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jcasseeon Surf advises not to use Microsoft 365 Copilot for now due to privacy risks

Surf, the Dutch national educational IT institute, conducted a data protection impact assessment. The report itself: (also linked in the article)

https://www.surf.nl/files/2024-12/20241218-dpia-microsoft-36...

jcasseeon KubeVPN: VPN tools which can connect to Kubernetes clusters

After searching for a good Wireguard-based solution for VPNning into a Kubernetes cluster (and tinkering with a couple of them), this tool just worked. A simple `kubevpn connect` had me connecting to pods and services, while leaving internet traffic alone. Very impressive.

jcasseeon Linear Git History

Unfortunately HN stripped the operative word "extremely".

jcasseeon How to Teach Math?

You seem to be knowledgeable in this area. Is it weird to ask you to summarize these links, especially in the context of the more concrete discussions in this thread?

jcasseeon Marbles (2016)

So if this is what remained on the cave wall ... it was the plan that killed the whole tribe?

jcasseeon A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago

There is Blendle, but I'm not sure it's doing very well ...

https://launch.blendle.com

jcasseeon There's a hole in Kubernetes that lets miscreants cause havoc

Here is the GitHub issue: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71411

jcasseeon The Correspondent – Unbreaking news

The Correspondent is the international offspring of the Dutch news website with (almost) the same name, which has been pretty successful. It is purely member-funded, without any money from ads. They are currently having a membership rally.

They also have an interesting stance on the subjectivity of journalism: "At The Correspondent, we don’t think journalists should pretend to be ‘neutral’ or ‘unbiased’. Instead, our correspondents level with you about where they’re coming from, in the belief that transparency about point-of-view is better than claiming to have none."

jcasseeon Issue with TLS-SNI-01 and Shared Hosting Infrastructure

[Copying my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16112237]

Unfortunately, this means that Traefik's default Let's Encrypt integration (without setting a DNS provider) does not work anymore. Although the logs now say "could not find solver for: http-01", they actually use tls-sni-01.

jcasseeon Let's Encrypt tls-sni-01 disabled due to credible vulnerability report

jcasseeon Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack

See for example this story about Jeremy Clarkson.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm

He published his bank account details (and how to find his address) and dared people to withdraw funds from it. Which people did.

jcasseeon Tendermint 0.10.2

The Byzantine generals problem:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance

jcasseeon Life Is About to Get Harder for Websites Without HTTPS

Would just creating (public) DNS records for those private addresses be a solution for 1 and 2?

jcasseeon Ask HN: Freelance Management Services/Apps

I use Timely for time tracking because of it's fast time-to-data-entry. Also, they integrate with calendar and todo services for those "what did I do today" moments.

https://timelyapp.com

jcasseeon Diaspora-common: does 'rm -rf /' on purge

pipefail is bash-specific, no?

jcasseeon Show HN: Dependency CI – Continuous testing for your dependencies

Or .well-known? (analogous to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785)

jcasseeon Git-secret – store private data in a Git repo

Actually, you can make the vault password file an executable shell script containing

echo "$ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD"

jcasseeon OhLife is shutting down

I have been using the little memory for this and it is great. Automatically exports to text files on Dropbox or Google Drive too.

https://thelittlememory.com

jcasseeon The Docker Book released