Most of our backend APIs are written in C#. We deploy them on AWS lambda, so on Linux. Pipelines are Linux and Devs will use a mixture of Linux, MacOS or Windows.

Tails is one of those tools I always keep on me physically. Added it to my key ring 6 years ago , and I get use out of it at least twice a month. Also started using it as a recovery ISO. But my main use case is when I have to use a computer but don’t have mine around . Just pop the USB in and voila all the access I need and my data stored in the persistent partition.

Your use-case sounds like you could be using any other live distribution. Why did you choose Tails over Knoppix, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, ... ?

I also spent most of my internship long ago researching secure operating systems for the analysts of the company I worked for and Tails was the best fit with Qubes being second due to how power hungry it is. Another was subgraph but at the time it wasn’t properly developed. Overall if you need a OS that guarantees that all your traffic is anonymised via Tor and that it is ephemeral Tails is superb.

And now we will have the @Protocol vs ActivityPub war ;P

Sigstore and cosign are so simple to use. I setup all the containers I maintain to be signed (This is done within the Github Action).

https://github.com/chimbosonic/hagrid-container

Nice product just a FYI your website doesn't render well on UltraWide screens.

Not saying that the website shouldn't support it, but do you really need to fullscreen your browser with an ultra wide monitor?

https://chimbosonic.com Simple CV site. Nothing fancy just what I needed to share info about me and a place for me to publish my CV. Recently started adding some of my projects I've been playing with. Another website I own is https://spiderfarmer.raphael.digital/ an music album website I built for my brother.

My day to day work is backend focused so it was interesting to try some frontend and design stuff.

Source code for both can be found on https://github.com/chimbosonic. All hosted using Netlify

I really enjoyed doing the OS course at UoB. Awesome to see UoB paper trending on Hacker News. This was also one the easiest to follow “tutorials” on making a OS from scratch I’ve followed.

Using a Recursive DNS server its down for me. UK based. I also setup a RIPE measurement for those interested. It asks for the NS record of ns1.fj.

https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/39252885/#general

I graduated in 2017 in Computer Science using a Thinkpad x210 that cost me £50 (~70$). And never had a issue. I haven't used a chromebook in a while but back then they where less powerful than a x210. Nowadays, if I have to recommend a laptop for coding or CS course I would recommend whichever Thinkpad X-series you can afford.

if ram is required DDR2 or DDR3 sodimm ram is cheap. And any SSD for storage works (I used the HDD that came with it until the 3rd year where I got a Samsung Evo SSD).

Its funnier when you know that banks are actually planning on sharing data via something similar to Oauth. Its called Open Banking PSD2.

Even better, banks in may country are banding together to create identity provider for the web. So basically you will be able to use their super-secure login to online banking based on the state of the art SMS second factor and localhost port probing via the web browser (/s), to identify yourself on the web (up to AML level), sign contracts, or access government services.

https://bankovni-identita.cz/o-projektu/

Security of this project is anyone's guess. They certainly have a lot of flashy websites to lure people in, but actual documentation is behind a signup wall. Each bank will create its own independent IdP infrastructure, so this is gonna be a lot of fun for security researchers to be sure.

After this is done, it seems like I'll already be registered with 6 online IdPs (not all of these are banks) that will be able to identify me enough to allow online communication with the government services.

This proliferation of IdPs is getting quite scary...