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by jgaa 9y ago
>> Those services could be gone tomorrow! > This is true of any hosting service. It's a lot easier to just 'scp ~/blog/. new-server:/var/www' than to set up a database server, go trough configurat
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by jgaa 9y ago
The complexity of modern sites is insane. It's also insane to relay on other peoples services ('cloud' and 'server-less') for simple websites, like publishing articles or blog-posts. Those services could be gone tom
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by jgaa 9y ago
The scary part about Facebook dying - and they will at some time - if not now, then later - is who acquires them. Where will all that very personal data about everyone find a new home?
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by jgaa 9y ago
yes!
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by jgaa 9y ago
What is the 'utm_campaign' in the url? Is someone selling hacker news exposure?
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by jgaa 9y ago
So, it took Microsoft 17 years to catch up? I ported openssh to windows in year 2000. http://download.jgaa.com/ftp/pub/OpenSSH/
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by jgaa 9y ago
Why would anyone put mission-critical features like login in the hands of a 3rd party in the first place? Not to mention that OAUTH itself is crap ( https://hueniverse.com/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell-8eec45... ), and shoul
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by jgaa 9y ago
I wrote an app for that a few years ago :) Not a full GTD work-flow, but what I found most useful at that time. It has served me well. https://lastviking.eu/vikinggtd_released.html Not worrying about remembering everything,
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by jgaa 9y ago
Seriously, the only true server less design is p2p applications over RFC 1149.
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by jgaa 9y ago
So, I guess it's back to using wired headphones with the phone...
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by jgaa 9y ago
I solved this problem a long time ago. Once solved, it did not take three hours to get a web side on-line (well may be, if you bought your own domain and set up your own server to host it). https://www.jgaa.com/content/
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by jgaa 9y ago
Me? I don't use Facebook. I consider Google evil and harmful and avoid them. On my phone I run my own apps, and apps from F-Droid - I don't even register with Google. I have a shit-list of companies I will never work for (Oracle,
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by jgaa 9y ago
Why not use reading as a reward? "I finished my project on schedule. This weekend I'll allow myself to read all day long, except for a walk with the dogs" :) Modern life already have way too many systems, obligations and fill
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by jgaa 9y ago
May be the code was written by Russian contractors? The ones that normally write bots for twitter to manipulate elections? The sad truth is that many programmers have no ethics at all. If we all did, there would be no spam, no maleware, no
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by jgaa 9y ago
For a API service with a few thousand occasional users, you can probably get away with a $5/Month VM at Linode.
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by jgaa 9y ago
Draconian laws to ensure "security".
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by jgaa 9y ago
It seems this one was designed to shut down hospitals ;)
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by jgaa 9y ago
NSA made a weapon with the purpose of harming someone. In court, intent matters.
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by jgaa 9y ago
If NSA made it, and failed to protect it - then NSA should be liable for law suits to pay for damages.
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by jgaa 9y ago
As far as I know, it's only doing this for the primary (on-chip) network interface. /Never/ use the primary NIC if you have a Intel CPU.
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by jgaa 9y ago
> Governments yield too much power, meanwhile citizens keep funding said governments with ridiculously high taxes. Good point. In my opinion, paying taxes is the most immoral thing a person can do.
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by jgaa 9y ago
I really hope you are right :)
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by jgaa 9y ago
The other half value of Disqus is to provide comments to static sites. Back in the days, most sites used dynamic content, and had comments as part of the CMS system they used. Today, lots of sites have no back-end database, and unfortunatel
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Show HN: Restc-cpp – The magic that takes the pain out of JSON API's from C++(github.com)
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by jgaa 9y ago
Something makes me think about Nokia, and the lessons Microsoft never seems to learn.
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by jgaa 10y ago
Well - you know, when you strip the symbols from the optimized binaries, the "huge_exploit_nsa_hook()" function kind of morphs into 0x66666666 or some other seemingly random number. Besides, I knew only one programmer who could r
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by jgaa 10y ago
You can get some idea by looking at where the packages are going - but in todays ipv4 space, most p2p packages have to transit trough some public IP addresses. That means that, unless you are able to decrypt the traffic, it will be difficul
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by jgaa 10y ago
I think it's pretty obvious that we cannot trust any messenger app that is closed source or relies on some company's service infrastructure. If it's closed source, you cannot possible know what it does. If it's relying o
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by jgaa 11y ago
As the author of a FTP server called warftpd, I agree :) Another argument in favor of FTP is that the protocol is simple to implement from scratch, well understood and - well it's an established standard. In stead of re-inventing trans
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by jgaa 11y ago
I use FTP to transfer files from my scanner to my PC. Doing that, I don't have to run any vendor written software on my PC. For me that matters. And for such use cases, the limitations in the FTP protocol is of little or no concern.

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