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by dfrage 8y ago
Amazon says the original retrieval pricing matched their cost, but was hard to grok and easy to run up a huge bill if you didn't use it carefully and extract data patiently. They realized that was a mistake and significantly streamline
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"Data Transfer OUT" or egress pricing is in addition to bulk retrieval, and it's high. "From Amazon S3 To Internet" $0.09/GB, or $90.81 according to their calculator: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws
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Snowball ought to be quite a bit cheaper if you have enough TB to recover: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/
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by dfrage 8y ago
Or maybe the newer Blu-ray based Archival Disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Disc which ups per-side storage to 150 GB and uses both side. But the pricing and retrieval scheduling strongly suggests LTO tape.
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Current discussion of this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476323
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A very good book length treatment of this can be found in Peter Schweizer's Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343&#
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It should be obvious I disagree in scoring Cliqz, Pocket and Mr. Robot as security issues. Of course, many if not most security issues are in the subset of privacy issues as well, but surely you see the difference between not wanting other
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There are easier ways to fight the "path to a dystopian future complete with global surveillance" than sticking with an organization that's not making software fit for purpose, and is so political and privacy disdaining it wi
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You're confounding security with privacy strikes. How many 3rd party vulnerability security strikes does Google have? And I distrust Pocket at least as much as I distrust Mozilla.
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According to Wikipedia, it's run as an "independent subsidiary". Echoing AnIdiotOnTheNet, it's in your face bullshit that clearly tells us about Mozilla's mindset today. The Firefox security story has sailed compar
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by dfrage 8y ago
Ubuntu 18.04, stock Firefox installed with the desktop, version 64.0.1, has in your face "Recommended by Pocket" items. One encourages me to use DuckDuckGo, but....
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It depends on what your threat model is. A lot of people prefer the no doubt privacy tire fire that Chrome is over the security tire fire that Firefox has become. It's one thing to trust Google, quite another to trust Mozilla and e
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A competent session manager. The old "Session Manager" died in the transition to Quantum, and several developers of quasi-replacements, who acknowledge they don't come very close to it, maintain a list of two dozen or more b
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> Well, assuming you paid your taxes. If you don't, they will throw you in jail. In the US? You'd have to do more than not "pay your taxes", they'll first demand that you pay, and then seize assets and garnish y
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Only AMD has avoided Meltdown, both ARM in some CPUs, and IBM, both POWER and mainframe, have Meltdown bugs.
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> AFAIK Intel, ARM and AMD all have shipped chips that are vulnerable to a handful of speculative execution attacks. Some ARM CPUs, and IBM, both POWER and mainframe CPUs, have Meltdown bugs. All 4 of these vendors of high performance o