system33- (u/system33-)

system33- commented on Exe.dev exe.dev/... · Posted by u/achairapart

Balinares · 3 months ago

In which country are the VMs hosted? Do you have a warrant canary? Where's the AUP and how much peeking into customer VMs and storage do you do to enforce it?

system33- · 3 months ago

They terminate TLS. It seems like you wouldn’t want to use this service even if all those questions were answered to your satisfaction.

system33- commented on The $25k car is going extinct? media.hubspot.com/why-the... · Posted by u/pseudolus

potato3732842 · 9 months ago

Buy POS 30yo car and just start getting it in shape to be daily drivable. You can typically screw things up three times over before it'd be cheaper to pay someone.

All you really need is the internet. China tools via Amazon are "fine".

system33- · 9 months ago

Not disagreeing, just elaborating, about “fine” Chinese Amazon tools.

I needed safety wire pliers to assemble some brake rotors. The metal in the ones I got on Amazon was softer than the metal wire they came with such that the cutting edges got little wire-sized dents in them and increasingly useless the farther I got along in the job.

Returned those afterward. Junk.

But there’s other stuff I’ve gotten from RANDOMLETTERS Amazon that’s actually holding up “ok.”

Also, Harbor Freight is a better source of ok/fine tools where you don’t need quotes around those words.

system33- commented on Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years github.com/EbodShojaei/ba... · Posted by u/rainmans

motorest · 9 months ago

> Interacting with CLI tools using only env vars as arguments is cartoonishly bad dev experience.

Make excels at what it's design to do: specify a configurable DAG of tasks that generate artifacts, execute them, and automatically determine which subgraph requires updates and which can be skipped by reusing their artifacts.

I wonder: which tool do you believe does this better than Make?

system33- · 9 months ago

Tup. https://gittup.org/tup/ https://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html

But the Internet’s make mind-share means you still have to know make.

Edit: and make lets you use make to essentially run scripts/utils. People love to abuse make for that. Can’t do that with tup.

system33- commented on The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home (2017) atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/rmason

lo_zamoyski · 9 months ago

> the word of God has obvious contradictions and inconsistencies

Such as?

system33- · 9 months ago

https://www.bartehrman.com/contradictions-in-the-bible/

system33- commented on Git without a forge chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ndegruchy · a year ago

This is what I love about Fossil[1]. You get all of those extra tools (wiki, chat, forums, bug tracker) in the server that is also in the binary that you use to manage the repo.

So, if you want to serve it, just `fossil server file.fossil` or serve a whole directory of them. Or, if you want, you can just `fossil ui` and muck around yourself, locally. The server supports SSH and HTTPS interactions for cloning and pushing.

All by the same people who make SQLite, Pikchr, and more.

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org

system33- · a year ago

Yup. +1 for fossil. I wanted an issue tracker that wasn’t text files in the repo. Lots of git-based things that were heavier (gitea and friends) or hackier than I wanted. Decided to finally try out fossil and I think it’s really really neat.

system33- commented on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights cnn.com/2025/03/04/politi... · Posted by u/rob74

system33- · a year ago

So cut those people. They will continue to be a problem. Can’t fire them because of the rights of federal employees? Get the law changed.

Actually solve an actual problem, not wave a machete around cutting the government in half.

system33- commented on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server github.com/blackcandy-org... · Posted by u/nateb2022

emmanueloga_ · a year ago

I’ve been searching for services that host personal music collections, but there doesn’t seem to be much available. I came across a product called Vox [1], which I might try. There are also plenty of self-hosted projects of varying quality (but I hadn’t seen Black Candy before).

I'd like a service where I can upload a large folder of MP3s, and it would help organize them into albums, perform useful processing like ReplayGain normalization, BPM and key analysis, etc. It should also have a good playlist manager and player for desktop and mobile.

Some existing services allow you to add your own music files, like MP3s, but this often feels like a second-class citizen. Services like SoundCloud are focused more on social interactions, which I don’t really need.

Have I missed any services like this?

There's some growing dissatisfaction around algorithm-driven music services like Spotify. Also, these services carry the risk of music disappearing for various reasons. I think a service allowing curation of own MP3 collections could appeal a significant fraction of all music lovers out there.

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1: https://vox.rocks/

system33- · a year ago

Subsonic and airsonic (the latter is a fork of the former).

system33- commented on Let's Encrypt was unable to validate domain names letsencrypt.status.io/pag... · Posted by u/veggieWHITES

bikingbismuth · a year ago

I worked for a brand that was heavily impacted by phishing sites that used LE certs. It was annoying, but honestly I wasn’t sure what LE couple do about it. If you deny creating a cert with Gmail in the domain, people will just use something like gmall instead.

system33- · a year ago

Exactly. “Unsolvable” is a strong word, but … how wrong is it? Shrug.

system33- commented on Let's Encrypt was unable to validate domain names letsencrypt.status.io/pag... · Posted by u/veggieWHITES

system33- · a year ago

Before clicking the link or seeing the domain, I was expecting either a rehashed (or if I was optimistic: a novel) argument for why what LE does isn’t actually validating domains. Philosophically or technically. For example: they don’t validate you’re going to the domain you intend on visiting. And 500 words on why that makes them useless. (I don’t agree, but that’s what I was expecting)

system33- commented on Is Tor still safe to use? blog.torproject.org/tor-i... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

iluvcommunism · a year ago

What role do TLS errors play in de-anonymizing onion traffic?

system33- · a year ago

My comment is strictly about exit nodes which are not used as part of connecting to onion services.

Ignoring TLS errors might mean you’re ignoring the fact your exit relay is MitM attacking you.