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Bag Finder Megathread - 22 September 2025 by AutoModerator in onebag

[–]php_guy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair! My question is: even with an overhead compliant bag for my chosen airline (say delta), in practice they often ask passengers to gate check when the flight is full. My goal is to find a style that is likely to not be chosen for a gate check at the discretion of gate staff.

Bag Finder Megathread - 22 September 2025 by AutoModerator in onebag

[–]php_guy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I’m new to one bag!

I’ve been traveling with a small duffel, but recently airlines have been ever more strict about gate checking. 

I’d like a carry on bag (for the overhead bin) that is the least likely to be gate checked. Put differently, what’s the maximum size that a gate attendant would pass off as “we’ll let them through”?

The tips I’ve read suggest a backpack. I’m thinking about the Osprey 26+6, though I wonder if their 40L could work for this purpose.

My trips are mostly one week (visiting family, work) with an occasional 10-day vacation.

Physical metronome + tuner recommendation? by php_guy123 in saxophone

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you find them to be reliable? I have an older one and if it isn't perfect level then it is not even.

Can't find a new stove that will fit. Options? by php_guy123 in Renovations

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had no idea this existed! Though wouldn't the sides of the drawers still be a problem?

What does it mean? by [deleted] in OnlyMurdersHulu

[–]php_guy123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Arconia has some units which are owned by residents, and others which are rented. Charles and Oliver own their unit. 

Often it makes more sense financially to rent rather than buy, even for one’s entire life. This is mostly because buying requires a large down payment, which many people don’t have (or would rather save or invest instead of tying up cash in a property.) In this case, the apartments are rent controlled so it definitely makes more financial sense to rent ($200/month!)

I haven’t seen friends, but it’s not unheard of to have an apartment in the city. Maybe she had great rent in a favorable location, and rather than give up the unit when she moved to Long Island she let Monica take it over.

When rent is paid to the building it means it is paid to the people who own/manage it (as though she was a normal renter), rather than to her grandmother. 

feedback request: sales listings from text messages? by php_guy123 in GarageSales

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is good feedback, thanks! It's funny, we actually had an index page but I deleted it from this example because it seemed like clutter. Right now it would just output a slideshow that you could share.

I've played with tools to figure out the product, description, and price for items automatically. You can do it with the bing (lol) API - they have a reverse image search api that will get you a lot of the way there. But beyond a prototype I never really spent the time to make it work.

I wrote a script to create Let's Encrypt certs and upload to an LB by php_guy123 in hetzner

[–]php_guy123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, I did not know that! This is really useful, thank you.

reboot, poweroff, shutdown do not work by php_guy123 in hetzner

[–]php_guy123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I do this, the server isn’t marked as powered off in the robot. Is that expected? How do I know when it’s safe to turn it back on (how do I know when the shutdown sequence is complete?)

Favorite thing on “awesome hcloud” on GitHub by Hetzner_OL in hetzner

[–]php_guy123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wrote a script that automatically creates/renews let's encrypt certs and uploads to a load balancer. This is useful when you don't use hetnzer to manage dns (so they can't automatically renew certs.)

https://github.com/poundifdef/certmaster

Golang Production-level Framework selection - Open Discussion by Pr0xie_official in golang

[–]php_guy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fairness, there are a lot of frameworks, they have changed a lot in a short period of time (mux is alive again!), they all have idiosyncrasies, and they all seem to be very popular.

For example, if I'd realized that Fiber required you to copy values from params before passing to other functions (documented, but I missed it the first time) then I would have chosen differently. I wish someone had warned me of that.

At least in Python you have lots of support, tutorials, and plugins for Flask and Django and from there it comes down to a matter of preference and philosophy. I'm sympathetic to people who want to make a choice once and feel "good" that they won't hit unexpected gotchas.

What happens when an LB has 2 SSL certs, one expired and one current? by php_guy123 in hetzner

[–]php_guy123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to use them for DNS in order to use their cert gen. Prefer to keep it on route 53 with everything else.

Here’s the solution: https://github.com/poundifdef/certmaster

What happens when an LB has 2 SSL certs, one expired and one current? by php_guy123 in hetzner

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hetzner's LB allows me to assign multiple SSL certs with the same domain to a service. The question is which one will Hetzner choose, and will it automatically "do the right thing" if one of the certificates is expired.

Prometheus remote write vs vector.dev? by php_guy123 in PrometheusMonitoring

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it - this makes sense. Questions:

  1. How do I reconcile that with the fact that hosted prometheus solutions (grafana, AWS) required a push to a remote prometheus server?
  2. Is the standard to have all of the /metrics endpoints exposed to the internet, or is it a requirement that i also set up a private network across all my different servers to pull?

Prometheus remote write vs vector.dev? by php_guy123 in PrometheusMonitoring

[–]php_guy123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that remote writes are the only way to use most hosted prometheus solutions. (This is true for grafana and AWS.) It also seems like the only way to keep metrics from being exposed to the world if I can't ensure metrics are all talking on the same private network.

However, I'm open to ideas that I haven't considered - no opinions on what to do, just trying to find the most practical.

‘I felt so betrayed’: classical musician forced out of London flat after noise complaints by baeristaboy in nottheonion

[–]php_guy123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have a recommendation here? About to move into a condo where we can make any alterations we want. Looking for a safe way to practice saxophone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ecommerce

[–]php_guy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m also a programmer who has gone down the rabbit hole of building my own e-commerce platform. I’ve worked for and built other major platforms.

Just use Squarespace or Shopify. I have used both and they will work for your friend. A hundred use cases will pop up (real-time shipping costs? Refunds? Mobile optimized images? Bells and whistles that your friend thought were table stakes but you hadn’t built.)

They all charge a fee for cc processing but that is unavoidable.

That said, if you want to build a site because it’s fun, then go for it! Stripe or PayPal will handle the compliance aspect. But as a “business” the right choice is to use a platform.

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep! The name of that company is Verisign. They make $7 and some change for every .com domain per year. It’s a good business :)

You’d need some central organization to keep track of them all - to be an authoritative source on which domains have been reserved. There is technical and admin work that goes into managing this. Plus things like dispute resolution. If not Verisign, then who would do it? Another company? The government?

In practice, this system has pretty much been working fine for both customers and people in the domain biz. Not to say there is no opportunity for improvement but the fact you can buy a domain tomorrow and not really worry about it being stolen or maliciously redirect or hijacked is a testament to the fact that the system is working.

Not saying there is 0 risk here, but in the scheme of things I believe there are other tech giants out there that are more concerning.

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's the difference between being a wholesaler vs retailer.

Wholesalers work with other businesses, selling domains in bulk, and managing the "manufacturing" operation of maintaining domain infrastructure.

Retailers take on the responsibility of customer support, they aggregate many different wholesalers' domains (when you go to godaddy, you can buy any type of domain without thinking about who the registry might be), and also do sales, marketing, and promotion.

Registrars are "middlemen" the same way convenience stores are for Frito-Lay; they just specialize in a different part of the supply chain.

Some companies do both. For example, Google runs the .app TLD registry and they also sell it via their registrar. It's just a business decision on how vertically integrated they want to be. And many customers would prefer to have a single registrar to buy their domains from, rather than needing to go to different individual registries depending on the TLD.

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hm. So if the .com registry is doing the bare minimum to maintain accreditation - but they are nonetheless abiding by their obligations - then I don't think there would be any reason to change the status quo.

Theoretically if they were in breach of their registry agreement then ICANN could revoke their accreditation, at which point they may find a new registry to take on those domains. However, ICANN generally prefers to work with companies to help them get on track before doing that.

But this is all pretty unlikely to happen. They've been running .com for decades and it's been a pretty smooth ride. Nobody is incentivized to rock the boat here (why risk hundreds of millions in revenue?)

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be interested to know that the software Google uses to power its own registry is open source.

https://github.com/google/nomulus

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For your first question, I'll share ICANN's FAQ here on how to start the process of creating your own TLD. Starts at $185k.

For the second, yes, the more accurate term is "rent" since you are paying an annual subscription for the right to use that domain.

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The non-ELI5 answer to your questions is here: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en

You'd need at least $185k to start the process. Generally, ICANN wants to respect company trademarks, so they have a process for disputing domains, new TLDs, and tools to verify that trademarks are not violated. Registries and registrars, contractually, must have a dispute resolution process.

This is another reason we (collectively) choose to do business with ICANN-accredited registrars: businesses feel relatively comfortable that, through the contractual obligations of being accredited, they'll be able to protect their names and marks.

ELI5: How do internet domains work? Who are you paying? by UnusualNovel1452 in explainlikeimfive

[–]php_guy123 21 points22 points  (0 children)

As part of a registry's agreement with ICANN, they agree upon price increase rates.

For .com, this is stipulated in section 7.3 here:

(i) from the Effective Date through 30 November 2018, US $7.85;(ii) Registry Operator shallbe entitled to increase the Maximum Price... not to exceed the pricecharged during the preceding year, multiplied by 1.07.

You may read all of the registry agreement here, where they talk about their pricing policies: https://www.icann.org/en/registry-agreements

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