humandoing

My Stripe Tax Story

I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.

Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.

The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.

In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".

Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa

prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

IanColdwater

Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

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gboudreau

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

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*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

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This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

tfitch

# Our .tmux.conf file

# Setting the prefix from C-b to C-a
# START:prefix
set -g prefix C-a  
# END:prefix
# Free the original Ctrl-b prefix keybinding
# START:unbind
unbind C-b 
# END:unbind

damieng

# Run this from Powershell as Administrator with (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("https://gist.github.com/damieng/881852e7112be7d97957/raw") | powershell -command -
Write-Output "Making Windows more developer oriented (Revision 26)..."
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

if ([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version.Major -ge 10) {
    Write-Output " * Detected Windows 10"

    Write-Output "    * Removing Windows 10 bloatware"
    $apps = @(
        "Microsoft.3DBuilder"

0XDE57

ABOUT

about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (HTTPS Everywhere No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, Privacy Badger etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

barn

ohessten% security find-certificate -a /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychainc >osx_system_roots.pem
ohessten% /path/to/homebrew/bin/openssl s_client -CAfile osx_system_roots.pem -verify 5 -connect sketchy.example.org:443 

echohack

# Recurse into all subdirectories of the working directory.
# Converts all flac into mp3 using ffmpeg
find . -type f -name "*.flac" -print0 | while read -d $'\0' a; do < /dev/null ffmpeg -i "$a" -qscale:a 0 "${a[@]/%flac/mp3}"
done

juliandunn

Known Issues in Chef Client 12.0 & AIX

• Our standard bootstrap procedure doesn't work (not that I think many folks on AIX will use it). A couple problems:
  • Omnitruck doesn't understand BFFs and has invalid syntax for uname: chef/omnitruck#72
  • Bootstrap SSH fails with SSH debug returns "cipher_init: EVP_CipherInit: set key failed for aes128-cbc (when running in -VV) -- it will also fail to negotiate other cipher suites like 3des-cbc
    • Only fix I've found so far is to installp -u security.pkcs11. The one suggested by IBM does not work: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1019142
    • Maybe there's a patch for this. My LPAR is 7100-02-04-1341 which isn't the latest SP.
    • security.pkcs11 is safe to remove as it has to do with hardware encryption devices (a rare use case). Customers can contact IBM if they have a hardware crypto device and need this package
  • Bootstrap assumes bash is available on the system so you get something like `k