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Of course, I expect that eventually they'll move to SMS too since it's easier for them and more on line with the rest of the industry.
[1] https://gototags.com/blog/apple-expands-nfc-on-iphone-in-ios...
This has a few drawbacks like making sure your Route53 configuration is identical to your CF config, ensuring your origin servers can cope with the additional load if CF caching isn't available and the DNS propagation time required for the Name Servers to update.
During the last outage, we were able to get into the CF dashboard and simply disable the proxy which allowed our clients to access our origin servers directly but this time we can't even get into the Dashboard.
I'm all in favour of increasing user privacy and the general direction that Apple is moving but we've got multiple Apps which allow users to log in via Game Centre, Facebook or Twitch to the same account. This allows them to access their friends, messages and support tickets from any of our Apps. We're able to do this because each of those providers gives us a unique identifier for each user (we only store that id and don't ever store the email address from them). I fear that Apple are going to make this impossible for us to do this going forward which would be a negative experience for our users.
It's like a completely different app, all the cruft like ads and pushing other apps is completely gone. You're just left with all the good stuff and those features generally all work well.
[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.a...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47278362
Despite the ban being due to a violation of YT terms of service they lost their entire Google account. > "But because my Google account was terminated as well I didn't have access to my email so I couldn't see what happened."
I do wonder if there are any limits which CF are going to impose on these files? A few years ago there was an image hosting site [1] who was told by CF that they were using too much bandwidth on the free plan. With this gateway, can't anyone start doing exactly the same and not even have to be a CF customer?
A timely piece from the BBC about the reduction in toilet provision in the UK over the last few years. The tldr is that public spending on toilets is discretionary and councils have cut spending there since it's an easy target when needing to cut their budgets.
We do make heavy use of the S3 versioning API to let us roll back files, lifecycle rules for past revisions and have never been able to find any service which offers the same amount of functionality with reasonable pricing.
One thing we have done which has saved us quite a lot is adding a buffer between our service and S3 which delays file writing by up to an hour in case an updated version of a file is uploaded. This lets us limit our PUT requests but still gives us hourly revisions of files if we need to roll back. Without this system we'd be looking at over a billion writes a month. Certainly not a strategy suitable for everyone though.
We tend to see similar exploits across all our games (memory hacking, fake IAPs, etc) which lets us build an armoury of anti-cheat tools.
What I find most interesting is where hackers don't focus their attention. It took almost 4 years for them realise the encryption key for our assets was easily accessible using the 'strings' tool in Linux - once they found it we had a busy few days stopping modders from impacting legitimate players.
I just hope that bureaucracy, Brexit or political interference don't end up with Scotland missing out on this opportunity
Of course, you have to take the suggestions and examples on this page with a pinch of salt since they're selling their own products.
off topic: it's difficulty to read this post on mobile because the social sharing widget covers up the first few rows of letters on each line.
We didn't do any before/after testing to see how much data it saved our users but the small tests we've done in the office showed around a 2-5% size reduction for our static assets which was great to see for all the effort of toggling a switch.
[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/5-6/50/section/72
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/uk-hoverboar...
I manage 4 AWS accounts for a few clients and keeping tabs on expiring RIs has been a frustrating issue for a while (not just for me it seems [0][1]).
I originally wrote RImind for my own use but over the last few months I've been improving it and making it ready for others to use.
Hope you find it as useful as I do, I'd love to hear any feedback or questions.
[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=53873 [1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=217131
It does seem to have got a little better over the last year although their Openstack cloud service is made a little more difficult to manage because of their pre-paid servers discount being tied to a specific instance, it makes auto scaling difficult.
That being said, last month I wrote over 60 million files to S3 and the number of failed writes were tiny (solved by simply retrying the write)
I've not used DOs spaces yet, I'd love to know if they guarantee read after write consistency. I know S3 has some issues with that depending on use case. Maybe it's time for another look at spaces.
I work just a little north in Dundee. A great little city with a growing reputation[1]. If you're ever looking for a job in the games industry there are lots of companies based in the city. They tend to be smaller indy places although there are some larger companies too.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-02/where-to-...
From my reading of the available data, it would explain why not all of Trustico clients needed their certificates revoked. Some of them will have generated the keys locally, not using Trustico's onlike tool.
To make matters worse, the additional statement at the bottom of the article they outright admit they used the tool and it wasn't a mistake:
>We found through the IP addresses tracked that the particular cracker had used Chrome to contact our servers so we decided to capture his information directly
edit. In another reply you said that pricing hasn't been finalised which is understandable. We've got a few use cases which CF Workers would be ideal for but we'd be looking at 10-15k requests per minutes which could get expensive if pricing is per request.
Other CDNs charge for bandwidth so why would they offer their customers an easy to use 'optimize images' feature, it'll just lose them money. Cloudflare can offer it because making your images smaller saves them money.
This will be an interesting option for anyone who publishes videos but speed, integration complexity and pricing are going to be key.
>Removing the block autoplay setting that is currently available on Chrome for Android
The error message from Cloudflare is cf-error-522 :(