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_3u10yesterday at 1:58 PM1 replyview on HN

It’s not for users it’s for people who think 1/4 of the traffic a raspberry pi could handle is scale. Or don’t know what a server is.


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the8472yesterday at 2:28 PM

... or those who don't know about constant-time functions, the difference between sha1 and argon2, etc. etc. I had to fix such things several times in corporate internet-facing systems. A generalist engineer can do this just fine, if they're aware of the state of the art, but there's nothing ensuring that they actually do. The compliance tickboxes were of no help here either.