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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Binding to localhost by default is good security hygene, a "closed by default" strategy, which doesn't necessarily mean you never intend to expose that server ever. Tools like PageKite and localtunnel are completely in line w
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Abstracting away all the firewalls and IP addresses and stuff is really convenient. Restrictions aren't always put in place for a good reason, increasingly they are just a function of IP address scarcity. (disclaimer: I created https:
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Actually, I was just pointing out that they are not open in any meaningful sense of the word - their products are very, very closed and controlling and that's how they like it. Comparing them to Canonical is in my opinion very silly for th
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Placating the tech crowd by giving away fragments of low level code is really just marketing and a way to retain talent that would otherwise refuse to work for them. It's not as if their users can actually use any of that stuff to change h
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
I think it will be quite tragic if HTTP 2.0 ends up being a binary protocol. The discoverability and readability of the basic text based Internet was, in my opinion, one of its most fantastic qualities. It meant that as a young hacker I co
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
To add a little context, the feminist (who is an acquaintance of mine) has had her account blocked four times now, for posting screenshots of hateful or misogynistic online speech, including direct threats of violence, to her Facebook wall.
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Facebook petitioned to stop censoring prominent Icelandic feminist(change.org)
1 points by HerraBRE 14y ago|1 comments
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
In my experience (ex-Googler here), recruiters tend to be contractors who work off a script and get bonuses proportionate to how many people end up in the hiring pipeline. There are checks and balances to prevent outright spam, but the mot
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
I use the same technique to access VPS machines and mobile devices, except instead of a fixed bastion host I relay the connections through PageKite (disclosure: I'm the author). It feels a bit magical to just be able to ssh into a laptop o
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Thank you for the pointers, I'll take a look!
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Yes, for a developer, there are many ways to do this. PageKite aims to be more reliable, fast and convenient. It also provides niceties like preconfigured SSL certificates and automatic DNS subdomain provisioning and is smart about reconnec
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
You mean like this? :-) https://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/DebianPackage/ https://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/RpmPackage/ ... this works and is the most conveninient way to use PageKite if you are treating it as part of the O
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Honestly, because I haven't yet taken the time to figure out how. Mostly that is because I have the feeling pip is more intended towards libraries and things used while programming python. Pagekite is not really a library (yet), it is mor
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
I take security quite seriously, but I disagree with how you have evaluated the risk from this particular technique. That said, I do consider this to be a temporary measure while the software is maturing to the point that I can get it accep
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Thanks for the comments and feedback. I agree the control panel and account management could be improved, like many other parts of the project it is all a work in progress.
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
The shenanigans are just to keep it encapsulated as a single .py for backwards compatibility with when it actually was just a single .py. Once I get into the official Debian and Fedora repos and have proper windows/mac packages, this will
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Should be no problem. You can point to any local port, and you can run multiple "kites" at the same time (assign public names to mupltiple ports at once). Just make sure your apps generate relative URLs and don't contain absolute IPs and
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
I get that alot. But this is actually easier to audit than install.exe or the shell scripts embedded in a .deb or .rpm (which, incidentally, also run as root). It looks scary, but it really isn't. Or rather, it's no scarier than most of th
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Founder of PageKite here. I'm more than happy to answer any questions folks may have. :-)
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MediaGoblin crowdfunding campaign launches(mediagoblin.org)
9 points by HerraBRE 14y ago|3 comments
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
This probably doesn't belong on this thread, but I would really appreciate e-mail: bre at pagekite dot net.
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Woah, I'm in the big leagues now! Blocking us actually makes perfect sense, PageKite can be used to avoid a lot of quite reasonable corp security policies. Can you access sites on other domains which are connected via. PageKite? For examp
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Tooting my own horn again, but you just asked for https://pagekite.net/ : $ pagekite.py /path/to/file.blah yourname.pagekite.me ... send people a link to https://yourname.pagekite.me/file.blah and it streams from your disk. CTRL+C and i
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
The main point of PageKite is converting a networking/sysadmin problem, into a software problem. This has fundamental implications for scaling it out (software copying scales infinitely, sysadmins don't). I ended up with the weird merged py
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Interesting, I didn't know the apps were closed. (edit: seems they're not, source code is here: https://gitorious.org/owncloud/android-main ) My point was not price though, but freedom. If people are looking to move out of the cloud and ta
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
This can also be done with entirely Free Software (for those that care about such things) by combining things like OwnCloud ( http://owncloud.org/ ) and MediaGoblin ( http://www.mediagoblin.org/ ), and maybe PageKite ( https://pagekite.net/
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
It may simply be that testing for maleness is the easiest way to prove that the cells are of "foreign" origin.
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Show HN: Turn any Android phone into a public server (3G, NAT, no problem)(pagekite.net)
8 points by HerraBRE 14y ago|0 comments
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Hey! I am doing something very similar with PageKite ( http://pagekite.net/ ), although the server does not run in a browser. I've decided to try to get authors of similar tools together on a mailing list to discuss whether we can agree on
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by HerraBRE 14y ago
Mail me! :-)

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