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S3raph··on OpenMPTCProuter: Aggregate and encrypt multiple internet connections using MPTCP
I've been using it for a few years, and it's an awesome solution if you have slow or flaky network connections. The project is great, however, it takes some time to find the best configuration. I'm not sure about the latest version, but I didn’t have a great experience with versions above 0.60 and still stick to 0.59. I also recommend saving your working configuration once you have it, as a few changes can mess up the system—probably due to a bug.
S3raph··on Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
this is the the result of a nonexistent European energy policy, let's switch of coal and nuclear and not work on accelerating the approving process of renewable power plants what should go wrong right? the entire EU is completely dependent on gas which we import from countries like Russia, Algeria. Currently due to the skyrocketing gas prices, production from coal is at a all time high, but hey the green transition is working right??! companies are closing because they can't handle the energy costs, but Germany says everything is fine...
S3raph··on Ask HN: How do you back up your Android phone?
TWRP and TitaniumBackup (phone needs to be rooted). SMBSync2 (open-source android app, one of the few/only(?) that supports samba 2/3) to samba share (TrueNAS).
S3raph··on Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools
jails are great, coincidentally I started using them too with Freenas (now Truenas). The only big disadvantage is that the FreeBSD ports are less uptodate than docker (Linux).
S3raph··on I got hacked, lost crypto and what it says about Apple’s security. Part 1
> How was 2FA bypassed here?

very likely a sim swap attack:

"A SIM swap scam is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message or call placed to a mobile telephone." [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

S3raph··on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
happy customer of backblaze. Love how transparent they are with everything (especially the Harddisk statistics) and how the CEO takes time to respond to a lot questions only confirms how down to earth they are.
S3raph··on TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
is this similar to DBeaver?
S3raph··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
For sure it is/should not be high priority, but releasing such an app in 2020 for sure does not reflect the great skills of the backblaze team. At least show me some basic stats, account settings and invoices. You can only download files from your buckets and that's it.. really?
S3raph··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
I'm a very happy customer, but please do something about your mobile app (android) it's really horrible.
S3raph··on Hard Drive Stats for 2019
I sync all my device files to a local Freenas server which runs duplicacy in a jail and sync's it every night to backblaze B2. I looked at duplicity, restic, attic, borg and in the end settled for duplicacy. Pay attention to the duplicacy license, for somebody it could be a problem.
S3raph··on What's SAP?
Great story, I don't want to know the number of companies that run business critical stuff on excel vba macros + access DB some guy wrote 15 years ago.
S3raph··on What's SAP?
That's so true. We are running SAP, which is so heavenly customized (someone 10 years ago thought it was a great idea, thanks!) that applying patches is nearly impossible and requires months of pain and expensive contractors.
S3raph··on Ways to Lie with Charts (2014)
I can recommend a in my opinion very interesting book about "abusing stastics" it's called "Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics". (I don't know the author or have any affiliation with it).
S3raph··on The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
I still remember running the r5 release on my Pentium III 450Mhz..never had such a lagfree and fast multimedia experience on any OS.. ZERO lag.. it's performance was amazing.. unfortunately it's lack of hardware support and multiuser made it problematic to use it as a daily driver. Even Beos Zeta (commercial version based on r5) did not really improve the situation.
S3raph··on Why you should not use Google Cloud
Is it only me or does it seem if you are not a "famous" person that has a lot of public visibility and is able to create pressure through a tweet or blog post you are lost, no number to call, no mail to write. Over the years I saw a lot of similar stories, youtube or in general "google accounts" blocked for no clear reason and no way to contact somebody to solve the issue... kinda scary...
S3raph··on Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
confirm, works fine on latest Firefox stable Android
S3raph··on Yahoo Messenger shutting down, new messaging app Yahoo Squirrel is in beta
in general commodity traders (power, gas, oil...)
S3raph··on TunnelBear Joins McAfee
https://github.com/Chadsr/NordVPN-NetworkManager or https://github.com/jotyGill/openpyn-nordvpn
S3raph··on The Dropbox Comp
so true, I would instantly pay if they would offer some 2-5$ plan.
S3raph··on Compiler bug? Linker bug? Windows Kernel bug
really love reading bug hunting stories
S3raph··on A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
and they improve liquidity (reduce bid/ask spread)
S3raph··on A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
the problem with cryptocurrency arbitrage is that the profit depends on how fast/reliable the various exchanges process your transactions and how much the transaction fees are and not how sophisticated your algorithm is.

nice read: https://steemit.com/arbitrage/@kesor/the-math-behind-cross-e...

S3raph··on A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
he published also a now kinda old, but still great trading introduction/summary:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/max-dama-on-automated-tradi...

The pdf link seems broken, but through Google you should easily find the pdf (maxdama.pdf)