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I disabled this 'feature' a while ago when I saw it on Twitter and forgot about it. However, recently I noticed that Twitter has been able to bypass the setting and was showing me my email under the Google option in the login provider list. I couldn't find any way to disable it.
It uses an iframe scoped to Google and I'm pretty sure that Twitter can't access my Google account data unless I select the login option but still, feels really creepy.
Amazon Kids+ is also a really good option for younger kids. Got a large number of games for a few pounds a month.
All the games are ad free and IAP free.
Yeah I'm confused by this article. I've got a Virgin Media TV box which used 25w while on standby. Maybe I'm doing the math wrong but:
25w * 24 * 365 = 219000w or 219kw per year.
At my current electricity rate that's £39.42 per year at a very minimum just for the TV box.
I use DNS66 and have done for a few years. Works really well with Chrome on Android. If you frequently use a VPN it means you need to remember to switch it back on.
Did she need to do anything after clicking the link in Discord or was the exploit completely automated?
My kids have just started to get in to Roblox, not bought anything yet but I expect it'll happen soon enough.
Missed this one too. Awesome, thanks.
So that's the c6g and c7g but x86 instances are still on c5. Will AWS ever release an x86 computing instance again or is this just a sign that x86 has reached peak performance on AWS?
Yeah, that part confused me to. I'm pretty sure that if I bought a stolen xbox from some guy on a street corner and the Police find me with it, they'd not throw up their hands and say "oh well, I guess you own it now, on your way".
I assume there is a specific legal quirk with property ownership.
Yes, you are right that an enterprise agreement is probably the safest approach and it's definitely something we have looked into since the beginning of the year.
In our case, one of our games DAU went pretty crazy last Christmas which resulted in a huge increase in players (who all need to download hundreds of MB of data). Maybe if it'd continued for many months the situation would be different and that angry email from CF would have eventually arrived.
I think that when CF say unlimited bandwidth they really mean it. I manage a domain on the business level plan for a domain and I pushed over 1PB through it in January. Not a single complaint from CF and no sales calls pushing enterprise tier.
They haven't clarified their file operations costs yet though. That could get pricy but will more than likely be cancelled out by the egress savings for most use cases.
Cloudflare only charge you the icann fees for most TLDs and don't make a profit on the same. If you fancy saving a few dollars over another registrar it might be a good place?
You can also use their page rules to easily do domain forwarding or just server up some static content from S3 with caching enabled
Yeah that'd work for us! Just signed up for access :)
Really interesting, will R2 support lifecycle rules like S3 does? We write around 90 million files per month to S3, if we could replace that with R2 and have the files automatically expire after 30 days that'd be a pretty amazing price reduction for us.
It's supposed to make everyone feel like we're on one big 'virtual office'. Of course, it might be true that in a real office anyone can come up and chat when they feel like it, there isn't a very high chance of my kids running into a real meeting naked because they've just come out of a shower/pool.
I actually took a similar stance to the person in the article and after a few weeks just moved my camera to point further and further towards a wall and just keep my hands in frame. A few grumbles but no calls from HR, yet.
Just during meetings? Since January my office (~30 people) have needed to be on our webcams and headphones on 9-5 each day. The headphones are so people can ask you to quickly jump into a virtual meeting.
While I'm not interrupted very often due to my role, it's been quite a frustrating experience.
I've come to accept that it's just a cost cutting measure for larger tech companies, why offer users an option when you don't need to? It costs extra to document, test and offer support for.
I can't really think of any software from a major tech company that I use frequently and that's been updated to give me _more_ toggles to customize the app. It's always to take things away.
My 6 year old thinks that the screen goes black in some shows because that's when the exciting part is about to happen. Of course, it's actually where the program would normally break for ads . On Netflix/Disney+ this doesn't happen (yet!) so he's come to the conclusion that it's just a signal of impending excitement :)
This is something that should be possible to detect through certificate transparency logs, right?
The article says that the site has a valid certificate and it should have been possible to detect that domain certificate generation through one of the CT logs? The website hosting company took the domains down in this case but maybe there needs to be a good automated solution which would help most companies report when they did find phishing sites using lookalike domains. Not a trivial problem to solve, I guess.
The last time I looked at BB S3 API they didn't offer the lifecycle controls that AWS over. Mainly the ability to remove old versions of files after a period of time and we didn't want to roll our own expiry solution. Might be worth looking again though.
At $JOB, we have a similar issue with static content. We serve over 1PB a month and the price AWS would charge to use CloudFront is an order of magnitude larger than even a Cloudflare Enterprise plan (which comes with some nice bells and whistles that Cloudfront doesn't offer).
Even with discounts from AWS it just doesn't make sense to use AWS to serve up the assets to users.
We do use S3 as our static asset backend and the combination works really well. I would love to see Cloudflare release a S3 compatible storage service though. I think we'd jump onto that in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, it seems like individuals will start spending more money on cooling solutions (air con, insulation). Local government will spend more on wildfire prevention (fewer trees, more housing restrictions) and national governments will continue to promise they'll ban X, Y and Z in 10-15 years (when they'll not be in power or will have quietly dropped the promise in the next election).
I hope I'm wrong but living in the UK, I really don't see how we get from where we are now to somewhere sustainable fast enough to make any sort of difference.
The Townsend YouTube channel has a large number of episodes in their 18th century cooking series -
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4e4wpjna1vwTRvd1XHZBLCHh....
While it's from an earlier time period, it really shows that people back then still cooked a wide range of dishes that would still be recognized and pretty palatable even today.
Most housing developments in the UK require a certain number of 'low income' housing. These are normally smaller houses which are either sold to low income people or the local government (who them rent them)
I'd love to see a better policy around making new housing developments require better public transport routes or space for shops/offices. The vast majority of the newer estates around me (North Scotland) require a car or a rather long walk just to get to a shop.
I use Discord in different browsers to keep separate accounts active at the same time. It works pretty well in Firefox and Edge. Running in the browser also means discord can't snoop on what apps you have installed or what games you're running and report them back to home base which is another plus.
There are a bunch of trucks outside my house at the moment laying fiber cabling. The email address for the company is basically '
[email protected]' and this isn't a tiny firm.
It left me wondering whether the bosses if the company just don't care or if they were told by the web design company they hired for their site that it'd add thousands to the website cost and decided against it.
You want an even darker pattern? Try requesting the windows telemetry data from a PC which isn't logged in through a MS account. You'll spend weeks going back and forth trying to explain to their support agents that you can't login to the website because you don't have an account. Frustrating doesn't begin to describe it. I've still not been able to get anything from them despite a 30 email chain.
Yeah there are a lot of very obscure legal rules that most people aren't aware of or haven't been enforced in many years.
Not from as far back but my house was built in the early 1980's and my house deeds include the stipulation that I must maintain a garage attached to the property (so I can't convert it to extra living space) because the local government retain the right to convert the space into a decontamination shelter in the event of chemical, biological or nuclear attack. Had a good chuckle with my lawyer regarding it, don't think I'll be too concerned about where to keep my lawn mower if the city has been nuked.