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Post by olodus »

xena wrote: post #133
brundolf wrote: post #121

Some people probably hate it, but I really enjoy the conversational format of these posts. Very novel and interesting way to bounce around a topic

Thanks! That's exactly the point of it! I'm going to be working on the CSS this weekend on stream (the images being so big for longer conversations take up too much screen real estate), but in general the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters; not to mention it helps move out parentheticals to break up giant walls of text. I…

I really like your style as well and have throughly enjoyed several of your articles in the past (a lot of your articles on nixos for example).

I have no problem at all with the presentation of this article. As always your characters make the article really gripping to read imo, like taking part in a good conversation.

But I did not like the way you handled the topic as much this time. I know that it is supposed to be confrontational and a bit in the face. That is the joke. Being nonchalant about is kinda fun, but when that is part of what actually is quite hard criticism of someone else's work it starts to sound very arrogant. But I don't know.

Anyway, looking forward to your next article :)

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Post by imiric »

xena wrote: post #123
arp242 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with ssh keys? Or ssh/sshd for that matter?

The main problem with SSH keys is that they are good at small scales, but at larger scales the abstractions start to be really leaky. Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task. Not to mention the lack of audit logging in opensshd and the lack of session recording (these requirements suck but acronym compliance means you need them anyways). It's also kind of the wrong tool for the job anyw…

> Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task.

SSH certificates are a thing.

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Post by bobleeswagger »

bitwize wrote: post #184
hallway_monitor wrote: post #152

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Her articles repeatedly top Hackernews. And her audience largely shares or graciously accepts her predilections. Do you know how many of the most powerful people on the internet are furries/otherkin?

> Do you know how many of the most powerful people on the internet are furries/otherkin?

what makes someone powerful on the internet?

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Post by chungy »

Gare wrote: post #299
chungy wrote: post #271

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A bigger deal happens with ambiguities concerning composed versus decomposed characters. Linux and Windows tend to prefer writing composed characters, whereas Mac OS will prefer writing decomposed characters. The letter é will have two distinct byte sequences to represent the same character (more precisely, the same grapheme).

Shouldn't normalization functions handle that?

Yes, now see if any random service actually uses said functions...

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Post by Izkata »

yamtaddle wrote: post #221
sph wrote: post #105

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Am I the only one that can read faces in here? It is pretty obvious that it is a face doing the sad puppy eyes, like the one a young niece might do after I refuse to buy her some ice cream. I didn't even know it's meant to be underground, impenetrable slang.

It might be an emoji-font thing. Might be easier to tell what's up in some than others. I know I've seen emoji I sent from Apple devices on Android phones and been all "LOL WTF that's not what I sent at all" so that is sometimes a factor. Anyway, this is one reason why I prefer images and anigifs for expressing emotion in chats.

> I know I've seen emoji I sent from Apple devices on Android phones and been all "LOL WTF that's not what I sent at all"

Someone linked this above, which has the various versions: https://emojipedia.org/pleading-face/

The Twitter version of it is what I'm seeing from this blog (Firefox on Ubuntu), which to me does look a lot more like "exasperated eyeroll" than "puppy-dog-eyes pleading".

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Post by doodlesdev »

xena wrote: post #300
doodlesdev wrote: post #288

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Unfortunately reading mode didn't remove the characters for me, it actually made them occupy the whole screen LOL (Fennec on Android if anyone is wondering). I don't have that much of a problem with the conversational format as long as it's used in an appropriate context, but this one was really intrusive and broke the flow of the text, since I'm reading mostly for entertainment I decided it wasn't worth the time.

I'll investigate fixing that. Where can I download Fennec?

Thank you xena, you can download it from FDroid here https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

You might also just download normal Firefox as the behavior is the same when it comes to rendering.

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Post by dreamcompiler »

xena wrote: post #123
arp242 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with ssh keys? Or ssh/sshd for that matter?

The main problem with SSH keys is that they are good at small scales, but at larger scales the abstractions start to be really leaky. Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task. Not to mention the lack of audit logging in opensshd and the lack of session recording (these requirements suck but acronym compliance means you need them anyways). It's also kind of the wrong tool for the job anyw…

> Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task.

In what sense? If you're distributing public keys to hundreds of servers, go nuts. Put them in git repos and clone them.

If you're distributing private keys to hundreds of clients, why do you ever need to do this? Assuming you do (and I'm just missing something), then I see your point but if you ensure they're encrypted with the user's pass phrase and you have a procedure for ensuring their permissions are set to 0x600, what's the problem?

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Post by pmarreck »

baby wrote: post #290
Waterluvian wrote: post #163

“ has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.” I’m in love with this because it’s so silly. I’ve always wondered what would happen if you gave a company an unpronounceable name and it took off. My guess is that the community would name it and that would be that. But I’m fascinated to witness that process happen. I really hope Sado takes off. ;)

Check the =nil; Foundation. All of their products have really weird names. Their db service is called `DROP DATABASE * https://nil.foundation/

So there's actually a cool thing in the blockchain space. Nice.
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