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arcdigital

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arcdigital··on Upwork banned my account for 'being dishonest'
Yeah, I was super confused when I read that too... Maybe it's some session_start() stuff...but I can't remember the last time I used that function, since most modern frameworks will handle session stuff for you.
arcdigital··on Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?
Mattermost does have a paid (still self-hosted) version that includes support.

https://about.mattermost.com/pricing/

arcdigital··on Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration officials
I've only stayed at a motel once, and they asked for my license plate (paid with a credit card). I've been to hundreds of hotels and they have never asked.
arcdigital··on Ask HN: I received an offer, and the company asked me not to tell the recruiter
Sure, maybe the recruiter/company messed up on the contract side of things...but at the end of the day the recruiter found a candidate that the company likes and the company isn't willing to compensate the recruiter for his efforts.

Let's look at a similar but slightly different scenario - If there was an issue with your contract and the company realized they didn't have to pay you...you can guess what decision they're probably making.

Sure, while this might not be illegal (and you wouldn't be at any fault either way), I definitely wouldn't want to work at a company that operates this way.

Also, not to mention - the recruiter will probably find out you got the job, when you update your LinkedIn, you post something online, etc...

arcdigital··on Amazon Redshift Clients to require adding Amazon certificate authority (CA)
If you read the transition page linked in the email pasted above, you will learn that this won't affect most people.

You only need to update your trust store in a very narrow set of cases. All of the below need to be true AND you need to be running a system that doesn't already trust the AWS root CA - most systems already do. If the AWS website doesn't show an SSL error, you already trust the certs.

1) If you're actually forcing SSL verification in your client

2) If you're not using the GovCloud or China regions

3) You are using Redshift drivers prior to ODBC version 1.3.7.1000 or JDBC version 1.2.8.1005, or not using the Redshift drivers.

arcdigital··on What happens when you swipe a credit card
I would check with your ISO/Processor...but you're pretty much fine as long as you charge a generic credit card surcharge and treat all cards the same. You only really get into trouble with Visa/MC/Amex/Discover when you start charging different fees on different transactions.

Source: I used to run a payment gateway & ISO.

arcdigital··on YubiKey 4C
Unfortunately, not for U2F though
arcdigital··on Announcing IPv6 Support for EC2 Instances – Regional Expansion
This is not true. "By default, every IPv6 address is public and internet-routable."
arcdigital··on AirPods are now available
The lightning port adapter comes with the phone.
arcdigital··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
It's coming (one region now, more to come soon), not sure about Lightsail though.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-in...

arcdigital··on Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs
You don't need to make the user enter the CVV for any transaction, it just helps with a lower fee and to shift the chargeback liability.
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
It used to be GoDaddy, but Amazon bought and now owns/operates the Starfield Root CA that cross signed the Amazon CA.
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
BTW - The root certs are in the microsoft trust store now.
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
If you're trying to enable ACM on beanstalk, I made a guide on how to do it: https://medium.com/@arcdigital/enabling-ssl-via-aws-certific...
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
I just made this post about enabling beanstalk: https://medium.com/@arcdigital/enabling-ssl-via-aws-certific...
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
Yeah, currently the keys are held securely within AWS and it's only available for use within specific AWS services - Elastic Load Balancer & CloudFront at the moment.
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
The DV certs are free (including wildcard certs)!
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
Just in case people haven't figured it out yet - ACM issues free wildcard certs :)!

http://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-certifi...

arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
And just to further clarify - Amazon owns the Starfield root CA as well.
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
It's free :) http://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
Yep, it's free :) http://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/
arcdigital··on AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
It's free :) http://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/
arcdigital··on Ask HN: Is GoDaddy violating ACPA with new .family TLD?
It's not free anymore for gTLDs. There's a fee for abusing the Add Grace Period.
arcdigital··on I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
I just started using Arq, but it looks like the format is documented here https://www.arqbackup.com/s3_data_format.txt and there's some open source tools that can work with the format. https://github.com/asimihsan/arqinator and https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/arq/arqfs
arcdigital··on Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Yep :)
arcdigital··on Things to Do as Soon as You Sign Up for AWS
Any particular reason?
arcdigital··on Ask HN: ICANN charges only 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?
I'm not sure if the exact amount of $7.85 is necessary (there's definitely a decent profit margin there), but charging a registry fee is definitely necessary. There are a lot of costs that go into running a registry. This is my understanding of what running a gTLD registry looks like today (I run a registrar, so I'm on the other side of the picture, so I may be missing a few things).

$185,000 application fee (+50k if a technical review is required)

$6,250 fee per quarter

$0.25 per transaction (registration, renewal, or transfer)

More fees I'm forgetting

You also must run/maintain a bunch of other programs/services like: (this is the bulk of the cost of running a registry) shared registration system (SRS) that implements EPP (used by registrars to register/update domains), whois service, abuse prevention/mitigation, rights protection, dns services, zone file distribution, data escrow, DNSSEC, etc...

arcdigital··on Ask HN: ICANN charges only 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?
Domains do not cost $0.18 to a registrar. ICANN charges registrars a $0.18 ICANN fee and then the company that owns the TLD (the registry) charges whatever they want per domain. Then your registrar adds their markup to the ICANN + Registry fees. Currently, a .com costs $7.85 + $0.18 + Registrar Markup. (I run a domain registrar)
arcdigital··on Ask HN: ICANN charges only 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10?
Non profit doesn't mean they don't make any money... Non profit means that the extra money they make is used to further the goal of the nonprofit (instead of being paid out to the investors/owners). I doubt Eurid is only charging what it costs them to run the registry.
arcdigital··on Polymail: A simple, beautiful, and powerful email client for Mac
I've been using the alpha of Polymail for a few days now, it definitely exists/works and is actually pretty awesome.
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