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willricheson Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack

If you're going to break the social contract, just do so. Jumping through hoops to complicate the matter doesn't solve anything.

willricheson Netlify deploys hundreds of thousands of Next.js sites – here's what challenging

It's their whole business model, to convince developers that their walled garden is the only viable option. I've met a lot of newish developers that believe it too.

willricheson Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

I passed their comment to ChatGPT 3.5 and it seemed confident that ChatGPT wrote it.

willricheson Duplicati: Free backup software to store encrypted backups online

If you plan to use Duplicati please pay attention to the docs around block size. We used this to back up a couple 100GB of data to S3. Recovery was going to take over 3 days to reassemble the blocks based on the default 100KB block size. For most applications you will want at least 1MB if not more.

Otherwise a good product and has been reliable enough for us.

* https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appendix-c-choosi...

willricheson A practical guide to securing macOS

Hardly practical. Sad state of affairs when only those who can spend hours and hours protecting themselves can have any semblance of security.