troyjfarrell

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by troyjfarrell 20d ago
Kazakhstan has an app (QazETA) for its electronic travel authorization, which is required for many passport holders who want to enter under the visa-free regime. (Perhaps it is not strictly required as one could apply for a visa instead.)
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by troyjfarrell 7mo ago
Have you see AI repeat itself inside a paragraph? This looks more like something an editor missed. Fourth paragraph, sixth sentence: "Still, at best, only two-thirds of the occupants were buckled up after seventy seconds." Fourth
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by troyjfarrell 2y ago
Looks like it could be a more batteries-included/opinionated alternative to RxDB ( https://rxdb.info ). The relational queries might help some people who tend to think in SQL as opposed to documents (as in CouchDB or MongoDB
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by troyjfarrell 3y ago
Kyrgyzstan passed a law banning many single-use plastics from January 1st, 2027. I hope the ban sticks. It will be challenging to make the economics work. https://24.kg/english/272281__Production_and_sale_of_plastic..
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by troyjfarrell 3y ago
I believe that you can echo the '.dump' command to SQLite. echo .dump | sqlite3 db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump" It worked for me.
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by troyjfarrell 3y ago
You've just described Sandstorm. Sandstorm runs instances (called grains) of applications in a sandbox. The application gets a limited file system and a Cap'n Proto RPC connection to the outside world over a unix socket. Sandst
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
I build my apps on Sandstorm[1]_. Sandstorm provides authentication as a part of the platform. For Django applications, I wrote Django Loves Sandstorm[2]_. If your application fits into Sandstorm's model of grains[3]_, then the secur
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
Perhaps more so than one-click services, Sandstorm is a platform for securely hosting web apps. It succeeded in making apps (called grains) easy to use, but not in making them easy to package or develop. Sandstorm provides security by sand
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
Sandstorm uses Vagrant as part of the app packaging (for developers) process. It is _not_ used in everyday use of Sandstorm. Instead, "Sandstorm implements fine-grained containers"[1], not VMs. 1: https://docs.sandsto
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
Sandstorm is in need of more coders to help maintain and update apps, but it's not abandoned. I use it, both personally and professionally. It results in a better experience for end-users because applications are actually sandboxed.
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by troyjfarrell 4y ago
If you are not too picky about the exact model of replacement component, you can get most components at bicycle shops on the other side of the world. They are quite standardized.
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by troyjfarrell 5y ago
> I believe another contributor managed to get an app running using Postgres, but I don't know how they did it. I think there's some aspect of the Sandstorm sandbox that throws Postgres for a loop, and you have to kinda hack ar
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by troyjfarrell 5y ago
I'm sorry that you celebrated your birthday alone. That's not fun. Don't beat yourself up because you think that someone younger and richer can solve the problems that you are solving more effectively. The reality is that s
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I agree that everyone, even security researchers, will make mistakes. But there are people who survive with state-level actors in their threat model. These people probably 1) do not post their threat model and mitigations in easy-to-Googl
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
And yet there is a need for software. I'm supporting a clinic in Asia that is using OpenEMR for records. The government is requiring reporting of diagnoses by category. This is exactly the sort of paperwork that an EMR system should
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I think you are right. I had this part of the comment in mind: > Then there is the case where if an Indian gets into management, they will start > filling everything with their friends. Other management positions, they will start &gt
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
My experience (anecdote) is the opposite. I worked for an Indian manager in a game studio. I don't know what caste, except that he wasn't Christian or Muslim, probably because he didn't think it worth mentioning. He hired b
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
Armbian on Espressobin is a nice platform. I have three v5 Espressobins. Sadly, the v5 units have some quality issues. One of the three runs non-stop. The second reboots sporatically. The third freezes sporatically and has to be unplug
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I can confirm that cloning a local Borg repository to a cloud system works. One of my systems uses Borg to make a local backup. Next, B2's command line tool synchronizes the local Borg repository to B2.
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I don't think I understand how this is not circular reasoning (can't use UUIDs in place of phone numbers because contact list is comprised of phone numbers instead of UUIDs.) If contacts are not phone numbers, then is there a pro
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
Sandstorm has accidentally solved the problem of rapid change by not having enough developers to continually update the available applications, which include Wordpress. You can also ignore updates. Thankfully, the architecture of Sandstorm
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
Sandstorm(.io) is very cool, and it does make managing your self-hosted web apps very easy. But it does not run Docker containers and it only runs on Linux x86-64. (There have been some attempts at running Docker containers with Sandstorm
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I found a site that made me think of Microsoft FrontPage: http://www.bichonfrise.ws/ HTML 4.01 Transitional and table layouts FTW!
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
Venkman was the only game in town. It was a glorious day when Firebug surpassed Venkman. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Venkman/Firebug_Comparison
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
It is funny. But it is also counterproductive. The Spite Software License theoretically makes your code useful only to people who don't care about licenses. But if the source code is published, it's already useful to those peop
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by troyjfarrell 6y ago
I'm using SmartOS (and Triton) with minimal SmartOS images in production for hosting mixed services. In general, I really like it. My biggest frustration at the moment is the age of packages in pkgsrc. Second would be the lack of sup
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by troyjfarrell 7y ago
The perspective that "illness makes the life not worth living" is not universal. Indeed, it is utilitarian or epicurean perspectives that lead to this way of thinking. Many Christian perspectives (and, I expect those of many fai
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by troyjfarrell 7y ago
CryptPad [0] provides end-to-end encryption for collaboration on documents. It seems that the server will have some metadata, but no access to content. It would require some development to integrate with existing workflows, but the founda
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by troyjfarrell 7y ago
Sandstorm requires that the web apps are packaged specifically for it. The process is not hard, but you have to decide to do it. Sadly, most apps that have been packaged have not been kept up to date. That said, it's a great platform

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