mikemaccana

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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Charities often don't value work if it's provided to them for free. If you are providing any kind of discount, make sure you show the full price of your time on your invoices, then any discounts.
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Keeping persistent history in bash(eli.thegreenplace.net)
3 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Totally agreed, there's certainly a place for tools that don't need DevOps skills, and many places - typically PaaS - that take care of this. However many developers wish to have more control over their environment than what a Paa
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You won't remember the OpenSSL options, so here's bash shortcuts for everything(certsimple.com)
6 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|9 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Probably worth noting that Telegram is not secure: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...
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Why Are Digital-Privacy Apps So Hard to Use?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|1 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
I'll be more direct at saying what the post can't say: - Historically the V8 team simply did not care about node, and would introduce breaking changes that would come as a surprise to node core - It's better now, and V8 folk
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
So what's actually included? A comment here mentioned koa, and there's some kind of ORM, but the README has no information.
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
I was really slow on picking up Babel too. But I've been using Babel 5.x in production for six months without errors - main things were docs that referred to old versions of babel and babelify. I needed to plug this in the package.json
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
> This "separate data from presentation" sounds like TCO-speak. Way too frequently referenced to be a genuine inspiration. Huh? It's a very specific thing. When you run stuff on Powershell, you pipe it to 'select&#x27
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Asides from being an actual Windows app as you mentioned, it's also a current OpenSSH codebase.
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
A half-bad Unix on top of Windows, with its own duplicate way of handling services, storage, users, permissions and everything else, is a pretty poor setup. Powershell (particularly the way it separates data from presentation) is one of the
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
See https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/57 . For some reason putty works but iTerm has the backspace issue. Putty user: what's your $TERM? Ctrl H works as a workaround BTW.
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Yes. From my Mac: $ ssh mike@192.168.0.12 mike@192.168.0.12's password: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586] (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\Mike>powershell -File - PS C:\U
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
See also https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/ssh.exe-exa... once you've got it running. To work around a bug, you'll currently need to run `powershell -File -` It's still way too e
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Install Win32 OpenSSH test release(github.com)
49 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|45 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
Here's the current full table (with the seventh row complete): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Discover...
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
libtls is part of libressl: http://www.libressl.org/ > LibreSSL is composed of four parts: > The openssl(1) utility, which provides tools for managing keys, certificates, etc. > libcrypto: a library of cryptography
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
I should add: OCSP is the baseline requirements, ie. DV SSL certs will also need to support OCSP checking. See https://cabforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Baseline_Requirement...
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
That's an excellent point - I've added it to the article and credited you.
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
EV is a standard for identity verification, rather than a product. Our product is 40-100x faster validation for EV. If you think DV is fine for your app, that's awesome. But if you're thinking about getting an EV cert, we do in an
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
EV certificates require OCSP: Section 26-A of the issuing criteria requires CAs to support OCSP checking for all certificates issued after Dec. 31, 2010. However as the other poster notes, OCSP stapling includes recent proof that the cert h
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
This is a perfect explanation. As a followup to @daok's feedback, I've amended the article to expand EV & provide a link!
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Who your browser trusts, and how to control it(certsimple.com)
2 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
A less common question we get, that a lot of web devs are interested in is 'How do I mitigate against MITM attacks'. - As a browser, by using a default OS and watching the root CA store. You can control the key stores on most devi
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What web developers should know about SSL(certsimple.com)
222 points by mikemaccana 11y ago|52 comments
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit) Let's Encrypt want to do EV too - they've also asked CertSimple for help previously to do it. it's significantly more work than automating DV again (which has already been
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit) I have no idea about StartSSL, but some cheaper EV providers Comodo immediately ask you to use a lawyer or CPA to write professional opinion letters. This allows the CA to do less work ac
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(replying from old openid account due to rate limit) No probs: I understand the cynicism: the SSL industry is dominated by sales and marketing giants that market snake oil like SGC and seal in search, I wouldn't trust any of them eithe
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by mikemaccana 11y ago
(Replying from openid account due to rate limit) Yes, see my response to the price point above.

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