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chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: .NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux

Most of our backend APIs are written in C#. We deploy them on AWS lambda, so on Linux. Pipelines are Linux and Devs will use a mixture of Linux, MacOS or Windows.

chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

I also spent most of my internship long ago researching secure operating systems for the analysts of the company I worked for and Tails was the best fit with Qubes being second due to how power hungry it is. Another was subgraph but at the time it wasn’t properly developed. Overall if you need a OS that guarantees that all your traffic is anonymised via Tor and that it is ephemeral Tails is superb.

chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: Tails is a portable OS that protects against surveillance and censorship

Tails is one of those tools I always keep on me physically. Added it to my key ring 6 years ago , and I get use out of it at least twice a month. Also started using it as a recovery ISO. But my main use case is when I have to use a computer but don’t have mine around . Just pop the USB in and voila all the access I need and my data stored in the persistent partition.

chimbosonic | 2 years ago | on: Protocol Wars

And now we will have the @Protocol vs ActivityPub war ;P

chimbosonic | 3 years ago | on: Sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software

Sigstore and cosign are so simple to use. I setup all the containers I maintain to be signed (This is done within the Github Action).

https://github.com/chimbosonic/hagrid-container

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Zas Editor

Nice product just a FYI your website doesn't render well on UltraWide screens.

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal site

Source code for both can be found on https://github.com/chimbosonic. All hosted using Netlify

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://chimbosonic.com Simple CV site. Nothing fancy just what I needed to share info about me and a place for me to publish my CV. Recently started adding some of my projects I've been playing with. Another website I own is https://spiderfarmer.raphael.digital/ an music album website I built for my brother.

My day to day work is backend focused so it was interesting to try some frontend and design stuff.

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Writing a simple operating system from scratch (2010) [pdf]

I really enjoyed doing the OS course at UoB. Awesome to see UoB paper trending on Hacker News. This was also one the easiest to follow “tutorials” on making a OS from scratch I’ve followed.

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline

Using a Recursive DNS server its down for me. UK based. I also setup a RIPE measurement for those interested. It asks for the NS record of ns1.fj.

https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/39252885/#general

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science

if ram is required DDR2 or DDR3 sodimm ram is cheap. And any SSD for storage works (I used the HDD that came with it until the 3rd year where I got a Samsung Evo SSD).

chimbosonic | 4 years ago | on: Linux on Chromebooks just might get me through a masters in computer science

I graduated in 2017 in Computer Science using a Thinkpad x210 that cost me £50 (~70$). And never had a issue. I haven't used a chromebook in a while but back then they where less powerful than a x210. Nowadays, if I have to recommend a laptop for coding or CS course I would recommend whichever Thinkpad X-series you can afford.

chimbosonic | 5 years ago | on: GitHub Has a Permission Problem

Its funnier when you know that banks are actually planning on sharing data via something similar to Oauth. Its called Open Banking PSD2.

chimbosonic | 5 years ago | on: Internet Archive Infrastructure

Does the IA have Data sites that are not in SF? When he shows the map of sites they all seem very close to each other and a natural disaster could wipe out alot of the archive.

chimbosonic | 5 years ago | on: An Introduction to ZFS

I've used ZFS for 4 years and really enjoyed it. It was simple to setup and send/recv was very useful for making backups of the data on a separate machine on the network. I now have been using btrfs as I switched to OpenSuse and frankly it also just works and its been easier to setup as I didn't need to do module installs etc. However I've had to switch to rsync for my backups but that wasn't hard. The other good thing I've used is the fact I can grow the raid and can rebalance the disks this isn't possible on ZFS.

chimbosonic | 8 years ago | on: ProtonVPN

If you download the ovpn config file you can see what crypto they employ. According to the ovpn config file for Android it's AES-256-CBC and auth is done with SHA512 hope this helps.