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gittes··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)
Name: Christopher Stewart

Location: Stevenson Ranch, California, Unites States of America

Remote: Remote or hybrid/on-site

Willing to relocate: To West Los Angles Area

Technologies: Multiple Linux distributions, Windows Servers, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, AIX, Solaris MacOS, Active Directory, LDAP, Single Sign-on, Two factor authentication, SSL, Web servers: (httpd, nginx, Caddy, IIS) Ansible, Ansible Vault, Ansible Tower, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Terraform/Terragrant, Kubernetes, Continuous Deployment & Continuous Integrations (CI/CD), Jenkins, Rundeck, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Cloud services: (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud), Web hosting services: (DreamHost, Rackspace, etc.), Databases: (MS SQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle SQL, SAP HANA, IBM DB4, MongoDB, Redis, NoSQL, etc.) Logging: (Splunk, Elastic Stash, syslog, rsyslog, syslogng, etc.), Monitoring: (SNMP, Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, DataDog, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, Cacti, Zookeeper, Grafana, etc.), Docker, Packer, aptitude, Red Hat Satellite/Forman, FreeIPA, Keycloak, Webshere, IPv4/IPv6: (BGP, routing, Quality of Service, firewalls, load balancing, VLANs, Spanningetc.), E-Mail Services: (SMTP, IMAP, POP, MS Exchange Server, Private GMail, etc.), PXE Booting, SSH and SSH keys, CyberArk, BTRFS, ZFS, SANs, Logic Volume Management, RAID, VMware, Shell scripting, Python, Go (Golang), Central password services: (1Password, Authy, Okta, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, etc.), Agile development, ITIL Processes, Best Security Practices

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-joel-stewart/

Email: chris [at] notlinear [dot] com

Hello! I'm willing to be a DevOps/Systems Engineer! I can be remote or on-site in the LA county. I can be a freelancer/contractor or you can hire me for a full-time job!

Please contact me if you want a personal copy of my CV as well as three letters of recommendation! I can also supply more referrals!

Thank you for your consideration!

gittes··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
Great movie! So many big named actors in it! The director also did Field of Dreams!
gittes··on FFFG: Freedom from Facebook and Google
quad9.net DNS servers are blocking freedomfromfacebookandgoogle.com domain... Interesting.

https://www.quad9.net/result/?url=freedomfromfacebookandgoog...

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/url/freedomfromfacebook...

Might be a false positive probably because bad stuff came from the same subnet of the web server; might be just a byproduct of shared hosting

gittes··on Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime
Yep, I caved and got an account last month too
gittes··on Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime
Nice! Yeah, I wish letterboxd was free somehow without ads and they made their beta api public.

Yeah, I bet there's not a great standard for normalization/corrections of tiles, making a distinction of like when a movie was made and when a movie was released and translations and imports.

Good work.

gittes··on Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime
Don't mean to undermine this guy's screen-scraping adventure... but if you want to use something that will tell you all the streaming services that have the list of movies, you can use:

https://letterboxd.com/dvideostor/list/roger-eberts-great-mo...

You can look at each movie to see what streaming service it's on one at a time for free.

If you have a pro paid account, you can even do:

https://letterboxd.com/dvideostor/list/roger-eberts-great-mo...

Which shows that there are 39 movies in Amazon Prime US from Ebert's "Great Movies," not 21 like this guy's spreadsheet says.

To be fair, the exercise was to scrape the reference sources... so it might just need some refinement.

Need to double check though if both lists are correct, only confirmed number totals.

Full disclosure: That letterboxd list is not mine, I just found it

gittes··on Security downgrade with IMAP STARTTLS leads to information leakage
It's a similar story with LDAPS, in that LDAP+TLS starts off on a plain text connection to negotiate TLS, and it can be all the same port 389 (can be different port 636 too). You might be able to query too much info from a poorly configured LDAP server if it downgrades or sustains that TLS-less connection.

You still see people and software libraries preferring LDAP+SSL on the dedicated SSL port 636 even though the LDAPS+TLS is suppose to be the "modern" method and apart of the LDAP spec.

gittes··on Starting sometime today, Safari on Yosemite cannot play HTML5 YouTube videos
Is it "sometime today" or "some time today"?
gittes··on Starting sometime today, Safari on Yosemite cannot play HTML5 YouTube videos
Seems youtube.com did some update that is making HTML5 video playback stop working with a loud squeak and no play, or dropping to Flash. I'm experiencing it myself.

Submitted link to YouTube Google Product Forums.

From initial post: About an hour ago, all HTML5 playback just stopped. I was running OS X 10.10.1 (now 10.10.2) and Safari 8.0.

Videos would either switch to the Flash Player, throw an error, make a loud "squeak" noise and throw an error, or just crash the Safari page outright and forcing a Force Reload.

I know this is unrelated to the recent Yosemite update, as this issue was happening before I installed the update. In the meanwhile, Chrome does work.