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by sparkling 1y ago
What made you choose Litestar over fastapi (which seems to be the most popular choice right now)?
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by sparkling 2y ago
When they talk about detection, they are most likely referring to protocol level detection by ISPs forced to block VPN traffic, hostile local networks, corporate firewalls and such. The actual service you are connecting to (example: website
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by sparkling 3y ago
These are B2B contracts. You can put pretty much whatever fines and fees you want in there.
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Rolex fined $100M for preventing its watches being sold online(usa.watchpro.com)
226 points by sparkling 3y ago|263 comments
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by sparkling 3y ago
When we are talking about medium to large enterprise customers, there is significant costs of switching a SaaS provider. Vendor assessment, legal concerns, data privacy concerns, talks about SLA guarantees, talks about 24/7 support pla
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by sparkling 3y ago
Sorry i assumed you were talking about Github CoPilot (also owned by MS via Github)
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by sparkling 3y ago
Correct. Strike "buy" and replace with "massive investment"
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by sparkling 3y ago
> Because the fact that Copilot is free and ChatGPT is not should be a red flag... I'd assume that running a model that only needs to deal with a single programming language (the Copilot plugin knows what kind of code base it is wor
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by sparkling 3y ago
> The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. Agreed > This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself. I can't imagine it being about fake financi
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by sparkling 3y ago
From the website: > "[...] If someone — correction, if generally a white, cis man — presents himself with enough confidence, then venture capitalists, media [...]" I stopped reading right there. This kind of race-baiting adds z
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by sparkling 3y ago
Honest question: What tasks are you doing that require 128GB RAM?
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by sparkling 3y ago
From the Thread: >Until last year, Uber said this meant it didn't have to charge VAT. It was just the agent for its drivers. So - the argument went - don't look at Uber's £2.5bn of revenue... look at each driver's own
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by sparkling 3y ago
Very possible. VPN detection technology like https://focsec.com/ is widely available nowadays.
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by sparkling 3y ago
Why are people so obsessed with "solar roadways" or "solar train tracks"? This is a joke, a gimmick, it makes absolutely no sense. Well, except for the startups that are getting massive subsidies and grants for these clo
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by sparkling 3y ago
Industrial companies have been the backbone of the German economy for the longest time. They provided decent living wages for a large section of the blue collar workforce. The reality is that not everyone is built for a office job, not ever
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by sparkling 3y ago
Because electricity is only one part of the overall energy usage. Heating is still ~75% fossil-based (oil, gas).
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by sparkling 3y ago
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-fu... ... or, if you prefer that, straight from the German government statistical office itself: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen&#x2
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by sparkling 3y ago
Doubt it. Hetzners smallest machine is something like $4/month, additional IPv4 addresses come with extra cost. They have quite tight service quotas, and this 2M additional IPs would be almost their entire IPv4 pool.
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by sparkling 3y ago
Why? VPN users mostly care about the Exit IP country, not the Entry IP country.
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by sparkling 3y ago
If you think your citizens are vulnerable to being tricked by Russian propaganda, you have a much bigger problem than Russian propaganda.
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by sparkling 3y ago
Uhm... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrungen_von_Internetinhalte... Edit: parent poster has now changed his post after claiming there was no blocking in Germany
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by sparkling 4y ago
Very nice list of countermeasures. I agree that doing these small things like hidden input fields really go a long way. I would add to that: - block signups/comments from known throwaway email domains - block known datacenter IP ranges
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by sparkling 5y ago
Roskomnadzor (the russian internet regulator) is blocking many of the popular commercial VPN services like ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Cyberghost. This comes after a huge soar in VPN usage. Android and iOS app store download charts were basically
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Roskomnadzor blocking VPN services in Russia after ban on Facebook and Instagram(twitter.com)
6 points by sparkling 5y ago|2 comments
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by sparkling 5y ago
Yes. Most likely it is just a correlation, not the real cause. We have been using https://focsec.com/ for detecting trial abuse in our products. People using VPNs (+ new free email accounts) to "restart" trial per
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by sparkling 5y ago
Something similar: for the original Playstation 2 that was sold in the EU, Sony included a DVD with a BASIC interpreter to classify the console as a personal computer. This little hack avoided some EU import taxes back in the day. https:&#
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by sparkling 5y ago
I assume they stole just anything they got. I'd assume any attacker would at least transfer everything to a BTC/whatever address generated offline, then figure out later how to launder it.
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by sparkling 5y ago
Is anyone else getting the feeling from this press release that it seems they actually don't (yet?) know how their previous 2FA system was circumvented by the attackers?
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by sparkling 5y ago
I have tried many WSGI servers for serving Python web applications (using both Django and Flask). Gunicorn may not be the fastest or have the most features, but its super solid and the documentation is superb. Everything else that i tried h
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by sparkling 5y ago
It would be a challenge from a engineering perspective, but yes. However there is no real incentive to do so, they have plenty of gas and oil in places that have accessible infrastructure in place.

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