drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a serverless platform
If you write a serverless server correctly then when you run it, the server disappears but the code keeps running.
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drenginian | 6 years ago | on: An industry dedicated to making foods crispy
The three most delicious flavors are sweet, salt and crunch.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: A Text Renaissance
What’s the tldr?
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (2015)
“In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: deflect responsibility and hold on to power.”
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (2015)
Instead of preparing, Trump disbanded the US pandemic response service.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: FreeDesktop.org financial situation regarding cloud hosting for Gitlab
Digital Ocean bandwidth is 1 cent per gigabyte.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Army of 100k Chinese ducks ready to combat locust swarms in Pakistan
There will be a plague of ducks.
Well then need 100,000 of whatever preys on ducks to eat them.
Etc etc
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Common Software for Devices
Can someone please help me understand what exactly this is?
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
>> People just run a local resolver that’s support’s these things.
Nowhere do “people just run a local resolver”. Grandma and aunty Beryl certainly don’t, nor does any other ordinary person. If you want secure DNS you have to build it in to the browser.
Only systems people think that this is the sort of thing that ordinary people do.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
Well it’s absolutely happening right now to every unencrypted DNS server, so what’s your point?
DNS is the most openly insecure aspect of the entire internet. It’s wide open.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
>> We invented DNSCrypt. There’s also DNS over TLS. Lots of ways to encrypt DNS without centralization.
Ummm so what’s the downside then? Are those services arcane and hard to use and utterly forbidding blackest black magic, like almost all crypto stuff?
If you’re thinking browser users will just do this then that then this and x and y and z to “get dns crypto going”, then I’ll take Mozilla’s “it just works” approach.
It’s a much much better approach for the browsers to implement it rather than wait for everyone’s operating system to implement secure dns because that’ll happen .... well I can’t imagine any time in the future you could say everyone’s OS is using crypto DNS, whereas if browsers implement it for themselves, instant massive adoption.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
Why are people so down on DNS over HTTPS?
DNS is the primary way governments control and spy on web access.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: China bans consumption and trade of wild animals
You really think people in China haven’t been scared out of doing risky things like eating wild animals?
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: In 2000, Blockbuster with 7700 stores declined to buy Netflix for $50M
If they’d bought it they’d probably have led it to failure.
There’s a lot more to success than buying a company.
The politics of blockbuster /the “old tech” being the owner would have been disastrous.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?
How old are you?
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Year Without a Summer
Well we are in a future where there will be no more winters.
Already where I live it’s getting crazy hot in the middle of winter.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It’s not a problem of software engineering, it’s a property of software engineering.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you been ghosted during the recruiting process?
Name the company in a separate headline HN post.
Normally ghosting is expected, but since you put in so much effort it’s really disgraceful to not give you a phone call and at least some sort of vague phony explanation.
What is it that would lead to a rejection at step 7, that they could not have discovered at step 1 or 2? Answer is “nothing”, it’s just really bad hiring practice.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
Centralized dns over http may be bad for privacy but unencrypted dns is much much worse.
drenginian | 6 years ago | on: Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
How about you tell us?
How did it work out?
You can’t allude to something juicy and say nothing.