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grenranon What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

> strong anti-counterfeitting strategy

The reality for a product at this scale is that nobody is going to spend the time or money to copy it.

grenranon RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

My understanding is that you can use split mode to only have the load balancer decrypt the server name section, and forward the actual session and key exchange down to the backend without doing double layer encryption.

grenranon I made my own Git

that would be what https://fossil-scm.org/ is

grenranon Show HN: Happymail – We made email simple again

Most people ditch GAFAM because they want to own their digital identity and not just trade one gatekeeper for another, even if it's "hassle free" to start off with.

And with the setup of Happymail renting out individual email addresses under the same domain to different users, it makes it impossible for them to leave the platform. Have you considered letting people own their domains?

grenranon I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year

unfortunately some occasional hate speech is the price we have to pay for free speech

grenranon We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack

Playing devils advocate but 4k is probably more money than most kids that age have seen in their life

grenranon Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload

S3's whole selling point is 11 9s of durability across the whole region which is probably why it's slow to begin with.

grenranon ChatGPT Atlas

Atlassian in shambles after buying the browser company.

grenranon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

seems like services are slowly recovering

grenranon Important Announcement: The Future of Authelia

They had me in the first half

grenranon Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments

This is a bad example. A good sysadmin should fact-check and do testing themselves instead of relying on what other people say.

grenranon fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

annoyingly fd also stands for file descriptor

grenranon Semaphore CI is now open-source

Obligatory: https://sso.tax/

grenranon Twitch's new storage limits will purge swaths of Internet gaming history

I hope this won't make YouTube pull the same stunt in the near future, at least for the smaller channels.

grenranon Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

I work for a government agency (not in the US). Working in private would have certainly made me more money but I really love the ample time off (4 extra weeks compared to a similar private-sector role) that we get which allows me to focus more on family and personal persuits. Additionally deadlines are pretty much non-existent as projects can drag on for years.

I realise that this might not be a good environment for ambitious people, however it pays the bills and I get to do whatever I want with my time.

grenranon Swift's server support powers Things Cloud

> Our Swift server codebase has around 30,000 lines of code. It produces a binary of 60 MB, and builds in ten minutes.

Sounds quite slow

grenranon Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266#issuecomm...

Going to leave this here for shady practices. A pull request was declined by the CEO since they were planning to build an OIDC feature into the enterprise plan.

grenranon Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative

> Problem is, I didn't feel like paying 9$ a month to see the amount of visitors on a website i didn't even earn anything on

You can self-host Plausible yourself if you don't feel like paying $9 a month.

grenranon Find My Device on Android

Android find does work without 2FA. Have tried it before

grenranon Apple Pay processes $6T annually, edges out Mastercard

Doesn't apple pay rely on MasterCard and Visa though?

grenranon Playstation confirms chain of 5 vulnerabilities on PS4/PS5

That has never stopped anyone from doing it.

grenranon A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

wouldn't be surprised if YouTube suddenly decided to charge for storage

grenranon Fediverse

I think this was the premise of the original World Wide Web (minus the cryptographic part) before everything was centralised. Essentially people would have their own personal web pages and readers subscribe via RSS.

grenranon BGP Blockchain

hard pass

grenranon A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell (2019)

On the other hand, this could allow him to easily contest any future parking ticket.

grenranon New documents for the Okta breach

The plot thickens...

grenranon Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

Walking to the store is faster than catching a plane

grenranon Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me

Author needs clickbaits to get clicks

grenranon Microsoft offers 60 percent discount to Google ‘legacy’ G Suite customers

Asked a support rep, only for the first year and it will revert to normal prices

grenranon Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

I do open source for my own enjoyment. Who cares what other people or companies do with my code.