ptman

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https://paul.totterman.name/

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ptman··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://paul.totterman.name/

ptman··on My First Impressions of Nix

You can pin the commit of nixpkgs. Why should reproducibility hold when nixpkgs changes?

ptman··on OpenWrt Project: a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices

Turris Omnia has been nice, based on OpenWrt. They announced newer models, but I can't find them listed on the webpage.

ptman··on Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

https://gitjournal.io/

ptman··on Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud

Not yet https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...

ptman··on Tailscale doesn't want your password

The user picks the passkey, don't they? Android, Apple or Microsoft. Or Yubikey, or another token.

ptman··on Tailscale doesn't want your password

That is a very big omission.

ptman··on Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps

Host for free in the cloud: https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

ptman··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest

You can probably run a nice lemmy instance on a free oracle cloud vm https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

ptman··on The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support

There are unfortunately lots of software packages that don't offer a convenient passwordFile option in nix and the easiest way to get running is to specify a password in a way that ends up in the nix store.

ptman··on The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/4U/6048/SSG-60... - 4U 72 drives

ptman··on You can serve static data over HTTP

"Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein (paraphrased)

ptman··on Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/paid-firefox-to-get-rid...

we need to make those the most popular ideas on mozilla connect

ptman··on Noise is all around us

Ditch the fossil-powered lawn mower. Get a robotic electric one. And reduce your trimmed lawn area so that there is more wild meadow-like area for insects.

ptman··on What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

Turris Omnia Enterprise: https://old.reddit.com/r/Turris/comments/11ns0ho/new_turris_...

ptman··on Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

Yeah. Matrix, your choice of client (e.g. gitter.im), view.matrix.org if you care about search engine crawlability.

ptman··on PC Engines EOL

Turris Omnia Enterprise https://old.reddit.com/r/Turris/comments/11ns0ho/new_turris_...

ptman··on Yubico is merging with ACQ Bure and intends to go public

solokeys2 is physically better than solokeys1, but firmware is buggier

ptman··on We need better support for SSH host certificates

How about delivering the public keys via another trusted path: https://paul.totterman.name/posts/ssh-pki-web-pki/

ptman··on Book publishers won't stop until libraries are dead

Where I live, libraries pay royalties based on loans, similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right

ptman··on 20 years of Nix

WSL2 is very much Linux. Microsoft got tired of trying to reimplement Linux kernel interfaces so they just ship the Linux kernel in a VM.

ptman··on Switching from C++ to Rust

Go generics allow all kinds of things https://github.com/samber/mo

ptman··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?

What's your opinion on bupstash?

ptman··on Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?

They forgot to rate-limit it =P

ptman··on How to Yubikey

https://www.token2.com/shop/product/fido-bundle-2-x-fido2-us... ? or https://www.token2.com/shop/product/token2-t2f2-typec-fido2-... , but there's no 2x bundle.

ptman··on How to Yubikey

Unfortunately my solokey2 is buggy even with latest firmware. Hw is much better than solokey1.

But there are indeed alternatives to yubikey. Anyone have experience with https://www.token2.com/shop/product/token2-t2f2-fido2-and-u2... ? 128 resident keys is much better than 25/50

ptman··on Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network

isn't that what matrix is doing with their decentralized moderation?

ptman··on Discord, or the Death of Lore

And https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-public-archive

ptman··on Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin (2022)

There is a spec change proposal for fixing this: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/253...

ptman··on Self-Host All the Things?

There are a couple of different offers. https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=710b50 is hn discount. There's https://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html and https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

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