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defulmere

133 karma · joined October 23, 2018

Cofounder and chief wrangler of tech support and customer service for (((Opalstack.
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defulmere··on Show HN: Never have an SSL certificate expire again
From what I can tell this service will only check website certificates.

Can anyone recommend a similar service that doesn't have this limitation, ie one that can check certificates on SMTP, IMAP, and other protocols that aren't HTTPS?

defulmere··on Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12
Decided to check the QR codes in the image at the top of the article:

- never - gonna - give - you - up

Rickrolled by QR!

defulmere··on macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
The author had me until he mentioned installing ripgrep *temporarily*.

Stopped there because I don't do heresy.

defulmere··on Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
Pixelfed (federated network similar to Instagram) made a similar move about a month ago:

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/106161269947338845

I missed the counts at first, but after a week or so I stopped noticing.

defulmere··on Inkscape 1.1
> Though you can tell macOS to launch it in low resolution mode and that does help a lot.

I never knew about this trick. Just tried it and it bumped Inkscape's performance on my 2015 MBP from "not quite usable" to "usable enough" for my occasional design needs. Thanks!

defulmere··on My Favorite One Liners
Dangit, there should have been an ASCII block character in that second printf. Here's a version with an asterisk instead:

  atopsar -p | grep ":[0-9]\{2\}\s\+[0-9]" | awk '{printf("\n%s %6.2f ",$1, $5); for (i = 0; i<$5; i++) {printf("*")}}'; echo
defulmere··on My Favorite One Liners
gracias
defulmere··on My Favorite One Liners
My favorite is piping stuff into awk to make bar graphs. Here's system load from atopsar for the current day:

  atopsar -p | tail -n +7 | grep '\S' | awk '{printf("\n%s %6.2f ",$1, $5); for (i = 0; i<$5; i++) {printf("")}}'; echo
sample: https://gist.github.com/defulmere/bec1aef40ca4cddb5c421ffa5f...
defulmere··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Webfaction in 2020/21?
Sean from Opalstack here, just want to say that we're ready for you and that we're thrilled to see our former WF customers heading our way!

We've got automated WebFaction migrations ready to go for Wordpress sites, MySQL databases, and generic PHP apps. Those are part of a suite of migration tools that are under rapid development, with the goal of having a one-step (or close to that) migration for any WF customer who wants to move over to our service.

defulmere··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
Interesting feature, but it seems to work only when opening the file from Finder.

If you open the file from within the application itself (I tested with Pages) or via an external app (Terminal, LaunchBar, etc) then it opens the original.

defulmere··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
Wow, it didn't take them long to dumb down https://keybase.io - no mention of all of the cool nerdy crypto stuff, git, etc at all, now it's just another chat app.
defulmere··on Show HN: A collection of support replies to make your support stand out
"Cribbing support replies from a website" is a pretty good example of what not to do.
defulmere··on Ask HN: How do I learn JavaScript?
I've been working my way through the Modern Javascript course at Execute Program, so far so good:

https://www.executeprogram.com/courses/modern-javascript

defulmere··on Gears
Came here to post that link :)
defulmere··on We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
I've tried this and while it really does seem effective for a minute or so for me, I'm still not convinced that it's not just an auditory illusion, like the tinnitus is somehow pushed aside by the sensation of the sudden (comparative) silence that starts the instant that you stop drumming on the back of your head.
defulmere··on DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
tl;dr they're paid to serve ads based on anonymized search terms

https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...

defulmere··on What Gets to Be a 'Burger'? States Restrict Labels on Plant-Based Meat
That milk issue is ridiculous. Nut milk has been referred to as such since the middle ages or earlier.
defulmere··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Webfaction?
guilty as charged :)
defulmere··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Webfaction?
I'm part of a team of former WebFaction employees that is building the alternative you want!

https://launch.opalstack.com

:)

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