shincert

I am working on a system with a typical client-server architecture. In this scenario the server has to validate a client's certificate, including checking if it has been revoked. To do this the server has to send an HTTP request to download CRLs or make an OCSP query. Naturally, it has to resolve the domain via DNS.

I want to secure the DNS resolution process. Intuitively I think I should not be relying on the ISP's DNS server and roll my own that maybe implements DNS-over-TLS. What should I do to secure DNS resolution in this simple scenario?

Recall all I want to do is securely resolve some occasional DNS queries. Which existing solutions can I use for this purpose?

I am researching indicators of a software's popularity and good qualities. How do you determine that some piece of software is good and popular?

Think in terms of how you might decide which framework you should use for a long-term project. I don't want to bias you too much, but here are some examples (which may not always be applicable). Feel free to go a bit outside the box.

- great documentation

- well-commented code

- number of contributors and stars on GitHub

- references on Hacker News, Stack Exchange and relevant subreddits

- lots of videos on YouTube

- logo and branding

- conferences and workshops

- mentions in skills and experience on LinkedIn

- mentions in job offers

- frequency of searches in Google Trends

tl;dr: How would you assess a software's popularity and good quality?

I'm getting into machine learning and neural networks but I don't have a powerful computer with a GPU.

What are the cheapest options to train neural networks?

I'm working on a bash script and I want to make available a simple one-liner that automatically downloads and runs the install script. I've seen many variations of this one-liner. For example oh-my-zsh uses

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

What's the best way to do it? Or the most simple/pure? Is there maybe a blog post outlining the different ways?

It really annoys me that I have to maintain an account per each Slack community. Honestly it has actually put me off from using Slack. It's too much work. And the increased internet footprint bothers me, I'd like to be able to instantly vanish from all Slack communities in one click.

Single sign in seems like a no brainer to me. Why do they insist on new accounts?

What are some good strategies for an AI that plays a 1vs1 game of Snake?

What's a good reference for marking up a website with good semantics and all the neat new HTML5 tags?

I only need my .bashrc and .vimrc with me on a UNIX machine to get around. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside because it's so minimal and portable. I love it.

But I have not mastered vim yet. In particular, going back and forth between files and directories is really cumbersome in larger, more complex projects. When time is critical in a project I just install Atom or something with a sidebar (it makes a huge difference to me) and move on with my life.

I want to improve. Specifically, how can I productively edit multiple files simultaneously in a larger codebase? Should I use tmux panes and windows? Or vim split views? Should I use a sidebar plugin for vim? Any other workflow tips?

Should I even use vim at all? Why bother?