Marat Amerov
@maratamerov.bsky.social
Software Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Linux and related topics
BigTech companies have been involved in reducing the validity period of TLS certificates. This means that it is now possible to make websites inaccessible by preventing the issuance of new certificates
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letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.
This change is being m...
letsencrypt.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
BigTech companies have been involved in reducing the validity period of TLS certificates. This means that it is now possible to make websites inaccessible by preventing the issuance of new certificates
groups.google.com/a/groups.cab...
techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/l...
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
groups.google.com/a/groups.cab...
techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/l...
letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/f...
Steering Humanity through AI & Climate Risk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...
Steering Humanity through AI & Climate Risk
YouTube video by Norwich Friends of the Earth
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Steering Humanity through AI & Climate Risk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...
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Finally got my Emacs setup how I like www.hackster.io/news/the-key...
The Key to Overengineering
Each key on this massive 1,000-key keyboard built by Attoparsec types a full word. It's a terrible design, but in the best kind of way.
www.hackster.io
March 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Finally got my Emacs setup how I like www.hackster.io/news/the-key...
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emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies
December 2, 2024 at 6:09 PM
emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies
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Every animal becomes crab, but every plant becomes coffee
Caffeine is so important in plant defense that its occurrence in at least 60 different plant species evolved independently. Instead of 1 biochemical path to coffee, there are at least 12 pathways that evolved by exaptation - reusing existing pathways for a new outcome. Have a cup of coffee!
October 18, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Every animal becomes crab, but every plant becomes coffee
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21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.
Kudos to New Civil Engineer for continuing to report on *all* aspects of the supposedly super-glossy #NEOM development…
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/civil...
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/civil...
Civil engineering firms working in Saudi Arabia silent despite 21,000 confirmed worker fatalities
ITV’s Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia features undercover reporting on the ground in the nati...
www.newcivilengineer.com
November 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.
Reposted by Marat Amerov
Fedifinder now displays how a Bluesky account was matched to your Twitter followings:
- by link eg. staging.bsky.app/profile/luca.run
- by bsky domain eg username.bsky.social
- by known ATP domain eg. luca.run
- by guessed username eg. histoftech
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
- by link eg. staging.bsky.app/profile/luca.run
- by bsky domain eg username.bsky.social
- by known ATP domain eg. luca.run
- by guessed username eg. histoftech
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
May 2, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Fedifinder now displays how a Bluesky account was matched to your Twitter followings:
- by link eg. staging.bsky.app/profile/luca.run
- by bsky domain eg username.bsky.social
- by known ATP domain eg. luca.run
- by guessed username eg. histoftech
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
- by link eg. staging.bsky.app/profile/luca.run
- by bsky domain eg username.bsky.social
- by known ATP domain eg. luca.run
- by guessed username eg. histoftech
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/