troyjfarrell
Joined 15 years ago
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Comment · 7 days ago
Turkish Airlines site does not load in Lockdown mode. Users cannot log in at rei.com with Lockdown mode on.
Comment · 2 months 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.)
Somewhat confusingly, the iOS App Store description [0] of the app says that it is not a government app, while the rest of the internet and Kazakh government sites say that it is the official government app for the purpose of applying for the ETA.
Comment · 8 months 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 paragraph, final sentence: "Fully a third of the occupants were still out of their seats after seventy seconds."
Comment · 2 years 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) and the WebSockets for synchronization will help people get started more quickly. (RxDB provides interfaces for those who want to implement their own storage engine and/or synchronization backend.)
Comment · 3 years 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...
https://24.kg/english/272323__Kyrgyzstan_to_fine_for_sale_an...
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe that you can echo the '.dump' command to SQLite.
echo .dump | sqlite3 db | ssh [email protected] "dd of=db_dump"
Comment · 3 years 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. Sandstorm runs the HTTPS server, which turns requests into RPC calls. Sandstorm authenticates the users and provides temporary subdomains and frames to sandbox the HTML side of it.
Comment · 4 years 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 security benefits of Sandstorm are many.
.. [1] https://sandstorm.io/ .. [2] https://pypi.org/project/djangolovessandstorm/ .. [3] https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...
Comment · 4 years 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 sandboxing applications and giving them a capability-based API (via Cap'n Proto RPC over a unix socket) for connecting to the outside world and other grains. Grains can also export capabilities, which would allow for the pluggable modules envisioned by kayson. Sadly, few grains do this as of yet. In my limited experience with this part of Sandstorm, the developer experience is still rough around the edges.
Comment · 4 years 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.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years 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. This (mercifully) means that any security issues in the out-of-date applications does not become a cause for panic. The downside is that packaging those applications is not trivial.
Comment · 4 years 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.
Comment · 5 years 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 around it.
That would be me. I've done it on a private app and helped bring it to another app, so it's repeatable. I'll try to explain it on the sandstorm-dev group in the next week or so.
Comment · 5 years 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 someone younger and richer is not interested in solving the problems that you are actually solving. Elon is working on space, but he's not working on helping the homeless.
The world is bigger than it seems and your impact on it is beyond what you can see. Don't worry that you aren't Elon Musk. Your post, thus your existence, reminded me to get back to looking into emergency mesh networks. (I looked at your submissions and comments.) One of my clients is a clinic in a place that is expecting a natural disaster and will likely lose communications when that disaster happens. Your work on LoRa and ESP32s may end up saving the lives of people you've never known.