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Is it free [1], free* [2] or "free" [3]?

[1]: free as in free beer, at no direct cost to users

[2]: terms and conditions apply, free until you hit certain conditions (for example, constant barrage)

[3]: free as in the customers pay for the (mandatory) DDoS protection via increased prices (similar to how I remember OVH handling their "free" DDoS protection)

Finally they came up with the interactive book from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the one from the 2005 movie).

Only thing missing is the LCARS-esque interface to Wikipedia and custom case with the book cover look to it.

It's very unfortunate the site does not have a clear path for caching pre-rendered tiles (from OSM.org for example). The only real choices you have are either the ones from leaflet-provider or rolling your own render server.

For something like having a single country at couple decent zoom-levels, I would rather not go through the trouble of setting up a complete render pipeline when pre-rendered tiles that are cached and hosted locally would suffice.

I share some of your pain. We use Lua 5.1 on our embedded platform and at one point did development on 5.2.

There's a lot of (seemingly) undocumented changes, even between two minor versions that make you question the semver (and your sanity) at times.

For example, the patterns operate just different enough between the two minors, that I had to resort to dumping everything into JSON and back since that was the only way that one odd case worked similarly between the two versions (albeit sharing the same JSON library).

In regards to the new version, coworker of mine glanced at the 5.4 changelog and could not make out how things had changed, only the fact that they had been changed.

For comparison, I have an unlimited plan from Telia (Finland) with network speeds up to 200Mbit/s on 4G, no data caps and 15GB of roaming "EU-data" for 23.90€/mo.

Gives new meaning to "pay with your face"

While using the free tier, I honestly can't validate a a $19/user/mo ($228/user/annum) expense based solely on a single feature, let alone why I should move to the paid version at all if more and more features start to be gated beyond multiple levels (a la Windows 7).

I love using Gitlab as a part of development cycle, managing issues and handling pull/merge requests but per seat licensing is a bit steep for a single user, even more so for a team.

The norm for pricing products and services is more and more "just for a pint/coffee/sandwich a month" but when everyone wants their share of the cash, the end result is a mismash of services and products that don't work together well (if at all) and you get stuck without a pint/coffee/sandwich for the whole month now.

The firmware for my 7 Plus is littered with packages named "com.evenwell.*", including the very aggressive powersaving "feature".

One really big bugbears I have with HMD and the firmware updates is absolutely unusable WiFi after they released the January/February security updates for this year.

After installing the security updates, WiFi only works once after a reboot, the moment you disable it, you have to either sludge forward with modem speeds on 2.4GHz-band or none at all if you are on 5GHz-band. Since these problems manifested after installing the security updates, it's slowly starting to point towards a driver/firmware issue instead of a hardware problem as some have speculated.

Some fixes for this are "phantom SIM", resetting WiFi settings or booting into safe mode. Only common thing with these "fixes" is the reboot; so far it is the only thing that will fix the WiFi but turn it off once and you're boned. Similar issues are noticeable with the WiFi AP: first try after boot works just fine, next one you have to try to force 2.4GHz-band on the AP along with 5GHz, causing the AP to "soft reboot". After this, you are very likely in need of a reboot as the AP will no show up.

After this breach of privacy and data security, along with the WiFi issues, I'm slowly starting to lean towards filing a complaint to either HMD or the local customer protection agency here.

Worst of all, the support forum topics I've checked somewhat regularly on have no official replies from HMD or Nokia, only second-hand information from people who have been in touch with support.

Can comp this. I tend to sleep very badly during the week at times and Saturday is a catch-up day for me, when I usually sleep well into the afternoon.

Having a chance to "reset" during the weekend helps me more mentally than it might help physically. Deep sleep has been described to work as a scrubber of sorts, so longer periods of deep sleep should help with scrubbing all that mental cruft away.

Plus just being able to relax goes a long way, knowing you have to be somewhere by certain time always puts some weight on you that can negatively impact your sleep.

I personally use Freedome to get around geo-based blocking or when using open Wi-Fis.

I also have a self-hosted OpenVPN-server running at home, which I occasionally use for open Wi-Fi networks or getting around content blocking on some networks.

For day-to-day usage, I don't use a VPN. I place some trust on my ISP (both mobile and wired) to carry my traffic.

Or you could just be on the receiving end of the quality that is Basware where user accounts are merely suggestions, audit logs are mutable and all the clients talk directly to the SQL Server.

Part 1 of the 4 part adventure (plus finale): https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/9m8fz...

It's hilarious when a single comment on HN opens asyncio more than the tutorial being discussed.

The first mistake in the article is using smstools. Having personally had to deal with smstools for the past two years, using Gammu SMSD or even a paid SMS Gateway would have been a better choice.

Granted, this was on OpenWRT using a frozen version of smstools and largest issues were with trying to get Å, Ä & Ö to work (fun times with UCS-2/UTF-8/WTF-8 and Latin1/CP-1502/ISO-8859-1). It sure was an experience and in the end, the problem was blown away by just using UTF-8 (which had the unfortunate side-effect of doubling the amount of sent messages due to the space taken by the encoding).

What puzzles me is how easily large entities go for services that send from a random phone number (for example, VR in Finland sends "mobile train tickets" via random numbers that change with every message) where as some opt to "fake" the from number to have the company/service name.

The GitLab logo is, at least in the SVG file of the logo[0] and the UX guide[1], referred to as a tanuki.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/master/a...

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/develop...

It's almost as bad as how Oath presented their "eat our cookies or take your business elsewhere"-prompt. Granted, they at least allowed you to decline specific third parties (albeit hidden behind a very questionable dark pattern and even more questionable lack of toggle all).

Seems like having extensions like "Protect My Choices" are close to pointless when every time you visit a new site, you are forced to accept the same behavioural tracking cookies you just previously had declined on.