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rokkamokka commented on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt   letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/SGran
jjice · 8 days ago
Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team.

The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me because 1), it's (and was at the time) the largest certificate authority in the world, and 2) I've never seen someone care about who issued your cert on a sales call. It coming from GoDaddy is not a selling point...

So my question: has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt? I couldn't imagine, but curious on others' experiences.

rokkamokka · 8 days ago
No! Let's encrypt is easily the best thing that's happened for a secure internet the last 10 years.
rokkamokka commented on Migrating Burningboard.net Mastodon Instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup   blog.hofstede.it/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
rokkamokka · 9 days ago
If I set this up i would just run every service on the same machine sans jails. Are there any practical benefits to doing it like this? The extra complexity buys some slight measure of security in case one service is exploited, I guess?
rokkamokka commented on Zeroing in on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal   physics.aps.org/articles/... · Posted by u/lc0_stein
rokkamokka · a month ago
Star gate zero point modules incoming?
rokkamokka commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is   heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga
avgDev · a month ago
I don't think it is political reasons, seems like it is for large donation reasons.
rokkamokka · a month ago
In the US, this is much the same thing
rokkamokka commented on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others   ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artic... · Posted by u/randycupertino
dingnuts · a month ago
honestly I think these things cause a form of Gell Mann's Amnesia where when you use them for something you know already, the errors are obvious, but when you use them for something you don't understand already, the output is sufficiently plausible that you can't tell you're being misled.

this makes the tool only useful for things you already know! I mean, just in this thread there's an anecdote from a guy who used it to check a diagnosis, but did he press through other possibilities or ask different questions because the answer was already known?

rokkamokka · a month ago
I'd frame it such that LLM advice is best when it's the type that can be quickly or easily confirmed. Like a pointer in the right (or wrong) direction. If it was false, then try again - quick iterations. Taking it at its "word" is the potentially harmful bit.
rokkamokka commented on Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux   github.com/pythops/bluetu... · Posted by u/birdculture
rokkamokka · a month ago
I was at a TUI Blue vacation resort a while back, thought for a minute this was related to that!
rokkamokka commented on On Having a Data Object   natemeyvis.com/on-having-... · Posted by u/Theaetetus
rokkamokka · 2 months ago
In my experience (in our rather large MVC-style Laravel code base) DTOs are almost always an unnecessary abstraction. I'm much more content just shuffling actual Models around, with small methods that map these to whatever format the client then requires. I've refactored away many a DTO added by junior developers and the code is always much simplified.
rokkamokka commented on AI scrapers request commented scripts   cryptography.dog/blog/AI-... · Posted by u/ColinWright
rokkamokka · 2 months ago
I'm not overly surprised, it's probably faster to search the text for http/https than parse the DOM
rokkamokka commented on Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy   therecord.media/demark-re... · Posted by u/layer8
tokai · 2 months ago
It's interesting that Peter Hummelgaard's former party comrade Henrik Sass Larsen recently got 4 months of prison for possession of child porn; 6200 pictures and 2200 videos.

So we are to believe Hummelgaard wants to protect children by enabling vast surveillance, so all the bad offenders out there can get ... 4 months in prison.

Its not really adding up. And he still hasn't presented any argument for the thing except that you are pro child abuse if you don't agree with him. I'm at the point where I hope he's corrupt and its not just all about power for him.

rokkamokka · 2 months ago
Yeah, it's bad. Like convicted rapists not serving their sentences and going on to take political office.
rokkamokka commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents   dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth
jb1991 · 2 months ago
I would bet all of my assets of my life that AGI will not be seen in the lifetime of anyone reading this message right now.

That includes anyone reading this message long after the lives of those reading it on its post date have ended.

Which of course raises the interesting question of how I can make good on this bet.

rokkamokka · 2 months ago
Will you take a wager of my one dollar versus your life assets? :)

u/rokkamokka

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