Not all routers have all that great security either. Even if the admin page isn’t exposed to the Internet, you can access it and so does your browser. Just takes a little bit of XSS and oops.

They’re just examples of things you could pipe curl into, but no not really. If the download fails you end up with an incomplete file in your tmpfs anyway, and have to retry. Another use I have is curl | mysql to restore a database backup.

If the server supports resuming, I guess that can be better than the pipe, but that still needs temporary disk space, and downloads rarely fail. You can’t corrupt downloads over HTTPS either as the encryption layer would notice it and kill the connection, so it’s safe to assume if it downloaded in full, it’s correct.

With downloads being IO bound these days, it’s nice to not have to read it all back and write the extracted files to disk afterwards. Only writes the final files once.

That’s far from the weirdest thing I’ve done with pipes though, I’ve installed Windows 11 on a friend’s PC across the ocean with a curl | zstd | pv | dd, and it worked. We tried like 5 different USBs and different ISOs and I gave up, I just installed it in a VM and shipped the image.

I’ve had to use that flag.

--silent is useful when you don’t want the progress bar or you’re piping curl into something else. I like to do curl | tar -zxv to download and decompress at the same time, I’ve even tar -zc | curl to upload a backup taking no disk space to do so.

The problem however is it’s really silent: if it fails, it exits with a non-zero code and that’s it. Great when you don’t want debug info to interfere, annoying when you need to debug it.

So you can opt-in to print some errors when in silent mode, but otherwise be silent.

Especially given how easy it is to bypass Bitlocker anyway: https://youtu.be/Cc6vrQSVMII

The solution there isn’t to give your data to another country, it’s to take control of your data.

Buy an old machine, slap NextCloud on it, done.

Perks of still running bare metal in colo, no issues for any of my stuff. Not seeing anyone say anything in the Lemmy chat on Matrix either.

I bet they’ll eventually get caught using coffee shop cameras and conversations for AI training, say it’s for training a security product or something.

It really depends, most people end up specializing into specific things they work on as software has generally become too big for single developers. We have people that only do frontend stuff so things look nice on the website, some only deal with the database and making sure we return results as efficiently as possible.

I started off doing the typical full stack but I’ve since branched off into DevOps so now I’m responsible for a few hundred servers across the globe that I keep updated and running smoothly.

Sometimes I work on new tools, sometimes I spend days tracking down weird problems, sometimes I’m rushing hotfixes because something is repeatedly crashing in production.

It’s worth noting that because you can click through UIs these days doesn’t mean that scales as you go. You can go spin up your app in a container in the cloud mostly through UI, but soon enough the defaults aren’t enough. I manage several hundreds of instances across a few clouds, I’ll well, well past clicking next next next finish. It’s just an easy and visual way to ease you into things, especially for beginners, as all the options available to you are there to see along with little help tooltips explaining what a setting does.

It also depends on what you do: if you work at a startup, clicking through Cloudflare’s dashboard is more than enough. When you have thousands of customers, you’re not managing the tens of thousands of settings you have to configure, you automate.

Code can describe things (HTML, CSS, HCL), code can configure things (YAML, JSON, Ansible), code can program things (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc), code can query things (SQL), programming as a whole is very wide.

How much easier can it even get to deploy? You start it, point your domain at it and you’re good to go.

At this point I just net user /add it, which just creates the user manually and then you can reboot and just log into it.

It’s not like you need anything from the OOBE at all, so might as well just skip it entirely.

Arguably, if it was normal to sideload apps it wouldn’t be as much of a barrier to users, but they’ve been conditionned to think they need an app and the only place you can ever get them is the store.

It’s a technical hurdle only because Apple decided they want to control everything, and same on Android because of Google’s ever increasing war on sideloading. You used to download an APK from the browser and it would go like “This is an app! Install?”, but now you have to go enable third party installation and all that, and now the whole Play Protect forcing developer validation coming up.

Because fear and hypocrisy, and pretending we’re somehow special as humans. It’s okay for us to copy this style, and replicate this drum set, and sample these sounds. We’re okay torrenting stuff because screw the big rich studios. We’re okay buying knockoff stuff because it’s cheaper.

We only care because it’s started crushing small creators struggling to make a living, and AI can gobble up training data faster than any human reasonably can in a lifetime.

Intellectual property has always been broken, AI just exposes the problem more clearly. It’s always been a double-standard.

At this point China doesn’t need propaganda, they just let the chinese users look at the US user’s misery by themselves and sit back.

When Rednote was first flooded by the first wave of TikTok refugees, the chinese users were baffled just how much worse it was than their propaganda said. Which is probably why they just let it go and didn’t immediately shut it down.

Rednote is pretty different vibes, I’m on it but not nearly as much as TikTok. It’s pretty interesting for what it is but it’s not a replacement and it’s not competing to be a replacement either.

I would guess they’ll probably move to Bytedance’s other app, Lemon8, or probably Skylight Social as Bluesky is generally pretty popular with the particular part of TikTok I’m on, so everyone already have ATproto accounts and follows.

At least a title would have been nice, at this point that’s just lazy to just paste the link of a repo and click post. Ok cool, but why are you sharing it, what’s cool about it, why should I click on this and spend time reading on it.

No way. iPhones don’t exactly allow bootloader unlocking to begin with, but even if you could, it would be in no better state than Asahi on the M1 Apple computers. Every driver would have to be written from scratch.

Pixels are a good platform for custom ROMs because until the recent drama, you could literally just build AOSP as-is and use it. So the GrapheneOS team only really need to focus on their changes to the OS and their apps and none of the drivers and modem interface and all that. That’s also why GrapheneOS runs so well on it: Google provided everything, it just works.

iPhones would be the absolute worst phone to develop for: zero support from Apple, no drivers no documentation, no nothing. Not even a Linux kernel! At least for Android, the Linux license forces manufacturers to publish the source code, so at minimum you start with something that should boot and contain all the stuff to talk to the hardware already, just need to wire it in with userspace drivers. CPU manufacturers like Qualcomm also provide a fair chunk of the userspace drivers open-source too, so you can just pull that and have audio and video working.

Not impossible, but definitely really hard and impractical.

PieFed seems to have taken the spot as well, mostly delivering on what Sublinks wanted to be but faster and better. Python is more attractive than Java even for the Rust haters.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t check the UTF-8 validity at all and just lets the apps get broken UTF-8 where most of the time nothing horrible happens. That or they just strip invalid characters.

It’s not the size, it’s a size to content/quality ratio. I’ll happily download a 500GB game if it’s got the content to match.

Uncompressed assets doesn’t bring higher quality visuals or content, it’s merely pure laziness or a scam to make people feel like they’re getting more for the outrageous price games have gotten.

It’ll tolerate a few hours no problem, mine’s been down for a bit over 24h and caught up fine.

I think it marks instances as down after 2-3 days, but I’m not sure if it’ll resume once it comes back up at this point. I think if your instance reaches out it might start pushing events again but it could also result in dropping the previous days.