airbreather

@airbreather@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you’re still a Windows user at least for now, and assuming that you’re planning on continuing to be open-source, I can recommend Certum for this. shop.certum.eu/open-source-code-signing.html

  I gave up trying to initialize the USB thingy using Linux (I tried regular Arch [btw] and an Ubuntu distrobox IIRC), but once I got through the initial steps using Windows, I was able to sign ongoing builds with Linux just fine. It took a LOT of trial and error since there seem to be very few people who simultaneously

  • pathologically dislike using Windows regularly
  • still want to make it easier for people on Windows to minimize Windows Defender complaints when running software that they build
  • have the motivation and resolve to send a lot of PII to one of a handful of companies whose longtime business model is based around reputation and trust in order to get a usable certificate
  • are stubborn enough to go out of their way to still figure out how to do a subset of this stuff on Linux
  • are capable of actually succeeding at that, and
  • are willing to show how they did it in a way that should be reasonably easy enough to understand and adapt to your situation

  I didn’t renew after my first year - I switched from publishing an executable to publishing it on the web, so I no longer had a need for it - so I don’t know how things have changed (if at all). Most of my information came from eventually stumbling upon this wiki page for a Ruby-based tool where they figured out the last bits I needed to get it to work.

  • It also has instructions for initializing the USB thingy on Linux too, so if I were to renew, I’d give that a fair shot… but seeing “icedtea” and a link to a web application that no longer resolves, I’d still only recommend it if you can use a Windows machine once a year.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suffer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Roman numerals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much of a story to tell, honestly. I still have some e-mail receipts from around that time, but here’s a Reddit post about the idea: redd.it/2ehu1r

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if I were paying for my airbreather.dev domain for as long as I’ve had my linux.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got one in like 2009 or so as a student at university. It literally paid for itself, because it also let me get a discount on a new laptop that was bigger than the price I paid the Linux Foundation.

  I can confirm that my @linux.com e-mail is still active, and I’ve changed where it forwards over the years.

  Just make sure that wherever you’re forwarding it, you can reply from that same address. GMail has been fine for this, but when I switched to a different provider that didn’t support this, conversations started getting awkward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's this ram price surge thing going on in the memes? Is this gonna affect pre-builts, laptops, tablets, phones, and other electronics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, all of that, PLUS the impacts of this very related news which will make the impact even worse:

  arstechnica.com/…/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-w…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BORK BORK BORK 🐕⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  jabde.com/…/bark-direction-and-ranging-barkdar-a-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apples unite them all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm archiving Picocrypt · Issue #134 · Picocrypt/Picocrypt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you may have whooshed: this person was pointing out a “th” that slipped through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨salty⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Na

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FOSTA-SESTA is at the heart of it, as I understand. I don’t want to elaborate much more because I don’t know nearly enough about the situation, but adding this search term helped make it make a little bit of sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  James, while John had had “had”, had had “had had”. “Had had” had had a greater effect on the teacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain why the US bail system is not insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The 8th amendment has a clause that disallows “excessive bail”. In Stack v. Boyle, the Supreme Court found this to mean “that a defendant’s bail cannot be set higher than an amount that is reasonably likely to ensure the defendant’s presence at the trial.” So it follows that IN THEORY, bail is SUPPOSED to be set at an amount that is consistent with the defendant’s financial resources (including, it would also follow, increasing the amount for more wealthy people to ensure that it has the same proportionate effect on the defendant’s decision-making process).

  Of course, that rule is just a bunch of meaningless words if nobody enforces it… and guess what, the main way to enforce this is by bringing a suit against the government alleging that they violated the rule. So IN PRACTICE (speculation warning here, I’m just some guy), I would imagine that they just set bail schedules at a level where anyone who can afford to pay won’t be able to wik an “excessive bail” lawsuit, and anyone who can’t afford to pay it will also probably not be able to afford the cost of that lawsuit.

  And something tells me that we aren’t likely to see a wealthy person suing the government for not setting bail high enough for them.