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adders··on GitHub Packages Is Down
until someone claims the old name as a new org/repo
adders··on ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due to 'age restriction'
Most mobile ISPs in the UK use Procera Networks (now Sandvine) products that do basic deep packet inspection to filter traffic.

You can allocate users to pools and provide contectivity based on the pool, ie allowing you to limit speeds of high usage users or have different filtering lists like this under 18s list.

With these devices you are able to block traffic to specific domains even if SSL is used with relative ease.

As it is done at network level, you can't bypass via different DNS provider, only vpns can bypass

adders··on Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era
Wrong link, should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trade... instead of https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=0ba7046d-cfde...
adders··on SendGrid appends a tracking pixel even when disabled
Not an expert at all, but my basic understanding of GDPR is if you outsource a service to a 3rd party and they collect data or do any processing that they shouldn't, you are essentially responsible.
adders··on Museum of Plugs and Sockets
Yes, the Brit plugs are great until you step on them in the night

Funny comparison of different plugs from a few years ago https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/plug-versus-plug/

adders··on GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules
The response to GDPR is interesting. If they are handling and selling your data in ways that are not compatible with GDPR, then you should seriously consider using someone else for that information.
adders··on Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees from today
The Three changes came in response to this change in regulations.

As a relatively new operator they have always hated roaming, as it has made them less then the established operators.

adders··on Amazon Cash
There is a current growth due to fintech startups like monzo, who are using prepaid cards to test the market
adders··on Facebook accepts slightly mis-typed passwords
HSBC UK silently truncates passwords to 8 characters :-(

https://twitter.com/HSBC_UK_Help/status/579661876017139713

adders··on Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service
Never used an OCR library before so gave it a challenge with the latest xkcd cartoon.

curl https://ocr.a9t9.com/api/Parse/Image --data "apikey=helloworld&url=http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/bells_theorem.png" { "ParsedResults": [ { "FileParseExitCode": 1, "ParsedText": "T-as IS CALLED I THEOREM. IT LAS FIRST\u2014 t: 1 wostcop n, FASTER- FIRM-LIGHT com)MCBT10N IS E6SlBLE! EL's rta\u201eNDERSTRtDlNGS ELLS THEX\u00dcI I-IPPPEN VIOLATE LOCALITY", "ErrorMessage": "", "ErrorDetails": "" } ], "OCRExitCode": 1, "IsErroredOnProcessing": false, "ErrorMessage": null, "ErrorDetails": null }

adders··on Open-source alternatives to GMail
I've used Virtualmin and Horde for my personal email service. Virtualmin does a very good job configuring Dovecot, Spamassassin, Postfix, DNS, Apache/Nginx, etc and Horde is a very good web client for email, contacts, calaendar etc.
adders··on M64.pl – how I learned that the default settings are not production settings
The script appears to be be at least part minerd, a program for bitcoin/litcoin mining.

Details of minerd at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0

adders··on Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
This is a un-true myth according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Sacrobosco.27s...
adders··on Ask HN: cheap ways to host your own email server?
use Virtualmin (http://www.virtualmin.com/), it will configure postfix/smtp, dovecot/imap, dns & web hosting.

Its abit like cPanel & Plesk, but you don't need to use the control panel if you know what you are doing.

adders··on Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
have you used them? looks suspect.
adders··on Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
i highly recommend gandi to everyone. Very good service, probably the best Europe based registration companies around.
adders··on How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system
I would definitely recommend using Virtualmin, its a hosting control panel that can control mail/websites/dns in one via a simple control panel.

All works like Plesk, but without breaking everything.

They've got a script that sets up dovecot, postfix, apache, bind, clamav, spamassassin, Mysql, and loads of other hosting software and then you configure every thing via a web interface.

Linux install script is at http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh, instructions at http://virtualmin.com/download

adders··on Why was my email leaked?
I use a catchall and give different email addresses to everyone. I've received 3 spam emails in the past month to my dropbox account, but they aren't the only ones with problems, for example the following are the number of spams for various sites: * 2 emails Foursquare * 6 emails Groupon * 6 emails Rackspace * 25+ emails Ticketmaster * 50+ Absolute Radio (UK Radio station)

Absolute Radio was hacked, not sure about the others.