icedchai

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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   Yep, the IE 6 era felt like it lasted forever. It was a solid browser, relatively stable and fast (compared to Netscape, at least.) IE was also the main browser on Mac OS X for the first couple of releases!
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   I was forced to get a cloud certification while working for a former employer. I took it remotely and had to leave the camera on the whole time. If you looked away even for a second, you'd get a warning. Very dystopian.
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   Same. Some of the developers I work with leave Claude's comments in the code: "Wait... let me try something else!" I don't mind they're using AI, but leaving junk around is a code smell. What else aren't you p
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   It was a rough time. IE was the only browser that worked well. Netscape 4.x crashed every 20 minutes. Mozilla (before Firefox) was barely usable. Chrome was no where to be seen yet.
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   They were a little late, but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. To say they "missed the boat" is a bit much. There was a dark period from 1999 to 2004 or so where IE was basically the only usable browser.
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   I still remember when they started charging for domains. Until late 1995, they were free.
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   Amiga OS 2.0 was a huge improvement in that regard! It had more of a 3D look.
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   I agree it would be absurd for it to take 95% of your time. I have, however, seen that it takes a lot more time than one would think. I did some contracting work for a severely dysfunctional meeting heavy organization and it was about 2 h
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   by icedchai 5mo ago

   In all seriousness, communications consumes a lot of time. Meetings, emails, Slack messages, pestering stake holders and other developers...
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    I'd go with a smaller VPS-focused provider like Vultr.
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    I generally agree with this, especially the Lambda and DynamoDB advice. DynamoDB: I think DynamoDB is great, actually, if you think about your use cases up front and thoroughly. For most apps, that just isn't realistic and it is too
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    Is bhyve working well for you? Maybe I'll try that in my next rev of my home lab.
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    I also use a mix. I moved to FreeBSD initially after a rough period w/Linux in the late 90's. Today, my FreeBSD machines are all VMs running on Linux hosts!
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    Same. I've been using it since 1996. Initially, we used it at an early ISP for DNS, SMTP, and POP3 for roughly 8K users, and it stuck with me.
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    I've worked with some Amazon fanboys who'd rave about being "bar raisers" and other assorted nonsense, trying to impress Amazon-derived "leadership principles" upon much smaller organizations. It left a very ba
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    Too bad Amiga Basic stopped being supported after Workbench 1.3! Supposedly it was Microsoft's only Amiga product.
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    by icedchai 5mo ago

    There were some advantages. The more advanced BASICs gave you functions / subroutines so you didn't have to mess around with using global variables to pass arguments to a "gosub".
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    I haven't written BASIC since I was a teenager! The more "modern" basics, without line numbers, were a definite improvement. I went from AppleSoft to AmigaBasic and QuickBasic.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Look at his previous post. He described how to set up DNSSEC with PowerDNS.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Sorry, no. I was responding to "I am reminded of the warning that zonemaster gives about putting your domain name servers on a single AS, as is common practice for many larger providers." That is not the ccTLD, that is an indivi
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Are you following the thread? We're talking about redundancy for a single domain here.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    It depends. Do you also have email or other services for that domain? The advantage is your email doesn't start bouncing when your single host web site / DNS server is down.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    It's simple enough to get a secondary DNS server somewhere and put it on $5/month VPS. I use BIND and DNS replication (AXFR/IXFR) handles it.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Yes, I worked on some early ecommerce sites. Often, we'd accept credit cards with SSL and then send them out with email (plain text SMTP) to the customer, for manual entry. Very secure.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Nobody was taking credit cards online then. Your telnet sessions were easily sniffed, however.
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    I've been in IT 30+ years, been running DNS, web servers, etc. since at least 1994. I haven't bothered with DNSSEC due to perceived operational complexity. The penalty for a screw up, a total outage, just doesn't seem worth t
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    I work with a "global systems integrator" that has IT security policies so insane that it takes 1 to 2 months to onboard a developer and finally get their work laptop set up. Meanwhile, they are basically twiddling their thumbs ge
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Was the app vibe coded?
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Google is seeing almost 50% IPv6 adoption: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6... Yes, it started out slow. But from 2016 to 2026 we've gone from 10% to almost 50%. In some count
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    by icedchai 6mo ago

    Yep. I get real tired of adding a month and year to the same base password every time I need to rotate it.