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dangerboysteveon Self-host your mail server

What hosting / VPS companies do you recommend? Finding one which allows you to run a mail server is some work.

dangerboysteveon Flipper One – we need your help

is iButton still a thing?

dangerboysteveon Two billion email addresses were exposed

Is it me, or is anyone just numb to all these breach articles? I take all the precautions, use 2FA everywhere, stay away from sketchy sites, use ad/malware blocker and the issue is always never the individual. It's usually the website/app and their lack of security, not keeping up with patching or sloppy programming.

dangerboysteveon JetKVM – Control any computer remotely

I picked up one from the kickstarter campaign. It's a wonderful, well-made device and open-source to boot. I plan to buy more.

dangerboysteveon The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

i routinely upgrade my WSL2 kernel. Now on 6.6.87.1. Personally, I love WSL2.

dangerboysteveon Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines

The first question should be: Was he listed on any Forbes list?

dangerboysteveon The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon

It's the lang devs were comfortable with and some of them came from the asterisk world.

dangerboysteveon The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon

I maybe wrong, but I think you need to enable the module for API access.

dangerboysteveon Japan's Kojima, with its proud Jeans St, draws fans of vintage, deep-blue denim

This reminds me of a video I watched about a jeans maker in Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqcURxxs40

dangerboysteveon Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

Don't pagers just used AA or AAA batteries ?

dangerboysteveon Bluesky Reaches 10M Accounts

And what are the daily active users ?

dangerboysteveon San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents

Factor in properties purchased solely for short term rental.

dangerboysteveon Ask HN: How different is AWS/GCP/Azure in everyday work

I think this reply needs the obligatory link to Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant.

dangerboysteveon The workers have spoken: They're staying home

This is an opinion piece, not a researched article.

dangerboysteveon FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

"ToonBoom, is generally good enough for basic animation".

What? This is the premier 2D animation package used by most of the top studios.

dangerboysteveon Canada says online streaming services must hand over 5% of their revenues

so, in other words, a 5% tax to the consumer.

dangerboysteveon Instagram confirms test of 'unskippable' ads

And the steady march of enshittification continues for Meta products.

dangerboysteveon North Korean animation outsourcing for Amazon, HBO Max series

Let's not forget the use of pirated software to produce the animations.

dangerboysteveon Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results

While, credit is due to Zuck and his team. Much of the turnaround was due to investor pressure to shrink the headcount dramatically and take the foot off the gas for VR.

dangerboysteveon Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results

it's referred to as Inverse Cramer

dangerboysteveon Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays

I think it was because it was a widespread problem or did not appear that way. Teams for our company were mostly working.

dangerboysteveon eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees

Just google "ebay execs terrorizes couple"

dangerboysteveon eBay to slash about 1,000 roles, or approximately 9% of full-time employees

Does that include their terror and customer intimidation department?

dangerboysteveon Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)

Personally, I never thought they would have in the first place. I was thinking this was more for recruiting.

dangerboysteveon A Canadian payroll dependency chart

Because of the time it takes to record and distribute everything and pay the government.

dangerboysteveon A Canadian payroll dependency chart

Last time I looked at Canadian payroll services, many were very affordable. Why bother spending the time on this ?

dangerboysteveon Stripe live dashboard

That was very lame compared to the Shopify live dash