dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
Shouldn’t be too difficult to swap it out for ZeroSSL. You’d need to remember to update CAA records though.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
I think Cloudflare enshittifying is a bigger risk that Let’s Encrypt.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
ZeroSSL, plus a few paid companies support ACME (I know Sectigo and GoDaddy do). Sure, the latter are paid services, but in theory you can switch to them and use the exact same setup you’re currently using with Let’s Encrypt.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
They also made it a open protocol, so now there’s a bunch of certificate providers that implement the same protocol and thus can work with the same client apps (Certbot, acme.sh, etc).
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
I remember the days when each site that wanted to use SSL had to have a dedicated IP.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
TLS certificates have huge margins, so web hosts love selling them.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
I’d also argue that the fact that it’s automated and their software is open source makes it objectively more secure. On the issuing side, there’s no room for human error, social engineering, etc.
- Comment on Horse denier 2 days ago:
also birds… they’re just spy drones.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 days ago:
At least here in California, having solar panels on a non south facing roof usually only reduces production by 10-20%, as long as it’s not entirely north facing. Solar systems are often slightly undersized - it’s more cost effective to size it so it handles average load rather than the summer peaks you only see for a few weeks per year - so the actual difference for a given system may be less.
With my system, I see the best output from south-east facing panels since they get the morning sun. West facing panels are also fairly popular here due to time-of-use electricity plans. Some electricity plans have peak pricing from 4 to 9 pm, so people want to try and collect as much sunlight as possible during that period before sunset.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 days ago:
They’re installing ridiculously small systems so that they’re barely compliant.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
Frendica and GNU Social/StatusNet date back to 2010. That’s nearly 15 years ago.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 6 days ago:
AI makes it different because this is likely dynamically synthesized speech that sounds real. Previous TTS engines wouldn’t have sounded real enough to be believable.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 6 days ago:
A phone company built this? Based.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 6 days ago:
Lenny isn’t AI; it’s just a collection of prerecorded messages.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean? Dropbox is integrated into Windows using the Cloud Files API, which handles dynamically downloading files as needed, the ability to mark files so they’re always available offline, etc.
Or did you mean a deeper integration like how Windows shows ads for OneDrive?
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
For the same money Microsoft offers equal storage, plus office.
Plus email! Same with Google (Google Workspace).
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
The point of the worldwide stock is to reduce risk in case the US has a recession, as not all other countries will be affected by that. The aim of the Bogleheads three-fund portfolio is to be reasonably balanced in terms of risk vs reward, which is why it includes bonds too.
If you’re not risk-averse then 100% US stock is fine.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
Reusable code is usually pulled out into a library and reused that way, rather than copied and pasted into a new project. You might copy and paste some boilerplate to new projects but it wouldn’t be anywhere near 25% of the code.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t believe the headline. Google writes a lot of code across hundreds of teams… There’s no way all of them are generating anywhere near 25% of their new code via AI.
Unless they’re doing something like generating massive test fixtures using AI and classifying them as “code” 🤔
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
it’s not going to be accidentally hit
How many times have yoy accidentally pressed a power button on a desktop computer?
- Comment on Ads 3 weeks ago:
uBlock Origin, not uBlock. They’re different.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
The market is wild sometimes. I work for a fairly large company. Sometimes in our earnings reports, we exceed EPS and revenue expectations (which is good), but don’t exceed them as much as some analysts think we’ll exceed them, so the stock goes down. The expectation is that we’ll always exceed the expectations lol
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
If you’re investing more than a few percent of your portfolio in any one company, you’re probably gambling though.
I read a forum post many years ago about people that put all their retirement money into some company that was going to be the sole supplier for some components to Apple for the iPhone. Apple didn’t end up going with them, the company went bankrupt, and the people lost all their money.
In the end, why invest in a small number of companies when you can invest in practically all of them? Bogleheads three fund portfolio (total US stock + total world stock + bonds) is very simple yet will beat most actively-managed portfolios over the long run.
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Wow I haven’t seen this in a long time.
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
I like how there’s so many comments about the value of the cube, and no two comments have the same value.
- Comment on Set up Tailscale with NGINX Proxy Manager 3 weeks ago:
For DNS challenges, I personally prefer using acme-dns. It’s a separate DNS server that only serves ACME DNS challenges. I felt a bit uneasy using an access token for my actual DNS host since it grants full read/write access to every record.
Let’s Encrypt follows CNAMEs and supports IPv6-only DNS servers, so you could just run acme-dns on a spare IPv6 address (assuming your internet provider has a static IPv6 range, or you have a VPS with IPv6).
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people use them for the use case I described (object detection for security cameras), using either Blue Iris or Frigate. They work pretty well for that use case.
Wake word detection is a good use case too (eg if you’re making your own smart assistant).
The Coral site lists a few use cases.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s good for coding if you train it on your own code base. Not for very complex code, but it’s great for common patterns and straightforward questions specific to your code base (eg “how do I load a user’s most recent order given their email address?”)
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
They’re all built on top of OpenAI which is very unprofitable at the moment. Feels like the whole industry is built on a shaky foundation.
I guess the successful AI startups will eventually transition to self-hosted models like Llama, if they survive that long.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
I receive alerts when people are outside my house, using security cameras, Blue Iris, CodeProject AI, Node-RED and Home Assistant, using a Google Coral for local AI. That’s a good use case for AI.