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> I hacked the program to NOP out the loop and just immediately capture. This is a level of freedom that I wish we still had today. I'm not talking so much abo
by don-code 4y ago
> I hacked the program to NOP out the loop and just immediately capture.
This is a level of freedom that I wish we still had today. I'm not talking so much about the open source, "free as in speech" freedom, but more so about the "free as in simplicity" type. Nowadays it feels like I need valid TLS and a PGP signature just to host some service in my own home, the ecosystems around them having decided that the ability to tinker was (perhaps justly) a far second to security and correctness.
(For reference, I tried building and inheriting my own Terraform providers a few months ago. It's not possible to host them off plaintext HTTP, nor is it possible to skip TLS validity checks when downloading them, nor is it possible to install them without checking for a valid signature.)
- aembleton 4y ago> Nowadays it feels like I need valid TLS and a PGP signature just to host some service in my own home You don't need all of that. You can just host. I was hosting back in the early 00s and it isn't any harder today. Actually its easier because most DNS providers now have a reliable API so I can have a cron update the DNS entries when my IP address changes. Back in the 00s I use no-ip.org and had a subdomain from them.