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Those login attempts which trigger 2fa app does not generate a log entry if unsuccessful. Only attempts with username/password does. For some strange reason.

So there is no way to flag them as malicious and if you accidentally accept, then it’s already too late.

Pretty annoying setup.

Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:04AM (#46158449)
Interestingly enough, also some MS/Azure services are down. For example https://www.office.com/ just returns:

>We are sorry, something went wrong. >Please try refreshing the page in a few minutes. If the problem persists, please visit status.cloud.microsoft for updates regarding known issues.

The status page of course says nothing

The Norwegian MET does, https://api.met.no/

They also provide yr.no which is widely used worldwide.

The Norwegian MET has had it for years, for free. https://api.met.no/

They also provide yr.no which is widely used worldwide.

Strangely enough, still possible. My dad was in this sixties when he got his wisdom teeth.
Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:43AM (#36570370)
In a ironic twist, it now returns this HN page.
What’s the point of your comment? This screams spam to me.
Re:Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @01:47PM (#32753759)
Yeah, they are literally just spamming the same everywhere: https://twitter.com/otter_ai/status/1567568010680111104

Talk about dumpster fire

Re:Sending spammers to password purgatory on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:32AM (#32339669)
I'm not sure if you're joking or not so: He already gets attacked from the bad guys.
Re:Tech Compensation in Europe on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:10PM (#32308190)
That sounds ...very low, right? Given that it will be very easy to get twice that(and more) in northern Europe.
Note that the discussion is a year old. Around one year ago I wrote more about this "phenonomen" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993123

tl;dr: I managed to find the servers behind it, most likely anybody who are still affected can do the same thing I did pretty easily. We also followed the money, which is a tad more work.

Re:Searching for Susy Thunder on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:45AM (#30097040)
What is your point with posting a comment containing just a single word? Like, really? What do you hope to achieve with that "comment"?
Much of Europe is on the same shared grid, so energy prices goes up everywhere when Germany cuts nuclear power. Unless there is sufficent energy available to replace it. (Spoiler: There aren't)
Re:Make Front End Shit Again (2018) on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:52AM (#30006456)
Another classic site to show in this regard is this Norwegian online store.

https://arngren.net/

Re:Microsoft confirms Exchange Year 2022 problem on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:54AM (#29778092)
Re:Google Outage in Europe on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:42AM (#29198296)
An outage can be pretty expensive but it is training for those whom triggered it and/or those that fixes it.
Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:55AM (#29104184)
How long are you covered there? It's 5 years here in Norway for anything "you should expect to last five years", which means basically all computer parts and mobile devices.
Re:An Update on Our Outage on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:22AM (#29063876)
I just refreshed and it worked the second time.
Depends on the law in your country.
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:59PM (#28750170)
And there his account went poof, thanks for archiving.
Re:Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:54AM (#28520762)
Or you could use a service that lets you do whatever with the data for free, for example the Norwegian Meteorological Institute`s API. It powers Yr.no which is used worldwide. https://api.met.no/
Re:Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @01:50AM (#28520732)
I think you want to check out the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, they have a open free API with heaps of data, i think they have what you want. It powers yr.no which is used worldwide. https://api.met.no/

They have an endpoint to give you weather per hour now and going forward for any location in the world

> But what if some software update “bricks” or regresses your device in some way?

At least in Norway that causes you to get your device either fixed for free, or you get a new one. Any item you can expect to last at least five years, are covered. So for example, if you have a harddrive die after 4 years, you get a new one.

Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:48AM (#27994618)
This was two years ago and the network is now (to my knowledge) gone.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:47AM (#27994613)
We did publish a whole series about the network and companies we found in the process, unfortunately in Norwegian only and soft-paywalled: https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/sonjas-52-oppdagelse-avslor...
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:44AM (#27993202)
Sidenote but what do you think about Ahrefs? I'm doing some tests to see how easy it is to get ranked for keywords (with actual helpful content, not crap like this thread is about), but i find the Adsense keyword tool not that helpful as they delete many keywords when you search for them, which kinda voids that tool.

But I currently feel that paying $100/mo for Ahrefs for something I do as a side project is a tad wasteful.

Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:40AM (#27993167)
That's because it's real content that they have stolen and just republished. In SEO circles one like to say that original content is king. Well, not so much after all.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:36AM (#27993139)
Can confirm this is not malware, Google has a huge spam problem, see my previous comments.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:33AM (#27993123)
I have some experience on this field. Around two years ago i was a DevOp for the company running Dagbladet, Norways #2 newspaper. One of the things I did was keep an eye on mysterious traffic.

I managed to find a huge spam network that set up a proxy service that delivered normal content, but injected "you can win an iPhone!" spam to all users visiting them.

Since I was in the position of being able to monitor their proxy traffic towards many sites I managed. I could easily document their behaviour.

In the same time, I wrote a crawler that visited their sites over a long, long time. I learned that they kept injecting hidden links to other sites in their network, so I did let my bot look at those also.

By this time, I also got a journalist with me that started to look at the money flow to try and find the organisation behind it.

My bot found in excess of 100K domains being used for this operation, targeting all of westeren Europe. All the 100K sites contained proxied content and was hidden behind Cloudflare, but thanks to the position I had, I managed to find their backend anyways.

We reported the sites to both CF and Google, and to my knowledge, not a single site were removed before the people behind it took it down.

Oh, and the journalist? He did find a Dutch company that was not happy to see neither him or the photographer :)

Re:Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:34AM (#27980541)
I myself is currently setting up Solr for a project as my experience with ES as a DevOps is not a happy one. Always nodes/indexes having some kind of problem. In the same time i have also worked with Solr for years before and never met any major issues. It just works and does the job well.

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