xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 25 minutes ago

That's like 400k a year pre-tax salary. If they're making that much and still can't afford a nice meal, they've got some serious problems with budgeting and restraint.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wildcard certs are perfectly fine. Your own instance lemm.ee is using one right now.

Obviously there could be issues if subdomains are shared with other sites, but if the whole domain is owned by 1 person, what does it matter?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

If you are the CA, you can sign a new certificate yourself for google.com and the browser will accept it. It's effectively allows MITM for any certificate. Worse, it's not even limited to certificates under that CA. The browser has no way of knowing there's 2 "valid" certs at once, and in fact that is allowed regardless (multiple servers with different instances of the SSL cert is a possibility).

Certificate pinning might save things, since that will force the same certificate as was previously used, but I'm not sure this is a common default.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, it's difficult, as it should be, because if you control a certificate in the active chain of trust of browsers, you can hack pretty much anything you want.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh man, I forgot about startssl until just now. I definitely had a few of those certs. If you wanted something fancy like a wildcard cert back then, you were paying $$$

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely lots of hate for touchscreens and modern ~~features~~spyware.

I haven't seen as much hate for driving in general like fuckcars has, but I'm definitely still in agreement that most cities are too car dependent. I actually enjoy driving for fun, but HAVING to drive to go anywhere sucks. I miss living downtown in a walkable city.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Also the majority of it has been recovered and brought back up. The hull and billionaire bits are back on shore somewhere.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe just use percentages instead of these weird units. 0.2 MHh per hour is just 0.2 MW, or 20%.

It seems easier to say solar produces an average of 20% of it's peak capacity.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You bring up heated water as a method of storage, and it reminds me of a neighborhood in Alberta, Canada that uses geothermal + solar heated water storage for 52 homes. They've been able to successfully heat the entire neighborhood with only solar over the winter in 2015-2016 and have gotten > 90% solar heating in other years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

There's a huge number of new storage technologies being developed, and the fact that some even work on a seasonal basis for long term storage is amazing.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think The Onion has better taste than to joke about this topic.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Definitely dangerous, but I'm less scared of that one. I've got detectors for that, and that's more of a "go peacefully in your sleep" kind of danger.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ironically the one thing computers are normally good at.

 

I was on a road trip through the prairies and had to stop on the side of the road to watch the northern lights. The entire sky in all directions was lit up. I was able to take this shot with the big dipper visible.

4-second exposure, Sony A9 II, f2.8 24mm Sigma Lens, taken Sept 18, 2023

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