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by corford 9y ago
I'm still getting 504s and timeouts from https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/new-reg and https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory (trying from Lisbon, PT) Edit: Akamai is issuing the 5
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by corford 9y ago
I think Syndicate Room is about to (or already does?) offer something like this.
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by corford 9y ago
Ha! Fair point. I guess Ireland is the closest cultural match today if you want a confirmed EU member state.
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by corford 9y ago
Suggest you pick one in Europe while it's still easy to do :) I think most EU countries let you apply for full citizenship after being there a while (e.g. France lets you apply after 5 yrs, less if you're married to a French nati
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by corford 9y ago
Totally agree. If he/she authorised it after being given an opportunity to decline then, yes, it's absolutely on them. /me clearly didn't read the article ;)
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by corford 9y ago
To be clear, the only time any of this matters is when a huge, unexpected bill arrives. Day to day, you should anticipate any big, legitimate bills and make sure funds are there to settle them (or you scale back usage to avoid getting smack
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by corford 9y ago
Should be fine I think providing there are no circumstances where Google can decide to ignore the limit (don't have much experience with their cloud stuff).
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by corford 9y ago
Interesting! For AWS, DO, Linode etc, I use a debit card with no problem. Edit: just remembered we're using Google's Cloud Vision API and that's billed to the same debit card. So, for UK accounts at least, they take debit car
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by corford 9y ago
They won't cut you off immediately and the gain you get is some breathing space/wriggle room to decide what your next step is going to be once you've been landed with a huge, unexpected bill. Also, nothing gets them talking t
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by corford 9y ago
My personal bank sort of gives me that with their fraud protection. If a one off huge charge appears from a company that regularly bills me (but at much smaller amounts), their fraud system sends a text asking if I want to authorise or bloc
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by corford 9y ago
You're right and the trick is setting up a separate account for the debit card (ideally with a different bank). This is generally a good approach for all sorts of reasons, not just protection from over enthusiastic cloud bills. Keep mo
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by corford 9y ago
To be honest, the best way is setting up a completely isolated account with card. If you're extra paranoid, use a different bank for this account.
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by corford 9y ago
Not sure who you bank with but our bank will bounce it if honouring it would require going overdrawn beyond €500.
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by corford 9y ago
I learnt this lesson the hard way. Solution: get a separate debit (not credit!) card for all cloud stuff. Make sure you only transfer enough money on to it each month to cover what you reasonably expect your bills to be (and that you can qu
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by corford 9y ago
Assuming we're talking like 10+ years ago, it was the hassle free speed of ordering, the cheap, fast deliveries (and accurate delivery time estimates), the product selection, the live inventory and ease of returns. Compared to everyone
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by corford 9y ago
IRC, usenet, "view source", local DIY computer fairs (which were quite a big scene in the UK in the middle nineties) and Microsoft developer books were my route in. ISPs also used to give you free website hosting and once I'd
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by corford 9y ago
NHR has many facets to it (one of which is, as you mentioned, the 20% flat income tax for qualifying professionals). The most interesting bit of NHR (from a tech expat working remotely PoV) is the tax free foreign income. Providing your cli
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by corford 9y ago
Lisbon, Portugal is pretty great if you get NHR status and land a remote job. Local wages are, unfortunately, not so great but hopefully this will get better over the next few years (for tech at least).
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by corford 9y ago
It's banded in the UK. Your first £11.5K of income is tax free, the balance up to £45K is taxed at 20%, anything over £45K and under £150K is taxed at 40% and anything beyond £150K is taxed at 45%. In return you get free education up t
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by corford 9y ago
Data theft is a separate issue. Whether your using gmail, your own mail server or an account with your ISP; if you're machine is compromised all bets are off (including all your other files, not just email). At least with a backup you
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by corford 9y ago
Happy outcome but could have so easily gone the other way. Surely it would have been been more responsible to locally fake the registration of the domain first (apparently as easy as modifying /etc/hosts in this case) given he had
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by corford 9y ago
Just make sure whatever email provider you use offers IMAP and use a client like Thunderbird to keep a local copy in sync. Back that up somewhere safe and you're fine. If you need good, fast search, use something like X1.
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by corford 9y ago
I'm not sure it has much to do with the EU. The UK's domestic politicians did a poor job of managing migration. Had the brains in London allocated proper resources to the North and applied some common sense approaches to where mig
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by corford 9y ago
Yes, except I don't recall Obama using big data to blast people's facebook feeds with fake news citations, irrefutably wrong numbers and xenophobic clap trap. "With great power comes great responsibility" and all that...
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by corford 9y ago
"Documents seen by the Observer show that this was a proposal to capture citizens’ browsing history en masse, recording phone conversations and applying natural language processing to the recorded voice data to construct a national pol
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by corford 9y ago
Like I said, different trade offs for different circumstances/tastes. Personally, I prefer a generic solution that doesn't rely on a specific third party for something as everyday as tunnelling internet requests back to my dev mac
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by corford 9y ago
It's more secure, easier to audit, removes a hard dependency on ngrok, gives you a static IP that never changes and you get more flexibility (plus you can share the same box amongst all your dev team if you wanted - you'd just ass
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by corford 9y ago
Or just maintain a $2.50 Vultr instance and on your dev box create a bash alias for a command that sets up a reverse ssh tunnel to it. Then all you need to do is a one time setup of nginx on your Vultr (or DO or whatever) box to accept inco
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by corford 9y ago
Very nice. One other datapoint that could be useful for some: Terraform provider support (and how capable the provider is). Terraform has providers for Digital Ocean, Scaleway and Lightsail but nothing for Linode or Vultr.
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by corford 10y ago
Ok, I'm sold!

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