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The site's cert expired yesterday.

I wrote a little script to constantly check for open appointments on ICBC (for license and motorcycle driving test slots). Has come in handy a few times already since usually everything is booked up months in advance. With this I usually find something much sooner within a few hours of running the script. https://gitlab.com/charsi/icbc-appointment-checker

I am on a thinkpad using an external thunderbolt monitor with several peripherals linked to it. No sweat at all. Never had to install drivers for anything, webcam, wifi, bluetooth etc all works. Linux mint has been rock solid. I've gone through three major OS updates without anything breaking.

With a .editorconfig[1] file with the correct configs you can get most code editors to insert spaces instead of tabs.

[1] https://editorconfig.org/

Also look at `yq` - https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

This is a wrapper to jq that also supports yaml and other file formats.

MongoDB has been using something similar for a little while now - https://www.mongodb.com/developer/products/mongodb/srv-conne...

Just disable javascript in ublock origin for the site and you don't have to even worry about clicking anything. Lots of news sites deliver the content and then try to block access to it using javascript.

Isn't whatbox.ca mainly aimed at hosting seedboxes? They are accordingly higher priced than a VPN. Whats the rationale for using them as a VPN ?

vlc can play youtube links so you just need to open the m3u file in vlc if you don't want to download.

I use `git push -o ci.skip` all the time. Also things like ci.variable="DEPLOY_MODE=QUICK" is super handy when I do want to run a deploy in a specific configuration.

.. by composing reusable actions, using an intuitive _declarative language_ and API. Actions can safely be shared and reused thanks to a _complete package management system_ ..

That sounds horrible to me. Yet another abstraction layer and set of tools to do something that should be simple. Shell scripts inherently aren't bad. And I really don't see why they'll need more maintenance than using this new tool.

It is called a "punt".

Here is an idea. Make your code royalty free for up to 364 days a year. "MIT-364" is a catchy name right ?

Any company that cannot afford to go without your software for 24hrs per year should pay full whack for a commercial license.

"Add to home screen" is the option you'll get if the web app doesn't have PWA support. If PWA is supported firefox mobile will show an "Install" option instead. This works more like a native app. When launched there will be no URL bar and the status bar will take the main colour of the PWA.

This still exists - https://about.facebook.com/technologies/oculus/

Ah dam. Didn't get a hit on the url when I searched for it.

Fair point. I think I am using "web" interchangeably with "internet".

Mostly that "web development" translates to services built on http/s only. Web is capable of other protocols. But everybody's favourite runtime has become the browser.

Get them to choose a static site generator - https://jamstack.org/generators/

Host it with neocities free tier - https://neocities.org/

If all the assets are downloaded from your website then make it a PWA. Example - ms outlook (web version).

If you want to put the assets on the user's computer run it as a webserver on localhost and launch it in the user's already installed browser. Example - syncthing.

Browser weirdness is not a thing anymore. So packing your own build with the application is super weird.

Sorry i got this wrong on the first attempt. An even better url exists for this -https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/

I should have used the much better url for this - https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/usbimager/

I like rufus on windows but it feels weird to fire up my gaming rig to write a linux usb. Usbimager is cross platform.

Also discovered this user's manual for usbimager -

https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager/raw/master/usbimager-man...

Rufus is windows only. This is cross platform. Probably should have put it in the title.

Can you elaborate on why terraform workspaces are not intended to be used for environments? I use it exactly for this use case. Same terraform config deploying to production and staging, each maintaining its own state in a separate workspace.

I think you are missing the joke. The crassness of plastering "as a millionaire" everywhere is a joke on its own. Sort of a parody on other tubers who throw in similar catch phrases. In his early videos he talked about how being a "millionaire" isn't actually that uncommon. Now it is a meme to the viewers of the channel.

Changed the outbound firewall rules for our production server. And suddenly it couldn't speak to MngoDB Atlas. We definitely had rules to allow mongo traffic but still somehow it wasn't working . We noticed every time a connection to mongo was being made some connections were also going to a CDN on port 80. Looked pretty suspicious until we discovered it was just OCSP which verifies cert revocation status. So ultimately it was going to the cert issuer - letsencrypt who had issued mongo's cert.

Okay I'll give up for now. There are really no spaces in front of the lines. In pastebin if you check the raw version you'll see they are tabs. Which get stripped out because I added a `-` before eof. Providing the file manually to flex also produces the same gibberish for me.

In India having somebody's bank details is not enough to debit it. Many business post their full account numbers and IFSC codes (sort of like a sort code) but with that info people can only send money into their account.

Yep this flow is ripe for phishing. But I prefer it over just giving a card number that a merchant has the ability to store and eventually leak.

With bank payments I just have to be careful to check I am actually at the bank website when entering the login info. Makes me feel more in control.

I guess people in the west were already used to giving out their card info over the phone to make purchases so wasn't a big deal when online sites started doing it. In India credit cards were still not wide spread (still aren't) in the early 2000s.

Lots of websites in India also offer payment via bank account, including amazon.in. The benefit from my POV was the same as you describe. I don't want random websites to have my credit card info and I don't want to deal with paypal.

Paying by bank account doesn't mean handing over bank account info. But the merchant just redirects to your bank as part of the payment flow. The bank knows how much money the merchant wants and you authorize it for that one transaction. Bank redirects back to the merchant who confirms the payment was successful.

They can't make any further charges at a later date.