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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: Bright-background map to be kinder to printers. |
— | 13 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291208 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
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A: One cert with many domains, or one domain per cert? Relevant to you - A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline - Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on a particular server. SNI had to be supported both on the server and on the client. If you have IE8 u... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290991 |
Post edited: Link LE. More LE detail from comment thread. |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291115 |
I don't mind clicking the mouse wheel, but I _am_ interested in the body of your post (and your answer). Do you want to change the title? (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291116 |
> Wireless means AA batteries, which means extra weight that you have to drag around, which means worse ergonomics. \[…\] Plus batteries are bad for the environment as well.
I have a USB-C rechargeable mouse[^1], so it's not strictly true that wireless implies disposable batteries. On the other ha... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291008 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Can you summarize any explanation? > ### [Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author wrote everything at least three times, so you only needed to read 30% of the words to understand wh... (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290991 |
I don't know if it's a concern for you, but be aware that your server's IP, as received by LE, will be recorded in [the Certificate Transparency logs](https://crt.sh/) in perpetuity. (At least, last time I checked the docs that's what it said.) (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290989 |
I found a guy on ServerFault who [thinks he knows how to do it](https://serverfault.com/a/764699/115583). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290991 |
I suspected as much. I'm unfortunately not the right person to answer your real question, but I wanted to get the smaller options out there in case it was helpful for later visitors. Sorry it was unhelpful for your uses. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290991 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Proper way to create your own TLS certificates On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found `mkcert` to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. `mkcert` warns you not to use it in production. Also, be aware that if you install the root CA to your local c... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290989 |
The CA/B forum which approves (or denies) root CAs for the major browsers grants some CAs only limited domains, usually ccTLD, to issue valid certificates for. Perhaps examine a CA for (eg) the Turkish government or something? I don't know how to get `openssl` commands to mint a CA with those limitat... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290931 |
Post edited: Markdown list |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290931 |
Suggested edit: Markdown list (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290880 |
Is this a mathematics question? (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290802 |
I liked the follow-up question at Power User: [Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime](https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/290821). (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290802 |
Olin is right. It seems unlikely that they would agree to a contract where you're entitled to business losses for interruptions. That doesn't prevent you from suing, but anyone can sue (almost) anyone over (almost) anything. They just typically lose.
If you have business-critical operations, you n... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290611 |
Post edited: Links! So many links! |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288434 |
Post edited: Nest content into the markdown list items. Use quote blocks. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289126 |
I would need to find the article again to read the exact wording, but I am led to believe that for formulaic pulp novels (romance, crime fiction) some authors are already doing this. It costs them some money, but they make it back in the Kindle Store faster than writing the works themselves.
I pre... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #288434 |
Suggested edit: Nest content into the markdown list items. Use quote blocks. (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290611 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What is a good, simple way to send electronic updates to a small group? Jon Ericson[^jon] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be [Discourse][] with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small communities. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290435 |
Is _streaming_ to your living room an option? Steam used to sell hardware for that. They stopped selling them, but you can build a Raspberry Pi one. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290413 |
This seems pretty extreme and unlikely: If there was a browser version disparity, it's possible that a CA was de-listed or added to the trusted list that's bundled by the browsers. (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: One version of the map has water tiles in the Great Lakes. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: Let's do the whole thing, shall we? |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 |
Post edited: Screenshot |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290266 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Where can I find a simplified Railways of the World map for player reference? You can use ASCII representations of hexagonal grid maps as shown on Rogue Basin.[^1] If doing so feels less tedious than making a picture directly, you could take this map and write a script to build you an SVG. ``` . . . . ^ . ^ ^ ^ .Bos . . . . . . . . . . .... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290183 |
Post edited: Grammar in title |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290183 |
Post edited: Point out that I don't control the second DNS. |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290183 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Can an email's Reply-To have a different domain than its From? Are there any negative effects[^1] when sending an email wherein the `From` header is an email address on my server's domain but the `Reply-To` header is an email address on a different domain, specifically one whose DNS I do not control? I've heard conflicting accounts. Some people say "yes;" som... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288412 |
The _first_ question when making that decision should be "Does removing the hyphens cause people (or SEO) to mis-parse the word breaks in a way that makes real words that are _not at all_ what you intended?" Notable example: `experts-exchange` (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290071 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: What is the most cost effective way to purchase specific, non-rare public domain English books online in the US? I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pretty good condition. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |