, it is possible, but not on the free tier.
bartekrutkowski commented on Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv (2023) jetify.com/blog/automated... · Posted by u/jljljl
What interferes with supporting “normal” builds is the effort required to actually support them. If that was a given, there’d be no justification for us having gotten ourselves in this mess in the first place. The realities of increasingly choose-your-own-adventure nature of Linux have come home to roost, and people are quite rightfully wanting to spend their effort elsewhere.
I say this as someone that was using Gentoo before lxc even existed. So this isn’t code for “I don’t get it”.
What about non Linux operating systems? Those exist and Open Source software written for them, developed on them exists.
bartekrutkowski commented on Venezuela's last glacier, Humboldt, has melted away scitechdaily.com/venezuel... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
That’s just negativity IMO. “Things are hard so we’re definitely doomed for extinction” is... well, at the very least it’s not very scientific.
There are good things too! We recently launched the biggest rocket ever - that was pretty cool. Also we invented computers that can think, which seems likely to be useful! Giving up now would be like giving up in 1924 because corruption was rampant and the Spanish flu was still recent in the mind… our “polio vaccine” or “penicillin” is just around the corner, my friend
Who and where invented a computer that can think? I must be missing something?
bartekrutkowski commented on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/zdw
what do you if you get mugged and you laptop and phone and keys are taken or stolen from you? or lost?
After this party, this guy needed help, he lost his wallet and his phone, his sister also went to the party and gave him a ride there but had left. he didn't know her number to call her, and she'd locked down her socials so we couldn't use my phone to contact her. we were lucky that his socials weren't super locked down and managed to find someone that way, but priv keys are only good so long as you have them.
You can and you should back up your keys. There isn't a 100% safe, secure and easy method that shields you from everything that can possibly happen, but there are enough safe, secure and easy ones to cover vast majority of cases other than a sheer catastrophe, which is good enough not to use outdated and security prone mechanisms like passwords on network exposed service.
They charged me $100 to get my machine back without repair.
Also bear in mind that the EU is a single market, warranties etc are, by law, required to be honoured over the ENTIRE single market. Not just one country.
Especially when the closest Apple Store to me is IN GERMANY.
I have since returned it to Amazon who will refund it (they're taking their sweet time though, I need to call them next week as they should have transferred already).
Sellers often will try to steer you to use warranty as it removes their responsibility, Amazon is certainly shady here. Apple will often straight on give you a full refund or a new device (often newer model), that happened to me with quite few iPhones and MacBooks.
Know your rights.