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marcrosoft

1,027 karma · joined September 17, 2010

Software developer, shipping API expert, systematic trader, father, weight lifter, and wind surfer
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marcrosoft··on How I run my servers (2022)
I do the same. OpenBSD, Go, SQLite, and rcctl.
marcrosoft··on Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry
I stopped reading after the author criticized gofmt for being boring.
marcrosoft··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
I went the other direction. I got tired of Plex trying to jam live tv and other monetizing features down my throat.
marcrosoft··on Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps
I love classic hypertext. I miss some of the old internet.
marcrosoft··on The Stupid Programmer Manifesto
I guess I’m stupid too. I do all of these things. It’s awesome.
marcrosoft··on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
I deleted my decade old account. Can digg come back?
marcrosoft··on Debian 12 “Bookworm”
No I’m not talking about useful things like last login, average cpu, etc. they were advertising their cloud products.
marcrosoft··on Debian 12 “Bookworm”
I switched away from Ubuntu when they started putting advertisements in the motd and login screens.
marcrosoft··on Tailscale doesn't want your password
So your keychain is symmetrically encrypted with a password and they don’t store that?
marcrosoft··on Tailscale doesn't want your password
I don’t understand why someone would want to store all their credentials with one of the large tech companies. It seems like this makes it really easy for law enforcement to grab access to all accounts easily.
marcrosoft··on Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time
Yes
marcrosoft··on Ask HN: Cyber Security folks – what are your biggest pain points?
Most security tools are noise generators. Figure out how to separate the alerts that need attention from the rest.
marcrosoft··on Plain Text Accounting
I’ve been using ledger for years. It works great. Just don’t show raw output to tax preparers. They won’t know what to make of it. You have to generate reports they can understand.
marcrosoft··on Go with PHP
No thanks. Those code examples are full of indirection and the bottom example reminds me of the object nested spaghetti mess of large PHP frameworks.

Just because code reads well doesn’t mean you can understand easily what it actually does.

marcrosoft··on Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
The suggestions here are not great. For example file syncing has no mention of syncthing and recommends something I’ve never heard of.
marcrosoft··on Show HN: PySaaS – Python SaaS starter kit
Trust me on this. Don’t offer lifetime or unlimited anything
marcrosoft··on US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low
It probably won’t be soon but alcohol will be next.
marcrosoft··on I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
Navidrome + tailscale = self hosted “Spotify”
marcrosoft··on The simplicity of single-file Golang deployments
How is this news. Welcome to 10 years ago.
marcrosoft··on Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?
No, each time is different. We just had the biggest and longest bull run in history. The economy moves in cycles. The longer the prosperity move the steeper the correction. Something like this is long overdue.
marcrosoft··on The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999
Don’t let this think you need to do 100s of different exercises. A handful of good ones like squat, bench, deadlift, etc are all you really need.
marcrosoft··on Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
I can’t believe people still use PayPal in 2023. They’ve been known to be terrible for like 15 years.
marcrosoft··on Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
I love monorepos. I feel like they are even more helpful for small teams and smaller scale. The productivity of being able to add libraries by creating a new folder or refactor across services is unbeatable.
marcrosoft··on Show HN: Log collector that runs on a $4 VPS
Woah cool. I did the same thing. I Made a poor man’s small scale splunk replacement with SQLite json and go. I used the built in json and full text search extensions.
marcrosoft··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
I’ve met a few people in my life that avoid deodorants and soaps and claim they don’t need them and don’t stink. They all did. My theory is they get used to their smell after awhile and can no longer smell it.
marcrosoft··on Shorting Tether
IBKR has futures trading for bitcoin. You can go both directions with futures.
marcrosoft··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
Socks are so cheap I just throw them all out and get a new pack or two. It is like $6.99 once a year.
marcrosoft··on Ask HN: LastPass Alternatives
Isn’t the solution obvious? Just don’t store the entire password in the manager. Add a memorized manual prefix or suffix to the randomly generated/filled in password when you log in. Trust nobody. It’s not too much extra work and protects against anything like this in the future.
marcrosoft··on Don't force users to register before they can buy (2015)
One reason to require an account or valid email is to slow down credit card test scammers.
marcrosoft··on StackStorm: Event-driven automation
I wouldn’t trust any tool that claims to have anything to do with security that has a curl pipe to bash install advertised.
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