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UrbanPiperon What's the best AWS S3 protocol alternative?

Min.io is a good alternative. See https://min.io/download#/

UrbanPiperon Want to Become a Unicorn? Buy It, Don’t Build It

As with Amazon's way of replicating successful businesses on their platform, what makes Thrasio's strategy to be undone?

The article quotes demand media and zynga who bore the brunt of platform risk.

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: What's one Linux command you wish you'd learned years ago?

Tmux and Vim for me - they are tools and not exactly commands.

UrbanPiperon India bans TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over security concerns

TikTok for sure is in the eye of the storm. US army has forbidden personnel from using it. Apple has caught the app using clipboard capture mechanisms to spy users.

To get more details, around 2 months ago, Reddit user ‘Bangorlol’ commented on a discussion about TikTok claiming to have successfully reverse-engineered it. He advised users against using the app and telling their friends and family to stop using it as well due to its intrusive user tracking among other serious problems.

Here is the link https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: What has been the most impactful resource for your personal growth?

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi

My favorite quotes:

PHILOSOPHER: To quote Adler again: ‘The important thing is not what one is born with, but what use one makes of that equipment.

The courage to be happy also includes the courage to be disliked. When you have gained that courage, your interpersonal relationships will all at once change into things of lightness.

once one is released from the schema of competition, the need to triumph over someone disappears.

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: Best Open-Source Monitoring?

What do you mean by best?

What features are you looking for?

What is your comfortable tech expertise to configure, organize, and maintain monitoring tools?

There are a few good OSS monitoring tools out there.

Alerta - Distributed, scaleable and flexible monitoring system.

Canopsis - Opensource Hypervision and Data Aggregation Software

Cacti - Web-based network monitoring and graphing tool.

Cabot - Monitoring and alerts, similar to PagerDuty.

Centreon - IT infrastructure and application monitoring for service performance.

check_mk - Collection of extensions for Nagios.

Flapjack - Monitoring notification routing & event processing system.

Icinga - Fork of Nagios.

LibreNMS - fork of Observium.

Monit - Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems.

Munin - Networked resource monitoring tool.

Naemon - Network monitoring tool based on the Nagios 4 core with performance enhancements and new features.

Nagios - Computer system, network and infrastructure monitoring software application.

Node-Bell - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series, metrics monitor.

Observium - SNMP monitoring for servers and networking devices. Runs on linux.

Opsview - Based on Nagios 4, Opsview Core is ideal for small IT and test environments.

Riemann - Flexible and fast events processor allowing complex events/metrics analysis.

Sensu - Open source monitoring framework.

Sentry - Application monitoring, event logging and aggregation.

Serverstats - A simple tool for creating graphs using rrdtool. (source on github)

Seyren - An alerting dashboard for Graphite.

Shinken - Another monitoring framework.

Xymon - Network monitoring inspired by Big Brother.

Zabbix - Enterprise-class software for monitoring of networks and applications.

Zenoss - Application, server, and network management platform based on Zope

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: What’s your most imp life lesson that you wish learned 10 years earlier?

Learn to be write well early in career.

Journaling helps.

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: For a Personal Blog in 2020, Medium, GitHub Pages or Dev.to?

Hugo, jekyll or any static gen?

You could host them using zeit, render or netlify

UrbanPiperon Dell XPS13 Developer Ed

Eagerly waiting for it to be launched in India. Sadly, India is one of the last to receive any good tech gear by big vendors.

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: What purchase of &lt$100 has most +ve impact on life in recent years?

Bullet journal book and journal.

UrbanPiperon Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?

Jrnl.sh might be a good fit.

UrbanPiperon What is the best book you read this year? (optional: why?)

1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2.Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall by Andrew Ross Sorkin

UrbanPiperon Ask HN:What’s the best product you discovered this year that improved your life?

Not a product but Intermittent Fasting (IF)

Some products/services

- Daywise app (https://getdaywise.com/), to get phone notifications at set times - Brave browser (on all devices) + Pi-Hole in router. Adguard (all devices) - Bouncer app (Android) to control permissions requested by various apps. - Wireguard VPN self-hosted.

UrbanPiperon Fintech: The rise of the Asian ‘super app’

>This is a revolution for the whole world. Asia is 12 years ahead of the rest of the world. It is a time machine to the world,” he says. “The key point is not because they are better at tech. It’s because the demand for digital and mobile services is so much higher. They are leapfrogging generations of paying by plastic and cheque books to paying online through e-wallets.”

12 years ahead? Seems a patronizing number to put Asian fintech highlighted. Can any one confirm if this sounds right?