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  • 123@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Solutions for remote access?English
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    2 days ago

    For new people, for ongoing domain registrations people should also consider the renewal costs. There are some registrars with somewhat predatory pricing schemes that end up being very expensive long term (e.g. the trendy .io TLD).

    Dot com and dot net are some of the most stable ones, even though they might not appear as such at first glance. Almost anything less costly on initial costs will cost you in some other way (might not offer whois privacy (.us iirc) or be limited to residents or people with legit business on that country (.ca) or have a mixed reputation with being labeled spam (.xyz - although I believe this last one has been kind of proactive in clearing that up).

    Sorry to highjack the comment, but I wish someone had warned me to look, not all TLDs are administered the same.

  • 123@programming.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Solutions for remote access?English
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    2 days ago

    There’s something called NAT reflection that does a local lookup if the request originated in the internal network and avoids going via the external route. Some software for routers like ONPSense and/or PFSense support it (but I wouldn’t be surprised if DD-WRT, Tomato, etc supported it as well (its been a while since I used them)).

    It might work better of your DNS provider supports API based challenges vs traditional ACME challenges that might require you to still expose your IP/challenge ports with public DNS to get your certificates.

    All my internal DNS has the option of SSL certs while my IP is not on any public DNS and it routes to the internal IPs with the above. Not sure how that would work with wireguard or tailacale/headscale, but I’m assuming they probably could complement nicely.

  • 123@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]English
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    3 days ago

    He has other videos where he has explained that you can’t trust any brand any longer and you should not buy based on previous brand experiences alone but investigate individual models (and even revisions to them since it was a known trick to change them after the initial release to make them cheaper). Not sure if he mentioned it on this video since at the moment I’m not in the market for an appliance, but his takes seemed reasonable.

  • 123@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System FailureEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Not as much of a stop as you would think. Historically speaking Ford motor company already tried basically enslaving indigenous people on the Amazon for rubber production. Most of the cotton in the US (and many other industries) was done by black slaves. Current fishing in south east Asia (and other places I’m sure) can have slaving with extra steps on a boat. Apple/Nike and other big brand factories in chine have had nets installed to prevent suicides, etc. There is no stopping the horrible disease that is wealth hoarding and human exploration it seems.

  • 123@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.ml•What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
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    13 days ago

    On the other hand, there are people wasting our time (relatives) and have no data in the machine which is a glorified browser.

    For them I installed Linux mint, left a 200x200 Firefox icon on the desktop (which they already used) and called it a day.

    If they accidentally hit the mute button on the YouTube page, that was going to happen regardless and I’ll get to it when I get to it next time I visit (if I have time). It’s kind of amazing how they can resolve it themselves when you don’t solve the issue for them quickly.

    Edit: my point was: their desire for no change does not come before my desire to have an up to date secure OS for them to use (even of it’s just YT browsing)

  • 123@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Screw it, I’m installing LinuxEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Having to install powetoys on top of the OS makes it DOA for many on corporate environments. You get stuck on approval limbo or if someone else went through the pain, you discover it breaks every once in a while due to missing .net dependencies that you don’t have the right to install. I’ve seen this for both development (w10 w/ extended support) and thin clients (w11).

    Unfortunately our clients all use Windows development machines, so we are stuck on the same to be able to write the guides and documentation. Most of our scripts now rely on Got bash since we know that’s available. MS environments are hostile to proper scripting and automation.

  • 123@programming.devtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'English
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    22 days ago

    E.g.: companies that advertise on a large sporting event might preemptively scale up (maybe warm up depending on language) their servers in preparation for a large load increase following some ad or mention of a coupon or promo code. Failure to capture the market it could generate would be seen as wasted $$$

    Edit: auto-scale does not count on non essential products, people would not come back if the website failed to load on the first attempt.