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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

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  • Creators on Facebook do get paid though, at least if they're big enough I guess 🤔 https://creators.facebook.com/earn-money

    Also the AI model Meta maintains (Llama) is the most powerful open-source model that anyone can use and even build their own commercial products on top of for free, so I'm not sure it's accurate that nobody wants it?

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • Shouldn't be too difficult to swap it out for ZeroSSL. You'd need to remember to update CAA records though.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • I think Cloudflare enshittifying is a bigger risk that Let's Encrypt.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • ZeroSSL, plus a few paid companies support ACME (I know Sectigo and GoDaddy do). Sure, the latter are paid services, but in theory you can switch to them and use the exact same setup you're currently using with Let's Encrypt, just with some config changes.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • They also made it a open protocol (the ACME protocol), so now there's a bunch of certificate providers that implement the same protocol and thus can work with the same client apps (Certbot, acme.sh, etc). I know Sectigo and GoDaddy support ACME at least. So even if you don't use Let's Encrypt, you can still benefit from their work.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • I remember the days when each site that wanted to use SSL had to have a dedicated IP.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • Why not script it so you don't have to do it manually?

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • TLS certificates have huge margins, so web hosts love selling them.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • I'd also argue that the fact that it's 100% automated and their software is open source makes it objectively more secure. On the issuing side, there's no room for human error, social engineering, etc.

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  • Thanks for the links. I appreciate it! Now I understand the issue.

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  • It's the only voting system in existence where ranking someone higher on the ballot can cause them to lose the election.

    Interesting... Do you have an example of this?

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  • I don't understand why the USA doesn't use preferential voting like Australia does: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/

    Instead of just picking one candidate/party, you number them based on your preferences. First all the #1 votes are counted. If no party gets the majority (over 50%) of votes, the party with the least number of votes is removed, and for everyone that voted for them, their #2 votes are used. Repeat until someone wins.

    Independents (what you call "third-party" in the USA) can win, and any party that gets over 4% of the #1 votes gets election funding from the government (a fixed amount per vote).

  • Something is broken... I know it..

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  • The worst is when you expect an existing test to fail, but it passes, and it turns out the test wasn't actually properly testing the code. Fixing the test finds a bunch of broken edge cases.

  • Something is broken... I know it..

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  • The first "temporary hack" I ever wrote for my current job (~January 2014) is still in the codebase.

  • Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

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  • At least here in California, having solar panels on a non south facing roof usually only reduces production by 10-20%, as long as it's not entirely north facing. Solar systems are often slightly undersized - it's more cost effective to size it so it handles average load rather than the summer peaks you only see for a few weeks per year - so the actual difference for a given system may be less.

    With my system, I see the best output from south-east facing panels since they get the morning sun. West facing panels are also fairly popular here due to time-of-use electricity plans. Some electricity plans have peak pricing from 4 to 9 pm, so people want to try and collect as much sunlight as possible during that period before sunset.

  • Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

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  • They're installing ridiculously small systems so that they're barely compliant, but the systems aren't very useful to the people that buy the house.

  • No one told you when to run...

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  • Who is "we"?

  • Asking the real questions

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  • And then let me guess... Of course the QA testers get the blame, when in reality it's either management or marketing that wanted to pushe the app out.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.

  • Microsoft Teams is dog shit

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  • I used to make calls through MSN Messenger and it was a much better experience than Skype. Skype always seemed lower quality.