sleepyhead

Do you have any example of this?

Why is it a problem that dnsimple is not going to charge for bogus DNS requests? (or any DNS requests for that matter).

AWS did do a refund but it requires me to monitor usage and do some investigation. I really don't want to spend time monitoring DNS requests.

Ah I missed the "shared across all of your eco dynos" part. Thanks for the info. That helps. I also like the new small Redis plan.

I made a video about it but it is not published yet. I hope to publish it soon here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkc8xf5A7qCQydN6tG0BmmQ

There was no misconfiguration, just millions of DNS requests but not millions of actual users. I was in contact with AWS support multiple times. The only solution was so use AWS Shield Advanced. They did refund most of the charges but it was too risky for me. Even after I moved DNS provider there was DNS requests to the R53 zones. I can highly recommend https://dnsimple.com though.

I ended up with a $700 bill for a month with Route 53 due to bogus DNS requests (a normal month would be like $5 or something). And there is nothing a professional engineer could do anything about it - except pay $3000/month for AWS Shield Advanced.

Are you comparing Heroku to EC2 and other non-managed parts of AWS? Because for most parts Heroku and AWS is two different offerings. There are two main reasons to use Heroku: they manage it and they provide easy tools for configuration. Even if AWS provide similar managed services I would assume it is as the rest as AWS: a pain to configure. I use many AWS services and not only it is required to have a PhD in AWS to understand basic tasks but the risk of doing something wrong is high. Take IAM for example. Or just setting up a static website with S3, Cloudfront and Route 53 - what a mess. Not saying that AWS isn't great for many things or for companies wanting more control (and with resources to manage it), but comparing it to Heroku is for most parts not a valid comparison.

The new "cheap" plan is only two dollars less so I don't think it is an alternative for many. I will most likely move infrequently used apps to another platform.

Perhaps it is because the sanctions are financial and WhatsApp does not charge users?

Not recommended but supported. JSON+LD is recommended. See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

> values that describe the nature of the content vs > rather than values that describe the desired presentation of the content.

Or could it be that the meaning here is that you should write descriptive classes such as 'alert-box' instead of 'red-box'.

TIL! So those obnoxious JavaScript frameworks using classes for declaring logic are actually valid???!!

Google prefers JSON-LD though[0]. Also I'm not keen on defining content with styling classes.

[0] https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-structured-data-p...

Definitively not.

Yeah it was a bit disappointing to see it. For me I was looking for two important features that is essential for a European SaaS company or in the Enterprise segment:

1) No plans to do regional Postgres backups. Today PG backups are transferred out of the database region and to us-east-1. This is problematic for anyone who takes GDPR seriously and unacceptable for any customer with strict compliance requirements.

2) No possibility of wildcard + ACM TLS. We have to implement our own cert automation using Let's Encrypt instead of relying the fully functional Heroku ACM because we also need to use a wildcard cert. This is something that most SaaS vendors would require.

Heroku are aware of both these issues. For #1 it seems like they don't care. For #2 it seems like it is a result of legacy infrastructure.

It should be reported as a vulnerability. To Apple. Yes they made a decision for this as well but a decision can still be reported as a vulnerability.

> January 2022, we received a report

And they did not give notice to users. GDPR breach.

"You cannot call Stripe"

Ironic since Stripe requires a phone number to have an account and that phone number is required to be stated on the transaction receipt.

Sorry, you are saying I should make a better argument to the comment saying "so what if he was a dictator?"

Your argument is oddly one-sided and does not include any of the issues with the Shah. At least try to look at it objectively. I understand you hate the current regime, we all do, but it seems you are unable to view history correctly because of it.

You might want to read the entire thread before commenting. The argument here started with a statement that under the Shah there were problems for regular people. And someone posted in return a video implying it was like paradise. I stated it is obviously much worse under the current regime but pointed that OP was correct that there were major problems under the Shah as well. Not sure why that is so controversial.

That is what it says, what is your point?

"Dictator killing people - bad". Yes, very weak argument. Enjoy your doogh.

"While the revolution obviously resulted in a much worse situation"

Read the thread.

> So what that he was a dictator?

I rest my case.

I just Googled and found an article so I am sure there are better sources, however it shouldn't be controversial to say that the Shah, who came in power through a foreign coup, was a dictator. It is the reason why the revolution was able to succeed. Obviously life under the Shah was much better than after the revolution but that is not to say there were not problems before it.

Let me guess you don't know how things were under the Shah.

While the revolution obviously resulted in a much worse situation, the Shah was a dictator. https://historyofyesterday.com/the-shah-of-iran-was-not-a-sa...

> Just to be clear, the tree is found in Dalarna in Sweden

They point it out in the introduction: "discovered a tree up on Fulufjället – in Sweden just east of Trysil municipality in Norway" also it says "near the Norwegian-Swedish border" in the headline.

I was lucky to visit Venice during the pandemic with few tourists around. But introverted me even sensed the crowd problem then, it must be hell during peak tourist season. But Venice is spectacular. Even a $100 entry would not stop most tourists. There would have to be a hard cap on how many people can visit and cruise ships and such should be discouraged.

Yeah a better solution is to ban cruise ships.

It really sounds like you have not been to Venice. Venice is not some random tourist place, people will go there regardless as it is the most stunning city in the world. The gondolas are full even though they are like $100 for 15 minutes. As are the restaurants. It is not a problem that tourists are not spending money there.