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by aclelland 7y ago
To send money over £250, RBS still use hardware card readers for their MFA flow. You put your debit/credit card in the device, entry your normal pin and then a code that is displayed on the website. It's a little inconvenient of y
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by aclelland 7y ago
The lack of iOS support may be due to the way Apple restricts the use of NFC on iOS devices[1]. This seems to be changing in iOS 13 though. [1] https://gototags.com/blog/apple-expands-nfc-on-iphone-in-ios...
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by aclelland 7y ago
A "council flat" would be an apartment which is owned by the local government. The person who the council thought was living there was essentially sub-leasing it to people through Airbnb which is against the lease rules.
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by aclelland 7y ago
Yeah, you'll want to keep your domain registered through a different registrar and if CF goes down you can update your DNS Name Servers point from CF to something like AWS Route 53. This has a few drawbacks like making sure your Route5
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by aclelland 7y ago
I'd love if someone could explain if the 'fake email' address that the developer gets from Apple will be the same across all apps from the same developer? Or is there some way for the developer to link a login on one app to t
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by aclelland 8y ago
Yeah, I had almost stopped using the free version because of the user-hostile UX they kept pushing but they had a sale a few years ago and I picked it up then. It's like a completely different app, all the cruft like ads and pushing ot
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by aclelland 8y ago
So does this mean the end of apps like ES File Explorer?[1] I use that app all the time to manage downloaded files and to transfer local files to my NAS / S3 buckets it'd be a very sad day when that sort of functionality becomes i
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by aclelland 8y ago
Not normally but they do ban your entire account if their bots believe you've been very naughty. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47278362 Despite the ban being due to a violation of YT terms of service they
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by aclelland 8y ago
This looks great and will hopefully help IPFS grow! I do wonder if there are any limits which CF are going to impose on these files? A few years ago there was an image hosting site [1] who was told by CF that they were using too much bandwi
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by aclelland 8y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45009337 A timely piece from the BBC about the reduction in toilet provision in the UK over the last few years. The tldr is that public spending on toilets is discretionary and councils ha
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by aclelland 8y ago
I run a service which writes around 50-80 million small documents into S3 per month and, like you, we spend more on PUTs than storage and retrieval. So reducing PUT costs is something we've looked into a few times. We do make heavy use
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by aclelland 8y ago
Great write-up. I'm my job we spend a lot of time dealing with hackers and cheats for our mobile and PC games. We tend to see similar exploits across all our games (memory hacking, fake IAPs, etc) which lets us build an armoury of anti
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by aclelland 8y ago
As someone with two young children and who lives only a few hours away from the proposed site, I'm really excited at the possibility of taking them to see some launches. I just hope that bureaucracy, Brexit or political interference do
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by aclelland 8y ago
I use a few EC2 scaling features and always find them needing a little more TLC from Amazon. There are some simple quality of life things that would make my setup simpler. Recently I've been moving some of our less frequently used serv
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by aclelland 8y ago
Cloudflare now supports Brotli compression through their Dashboard (it's in the Performance tab). We've been using it for at least a month and haven't had any issues with it. We didn't do any before/after testing to
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by aclelland 8y ago
I believe it's the same law [1] that also meant the Hoverboards from a few years ago were also illegal to ride on public pavements and roads[2]. [1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/5-6/50/s
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by aclelland 8y ago
Hello, developer of RImind here, I manage 4 AWS accounts for a few clients and keeping tabs on expiring RIs has been a frustrating issue for a while (not just for me it seems [0][1]). I originally wrote RImind for my own use but over the la
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Show HN: RImind – Get AWS Reserved Instance Reminders(rimind.io)
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by aclelland 9y ago
I love OVH and have used them for a few years now but I'll echo your sentiments about a confusing jumble of dashboards and settings. It does seem to have got a little better over the last year although their Openstack cloud service is
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by aclelland 9y ago
S3 will sometimes return a "503 temporary error" response if you start writing lots of files per second. From my understanding, if they see that your bucket has a constant high write rate they'll make some configuration chang
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by aclelland 9y ago
Edinburgh is fantastic and definitely a great place to live and work! I work just a little north in Dundee. A great little city with a growing reputation[1]. If you're ever looking for a job in the games industry there are lots of comp
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by aclelland 9y ago
It looks like Trustico had a feature on their site to generate all of the required public/private keys on their website. If you used that form to generate the keys then they'd also store them on their servers. From my reading of t
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by aclelland 9y ago
I work at a games company, I get that hackers take up an enormous amount of developer work but reading this article made my jaw hit the floor. This couldn't have been a single developer making the decision. There must have been multipl
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by aclelland 9y ago
Are you able to talk about the pricing structure? Is this going to be per request, total cpu time, etc? edit. In another reply you said that pricing hasn't been finalised which is understandable. We've got a few use cases which CF
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by aclelland 9y ago
The lossless compression example is, I think, taking about image compression. Other CDNs charge for bandwidth so why would they offer their customers an easy to use 'optimize images' feature, it'll just lose them money. Cloud
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by aclelland 9y ago
It appears that there is already a feature in Chrome for Android which allows this. It will be removed around the same time as this patch to make things more 'consistent' >Removing the block autoplay setting that is currently a
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by aclelland 9y ago
It appeared to mostly resolve itself after 15 minutes but we're still seeing reduced req/m https://imgur.com/a/JAQ5B
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by aclelland 9y ago
We can't access our AWS EC2 instance which are located in the US from France or Germany. The instances are sitting behind Cloudflare. The error message from Cloudflare is cf-error-522 :(