cprecioso (u/cprecioso)

cprecioso commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david

I can assure you WarpBuild has Mac runners that work very well. When I first switched GH only offered 1 Mac runner and it was horribly slow. Literally cut my build times in half by changing 1 line in my workflow file to use the WB runner.

Nowadays GH has more sizes by WB continues to beat them in price and performance.

It’s highway robbery what GH charges for the crap they provide. I can highly recommend WarpBuild for Mac (and Linux) runners.

cprecioso · 9 days ago

I was talking specifically of macOS Intel runners. The sibling comment from the founder confirmed they don't have them.

cprecioso commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david

suryao · 9 days ago

With these changes, three things hold:

1. Services like blacksmith and WarpBuild (I'm the founder) are still cheaper than GitHub hosted runners, even after including the $0.002/min self-hosting tax.

2. The biggest lever for controlling costs now is reducing the number of minutes used in CI. Given how slow Github's runners are, or even the ones on AWS compared to our baremetal processor single core performance + nvme disks, it makes even more sense to use WarpBuild. This actually makes a better case for moving from slow AWS instances running with actions-runner-controller etc. to WarpBuild!

3. Messaging this to most users is harder since the first reaction is that Github options make more sense. After some rational thought, it is the opposite.

Overall - it is worse for Github users, but options like blacksmith and WarpBuild are still the better option.

cprecioso · 9 days ago

I checked the WarpBuild website and got excited because the header in the menu says you have macOS Intel runners, but then you click through and it doesn't seem to be so?

Right now at my company our biggest complaint are macOS Intel runners from GitHub which somehow take 15+ minutes to provision and are the slowest of the bunch.

cprecioso commented on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates community.letsencrypt.org... · Posted by u/schmuckonwheels

toddgardner · 10 days ago

It's more complicated than that. Apple (along with Google and Mozilla) basically held the CA's hostage. They started unilaterally reducing lifetimes. It was happening whether the CAB approved it or not.

The vote was more about whether the CAB would continue to be relevant. "Accept the reality, or browsers aren't even going to show up anymore".

I wrote a bunch about this recently: https://www.certkit.io/blog/47-day-certificate-ultimatum

cprecioso · 10 days ago

That was an interesting read, thanks! Two questions:

- What is the problem with stale certificates if a domain changes hands? It seems to me that whether they renew the certificate or not, the security situation for the user is still the same, no?

- Is CertKit a similar solution to Anchor Relay? (https://anchor.dev/relay)

cprecioso commented on Affinity Studio now free affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx

cprecioso · 2 months ago

I'm disappointed to see so many negative responses to such a good thing to do. I understand where it's coming from, the distrust on progressively de-empowering freemium apps. But if there was a product to gain some trust (or at least the benefit of the doubt) on doing the right thing, and having a fair and balanced approach to monetization, it is Affinity. Same thing they've been doing for years.

I for one, think this is a really nice thing, and that it gives access to really well-made and actual professional-level design tools to a huge swath of people who didn't have it before, be it for personal use or for work. No previously included feature is now part of the subscription, and they've made sure to say they'll be free forever. I see this as a huge win.

cprecioso commented on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain reclaimthenet.org/laligas... · Posted by u/akyuu

didntcheck · 3 months ago

Presumably there's no legal reason why the ISPs couldn't write to all their customers giving "notice of upcoming partial internet service outage, due to the actions of La Liga". It would be factually true

Of course, LL could still give them hell in court even on false grounds (and maybe even win anyway, given the case detailed in the root comment). And in any case there's simply no commercial reason why they would stick their neck out in the first place

cprecioso · 3 months ago

I think most of this are being done in the moment, without advanced warning. Plus, some ISPs carry soccer in their TV offerings so they’re probably not benefiting from speaking out. At least, my ISP does replace the blocked website with a notice explicitly stating that this is the result of a judicial ruling in favor of LaLiga

cprecioso commented on LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain reclaimthenet.org/laligas... · Posted by u/akyuu

tbrownaw · 3 months ago

Sounds like the ISP shouldn't be blocking hosting providers that are known to honor narrower takedown orders?

cprecioso · 3 months ago

The ISPs are compelled by judicial order to take down whatever LaLiga tells them to, and LaLiga is telling them to block the entire IP range. They can’t not do it.

cprecioso commented on A security incident that may involve your Plex account information forums.plex.tv/t/importan... · Posted by u/Shank

wiether · 4 months ago

PSA: If you are the owner of your Plex server and follow the _Sign out connected devices after password change- as they suggest, your server claim will also be expired.

So you'll have to get a new claim from https://www.plex.tv/claim and set it on your server; through the PLEX_CLAIM env var if your setup involves Docker.

They talk vaguely about it under _Common Issues_ but it wasn't on the original email, so I lost 15 minutes of my day because of this...

cprecioso · 4 months ago

Yep, this was a huge hassle for me, I didn't realize it would happen!

Another option is to do `ssh -L 32400:localhost:32400 <your-plex-address>` and connect to http://localhost:32400/web, it will let you claim the server as it detects the connection being local.

cprecioso commented on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" · Posted by u/nextdns

Imustaskforhelp · 4 months ago

I am a user of nextdns and okay, this is really neato team! I find this really interesting.

If I may ask, what are the dns tricks, is there a blog post about what you added, I am sooo curious about what sorcery is nextdns using.

Edit: I searched on ddg and there was a ghacks.net link and a alternativeto.net article and sadly ghacks was taking a long time to load and I just read the alternativeto.net article and it was kinda cool, let me paste it here

here is the article link : https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/nextdns-rolls-out-new-...

NextDNS has introduced a new DNS-level feature that allows users to bypass age verification checks commonly found on adult websites. This update enables users to avoid submitting personal documents, such as photos or government-issued IDs, to unfamiliar websites when accessing age-restricted content.

To enable the feature, users can activate it directly within the NextDNS settings. The technical approach is straightforward: the DNS resolver intercepts requests to target websites and routes traffic through proxy servers in countries where age verification is not required by law. This means that while users visit the same websites, the sites perceive the traffic as originating from a country without mandatory ID checks.

These changes are particularly relevant for individuals in the European Union and the United Kingdom, regions where certain governments have introduced strict ID requirements for accessing adult content websites. Looking at community reaction, user feedback on Reddit and social media has been largely positive since the announcement, with some users ironizing that “NextDNS developers know their clientele!”.

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TLDR/my-thoughts: Nextdns can use something similar to vpn and I am wondering how much more efficient is this for this usecase compared to a vpn, like I am sure that vpns can be banned by a country, see china.

But nextdns.io is still available in china?, how would that work, and so can this feature be actually expanded to make it a general purpose vpn too if need be but honestly a lot of vpn use cases might be for bypassing verification itself, so basically the only few use cases I can think of vpn is to bypass censorship and maybe verification and also changing vpn for lets say watching content that's available in other country

Can nextdns add other features too, like imagine you can use nextdns with netflix and change it to anime mode and you can get netflix as in of japan, I don't have netflix but I am just giving an example because that's a lot of times what I hear from all those youtube vpn shills

Or can they provide some vpn service itself while at it, and since nextdns still uses dns and dns can operate over https. I imagine that it might be even harder to detect such vpn traffic because I know for sure that some vpn's can be tracked implementation wise (as in wireguard)[i can be wrong, i usually am] but I am pretty sure that https can't be tracked in the same manner, and we can use dns over https in nextdns using this feature..

Can you guys maybe comment on what you think about it? adding general purpose vpns / japan/country switching/enabling vpns itself though I guess it might make you a vpn app which can have its own logs/rules and regulations and I am currently fine/really happy with protonvpn which I also think can run on top of https with their proxy option atleast in browser and maybe even in their apps I am not sure.

cprecioso · 4 months ago

IIRC there was this service called Tunlr which offered VPN-like location spoofing with similar DNS tricks.

cprecioso commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_

physicsguy · 5 months ago

Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.

cprecioso · 5 months ago

I was thinking about this the other day. I think it might just be a thing of Google looking for a different thing than what made his open source project famous.

Without no knowledge of the details further than mxcl's tweet; probably any performance issues even on simple code, get infinitely multiplied when running at Google's scale, slogging the thing, on Google's dime. From what I've seen of him, mxcl is good at designing a really approachable product, and on running an open source project. But homebrew is really slow, even on the latests Macs, even for basic cases.

To me it seems then that he'd be more fit for a product owner/manager position than an engineering one, and that could be the root of his not-hiring.