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jlaporte commented on Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?   bsdhowto.ch/doh.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Mister_Snuggles · 3 months ago
The thing that bothers me most about DoH is that it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application. So now you don't have the ability to set up your own DNS server system-wide, you need to do it per-application and per-device. Assuming, of course, that the applications and devices in question allow you to do this and/or respect your choice when you do it.

Also shoving every protocol under the sun into HTTPS just feels wrong. I get why it's happening (too many middleware boxes and ISPs think internet == web). But shouldn't we fix the ISPs and middleware instead of endlessly working around it?

jlaporte · 3 months ago
> it moves the responsibility for name resolution from the operating system to each application

Browsers only took on DoH implementation directly because they were solving the cold-start problem for a new protocol. Nothing to do with the spec.

There is support for DoH in all major OSs today, but none have made it a simple box to click AFAIK (we could speculate why).

For macOS, iOS, either via Private Relay (paid) or a configuration profile. Premade profiles: * https://github.com/paulmillr/encrypted-dns

For Windows > In the Registry Editor window open: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters > Right-click within the “Parameters” folder and create a new Dword (32-bit) Value. Name this new file “EnableAutoDOH” and set its value to “2.” * https://superuser.com/posts/1764668/revisions

Linux: * https://dev.to/mfat/how-to-enable-system-wide-dns-over-https...

jlaporte commented on Apache ECharts   echarts.apache.org/en/ind... · Posted by u/tomtomistaken
jlaporte · 5 months ago
No opinion on this particular package. But on the naming, "Apache" ECharts...

It's long since time that Apache foundation projects stop using the Apache name. Apache is a license, a foundation, a webserver. Apache supported projects have little to do with that - not the same people, not the same product area. Just some help with money and logistics.

And for those that argue the tie to the Apache org:

They're not CNCF Kubernetes, CNCF Helm, CNCF Jaeger. They're Kubernetes, Helm, Jaeger.

jlaporte commented on Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software    · Posted by u/gregorygev
danielvanacker · 5 months ago
Fair point, Excel is the standard, and we’re not trying to replace it. But an embedded sheet lets us do things that an add-in just can’t, like asking AI a question and having it generate a full sheet with supporting data instantly. The experience won't be the same if you have to open that sheet in excel instead of seeing it embedded in the app.

We think that’s a powerful complement to Excel, not a replacement. And of course, exporting to Excel/Google Sheets is always an option.

jlaporte · 5 months ago
Counterpoint: the product vision that is already on display here is going in a great direction, and colocating a spreadsheet with your accounting app is a great idea. I love the idea of being freed from having to use excel for particular aspects of my accounting flow. You've got the export. People that want to keep their painful workflows can be masochistically happy.

This is clearly not an attempt to replace Excel, it's an attempt to accomplish a set of use cases in a better way than clunky export-import flows.

The in-app sheets look great, keep going!

jlaporte commented on Why AI is progressing so quickly in 2025, and why we know the pace will continue   roadtoartificia.com/p/why... · Posted by u/jlaporte
jlaporte · 6 months ago
"...the chatter in the legacy media about AI being in a hype cycle or bubble is simply wrong, and why understanding just a little bit about where the advances in AI capabilities are coming from shows why. Continued AI acceleration in the coming months and years isn’t guesswork — its baked-in. There are persistent, reliable processes behind the steady advances as we’ll see."
jlaporte commented on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026   support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/s3ctor8
jlaporte · 6 months ago
And not a word of protest was uttered.
jlaporte commented on Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies   reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
zzzeek · 6 months ago
yeah, they're going to have to build a new NATO-like alliance and go it alone. Seems like it would be a good thing if the EU had some military teeth of their own to give them more leverage in all the Bad Things going on now.
jlaporte · 6 months ago
Macron has been advocating for a European Army for around a decade. With the recent EU defence spending announcements the idea of a unified command structure in Europe is becoming likely.

The French offer to extend their nuclear umbrella seems to me to have two purposes:

1. Deal with the immediate vulnerability opened by questions over U.S. Article 5 commitments to NATO

2. Try to get ahead of potential nuclear weapons proliferation among other EU states

jlaporte commented on Time for smartphone makers to ship verified video capture   roadtoartificia.com/p/tim... · Posted by u/jlaporte
morkalork · 6 months ago
Actually kind of terrifying in a fascist context: Leakers, witnesses and whistleblowers recording evidence could be identified and persecuted with such a scheme. Kinda like how reality winner or whoever got busted by those invisible dots marking which printer was used to make copies of secret documents.
jlaporte · 6 months ago
Actually this is addressed in the article. Unique signing keys per capture or per short rotation period.

u/jlaporte

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