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Also worth checking out: https://re-amp.ru

No source "freeware", would you trust a binary from a random Russian developer to not contain/deliver a trojan?

No source freeware from Russia was the norm back in the 90s.

Would you trust a binary from a random developer to not contain/deliver a trojan? Russianness has nothing to do with it.

These days executing random code is standard and if you don't do it you're wierd. Case 1: browsers automatically execute code from random sources. Case 2: People tell you to curl someurl.whatever | sh to install compilers (ie, the only way to use the rust rustc on non-rolling distros). And it goes on and on. It's not really an exception to standard practice to install applications. The only difference here is that it is from an actual human person instead of a corporation. They are at least somewhat trustable, unlike corporations which always have their profit motive to sell you.

Also, if you only run programs that have been approved by a third party organization first you're really restricting yourself.


1. Browsers aggressively sandbox the code they run.

2. If you’re running curl | sh on random urls you don’t trust, you’re asking for trouble.

Running random executables you find online is a good way to get spyware and ransomware installed. I’m not saying that’s the case for re:Amp, but it’s absolutely still valid to tell people not to run random programs they find online.


>Running random executables you find online

Ie. the Windows School of Software Distribution.


We have apps in EU in private spaces and most of them are down.


Our app is not working and we can't access the console to see the logs. External logs say that it can't access some external systems it depends on.

And the official Heroku status page says it's all fine.


I was pushing a small update to my tiny niche social network with ~10 users so no real damage was done.

I feel bad for companies with a lot of users



Thanks!


Not the person you asked, but we have something similar to what you described - our GitLab is self-hosted on Hetzner cloud and the build machine is a beefy bare metal machine in the same datacenter (plus an additional Mac in our office just for iOS). Built images are stored in GitLab repository and deployed from there.

We deploy to AWS (among others) and had no issues regarding traffic price since it's ingress into AWS.


Congrats on the launch!

Noticed a typo on jitsu.com - DHW should probably be DWH.


Ops... Thank you very much! Vercel is deploying the fix already


A suggestion until ARM native Rider is available. We have a few 8GB M1s that are used for .net development using Rider and we're using the DataGrip swap hack proposed here and it's working great (was unusable without it):

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-54092


Huh that's a funny hack, will give it a try, cheers!

I wonder if the GoLand/ PyCharm JBR folders will work, since I already have those and they are both ARM native. It's definitely the UI performance that kills me, have no issues with the other editors on the laptop otherwise. Running Unity in parallel likely doesn't help either, though.


Great episode! Now I'm thinking how great it would be to do one with Ken Thompson to hear it from his angle.


VCF East 2019 -- Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o


There's an oral history of Unix, but all the disfluencies, backtracking, etc, is transcribed so uh


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