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fiskfiskfisk··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
But as long as you're using a registrar in your own country and a TLD managed by a legal entity in your own country, you do have a path of legal recourse against both parties.

It might not be successful, but you do have far better options than relying on a third party in a country far away.

It's always a varying grade, not either/or.

fiskfiskfisk··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
As noted in the article it's hard to ditch Google Cloud when the reason you keep the account is for integration with, well, Google Cloud.

I'm sure they'd be happy to not have rely on having a Google Cloud account for integration with Google Cloud if possible.

fiskfiskfisk··on Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages
You can set concurrency limits per function on AWS, so you can apply a hard limit on your function to only have a single invocation running at the same time. That should give you a guarantee that data isn't lost without the producer noticing.
fiskfiskfisk··on Fiber Concurrency
I have no idea if this is for a specific language, a framework, a plugin system .. or what. And I'm not able to say anything useful from the page or from the title of the post.

It'd be helpful to at least set the premise for those of us on the outside.

fiskfiskfisk··on My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF
In my own experience it's not often the elected moderators that are the problem, but those with a golden tag in a specific tag. They're far too eager to close questions because they're the ones culling through a tag often - and then close the question as they quickly think "oh, it's that again".

But it often isn't, they just didn't spend enough time to see nuance.

And neither do they see that even if _they_ understand that the question linked to is the same thing, there is no way the asker can understand what the similarity is from their knowledge point of view (or why the linked duplicate question is the same question).

fiskfiskfisk··on The Lost Art of Commit Messages
And please include the why.

From the article: "- adjust timeout settings to prevent crashes". Include the details of why the timeout setting lead to crashes; what were the inputs and the cases that caused this.

This lets us decide whether the fix stays or goes the next time there is an issue in the same piece of code, or your commit broke something unrelated - the person fixing it needs to know _why_ you changed the code.

fiskfiskfisk··on Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
There might be alternatives that are better designed for that use case these days; pass and KeePassXC are popular ones, depending on the interface you want (pass is made for the cli as the primary interface).
fiskfiskfisk··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
I'm not sure if having a broken navigation menu at the top because of Disconnect or uBlock is a good sign, but their product seems like a decent alternative.
fiskfiskfisk··on Recycled Server Components Bring More Sustainability
You'll find vendors in Germany, Spain, etc. within the EU. Not much I can say about customs - so you might want to check local recyclers. There's usually some sort of recycling program for old hardware that gets cleaned out and re-sold, but it'll all depend on your country's incentives.

Whether it's worth it will depend on what you're looking for.

fiskfiskfisk··on Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components
You'll find them readily available on Ebay, but there are also multiple companies that specialize in refurbishing servers (which usually will allow you to configure your actual needs - but this will be slightly more expensive in my experience).

Someone just moving decommissioned servers from a data center to new users without doing anything with the equipment in between allows you to find decent deals if you're looking for something to put in a rack.

Be aware that rack servers are usually rather power hungry, so they might be expensive to run over time.

fiskfiskfisk··on We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
Its all about how apparent the issue is if you're running Wireshark - it does not stand out, so you have to do a lot more work to discover what is actually happening. The request is also hidden in plain sight along other requests, and those requests are what you'd expect (you'd normally expect a motd request, so this isn't out of the place).

Given that the way of circumventing the issue at hand is to delete a single local file, which is far simpler than finding the actual request and setting up fiddler or burp suite, this worked good enough.

No need to overengineer.

fiskfiskfisk··on Show HN: Nomad, a no fee Airbnb competitor. Any investors here?
I'm not sure if the main issue property owners have with Airbnb is their 17% fee, but I might be wrong about that as I'm not in that business myself. Did you do any specific research that indicate that this is one of the main pain points for those who rent out their properties with Airbnb?

Good luck with your project!

fiskfiskfisk··on Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com
There's a pretty good list of backwards compatible 360 games that can be played on the modern Xbox consoles. Microsoft did the work in this case.

Since it's different architectures there's a bit of work involved in making sure the compatibility layer works as expected. It's a technical achievement that they've been able to do it as good as this.

There's also OG Xbox games available with a compatibility layer as well.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-backwards-compatibil...

fiskfiskfisk··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
It's explained in the post:

> For the small number of websites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Firefox will display an error message that explains the security risk and asks you whether or not you want to connect to the website using HTTP. Here’s what the error message looks like: ..

fiskfiskfisk··on Pfizer's CEO sold $5.6M in stock on same day of vaccine news
It doesn't. It goes down.
fiskfiskfisk··on No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia yesterday
There were no real testing infrastructure in March. Everything was an unknown, and most people didn't get tested unless they showed serious symptoms and were close to hospitalization.

The current assumption in Norway, based on testing and WHO guidelines) are that we detect about 1/2 of the active cases through testing now, compared to 1/10 back in March. Applied to your numbers, the current outbreak in Germany is about a fifth of what it was back in March.

Be careful about assuming the numbers represent the same thing over time and between countries; in general the ratio of positive cases compared to the number of tests has changed a lot during the last eight months.

Some of the reports from the Norwegian health authorities has explicit notes about where reporting and testing criteria changed during the timeline.

fiskfiskfisk··on Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
In that case you should get a host key differing message (or not present) at least.
fiskfiskfisk··on [dead]
The author makes the leap that since a government entity in theory has access to the personal information behind the IP address, the IP could be considered Personally Identifiable Information.

In most cases governments does not have this access do this information without going through proper channels (i.e. the courts) as in regular investigations.

fiskfiskfisk··on The 1-Bit Instrument
See also the Super Audio CD format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD
fiskfiskfisk··on Microsoft Surface Go 2 review
Isn't that what the `History.replaceState()` method achieves?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...

fiskfiskfisk··on Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall
IIRC DMA was designed to allow peripherals (floppy drives, parallell ports, etc.) to move data from their input lines to regular memory without having to bother the CPU. Uncompressed, full resolution video wasn't too much of a real concern back in the days of the 80286 :-)
fiskfiskfisk··on Authy: Faster Two-Factor Authentication
Could be a possible way of branding / selling "The Authy Solution". A small BT dongle and a year of pre-paid subscription in a bundle.