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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Intention plays a part. (D)DoS is intentionally done to make a website unavailable to legitimate users. Scraping may do this as a side-effect (if you are incompetent and/or use the "cloud"), but isn't the intention.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Docker is effectively just a packaging format on Linux - it's not a VM (unlike on Windows/Mac where running Docker involves running a hidden Linux VM on which containers are scheduled). So I don't see why you wouldn't
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
But I assume they have US-based workers anyway to handle escalations. So the proposal is to simply allow users to self-escalate and pay a fee if they waste time.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Yep, very much aware of them and a happy customer! In fact you don’t even need to say “shibboleet” - I don’t think they even have anyone on payroll that doesn’t know at least 2 programming languages.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
If you need to go beyond what a single bare-metal server can offer, then consider it. But don’t discount bare-metal first! I see a lot of K8s or other cluster managers being used to manage underpowered cloud VMs, and while I understand the
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The role of a software engineer is to condense the (often unclear) requirements, business domain knowledge, existing code (if any) and their skills/experience into a representation of the solution in a very concise language: a programm
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
This is downvoted for some reason and yet it’s absolutely correct. There’s a reason telcos specifically are notorious for the shittiest customer service ever - because major telcos typically have a monopoly and/or long-term contracts
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
This doesn’t work for technical people, but it works for the other 90% of people who’d rather call and waste not only support’s time, but their own time even if their problem can be resolved by common sense or the first page of the knowle
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Corporation-on-consumer fraud has effectively always been legal in the US. When a corporation lies for profit and gets caught, it is merely a "mistake" and no criminal charges are filed. Individuals aren't afforded the same p
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Hard to get the political momentum to do that now that we've surrendered humanity's social fabric to the advertisement industry.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Source: all those websites with annoying "cookie banners" where it's easier to accept than to decline. The GDPR does not approve of that (it should be as easy to consent as it is to decline, otherwise the consent is void for
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
I pay for several services via SEPA direct debit and the only things I had to provide to sign up was an IBAN and a pinky-promise I was the account holder. As far as I know they have to way to correlate the identity information on the provid
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Can ACH not be reversed? My understanding is that the European systems are just as vulnerable, but what makes them "secure" is that they can be reversed no-questions-asked, making such an attack pointless unless you know the acc
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
But there is no cryptography or any kind of identity verification involved in "signing" such an agreement. If I know your IBAN I can subscribe to such an agreement on your behalf. I'm not sure about Europe, but at least in th
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
At least on iOS, it doesn't access the GPS directly. It asks the OS for updates to the device's location with a certain degree of precision. It's up to the OS to blend various sensor data (GPS, cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth beac
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
This is mostly FUD. Yes, the travel eSIM (and mobile telco in general to be honest) ecosystem is rotten and inbred, with layers and layers of resellers and middlemen feeding off each other whose only purpose is to gatekeep and skim some mon
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Are you involved in the project? I assume this is essentially a paper-thin HSM/Yubikey, right? Is there any way I can use these as general-purpose HSMs outside of bitcoin/cryptocurrency contexts? Just as a novelty. Let's say
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Unless "national security" is going to either pay people proactively to pass gov-mandated pentests, or enforce actual, business-threatening penalties for breaches, it doesn't really matter from a company owner perspective. Th
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
If you actually have a business case for defense in depth (hint: nobody does - data breaches aren't actually an issue besides temporarily pissing off some nerds, as Equifax' and various companies stock prices demonstrate), what yo
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> effective GDPR regulation. Fines for crossing that line are more than just wrist slaps. Yeah the GDPR is only effective on paper. In practice, the enforcement of it is near non-existent. It is and has always been more profitable to bre
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> Don’t underestimate how cheap it actually is to buy politicians But if your idea becomes an extinction-level threat for a well-funded industry, surely they will also try to buy the politicians, getting into a bidding war with you, th
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
But those apps don't actually care about the phone number beyond the initial registration? Once registered, they work entirely via IP and don't know nor care which SIM is in your phone. You will however have a problem with registe
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
This occurrence has nothing to do with AI? The reason AI doesn't want to grant you the refund is because it's not been given the ability to do so. It would be no different with a human. If Amazon wanted to give you the ability to
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The law says that personal data is not a valid form of payment. Businesses have to adjust their business models accordingly.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
There’s probably an economy around those keys - people who lose them have to pay an (overinflated) deposit, some company is overcharging the locker owner for key replacements, etc. At every layer someone skims a bit of money, so nobody in p
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
Any ad blocker worth its salt can be easily configured to block it - but personally I’ve never felt the need; the stuff on the timeline is so trashy it’s not even addictive.
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
There are 2 facets to LinkedIn. One is an “evergreen Rolodex”. Another is the social media and “engagement” aspect Microsoft is desperately trying to prop up. You do not have to participate in the second aspect, outside of marketing/so
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
The Swiss public transport ticketing system. Their app uses location services to automatically determine your fare, so you don’t need to buy tickets in advance: https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sb
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
I wonder if the 12VHPWR connector is intentionally defective to prevent large-scale use of those consumer cards in server/datacenter contexts? The failure rate is just barely acceptable in a consumer use-case with a single card, but
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by Nextgrid 1y ago
> tou can blink LEDs with an 5$ Arduino/ESP32 too. At the time the RPi came out I don't believe Wi-Fi-enabled microcontrollers were a thing or were as widespread. RPi was the OG low-cost, popular Wi-Fi "microcontroller&quo

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