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Comment · 3 days ago
The few people willing to change their user-agent aren't worth the extra complexity.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's the takeaway from the story in OP and the poem with the same title, so I'd say it's very much on-topic. Your only contribution is "acktually, humans are nature too and once the universe collapses everything is doomed" and shut down any other discussion as "silly".
Comment · 2 months ago
Of course there's reason to discuss if endless parking lots and industrial complexes are necessary. Claiming they're part of nature is like claiming HIV is a natural part of the human body. It exists yes but maybe we're better off without it?

I see humanity as it exists today as a cancer on the planet and it's not out of smugness. The pursuit of infinite growth is ruining everything that's beautiful around us.

We can discuss the semantics of the word nature all you want but it is just shifting the focus from the actual problem, which is how we destroy everything we touch. Which is also what I'm assuming GP means.

Comment · 2 months ago
> - .env is the simplest and oldest / most boring solution. Secrets are passed to teammates by DM?

I don't see a reason to ever pass them. Sensitive production values should never be accessible to everyone, and for development the team should be able to create them themselves.

I usually keep very stupid values in .env.example, with the instructions to `cp .env.example .env`. In development it doesn't matter if the password is "password". In production the privileged admin sets up actual values.

> - non-sensitive environment variables also need a home. I don't like the idea of cluttering the project with a .env.local or worse like .env.development.local

`cp .env.example .env` and the application uses .env just like in production, only with dummy values.

Comment · 2 months ago
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make. Yes the planet is doomed sooner or later. But I'm talking about nature as in trees, animals, etc. The natural eco-system. And it existed and evolved and adapted naturally long before humans and will continue long after we're gone.

In philosophy there is a debate regarding the meaning of the word nature and if humans should be considered a part of it, and I see the points, but that's a different discussion.

Comment · 2 months ago
The world has been much more inhospitable than it is today and I'm sure it will recover. The problem I see with us is how we destroy everything in our path on an industrial scale. As long as the wheels keep spinning we extract everything we can, see water use for data centers as the latest example.

Other species co-exist in the eco-system, we destroy it.

Comment · 2 months ago
"Humanity" is far from "all the life on Earth". Nature will be better off once it happens.
Comment · 3 months ago
There will be ways to circumvent and even use verified devices as botnets.
Comment · 3 months ago
What do you use instead and what makes it more secure?
Comment · 4 months ago
Great for apps, terrible for people. It's much simpler to sync setups across machines with plain files than databases.
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Comment · 5 months ago
There are more secure alternatives. Are you sure those you listed actually use it on the servers? I would guess that at least Spotify and Netflix uses some other container runtime than Docker on their production servers.

For a long time Docker was helpful and opened exposed ports on the firewall. So you wanted to access your redis ports locally and exposed it on the container? Now everything in there is accessible on the open internet.

I believe they've fixed it but I haven't used Docker in years so I wouldn't know.

Comment · 6 months ago
I think plugins is the better solution, then you can't pay the browser to get your ads through.
Comment · 6 months ago
Cool project, but they should really upgrade at least the downloads to https...

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