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samcat116··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Notarization has been enforced for all apps on the Mac for years. Would the DMA have an issue with requiring signed drivers? Seems a similar baseline. Personally I’m totally ok with that. I haven’t seen a single instance of them not notarizing something or revoking it for something that wasn’t actually malicious.
samcat116··on Forging signed commits on GitHub
Why do you say that? It seems like they would be more important in the context of supply chain attacks.
samcat116··on What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
> sure I’m using an iPhone 7 Get a new battery at the very least
samcat116··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Can I ask what you use all that storage for on your NAS?
samcat116··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Latency is quite poor, I wouldn't recommend running high performance database loads there.
samcat116··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
> My password manager autofilling will always be faster than any other option

Passkeys will be faster.

samcat116··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
there are other methods for 2fa recovery. The main one involves an SSH key you've previously added to your account.
samcat116··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
Layer 3*
samcat116··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
I don’t think people realize that a lot of Cloudflare’s free/cheap services are squarely focused on HTTP. Multi protocol stuff is on the enterprise plans where they make their money.
samcat116··on How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
Docker changed to this system long ago AFAIK
samcat116··on MFA today is both 'simple' and non-trivial work
I really can't take pedantic takes like this seriously. Just setup MFA.
samcat116··on I spent a year building an app and failed – The story of Taskwer
> And one thing is certain; talking to people is never as difficult as the feeling of loneliness when you want to say something and there is no one to listen

Man did this hit hard.

samcat116··on Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
Famously those default selection screens for browsers failed horrendously.
samcat116··on Choose your own IP
Typically that CGNAT IP would just sit on the WAN port of your router. So in theory none of your LAN devices would hit that IP anyway (the router would be NATing everything). Your clients having a route to 100.64/10 pointing to the tailscale VPN interface shouldn't have an issue (unless you install Tailscale on your actual router, that would take some special setup).
samcat116··on Choose your own IP
> It's standards compatible What standard is Tailscale breaking? I agree your solution is more elegant and simple with less running components, but the trade off is more setup.
samcat116··on Choose your own IP
> Now mobile providers and some ISP play gatekeeper … don’t allow you to keep any IPv6 devices (rotate assignments) so we end up with little benefit to the end consumer.

I see this as a feature not a bug. Use dynamic DNS if you need a stable endpoint here.

> The idea that a home user ca setup a desktop and share anything I want via IPV6 another person without the need for a middle man “cloud” provider just didn’t happen.

You can, you likely just need to change the default firewall settings on a typical ISP provided router.

> Corporate greed / government control have severely limited any usefulness of IPv6 at least here in the US

I don't see how either of those have to do with this.

samcat116··on Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Connectors
I remember when I used to do laptop repairs in college (we were a certified Apple repair center), Apple had a great training on all the different types of internal connectors, how you should handle them, etc. Some of them are really, really fragile.
samcat116··on UniFi Express
I don't think they're saying they're comparable, its just that a lot of people were waiting for the cheaper standalone firewall, which is what the gateway lite is. also its $129 not $172.
samcat116··on UniFi Express
Wireguard has been there for more than a year at this point?
samcat116··on Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?
Knowing the region here would help as a lot of them are region specific, but I've had great experiences with Tierpoint (https://www.tierpoint.com).
samcat116··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
This applies to just about any CI/CD program, so I guess they just don't like them in general.
samcat116··on Okta hit by third-party breach, stealing employee data
AzureAD licenses near the feature equivalent of Okta are much more expensive than base office licenses that only give you access to the office apps and cloud storage.
samcat116··on Okta hit by third-party breach, stealing employee data
If you have AzureAD you don’t typically also have Okta. Also the features you listed are like 20% of Okta’s functionality here.
samcat116··on Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS
One thing I'd say on the client side would be an integration with MDM vendors somehow. All the platforms have native hooks to install certs into their trusts that the MDMs use, and corporate IT is already using MDMs. I think that would actually be a lot easier than telling everyone "go download this CLI", especially if a non engineer needs to access these internal services.
samcat116··on Show HN: Anchor – developer-friendly private CAs for internal TLS
Does this help at all with the issue of deploying the root CA cert on every device that will interact with services with these certs deployed? That seems to me to be the hardest part about running an internal CA. You've got to put it on everyones laptops as well as all your servers.
samcat116··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
I've done this several times with a TB3 cable. Has to be the right port for DFU.
samcat116··on The Cloud Computer
The vast majority of people only need to deploy VMs.
samcat116··on The Cloud Computer
This is a one time cost, AWS is a rent only model
samcat116··on Ask HN: Which DNS service do you use for your computer's network settings?
NextDNS with either their app to set an DoH profile on devices or DHCP giving out their specific IPs for my config.
samcat116··on 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
I actually think if a bunch of companies started hosting their own SSO, we'd hear of a lot more hacks. I'm not sure orgs would put in enough resources to do things properly other than "hey we got keycloak working"
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