vzq

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

vzq ,

I run seafile, but holy shit do I regret looking at the source code.

vzq ,

There was something wonky with the mapping of OIDC attributes to user properties, so I decided to look at the seahub source and see if it would be easy to fix.

Turns out, the whole thing is held together with hope and spit. Literal beginner code.

vzq ,

Next steps: die mad.

vzq ,

The hackers just engaged in a little bit of technical debt collecting ;)

vzq ,

Please do! I’ve been trying to make it stick for almost a decade!

Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

vzq ,

It’s very possible. If you carefully manage your attack surface and update your software regularly, you can mitigate your security risks quite a bit.

The main problem is going to be email. I have found no reliable way to send email that does not start with “have someone else do it for you” or “obtain an IP block delegation”.

vzq ,

The trouble with cloudflare is that there is just one. It’s one of the best registrars out there, the only free/cheap and usable DNS host (have you seen what route53 charges per zone??). That without getting into the whole tunnels and DDoS mitigation end of things, which is nearly unique at any price point.

The problem with cloudflare is that we’re missing three other cloudflares to move to if they decide to pull evil shit.

vzq ,

That’s true. The bizarre paradox of the centralization of edge infrastructure is real.

That said, the other edge-lords (haha) could offer similar functionality, but they chose not to.

vzq ,

That sure does seem to tick a lot of boxes. I’m going to check it out!

vzq ,

Yes. Very slow. And only accessible from tor clients or tor2web/onion.to-like constructions. Which adds additional delay and errors.

There are things for which onion addresses are the right solution. This is not one of them.

vzq ,

It would seriously stretch the meaning of the word “simultaneously”, but yeah, sure.

vzq ,

Actual degrees or American fantasy units?

vzq ,

You got served pretty good in the original thread. Yet you come here asking the same question. What are you hoping to accomplish?

vzq ,

He works really really hard ;)

vzq ,

The solution to that is to buy a net block. IPV6 address space is very affordable.

vzq ,

Federation is anathema to boot licking authoritarian fascists.

vzq ,

Wait, Mexico elected a celebrated climate scientist to the presidency?

That’s pretty awesome.

vzq ,

I have yet to see anything I can run myself that works as well as cloudflare. Still, not exactly self hosted.

vzq ,

Btw, you can do http based LE certificates through cloudflare. They just proxy the ACME URLs.

vzq ,

Unless you put the reader in the doorknob, that’s not going to do you any good. The range on those things is a fucking disgrace.

vzq ,

Right? It’s less letters and it’s pretty clear.

I haven’t found a good action neutral replacement for “black list” yet though. “Deny list” and “block list” are too action-specific.

vzq ,

If my cyberpunk 2020 players ever steal a doohickey that sends them to an alternate dimension, it will be this one.

vzq ,

I’m always astounded how eager the average software engineer is to trade away actual coding work for busybody overhead crap jobs.

vzq ,

What is “progress”?

vzq ,

That’s not what I meant. You know that.

vzq ,

Obviously you do you and you do not owe anyone anything (least of all your employer).

However, something does not sit well with me about the fact that we’ve created a system where the most driven and ambitious people are removed from the production process as quickly as possible.

It says A LOT about what we value as an industry.

vzq ,

Genocide is the original Final Solution.

vzq ,

What is suburban rail, and how is it different from light rail?

vzq ,

You are just stoking the flames of a meaningless holy war.

vzq ,

Not a lot, apparently.

vzq ,

This. This post right here is why no one takes this place seriously.

vzq ,

I’m not going to stick up for the U.S. carceral system, but it does not really speak unequivocally to the matter at hand now does it?

vzq ,

Oh yeah, the whole blue state red state thing is just degrees of awful.

vzq ,

What I love about Mike Duncan is that you can hear him radicalizing in real time during the Revolutions podcast. By the time he reached the Haitian Revolution he’s done with everyone’s shit.

vzq ,

(X) DOUBT

vzq ,

That’s the idea. But are we sure? Are we really really sure? Is President Trump really going to send the full might of the U.S. army into East because Latvia was invaded?

A lot is riding on that answer, and it has never been more in doubt than it is now.

vzq ,

I’m not sure if NATO without the U.S. is even able to scratch its own butt. We’d be missing a lot of assets that are not easily replaceable, especially in intelligence collection and logistics.

Not to mention the industrial capacity to keep the show going past the first few weeks.

vzq ,

Let’s just say there has been a marked divergence in investment in defense capability and industry between the EU and the US, historically in general, but especially since 1991 or so.

Things are getting better, but we have lot of ground to cover before we are equal partners.

vzq ,

I’m talking specifically about military industry. We have some really nice EU defense companies that can produce all sorts of war fighting equipment, but we’re nowhere near the levels of the pork-barrel fed US military industrial complex.

vzq ,

And then you’d have to talk to them about it. Can you imagine the horror!

vzq ,

The point of a diagnosis is so I can get the care and accommodations I need.

The reason I’m protective of the diagnosis criteria is not because I’m somehow enamored with the label, it’s because it’s fundamentally a resource allocation problem and you are stealing services that I need to function from me.

vzq ,

That would mean they would have to do actual development instead of just scraping off stickers, so I’m not holding my breath.

vzq ,

They can decide and announce all they want. In the end they have to become a more compelling product than gitea on the merits, not just because of nebulous anti-commercial ideology.

vzq ,

“Long term support” is 15 months?

Is this a fucking joke?

vzq ,

Subtitles are a great example of an adaptation that helps more than (in this case auditory) disabled people.

When I had small children I stopped watching anything that wasn’t subtitled because I couldn’t control my noise environment. Either too loud to hear when the children were playing or had to keep the noise down when they were sleeping.

It gave me a great appreciation for assistive technology in general.

vzq ,

Remember MH17.

vzq ,

I love how it makes just enough sense to hold the plot together. It was a lot of fun to watch.

Also, it’s the lead of the class of millennial parental apology fantasy films, one of my favorite genres ;)

https://www.vox.com/culture/23025832/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-parental-apology-fantasy-turning-red-oscars

vzq ,

The stigma against double texting is an insecure schoolgirl affectation. Don’t worry about it.

Personally I detest chain-texts (a whole bunch of short messages in quick succession, like 8-10 or so) because a) I get the impression the writer didn’t want to bother organizing his thoughts before communicating, and expects me to do it for him and b) it makes my phone vibrate/beep a lot and it’s just distracting. But that is not what’s going on here. It’s just two texts with complete sentences.

TLDR: you’re fine, texting etiquette-wise. Double texting is not really a thing.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines
    •