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berkle4455on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

> The amount of outrage from people with no P&L or game development experience in this thread is unreal.

Get fucked dude, you have no idea what any of our backgrounds are.

berkle4455on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Surely that’s not right… it’s gotta be first install is 20 cents. 20 cents per install is egregious but a recurring license is financially unsustainable.

berkle4455on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

Epic and Roblox are going to be very happy with this news.

berkle4455on PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

Midjourney's business would be at least 10x what it is today if it wasn't for the utter dogshit Discord integration. I'll continue to give my money to inferior but technically capable companies instead. I don't want to navigate to a fucking chat channel to get my renders.

berkle4455on Toml-bench – Which toml package to use in Python?

> every language is going to have a library

Thankfully with python we have 6

berkle4455on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

I should do a write-up but basically it was a combination of running tailscale (which sends a packet to an unroutable UDP destination nonstop [1]) and my game taking off at the same time. It triggered their false-positive-laden DDOS protection. I responded to the email straight away explaining it was fully under my control and not being attacked. I filled out their attestation form of the same, which is supposed to grant you 24 hrs before they block all traffic. I had responded within a couple hours.

They blackholed my server right when things were starting to hockey stick and took until the following day to unlock it. I lost a ton of users to a full outage while I had an unplanned migration to AWS.

When they finally unlocked my server their tech responded to my ticket begging them to unlock my server with an extremely condescending “It’s unlocked but I’m certain you’re not in control of this server”

Anyway, never again. I’ll pay a premium for stability and intelligent support staff and systems that don’t automatically blackhole your server.

[1] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/94304819263b0553...

berkle4455on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

Why in the world do you think “big tech” would single out one shitty German hosting company not even covered by the post in question, and I can't just be one pissed off ex-customer warning others to stay far away?

Hetzner is pretty terrible.

berkle4455on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

First-hand personal experience and then uncovering the thousands of similar complaints across reddit and review sites.

berkle4455on VPS Benchmarking – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr

Hetzner was likely excluded because they have a habit of preventing signups, randomly banning accounts, or blackholing traffic exactly when your app is taking off because their shitty tech thinks your system was compromised or under a DDOS attack.

berkle4455on Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering

I think it’s a reflection of earnings potential. If nvidia can average 50% Y/Y earnings growth for the next 5 years, and stock price remains flat, that 223 falls to 30.

berkle4455on Vector databases: analyzing the trade-offs

Can we start getting a similar flood of tools to generate the embeddings now? That’s my bottleneck. Searching them works well on numerous databases that support arrays/vectors.

berkle4455on What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?

Never give loans to friends or family. Give gifts.

berkle4455on Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34163233

7 months ago you got a new gig in two weeks and making bank. Now you're unemployed and can't find a single job?

berkle4455on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)

Much of the content worth scraping isn't rendered on the screen.

berkle4455on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

The title comes across like these are faults of Redis and that if you're not particularly careful about you'll shoot yourself in the foot.

> I'm not sure how to make it more clear that I'm criticising myself

"Mistakes I made while building applications on Redis"

berkle4455on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

> Crucially, it held onto the Redis connection for the duration of that fallback condition and allowed errors from SET to fail the entire operation.

What? Was this inside a MULTI (transaction) or something? This isn't a flaw of Redis being single-threaded. Honestly all of these "footguns" sound like amateur programmer mistakes and have zero to do with Redis.

berkle4455on Musk’s X Corp sues Israel’s Bright Data for scraping data

Good luck with that, Israel is a legal haven for seedy data exfiltration and backdoor SaaS companies.

berkle4455on DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables

Interesting. I guess I've been lucky as I use externally managed stateful and stateless rules (aws security groups + network acls)

berkle4455on Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

I think the EPA estimate for highway is based upon a totally flat windless road at 55 mph

berkle4455on Florida ocean temps surge to 100F; mass coral bleaching event is found in reefs

With the current state of things, approximately half of the world's population actively fights or pushes back on the simple idea that this is even occurring, much less accepting it as reality, and definitely much less taking action to change behavior.

berkle4455on Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture

The liberal flight from California to Texas are going to have a rude fucking wakeup call eventually.

berkle4455on The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (2016)

Why does this website prompt Chrome to send me notifications? What the fuck sort of spam bullshit is this.

berkle4455on Adaptive rate limiting is a game-changer

So your solution is to just make it a walled garden. What about the scraping bots who simply log-in?

berkle4455on AWS networking concepts in a diagram

a tiny ec2 box that provides NAT for about $3/mo.

berkle4455on An analysis of conspiracy promotor Russell Brand

Horseshoe theory. Very little separates the extremes from each other.

berkle4455on Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought

Satya gonna have to say “AI” so many more times during this next earnings call to cover up this mess.

berkle4455on Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers

I sure wish I had the opportunity to be "exploited" in game development when I was a teenager.

berkle4455on Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers

It was whatever event registration platform they used for those 4 years. I imagine we’ll see some other leaks and not just Roblox.

berkle4455on Yelp rebuilds corrupted Cassandra cluster using its data streaming architecture

Despite best efforts, the shard and all of its data was lost. However due to their forward-thinking strategy it was limited to only 3-star and lower reviews for Yelp Premium clients!

berkle4455on Remote code execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded SSH-agent

I need to read the source, I’m confused how -J actually works. Is the bastion doing auth and the downstream machines trusting? Or does it auth first and then forwarding a :22 connection from downstream back to localhost? Or something else entirely?