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and/or someone "renting" a bare metal server from such a provider too.
Re:Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @08:43AM (#45395238)
I appreciate you pointing that out. I've been curious about meshastatic and wondered how well the encryption was being handled.
Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:18PM (#45314645)
Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)
Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:36AM (#45313273)
Rust doesn't support as many CPU architectures as C does (SH4 for example, though there's likely many more better examples.)

This might make a much more interesting case for GOT than before https://www.gameoftrees.org/

Re:Why do software developers love complexity? on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:32AM (#45262026)
> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).

I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.

HARD AGREE!

It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)

Re:Use One Big Server (2022) on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:46PM (#45094911)
I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.
Re:Use One Big Server (2022) on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:43PM (#45094877)
> until my girlfriend moved in with me

lol, why was this the defining moment? She wasn't too keen on hearing the high pitch wwwwhhhhuuuuurrrrrrr of the server fans?

Re:Bear is now source-available on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:31PM (#45094751)
> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".

I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.

In the Philippines everyone uses Facebook because you can use Messenger for free without data charges.
I really wanted to like Librem and almost bought a phone until I saw this video by Louis Rossmann: https://youtu.be/wKegmu0V75s?si=NzevsJgHD188bRkT
Got tired of this with a few extensions I made too. It felt like every year or so they'd completely break some API and I'd have to go switch to the new one, then they wanted a privacy policy, then justification for permissions, etc etc. Wasn't worth the trouble eventually and I just let them die.
Roughly, yes. Customers (or more often, their IT department) runs our installer which installs the server as a windows service.
The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support. We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.

That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.

my bank did this on the site they sent me to in order to activate my new card.
The _only_ thing I don't like about this is the automatic prefixing of '#' in header tags. Everything about this is freaking awesome.
Re:Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:07PM (#43499761)
Something both this blog post and the Github Repo[0] do not point out very clearly is that the stock wireless card that comes with (if you choose it), at least, the AMD 13 isn't supported by FreeBSD[1]. Of course, you can swap it for a compatible one though.

[0] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Framework_Laptop/13_AMD_Ryz...