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Certbot/LE should typically be running on the box that's terminating TLS for you, right? If the box handling your traffic is down, shouldn't that be a self-evident problem?

I've been running Caddy and certbot for nearly a decade and never found a way for them to break without it being 100% my fault. They're more or less self-healing too. I'm with AmbiguousProps; cert renewals have been pretty damn reliable to automate compared to any other piece of tech, IME.

Have you had Certbot or LE fail on prod for you before?

I’m sure stuff happens, but I usually view them as one of the most robust moving parts on a server.

E: I don’t mean to express disbelief at all; just curious to learn about possible footguns.

I completely agree with you on all of those points. The present Venezuela invasion is totally heinous in my book.

Acting like Xi invading North Korea is the same thing as VZ is where I totally disagree with you.

Assuming the Chinese were to make a modicum of effort to prevent mass famine, I see the possible humanitarian boon as outweighing the international-relations consequences. Or to frame it differently, the crimes against humanity that North Korea has committed give China a valid casus belli.

That’s a truly bad-faith take.

My stance is that anyone who supports the sovereignty of the Kim Jong Un regime is a tankie.

Anything to deflect from the Epstein files.

As a rule of thumb, the more ethical companies are going to be smaller shops as opposed to household names, because they’re siphoning less of the economic value they produce into bloat and “hyperscaling”. Yet there are plenty such shops in every field doing quality work for clients at fair prices; they’re just not the ones making waves and catching press.

If you’re seriously looking for something though, tell me your niche or PM your CV, and I’ll see if I can’t find something reasonable.

Just venting, but I straight-up don’t understand how so many developers working in gambling, FAANG, the MIC, commercial health insurance, etc. so readily pull the wool over their own eyes before eventually crashing out.

If you’re a working class person with no better way to pay the bills, that’s one thing — but from lived experience as a tech bro, these people are generally well-off white collar professionals with plenty of options. You can do something ethical that pays the bills, lets you live comfortably, travel the world and more, or you can do something obviously heinous for a ~20% marginal salary increase — and this set of nitwits pick the heinous gig every time.

Like have they never bothered to try using the services of the companies they work for? Are they too daft to recognize a dark pattern when they see it?

The only answer I see as a reliable answer is greed and money. OOP and people like them ruin my faith in humanity like nothing else.

You basically basing your opinion on nothing but vibes

I had mine stolen, because I wasn't actively playing at the time and had no idea there was a migration or a deadline. So did many personal friends I used to play with. How is that a vibe?

if you look at my years of post history

I did and it's a long stream of you angrily crashing out exactly like this. Smell shit everywhere ya go, might wanna check your feet, mate.

Mojang accounts were sold as a perpetual license, and the account changeover was a completely transparent strategy to terminate existing but dormant licenses so people have to rebuy the game.

Macrosimp detected.

Flatpaks ship all the dependencies of the application (i.e. the libraries that the program uses) in a single bundle, which usually accounts for much of the size.

The upside to that is that flatpaked apps are universally compatible across distros; the downside is the file size.

Another catch to flatpaks is that they run in a sandboxed environment, and each application has its own varying levels of isolation from your main system. This can lead to unintuitive issues like not being able to see files you save in a flatpaked browser unless you save to ~/Downloads. This sandboxing does have some security benefits, but is not generally considered robust protection from malware.

Microshaft set a deadline for migrating accounts, which has now long passed. GP had their account permanently stolen.