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anderiv··on I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
It's not so much that the advantages of IPv6 are all that compelling. Rather, it's more that the mechanisms put in place to deal with a nearly-exhausted IPv4 pool (NAT, and CGNAT in particular, etc.) are not great, and any opportunity to negate the need for them ought to be pursued.
anderiv··on Tell HN: Uber sold my email address
The main reason to do this: you can easily tell which vendors sold your information.

As for expense, many email providers allow large numbers of free aliases for each account, or alternately one can use a catch-all address and then you don’t even need to pre-allocate the alias.

anderiv··on Tell: AWS Denied Production Access to SES
I used AWS. Fixed the one thing they indicated was a problem and I was approved the next day.

I mean this with all seriousness: if they denied you, they did so for a good reason. And if you don’t fix things, you’re likely to get banned by Mailgun also.

anderiv··on Tell: AWS Denied Production Access to SES
First: get your account manager involved. They can and will go to bat for you to help you through things like this.

Second: I am highly suspicious that they gave you “no reason”. I’ve been denied in the past several times and each time a straightforward reason was given. More and more these days they are (rightly) requiring more attention be paid to how you will handle bounces, spam complaints, etc. if you don’t have a good plan for that, you’d likely get denied. Without more info, that’s as good of a guess as anyone other than you can make.

anderiv··on Ask HN: Router that can block URL patterns
Pi-hole operates at the DNS layer and as such, has no visibility beyond the host name of sites.
anderiv··on What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
This is no longer the case as of late November 2022. You can now assign multiple keys to both IAM users and root users.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/you-can-now-assign-mul...

anderiv··on The end of AM radio in your car?
Recently the Vikings posted this clip of their PxP announcer Paul Allen doing his thing. Even though I don’t care one lick about American football, I still found this clip to be great fun to watch. The skill, passion, and joy he has is infectious.

https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1592980588608487424

anderiv··on The tragic birth of FM radio (2006)
Perhaps we’re an outlier here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul MN area - a strong majority of FM stations here broadcast in HD. Most have at least one, if not two other HD broadcast streams in addition to their main one.

I tend to listen a lot to the HD2+ streams, as advertisers seem to not be interested in paying for ad spots there (which I guess could be indicative of poor adoption, at least beyond the main HD streams).

anderiv··on Ask HN: Are Windows 10 and 11 considerably more secure than the old versions?
A couple examples:

1) You’re browsing the web from the old machine. Your HTTPS connection gets MITM’d due to a TLS vulnerability, and the attacker is able to gain control of your email account.

2) Unbeknownst to you, another machine on the network is infected with some virus. That machine uses a CIFS vulnerability to remotely infect and root your old computer.

anderiv··on Ask HN: Are Windows 10 and 11 considerably more secure than the old versions?
There are innumerable ways vulnerabilities can be exercised that do not involve having to “hack” NAT. I would not be comfortable staying so simply that NAT will protect in all situations. It’s one layer of defense, yes, but is inadequate without others like malware avoidance.
anderiv··on Ask HN: Developer friendly phone/VoIP service
VoIP.ms?

They tick your boxes. I’ve used them personally and professionally for 10 years now. During that time I can count on half of one hand the number of issues we’ve had. The service just works, and does so for a very reasonable price.

anderiv··on Ask HN: Is AWS re:Invent worth paying your own way to go
Agreed. Having been to re:Invent several times, I’ve come to believe it’s not worth attending regardless of who is paying. It’s too big, too much time is spent just moving from session to session or waiting in lines for sessions.

Save your money - watch the keynotes live and then catch as many sessions on YouTube as you desire from the comfort of your own home.

anderiv··on The free YouTube tier is about to become unbearable with even more ads
1Blocker has been working great for me. It does block YT ads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id13655310...

anderiv··on Ask HN: Any real US alternatives to Starbucks for a place to work/study?
They were founded in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area and still have a very heavy presence here and around out-state MN.

Interestingly enough, in the past year or so, they’ve been opening up drive-through only locations. These obviously carry much lower overhead than standard stores, but I’m skeptical if they’ll drive enough sales to remain open, especially as COVID (hopefully) continues to subside.

anderiv··on Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen?
In my experience, factory-installed headlights are rarely problematic. The primary offenders here seem to be after-market headlight additions. People purchase and install whatever their local auto parts store has that is bigger and brighter, and rarely take the time to properly align the headlights after the upgrade. This results in light being thrown much farther and wider than it ought to be.
anderiv··on Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
Perhaps you just missed it. It appears as a column on the CPU tab.
anderiv··on Ask HN: Is Signal (app) blocked on Mobile Data?
At least in the US, I've never experienced this nor have I heard of any others that have.
anderiv··on Ask HN: Independently Recreate Zone Records?
This won’t help you solve your current problem, but perhaps may be helpful for you and any others reading this in the future:

I can’t recommend enough using a tool like dnscontrol [0] to manage your records. It allows you to keep your records in git and deploy changes to them in a controlled manner. Nightmares about situations like the one you’re in were what finally motivated me to implement dnscontrol ~10 years ago.

[0] https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol

anderiv··on Supabase Is SOC2 Compliant
Having used a few of these systems, Vanta is great if you enjoy 1) their sales reps brutally trashing their competition on every pre-sales call and 2) getting inundated with unimportant compliance alerts due to their over-emphasis on compliance automation.
anderiv··on FDA moves to make over-the-counter hearing aids available
I have a stellar pair of four-driver custom molds from Alclair. Including mild-taking, costs were around $700 all-in. Your $2500 figure seems very high, unless your “good” means “absolute top of the market”.
anderiv··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
Who knows. User error or misunderstanding perhaps. I use Authy with many Google accounts without issue.
anderiv··on Ask HN: What is the best password manager for business use?
Yes and yes.
anderiv··on Ask HN: How do iOS apps know you're logged into other apps?
Yes, at least on the phone itself. App developers are generally free to share freely with others from their own server platforms, as long as they stay within bounds of applicable privacy laws, etc.
anderiv··on Ask HN: How do iOS apps know you're logged into other apps?
Apps from the same developer can share information such as login credentials between them. In your example of Gmail and Google Maps, they’re both Google-developed apps and such can share account information.
anderiv··on An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
Authy is a TOTP app.
anderiv··on Line Array vs. Point Source vs. Human Hearing (2020) [video]
Dave Rat’s channel is an absolute treasure for audio gear and production hobbyists like myself. I’ve learned so much from his content.
anderiv··on [dead]
Perhaps rather than asking “what do you hate”, which inevitably will lead to a divisive rant fest, it would be better to ask: “what would you like to see improved?”.

Dragging Atlassian is very much in vogue on HN these days, and yes, they deserve some of it. That said, the spirit of HN calls its users towards curiosity rather than division, and invoking “hate” is without question a divisive tactic.

(Edit) adding a link to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Edit 2): It would also be prudent of you to mention you’re building a product that is Confluence-adjacent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30295553

anderiv··on Ask HN: Why are property limits so fuzzy in North American suburbs?
In my area (suburban Twin Cities, MN, USA), while you may not see visible property markers, they are nearly always there in the form of buried metal property marking pins. These are typically just an inch or two below the surface.

We recently built a fence, and prior to that went around the four corners of the yard with a toy metal detector and were able to locate all four pins, marking them with flags for the fence installation crew.

anderiv··on Ask HN: How are you hosting email for your startup employees?
Google does sign BAAs as well, which cover all of the “core” Google Workspace apps.
anderiv··on Ask HN: Why do you use a VPN?
Agreed. Tailscale has been the first product that has surprised me with delight in quite a long time. It does “just work”, and does so very well in my experience.
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