actionowl

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by actionowl 7y ago
For those wondering (I was) vapor.io is NOT related to: - The server-side Swift web framework - The Laravel Vapor Serverless framework - A "wave" of music :P
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by actionowl 7y ago
Looks neat but would be great if you expanded internationally. We're in the Philippines and going to South Korea in a couple of months and there's no options in either country.
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by actionowl 7y ago
That's a good point actually. You'd need the internet to install the app too.
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by actionowl 7y ago
That approach has been mentioned in the comments. Some problems with it are: If a certificate is valid beyond 825 days Chrome will not honor it. So if you generate a key and cert at the factory for every device you run into the issue of the
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by actionowl 7y ago
I'm totally for the open source bits, we use .Net Core heavily at my current job now. I like the change in Microsoft and windows. Still don't use Windows on the server or desktop but I like .Net core.
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by actionowl 7y ago
HTTP(S) might just be the wrong protocol for initial setup of a router! Maybe instead generate a password for each router and print it on the box along with the device's unique SSH Key fingerprint. Technical users can then SSH in and b
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by actionowl 7y ago
Excluding jobs in High School and College... Job 1. Not happy with the work I was doing, management was pushing me to learn ASP.Net and Windows stack, wanted to continue using Linux and open source languages. Job 2. After 5 years I felt lik
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by actionowl 7y ago
Obligatory xkcd [1] [1] https://xkcd.com/303/
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by actionowl 7y ago
Tarsnap comes to mind, though I'm not quite sure how niche it really is: https://www.tarsnap.com/
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Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020(blog.arduino.cc)
190 points by actionowl 7y ago|198 comments
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by actionowl 7y ago
I manage and work on a small team of 4 people. Myself and one other are remote, I am at a 13 hour time difference from all of them(!) The hardest part for me is knowing what's going on during their normal workday. Something can come up
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by actionowl 7y ago
> each week we will have to manually fetch the file and put it into an XlS file. Could you just automate this bit? Please your boss and remove the manual task from your duties?
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by actionowl 7y ago
I think security.txt[1] would definitely help here! [1] https://securitytxt.org/
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by actionowl 7y ago
Did anyone else ride an emotional roller coaster while reading that headline? I was really sad to discover (after the period, halfway through the headline) that billions were not given to improve FreeBSD Jails :,( dang.
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by actionowl 7y ago
As a Codacy user for $DAYJOB I can guarantee you that Codacy deserves worst than grade F.
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by actionowl 7y ago
I DO TOO! Warts and all, the simplicity is really refreshing, especially in an age of: "Make sure you have homebrew installed and then `curl http://goodluckbro.io/doomed | sh` then go read the Medium blog post to wri
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by actionowl 7y ago
> "call home" with only the necessary informations, at which point the server will respond with the necessary information that will allow the program to run. That means means users won't be able to use your app offline (in
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by actionowl 7y ago
I use zodiac[1] (awk + make) for that use-case, so I guess I'm already partying like it's 1985! :P [1] https://github.com/nuex/zodiac
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by actionowl 7y ago
Nice! That was NOT the case when I last tried it, and I prefer RHEL-based distros when not using BSD. Thanks!
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by actionowl 7y ago
How does one handle consistent navigation though? If you make a change it sucks having to update that on every page IMHO.
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by actionowl 7y ago
I did not know this, good to hear!
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by actionowl 7y ago
FWIW I’d really like to see Swift available in more platforms. At the moment only MacOS and Ubuntu seem to be supported (*BSD and perhaps Windows would be very welcome)
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by actionowl 7y ago
Setting MySQL to listen on 0.0.0.0 and grant all to ‘user’@‘%’ are not the best of ideas...
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by actionowl 7y ago
The engineering team for our division is about 30 people, the company as a whole is much larger but our division has a lot of autonomy. When I went remote I was a developer, now I'm managing an SRE team of 3 people.
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by actionowl 7y ago
I use pngcrush, jpegtran, and gifsicle
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by actionowl 7y ago
Convinced my employer to let me work 100% remotely a few years ago.
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by actionowl 7y ago
I recently picked up Zodiac for a small project as it's just the right amount of simplicity for my needs (uses awk and sh): https://github.com/nuex/zodiac
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by actionowl 7y ago
Firefox OS[1] and now KaiOS[2] might be of interest to you. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
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by actionowl 7y ago
It depends on what all you use, at least GPGTools Mail plugin and MacOS FUSE (At least SSHFS) still don't support Catalina.
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by actionowl 7y ago
They are revealing to the public if a package maintainer used Tor or 2FA. I do not think that information should be made public.

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