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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.

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…

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 recover…

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

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-containe…

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

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

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'v…

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 …

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/measuremen…

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).

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 p…

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

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.

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 hav…

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 help…