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by jhugo 4y ago
> Real hardware servers are not required to host email. I agree, and said that in my parent comment.
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by jhugo 4y ago
DO regularly shows up on RBLs, even "less aggressive" ones, because it's regularly a source of spam. Same with Hetzner.
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by jhugo 4y ago
It absolutely matters which provider you choose, assuming the provider is big enough to have their own address allocations (which is not that big, really — plenty of relatively small hosting providers all over the world have their own ASN
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by jhugo 4y ago
Why do merchants not use it in the US? It's pretty much universal in Europe and many countries in Asia in my experience, and it would probably almost eliminate this type of fraud. Most of my banks give me an in-app notification in the
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by jhugo 4y ago
> In our case the card was issued by a Saudi Arabia bank but the user pasted it from Morocco. If you sell B2B in Morocco it wouldn't be unusual at all for some businesses to have parent companies or banking relationships in SA. Mayb
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by jhugo 4y ago
That assumes it's a zero-cost decision. It's extra friction in the payment process (the CVC must be entered and must be entered correctly) which has a non-zero impact on genuine transactions. They "should" only force it
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by jhugo 4y ago
I don't know if this really counts as a "footgun". Exposing secrets is exactly what I would expect enabling debugging mode in production to do.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> We’ve resorted to just cancelling the order quietly once we find out, without informing the fraudster. When they invariably call an hour later inquiring about their delivery (with a voice totally not matching the name), we either tell
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by jhugo 4y ago
> don't deliver to person across the street I feel like this is probably crossing over the line balancing an acceptable amount of inconvenience to genuine customers vs. the amount of fraud that is prevented. Certainly it's fine
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by jhugo 4y ago
> I have been hosting it on a bare metal Supermicro server in a proper datacenter, though. This is a key difference. Many people who have a bad time self-hosting mail set up with a minimum-effort major provider like Hetzner or DO — you&#
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by jhugo 4y ago
Also 20+ years, only very minor issues. The spam situation has gotten much better over that time, too. This topic comes up every so often on HN and I feel like the "never self-host, it's guaranteed to be a disaster, you have to us
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by jhugo 4y ago
Find a clueful small provider, local to you if possible. On huge providers like Hetzner and DO, you are guaranteed to have spammers as neighbours some of the time, even if the provider rapidly shuts them down. On the other hand, a good-qual
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by jhugo 4y ago
We have something even better than that! The Internet is decentralised, no matter how much CF tries to pretend it isn't. Just choose not to use services like CF.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> No it’s like no one even checks the price tag because their carrier is slowly milking it out of them instead. Eh, iPhones are still popular in many countries where paying outright for your phone is the norm.
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by jhugo 4y ago
I read the full article when it was posted, then skimmed it again just now. I don't agree that the article is "about" those people. It describes general issues and mentions the golden visa and D7 visa in passing as possible f
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by jhugo 4y ago
> If you made a law to force AirBnB to share data on who is making the listing with the government, you have your register of who to tax/etc. Airbnb will probably follow your law, but other platforms that do not will flourish. They
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by jhugo 4y ago
This requirement was actually pushed on Boeing by Southwest. They insisted that the MAX not require training for their pilots, and with Southwest being a large 737 customer with other good options (A320), Boeing found a way.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Everyone else (apart from EU citizens) must buy it. That's a ~440-million-person "apart from".
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by jhugo 4y ago
There are a great many countries where property owners would rather rent to a foreigner, due to foreigners having on average higher spending power.
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by jhugo 4y ago
You can hear a version of this story from apartment owners in many European cities, meanwhile the newspapers attribute out-of-control housing costs to a laundry list of more sensational causes...
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by jhugo 4y ago
Hard to understand why anyone thinks gentrification or foreign buyers/renters are the problem if this is the case. Put people in the houses you already have, and build some more if needed, and you will likely find the price drops. But
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by jhugo 4y ago
This is the type of thing that controlling is very difficult and thus expensive. As a result it's done at a pretty minimal level everywhere.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> I'm curious about why you would take such a contrarian, nay, even callous, stance? It might be because of actual experience in the aviation industry, rather than just experience reading articles about aviation incidents that amp u
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by jhugo 4y ago
The AI is just a tool they used to produce an image. They could have written another type of computer program and produced something that would be called, for example, generative art. The headline is clickbaity; a human won an art contest w
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by jhugo 4y ago
Exactly. "Apple Cloud Server Mk.1", powered by a Xeon processor.
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by jhugo 4y ago
No, that's two separate (but related) legal entities entering into agreements with each other.
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by jhugo 4y ago
They didn't "let anything go" by publishing these docs; since they've never forbidden running macOS in a VM, only running it on non-Apple hardware.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Right? I think, in 25+ years of computing, I have never once wanted to paste rich text. Ever. I just want to paste the text! Yet every time, I have to either fumble for the "paste and match style" key combo, or fix things afterw
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by jhugo 4y ago
I agree. But the comment I was replying to suggested it was a safety concern.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Exactly this. This is the same as the reason to be concerned about counterfeit products — the seller has nothing to lose if the product is dangerous or substandard, since the reputation damage happens to someone else.

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