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laegoooseon My last six months at Evernote

why do you need autoscaling for an (essentially) static website?

laegoooseon Reverse engineering Claude Code

ridiculously low?

laegoooseon DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

Thank you for clear explanation, very interesting

laegoooseon Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password

Can it be uses on both Android and iOS? What about desktop machines with no fingerprint sensor or faceID?

What happens if user loses the only device on which passkey was enrolled?

laegoooseon Passkeys: The beginning of the end of the password

I suspect that one screen comic or a 20 second video could explain it. Instead they give us a wall of text that even technical people can't understand.

laegoooseon ChatGPT can in fact ask you questions

where can I learn more about what 'inner monologue' means in ChatGPT?

laegoooseon TikTok privacy policy says they monitor names of other installed apps

I'm so confused. Why would banking app be against Flappy Bird?

laegoooseon Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email

What's wrong with providing a credit card?! What's wrong with asking your high school friends to help you recover the account?

You had multiple reasonable options to recover, declined them and now complain that "Nothing in my control ever went wrong". This annoys me so much

laegoooseon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

I confirm this, had this multiple times

laegoooseon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

yes, in my experience, AWS keeps running everything as is when there is a problem with the payment method or a disagreement about bill

laegoooseon Privacy Sandbox on Android

I'm so confused after reading this. What exactly are they doing?

laegoooseon Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company

there is a 'show on a map' button at booking.com search results page

laegoooseon The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (2015)

How is it greener? You drive to a store and back alone; delivery driver has multiple deliveries next to each other on the route.

laegoooseon Ask HN: Why doesn't YC list compensation for their own open positions?

FAANGMULA – what ULA stand for?

laegoooseon Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023

Can you elaborate?

laegoooseon $45k in AWS charges due to account being hacked to mine cryptocurrency

Annoyingly, AWS won't allow you to lower the quotas aka service limits. They can only go up. Even after you completed the project and don't need them anymore, they remain forever and create an increased risk.

laegoooseon Avoid Surprise Bills from AWS

That's a lot of worries about 3$ per year.

laegoooseon Update about the October 4th outage

How would you explain that AWS, GCE, Cloudflare, GitLab publish very detailed post-mortems?

laegoooseon Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account

How do you know if a person you hire was banned before?

laegoooseon Tesla Safety Score Beta

Can you please explain in more details why do you think this is bad?

Right now, both careful drivers and aggressive drivers pay the same amount for insurance, which means that careful subsidize aggressive ones. Tesla scoring separates those groups and promotes more safer on the roads.

laegoooseon Microsoft Azure silently install management agents with vulns on your Linux VMs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

By default, SSM Agent is preinstalled on instances created from the following Amazon Machine Images (AMIs):

Amazon Linux

Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 ECS-Optimized Base AMIs

macOS 10.14.x (Mojave) and 10.15.x (Catalina)

Ubuntu Server 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04

Windows Server 2008-2012 R2 AMIs published in November 2016 or later

Windows Server 2016 and 2019

laegoooseon Mushroom Cultivation Automation [video]

Nitpick: a healthy young person has ballpark 1 in 10 thousand chance of dying per year. So it's enough to be 99.9999% sure because extra nines don't really make your life safer.

laegoooseon Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

What is LSE?

laegoooseon How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)

there are adblocker apps for both iOS and Android. Highly recommended

laegoooseon Apple advances its privacy leadership with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey

If spammers will use this feature too, won't this lead to websites displaying non-stop Captchas for every user coming via private relay, similar to VPN/Tor?

laegoooseon IOS15: China exempt from Apple 'private relay' privacy feature

Won't spammers using private relay lead to websites displaying captcha to all users coming from it, similar to how they do for VPN/Tor users currently?

laegoooseon The acquisition of handwriting in the UK (1994)

Haha, I just learned doctor's handwriting is universal. For unknown reason I always assumed it's my country's thing

laegoooseon Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

but who do you retaliate against? Cyber-attack is harder to attribute than a missile launch

laegoooseon The wealthy scramble for Covid-19 vaccines: ‘If I donate $25,000..’

What is 'hanukkah dose'?

laegoooseon When tipping was considered un-American (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXXPYxyn5mA brilliant dialogue about tipping from Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Steve Buscemi's character doesn't tip and a group of others try to convince him to do it