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chessmango

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/chessmango; my proof: https://keybase.io/chessmango/sigs/vM7z9ZIAyILfjYQb8vVmg6p2VeTl0E2-nrb6BiEm2WY ]

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chessmango··on Thunderbird’s New Home (2020)
Title should probably be suffixed '(2020)' - not that anything has changed :P
chessmango··on Optimizing Docker image size and why it matters
Yeah, been using this myself for a whole bunch of sanity. Until buildkit is the default though, I wouldn't expect it to gain too much traction.
chessmango··on Sshell: Serverless Shell
More upvotes here ^

Edit: And TIL infern.io is a thing too

chessmango··on Vertiwalk Vertical Walking
Another also: right and left keys worked pretty well
chessmango··on Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
No idea why this obvious joke was downvoted tbh :P
chessmango··on Why not to whitelist operating system user agents
Just from the Reddit post as well - doesn't feel overly user-hostile or deserving of the 'JP Morgan Chase Bank admitting to me they hate Linux and BSD desktops and actively block them' title anyway.

If there's active blocking based on OS (from replies in this thread, evidence seems to be slim) then that's not great, but this seems to be pretty one-sided so far.

chessmango··on You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Don't think it'll catch on
chessmango··on Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate
Don't think this is the case. It's downstream of RHEL but with a bunch of liberties, so CentOS/Rocky doesn't change much there
chessmango··on Webtops: A Linux Desktop Environment in the Browser
Yeah LinuxServer people/projects are great. It's very much not in the spirit of containerization but makes sense for what it is.

I first noticed/made use of their Firefox container as a 'headless' browser env. Super useful for browsing through severe amounts of JS to get at a file :P

chessmango··on Show HN: IPster – Peer-to-peer simple job notifications
Ooh, since this I've had another thought - instead of open/closed networks, 'just' have a third option for how to share a notification - "my approved list" or "people who follow me and I follow back" or something along those lines, just less awkward wording.

Might be easier said than done as well. :D please shoot me down as necessary :)

chessmango··on Show HN: IPster – Peer-to-peer simple job notifications
Thanks for the super speedy reply! Good to see the intention behind things as well :D

I had no idea about the edit mark tbh - don't think I checked properly ;) cool that makes sense - history perhaps not as much as just signs of editing sounds like a decent balance.

Very very cool - perhaps with follower approval it could just be a mutual follow check. So if my notifications are 'closed' and you follow me, then I need to follow you back to 'approve'. Feels pretty frictionless. :)

Thanks again for a super cool tool!

chessmango··on Show HN: IPster – Peer-to-peer simple job notifications
Very cool! I really love this idea, though I picked up a few things I found weird:

* Search kicks in properly at 3 characters, but removing a character (so aaa <- aa) produces results

* Same UUID used for invite links and profile images (may not actually be a 'problem' at all) - as a result of this and the wording of the 'follow invite' popup, I can give the impression that someone has invited someone else to follow them I guess? [1][2][3]

* Fully editable notifications with no signs of edit or history - makes context a little weird potentially

Other than this it'd be nice to have an opt-in follow option (so I get to approve followers) - along with discovery of followers/followed for contacts? Not sure how far that extends beyond app scope though, at least without becoming another LinkedIn :D

[1] Example: IPster.io account image = https://app.ipster.io/api/f/avatar/npWDSXiTsWVpSNFO95Oh7z3eC...

[2] IPster.io invite link = https://app.ipster.io/invite#npWDSXiTsWVpSNFO95Oh7z3eCy13

[3] Wording is "IPster.io has sent you a request to follow", which may/may not be misleading :P

chessmango··on SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing
That's when used without any identifiers - use a specific URL: https://www.sharedrop.io/rooms/d602bb4d-5277-413d-b302-62d5f... And cross-network transfer is doable :P
chessmango··on SkyTransfer – Free, Open-Source, Decentralized and Encrypted File-Sharing
https://www.sharedrop.io/
chessmango··on Tell HN: Opening this page will flag you as abusing GitHub
https://i.imgur.com/qn31o2N.jpg - mobile, but
chessmango··on NFT the DP
MetaMask link goes to https://mintable.app/ FYI Real link is https://metamask.io/
chessmango··on Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android
Can recommend AndOTP in this case, provided using Android. Grab a build off F-Droid - easy tag-hopping with options for single or multiple tag selection. Have very few complaints, and I 2FA anything I can, at work and personally, so tags strictly necessary
chessmango··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
Not to mention software updates to ensure your credentials aren't leaked in plaintext...
chessmango··on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
Just wanted to point out that your cert for storage.communick.com has expired. I'm assuming yours (or at least related) because mentioned with a cough :P
chessmango··on CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
Pretty sure this is at least somewhat related to Carrier-Grade NAT[1]. Influx of connections from a single public IP shared by multiple public users = 'security concern'. Not to forgive the big tech giant of its inflexibility :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

chessmango··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
+1

Miniflux is great, small, single-binary, easily configured with envvars and just gets out of the way. Gets good development and feels great. I don't use a specific reader - just webapp on whichever platform, works well.

chessmango··on Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels
"Instagram Reels" in this headline reads like present simple tense. But then you realize that Instagram isn't a competitor to Facebook, and well...
chessmango··on Riot is now Element
Feel like I'm missing something important here. What's happening with .io?
chessmango··on Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
1. Yes/no - my own team is more the latter as I'm more customer-facing and lone-ranger-y, but other teams do a lot more collab and keep things central. As far as I'm aware though, it's a bit of a mixed bag, so getting to the point where we're all on the same page would be fantastic.

2. This sounds great. I like the k8s angle particularly as well - I have yet to find much useful in that area, so having a service that's good at it would be wonderful.

3. This I'd imagine would be end-game at AWS. Specifically ability to handle own storage and keys would be an immediate sell here. We've just taken on Slack Enterprise Grid for basically this (granted this was a 2-way deal: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280829/slack-amazon-aws-...) so clearly we're up for it :D

I get the focus though. Seems like a good opportunity to set yourself up as best-in-class for this type of thing. I'll certainly be using CloudSkew for anything I need privately. :)

chessmango··on Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams
These are all pretty killer. For non-generalist stuff this is great - I work for AWS myself and arch diagrams are generally draw.io for me, and considering this is a web service I'd be unlikely to use it but in another life, absolutely.

I feel like non-generalist tools like this are useful for exactly what they're good at, especially along with doc links etc.

Any plans to do this cool things like Cloudcraft with describes to pre-populate diagrams? I'd imagine this would be quite an undertaking for a cloud-agnostic service.

Kudos!

chessmango··on Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
Well that just ruffles my Jimmies... D: I'm sorry.