alienscience

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[–] alienscience@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I do this for sites where I don't care at all about security. One minor tip, that will protect against automated attacks if the password is cracked, is to add part of the website name into the password (e.g "mystrongp4ss!lemworld") .

A human could easily crack it, but automated systems that replay the password on different sites would probably not bother to calculate the pattern.

[–] alienscience@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I also use KeepassXC and Synthing together and I am very happy with this combination.

One tip that I have, if you are worried about the security of the database file being shared, is to get 2 Yubikeys and use these, along with a strong passphrase, to protect the database file.

[–] alienscience@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I enjoyed reading the Phoenix Project and learnt a lot from it. It is a classic for very good reasons.

There was another follow up book -- The DevOps Handbook that went into more detail about solutions to the problems raised in the Phoenix Project. I got a lot from the DevOps handbook but I found it quite a heavy read.

Years later I found a smaller, but super practical book, that covered much of the same subject matter -- Operations Anti-Patterns, Dev Ops Solutions. I recommend this Manning book after the Phoenix Project.

But then I haven't read the Unicorn Project yet, so that is a book for the list.

[–] alienscience@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only thing you should keep an eye on is probably the license? But I’m not the right person to discuss about licensing :/

It is normal practice to keep the same copyright notice and add your name to it, e.g for this project I forked in 2021: https://code.alienscience.org/alienscience/dnsclientx/src/branch/master/LICENSE

 

I installed K3s for some hobby projects over the weekend and, so far, I have been very impressed with it.

This got me thinking, that it could be a nice cheap alternative to setting up an EKS cluster on AWS -- something I found to be both expensive and painful for the availability that we needed.

Is anybody using K3s in production? Is it OK under load? How have upgrades and compatibility been?