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sgtfrankieboy··on FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
The laws are about being able to provide alternative payment methods and stores.

They aren't going to force Google and Apple to have all apps?

sgtfrankieboy··on FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
I really hope Epic wins the lawsuit against Apple and that the laws being announced in the US Senate/House get passed. I also hope the EU start pushing against this kind of stuff more.

Apple and Google have too much control.

sgtfrankieboy··on How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
Interesting article!

I was wondering if there plans for supporting Continuous Aggregates on Distributed hypertables? Its currently listed as not supported under the limitations docs page.

I think the two would fit together perfectly as it will allow users to aggregate very large tables.

sgtfrankieboy··on What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
They verify it against the persons ID card which has a photo of them by matching up the name.
sgtfrankieboy··on .NET 6 Preview 5
The default "GUI" library for .NET Core has always been web.
sgtfrankieboy··on One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
No, but it would take down less sites if it does have one.
sgtfrankieboy··on Turn GitHub into an RSS Reader
I started using it recently. Following a few blogs that interest me using Feedly. Got a browser extension so I know whenever a new article gets posted.
sgtfrankieboy··on Build on Redis Hackathon
It might be a law related thing regarding prizes? iirc its also why it says "Canada (excluding Quebec)"
sgtfrankieboy··on Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
Its been pretty bad for me for the past year or two.

Sometimes I have moments it only gives me Google books results for certain queries. Luckily I havent had that one in a while.

sgtfrankieboy··on We’re removing ads from Plato
In a lot of cases crash report SDKs are open source?

Sentry: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java Bugsnag: https://github.com/bugsnag/bugsnag-android Exceptionless: https://github.com/exceptionless/opentelemetry-dotnet Rollbar: https://github.com/rollbar/rollbar-apple Raygun: https://github.com/MindscapeHQ/raygun4android

To just name a few.

sgtfrankieboy··on Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection
The only real free alternative to Google Analytics tbh.
sgtfrankieboy··on I Still Use RSS
Google shutting down their RSS reader didn't really have an impact.

They shut it down back in March of 2013. If you look at the trends graph[1] for RSS it was dying out for years.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...

sgtfrankieboy··on Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
But what if the customer needs ElasticSearch, see that AWS provides it and don't look further?

If AWS didn't take the work of Elastic those customers might have used Elastic's services instead.

How can AWS offering the same thing not be competing against Elastic's offering?

sgtfrankieboy··on Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
Which is pretty dumb because the law doesn't apply to them as they are US-exclusive.
sgtfrankieboy··on Steam's login method is kinda interesting
Which bank? It's a 70/30 between ING and Rabobank for me.
sgtfrankieboy··on How We Built the GitHub Globe
Because that information is not available in standalone frontend component. They would have to make an additional API request to get that when timezone is available locally.
sgtfrankieboy··on Why make games for Linux if they don't sell?
For Xbox you must use the Xbox Store. Why are you changing the goalpost though? They only mentioned Windows.

Which allows you to just plainly sell games from your own website or use one of the many stores.

Oh side note, you can change your Xbox into a "devkit" and install basically any homebrew app. So technically, you can bypass its walled garden.

sgtfrankieboy··on Self-host your fonts for better performance
Its false. CNAMEs are dealt with on the DNS level and are transparent to HTTP. It will use the origin the client connects with which is fonts.gstatic.com
sgtfrankieboy··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
Only the owner of yyy.name can do those kind of transfers.

Your xxx.yyy.name is a subdomain of yyy.name and thus beholden to it. Unless it's something like a .co.uk domain, which with you mentioning .name isn't the case.

sgtfrankieboy··on Epic vs. Apple: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion for TRO [pdf]
They showed that Apple forcing iOS apps to use their Payment Processor is bad for consumers by providing an alternative that is 20% cheaper. Which is what got them banned.
sgtfrankieboy··on Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
Well for our use case their caching infrastructure handles 63% of all our traffic and 70% of our bandwidth.

We'd have to basically quadruple our expenses without CF. Not to mention their available protections.

sgtfrankieboy··on Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
You need CloudFlare Enterprise to get those logs.
sgtfrankieboy··on Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?
Engineers cost $130,000/month? Thats a fulltime salary for 14 network engineers (salary from Indeed).

There is no way you need that many for maintaining a fleet of 50 CPUs (chance is that in OPs case they got duel socket servers as well).

sgtfrankieboy··on NPM Is Joining GitHub
If you are going to compare browsers make sure you aren't comparing against a version of Chrome from 2013.

Here is the correct comparison: https://html5test.com/compare/browser/safari-11.2/chrome-68/...

Which clearly shows its the worst of the bunch.

Edit: Also just noticed, the latest Chrome version that the site has is 68. We're currently on 80+

sgtfrankieboy··on Scaling to 100k Users
>(ditch ORMs)

Depends on which ORM you use I think. Basic ORMs like Dapper in .NET just map your SQL query result to a object model.

sgtfrankieboy··on Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
In CloudFlare go to "Firewall" and then click Settings on the right.

Here you can set the Security Level and if you want to use Browser Integrity Checks among other things.

sgtfrankieboy··on Microbrowsers Are Everywhere
Well, SSR. Almost all indexing bots (Google, 'Microbrowsers', etc.) will require it or at minimum heavily recommend it.

I doubt you will need to rewrite it if you use React or VueJS (or any other big framework) as they have SSR support.

sgtfrankieboy··on Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
Yea, I mean having a German (or other European) trustee.
sgtfrankieboy··on Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
Is it possible that it will be hosted in a similar fashion to how Azure does their German datacenters?
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