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I am reading in the airport after leaving Morocco. A couple of days ago I received a weird spam SMS message (coming from an iCloud account) that i’ve never seen before. I didn’t open the messages as I know about Pegasus and my senses started to tingle.

I guess it’s time to reset my phone.

It looks like they updated the extension but previously when you searched for a entry you couldn't easily copy the password, I had to get into the entry, edit, show password and copy it manually, flow that looks to be still in the web version.

I am another long time LastPass user (2010ish) to (paid) Bitwarden convert. Simply better in every possible way. The UX/UI of LastPass is so bad, search and copy a password? Almost impossible.

I am assuming that one of the reasons they won't let users pay to opt out of ads might be because paying users are the most valuable for advertisers. They wouldn't let their most valuable target pool out of the advertiser's hands.

> That's completely unacceptable. You can still look at the bright side (you were allowed to run a company which allowed you to access US wealth, many countries restrict that to their own citizens).

Indeed, that's a positive way to look at it. I'll probably try again soon, now beside the US company I've a company in my own country, along side multiple properties (car/house) that should be undoubtable ties to the country.

> I'd advise to socialize within the consulate/embassy. Here, they have lots of events. Try to make friends with the people working there and you'll make a reputation. Don't give up.

Interesting, I'll have to look into it. Thanks!

This right here, I applied two times, first time I just knew the interviewer wont approve my visa when I saw the way he looked at me, I had a feeling I was bothering him, he straight out said no without even checking my papers, he only checked them when I told him I've plenty of "evidence" and supporting documents and he just took a glance, ignoring everything.

Second time I got a really nice interviewer but I applied at a out of country consulate (you've to apply to a US consulate from your home country) which I didn't knew at a time, he said he would've approved my application and seemed visibly sad that he couldn't help me.

I stopped trying. I've been a co-founder of a US company for more than 10 years, 50+ employees, I never been to US.

Oh interesting, I'll give this a go.

Is this a re-rebranding? I remember using something similar 4-5 years ago (instant.js/instantclick).

But quite an interesting little thing, especially useful for older websites to bring some life into them. The effect is very noticeable.

I've been looking to ditch Slack in favor of Basecamp, isn't Campfire enough to replace Slack?

Thanks! It only took me 11 years to get the courage to at least _attempt_ to ship something. And although I am no position to look for investment, as in I don't have access to a VC/investment environment, I can dedicate at least 2-3 years to the product, bootstrapping it.

I am working on a similar product, https://www.pagespy.io, that lets you monitor any webpage, albeit not as simple and targeted as f5bot (I really like the name), currently in very closed beta, there's definitely interest for such applications, currently it pays for itself and some ramen on top.

With the right hardware, installing macOS is easier than installing Windows. I've been using hackintosh on and off for the past 10 years and if you buy tested hardware, installing it is a breeze most of the time, something that I cannot say about installing Ubuntu, which I do before going the hackintosh/windows route. I've had a very hard time to get Ubuntu/Arch to play well with my multiple monitors setup, including one 4K.

The biggest downside in my opinion are the updates, as they're mostly guaranteed to break the setup.

Overall, I recommend to at least try it, having a beast of a PC AND macOS cheaper than Apple can offer might be worth for some, it certainly is for me.

Again, I want to emphasize that's necessary to have the right hardware.

Oh. I could've written the same post, I am just before buying a ticket somewhere. Would love to get in touch, if that's possible.

It depends.

I've worked in the e-commerce industry for more than 10 years, not having proper fraud prevention is something that can bankrupt you. If you _know your customers_, it's easy to create a simple system that would at least notify you of possible fraudulent orders and let you take manual action. Even with the recent Stripe updates, we still see plenty of payments that go through even thought they should've definitely been caught, but because we've our own system in place, they get caught before doing any damage (and subsequently helping Stripe and marking the payments as fraudulent -- I wonder if I can get free Stripe credits for training their models using our own dumb heuristic based code).

When I work remotely, having someone "work" at the same time as me makes the situation feel less ... lonely, it's like having a co-worker :) See them work, makes me work.

Also I enjoy hearing other people code, especially the clack of the keyboard.

I remember there were some internet radio streams that had office sounds playing (at different intensities), but I do not think they're online anymore.

Indeed so, I had quite a bit of code written to handle deployment for 2 simple static websites, all got replaced by netlify in under 10 minutes, mind blown.

That's something that I've been trying to find myself, with not that much luck.

Jane Street Capital has a nice video presentation though: https://blog.janestreet.com/how-to-build-an-exchange/

Given that he himself is a creator and someone directly affected by piracy (in this case software cracking) I assume he knows what he's talking about.

As a creator as well, I am aware that my software is out in the wild and people are using it for free and so far I've yet to notice any harm coming from it, quite the contrary. Even if we live in a connected world, we still don't live in a fair world, having a credit card or a PayPal account is still a hard thing to obtain in quite a bit of countries and so it happens that from time to time I receive emails of users that are using cracked version of my software offering to snail mail me checks or asking me for alternative payment methods, in these cases me knowing that they get enough joy of my apps is payment enough.

In my case I do believe this is free marketing, in the end a good chunk of users come back and buy the apps if it's truly useful for them and counting the others that wont buy it as lost sales is stupid as they would not spend the money anyway.

This does seem to be very likely, I've spent too much time to count trying to investigate bugs that should not exist only to discover that the issue is of PEBKAC nature.

I remember a few years ago when Chrome actually had a hidden feature flag that let you enable side tabs, not fully tree style, but it was better than nothing. Sadly they removed it.

> I'm somewhat surprised it mentioned publicly.

I guess it explains why I am not able to find any information related to SABLE. Are you able to release anything related to it? It seems really interesting.

I am not saying that as an attack to PHP (or a defense of NodeJS), I am writing PHP daily, but when it comes to real-time (at least WS systems), PHP would be my last resort, mostly because it lacks any real support for such things, you'll have to force your way in.

I guess we come back to _just because you can doesn't mean you should_. :)

Indeed, or sometimes I want to try certain attack vendors and the next second I am thinking I am fooling myself, they're smarter than me, they wouldn't leave such bugs in, queue a few weeks later, someone gets a few $k because they let themselves sucked into it :D.

I guess it's as much mindset as it's skill.

I discovered the same error/bug a few weeks ago when a co-worker linked "this weird page" to me, I just looked around and thought it's pretty cool too see that part of Google and didn't thought too much of it, closed the tab and went back to my Terminal. :)

I assume NodeJS is used just as a WebSocket server for their real-time events, doing that in PHP would be a bit uncomfortable.

Cheaper, definitely self-hosted, but as with everything, you get what you pay for, you'll have to take care of fail-over and backups on your own.

Start with a small instance on DO, enable backups (for a small fee DO will create weekly backups of your instance), as your project grows, tune PgSQL and resize the instance up, add a slave, weekly backups of the instance might not be enough at this point, so also pg_dump the database at a more frequent time interval (1/day), send the backup to 1 or 2 offsite stores (S3/other remote server/etc).

Managed, comes with it's own problems as well, but at least you can blame someone else when it breaks :).

100-150K here. DO has been very good for us, with some in house auto-scaling, the bill goes as low as $250, uptime has been in the %99.9.

2xLB + frontend servers (from 1 to N) + Postgres (master + multiple read slaves depending on frontned servers) + elasticsearch + redis + image servers.

Only thing that'd probably move us off DO is GCP adding Postgres to their Cloud SQL offering.

But overall, very happy.

I was forced to create something similar to Radar (minus the fancy machine learning) as we've been seeing huge amounts of fraud, it's been running nicely and the fraud/disputes rate went down around 98%, what I found to be a great factor in determining if a user is a scammer is the user's behavior before purchase, so in the end what I wan to say is that there's plenty of improvement to be done in the space ;)

Proud owner of an Hackintosh here, I've been using one for quite some years now (6-7 years) back when installing it was a real pain in the ass and a real gamble, now with the right hardware, you can install OSX faster than installing Windows 10 or Ubuntu. Upgrading to a new version is a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes, but no more so than on linux most of the time.

I've tried multiple times to switch to Linux (multiple distros) and making it play happy with 24K monitors & 224" was never easy, Windows 7/10 lags when the 24" monitors are running, so I've to keep them off when using Windows (mostly for gaming), OSX has been running the show great and smooth.

I recommend you try it, although again, the secret here is in buying the right hardware, of which there're plenty of guides online.

Good luck.

Same. We just switched to Amazon mostly due to Postgres RDS (and $100k in credits, but that's another story). When Google will get their Postgres game on, we'll switch for sure.