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by ldoughty 7y ago
I didn't say avoid AWS... I was more trying to point out that consultants and what not with certifications and "experience" are great at regurgitating information but often lack personal experience and result of their work mo
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Counterpoint: my org got a large credit pool, but out development and engineering team were closely communicating with relevant leadership to explain costs and processes. We stretched out the credits for 3 years, despite spinning up/do
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I basically agree... However, I'd argue if you pick the right tools from the start you can leverage AWS relatively inexpensively... But that's hard without enough cloud knowledge in the industry yet, and consultants are (generally
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by ldoughty 7y ago
AWS can be expensive, but it comes down to engineering and needs. I'd argue it's most expensive for small (10-50 person... ish) businesses -- to small to hire a LOT of overhead staff, but not small enough that you're still in
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Our start up got a 6 figure AWS credit with 3 year expiration date... I'd say AWS does the same
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Perhaps, but this article is ridiculous and great. There are a FEW legitimate reasons to go this route, but not many good ones, but I have to commend this article for true hacker spirit. It's lovely!
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by ldoughty 7y ago
From what I gathered: The author was banned from service on Instagram, he or she kept getting banned/denied new accounts because they flagged the device's UUID... So the author then made the API to mask/modify the device UUID
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Dynamo DB does not survive the hug of death unless configured to do so and can be very expensive if you don't design the data access pattern will. The author is trying to stick to free tier, so if it's set to the max (5 records&#x
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Or CloudFront. He's on AWS, and it's nearly free (<.05 cents for most personal websites)
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Dynamo DB can be expected to adjust capacity every 5 minutes when set up with an auto scaling configuration or on pay-per-request model. Lambda will scale up in seconds. Dynamo, however, can be set not to (if you wish to stay within free ti
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by ldoughty 7y ago
The Virginia Cyber Range (www.virginiacyberrange.org) is a taxpayer funded organization that leverages this project heavily to give K-12+ students access to virtual machines for cybersecurity education. Some of our customers are on Chromebo
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Guacamole is not intended to replace normal remote connections... It provides additional features that target people whom can't reasonably use RDP or VNC themselves ... it provides access management so you don't need to expose the
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I second using containers for guacamole. Also agree, this isn't intended to be a replacement for direct access, nor for streaming purposes. This gives you and RDP session with no software install needed. The use case of guacamole is ac
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I use it to provide access to cloud systems as essentially a bastion. The target computers often have serious vulnerabilities exposed (like metasploitable windows targets, and machines with very easy passwords).. so supporting legacy OS &am
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Me heart nearly jumped out of my chest when I saw this link here.... And actually.. it is released , they updated their docker instead making 1.1.0 their latest tag while dropping RC designation I really hope free RDP 2.0 brings some gen
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by ldoughty 7y ago
My interpretation was that this document was what he signed, since his tweet talked about his signature being on a form authorizing more specific things
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by ldoughty 7y ago
If you go to wireguards donation page, you can make a one-time donation too.
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by ldoughty 7y ago
it seems there are confusing / multiple sources of income, patreon is only one. I don't know if it's fair to say he's not making what he asks for.. or basing a 1/10th claim without knowing how much he gets from othe
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by ldoughty 7y ago
This doesn't seem shady, the form the tweet posted explicitly said it authorized state farm to request his medical, employment, and other records on his behalf. The only "shady" thing might be not sending the authorization fo
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by ldoughty 7y ago
The first few bullet points scream "you authorize SF to get your medical information and history". This is an application for long term disability, so they are trying to prove he's medically disabled by getting documentation
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by ldoughty 7y ago
If I'm passing at 5 over the limit, I'm still passing. I waited my turn. Not my fault I don't want to go 20+ over. I'll move back when the passed car is in my rear view. Oh, you really to ride my rear, and pay me on the
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Yes and no... The issue here is that there's no competition if you want to reach Apple customers. When you buy a fridge, the manufacturer can't forbid you from buying eggs for it. You can go to another manufacturer, as a customer,
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I meant to put (Android) in for West coast, but yes, I arguably agree it's a very similar situation, though Google/Android is less restrictive / closed off... They are more like the old "Internet explorer" were Micr
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Kinda miss the point of the article, which focused on monopsony -- sole buyer. If your want to sell on the east coast (Apple), you need to put your product in wooden boxes no larger than X and documentation must be written in French, and yo
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by ldoughty 7y ago
If I could get a few million dollars _mostly_ at the expense of big businesses/insurers, I would to... Hell, having even 25k in disposable income makes starting a new business a reality... Which is inconceivable when you can pocket les
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Most of the time it's seen by management as an expense with no positive business value (they pay out to people that are no longer useful to the company)... Therefore it's a major target for elimination if possible. Bankruptcy is a
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by ldoughty 7y ago
It really depends if you want them connected or not. In the Hugo example, completely agree. But sometimes it can make sense: Example.com vs members.example.com vs login.example.com Example.com can be a static website, while login attempts g
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by ldoughty 7y ago
From a cloud perspective, it's easier (by a tiny bit of work) to point a subdomain to a service over pointing a folder. E.g. blog.example.com pointing to a static website while project.example.com points to a server. If you want both t
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by ldoughty 7y ago
I would argue a better description is -- Serverless: abstracted services that don't require you to know or care about the underlying server. It's still not perfect, sometimes you do need/want to know/care, but it's
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by ldoughty 7y ago
Serverless is an architectural and design strategy. Run away from anyone that claims EC2 is serverless. You can't lift and shift to serverless... Period. The design choices are almost always breaking changes.

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