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and/or someone "renting" a bare metal server from such a provider too.

I appreciate you pointing that out. I've been curious about meshastatic and wondered how well the encryption was being handled.

Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)

> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).

I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.

HARD AGREE!

It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)

I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.

> until my girlfriend moved in with me

lol, why was this the defining moment? She wasn't too keen on hearing the high pitch wwwwhhhhuuuuurrrrrrr of the server fans?

> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".

I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.

In the Philippines everyone uses Facebook because you can use Messenger for free without data charges.

Got tired of this with a few extensions I made too. It felt like every year or so they'd completely break some API and I'd have to go switch to the new one, then they wanted a privacy policy, then justification for permissions, etc etc. Wasn't worth the trouble eventually and I just let them die.

Roughly, yes. Customers (or more often, their IT department) runs our installer which installs the server as a windows service.

The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support. We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.

That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.

my bank did this on the site they sent me to in order to activate my new card.