serbuvlad

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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   I'm really curious as to what you see as the disadvantages of TLS. Sure, the advantages are minor for some services and critical for other services. However, if you already have bought a domain name, the cost of setting up TLS is basic
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   Obviously. I just brought it up to explain why I use both OSM and Google Maps.
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   I agree with you wholeheartedly. I use a mix of OpenSteetMap and Google Maps to get around. I would love to use exclusively OSM, but it simply doesn't have as many places catalogued. I can't describe how much more usable OSM maps
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   As someone who has only written serious applications in single-threaded, or manually threaded C/C++, and concurrent applications in go using goroutines, channels, and all that fun stuff, I always find the discussion around async/a
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   I don't think the bar is unreasonably higher for free software, I think the bar is unreasonably lower for Apple. Apple has a few advantages that make this the case: a) they have really good marketing and b) they will always be compared
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   I hate dynamic linking and this is one of the reasons. APIs should be small, self-contained, not break backwards compatibility (except for security reasons). Libraries provide much more extensive features and, as such, need to change a lot
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   > Is it a chroot issue? Yes. In my particular case I was setting up a server for some non-technical users to share files with me via FileZilla. So I use ChrootDirectory %h to restrict users to their home directory. Even if it wouldn&#x27
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   I want to use BSDs, and I tried using OpenBSD, for my servers, but there are far too many missing features I rely on from Linux. One simple example is mount --bind. I want to allow some users to connect to my server via SFTP and put some fi
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   by serbuvlad 2y ago

   The real insights here are that strings in C++ suck and UTF-16 is extremely unintuitive.
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    by serbuvlad 2y ago

    I don't think this is a very compelling argument. The main argument I can see against GrapheneOS on Pixel is that Pixels are just damn expensive phones. I don't mind giving Google, or any other company, my money. Especially not in