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Re:Comparison site for digital analytics tools on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @09:10AM (#35974750)
I also tried a bunch but am now keeping Matomo. I like it for its cookieless (and as such consent-less) mode.

what I miss from GUA/GA4 is a "top pages" report. Matomo seems to only support a url-path-based treeview like Pages report which makes it quite difficult to find the top performing pages if the site has many sections/categories

Re:25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:30PM (#27813464)
sounds intriguing for backup purposes. I was not able to find this pricing online (without contacting sales), would you have a link for this?
while I share your sentiments regarding some other companies, I was able to get in touch with an actual cloudflare technician (and not some outsourced first level support with standard boilerplate replies) in a timely manner even on their free tier when I ran into a problem with one of their system. every support case with them has do far been a real pleasure compared to what you experience with other companies. I only hope they will be able to keep this level...
Re:Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:24AM (#20262336)
for our sites behind cloudflare, it seems to be a routing issue (among possible other things) - some visitors can still access the sites, others can't. traffic went down roughly 60%.
Re:Show HN: A Color Picker I Made on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:38PM (#19458409)
great color picker, really love the preview images. the only thing missing for me is to have the possibility to specify a specific color in hex as a starting point: most of the time when I'm looking for additional colors for a project, the main color is already pretty much set.
Re:What Was the Microsoft Network? on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:51PM (#17872393)
I had the chance to be part of a beta tester group for The Microsoft Network in my country for roughly two years. while the network's content itself wasn't that attractive, it could also be used to access other internet services, similar as AOL provided.

beta testers were provided access through a toll-free number. exciting times for teenage me, after years of fights due to BBS-inflated monthly family phone bills.

Re:OVH to close HubiC cloud storage service on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @07:50AM (#17125229)
they are not even allowing existing customer to upgrade the subscription. I just received an email this morning that my 100gb are full and wanted to upgrade to the next tier.
that was a great 10 min watch, thanks!

while there are several good points made in the video, one really made me think: if you're in an IQ segment that gives you lot of opportunities - as the prof said: "not just opening word, but programming" -, it is really easy to forget that many people might struggle with "reasonable simple" tasks.

Re:Windows for Linux Nerds on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:16AM (#15245379)
> For many use cases it suffices to symlink a Windows directory (e.g. /mnt/c/Users/myuser) into your WSL $HOME directory somewhere and do your source work

that's what I'm doing for quite a while now and works well for my workload: fast IDE on Windows 10 for coding, reasonably fast building on WSL side.

sure, file access in WSL is slower that native, but still way faster than any other combination I've tried in the last few years (VM + Shared Folders, VM + SMB, VM + file sync, ...) when lots of files are changed at once, for example when switching between project branches.

Re:Hey Synaptics, Can You Please Stop Polling on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:53AM (#15182366)
this problem has been introduced in a driver update around march. but it has been fixed for me (lenovo x1 yoga) in the latest synaptics touchpad driver update v19.3.4.97 [0]:

   [Problem fixes]
    - Fixed an issue where Touchpad Driver might cause high cpu usage of
   "WmiPrvSE.exe".
[0] https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/ch/en/products/LAPTOPS-AND-NETB...
Re:Let's Encrypt is down on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:55AM (#14375630)
additionally, error responses from the OCSP servers are cached 600 seconds - use SSLStaplingErrorCacheTimeout to lower this to a more sane value: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslstap...
Re:USPS confirms Byuu’s PAL SNES package has been lost on Thursday February 16, 2017 @07:55AM (#13659518)
I can see it even in an anon browser session:

    .@USPS @USPSHelp Thanks, I found my missing package ... label. Your employees ripped it off the box and stole a $10,000 package from me. pic.twitter.com/LfuPZ9vZ8U
here are the two pics posted: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEKCVcAATKva.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEssVcAANYlw.jpg
Re:Incorporating a limited company in Germany on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:09PM (#13656788)
sorry for the late reply. nidwalden and zurich... there was not much difference between the process in the two cantons. we had a lawyer and an accountant help us in the beginning to get the hard-to-figure-out things during incorporation right. money well spent!
Re:Incorporating a limited company in Germany on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:21AM (#13559592)
huh, where does your experience come from?

currently running two small swiss it companies (3 and 6 employees), and ran several more in the past. none had a "full-time administrator".

founding costs (notary, fees etc) were always around €2000 for GmbH and €5000 for AG. our yearly expense for an external accounting expert to do our end-of-year accounting and taxes is around 1k to 2k per company (i.e. 1 to 2 man-day).

the current exhibitor (Mauritshuis in Den Haag) has produced a short "making of" video providing some more insights how the frames were made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5SVKsP-hg
"304 km (189 mi) high-speed data link from Sardinia to Tuscany, achieving data rates of up to 356.33 Mbps"

the ubnt community post has some more technical insights and pictures: http://community.ubnt.com/t5/airFiber-Stories/ICTP-and-CISAR...

Re:EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:54AM (#12016502)
dated: 18 Nov 2011
Re:Magento 2.1 released on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:26PM (#11963262)
I have to agree: the magento ecosystem produced some of the worst code I've seen. we're currently supporting a few mid-sized online shops (40-80k products) - around 50% of our development time is spent patching things.

magento 2 has made things a lot better, at least on the tech side. but the 2.0 code is far from stable. even the now available 2.1 is hardly ready for production - unless you patch things up yourself or have a rather simple shop.

Re:Lon.gs: A URL shortener in C on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:02PM (#11957383)
hum. I tried to short "http://lon.gs" and then short the result again, now it redirects indefinitely... http://lon.gs/ack
Re:Ubuntu on Windows on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:22PM (#11393116)
in the demo video https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488 it's visible at 05:53 that the files all belong to root:root and have mode 777
Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:44PM (#11138466)
> then The US actually has the highest rate of IPv6 adoption.

actually, according to these statistics, the adoption rate in belgium is much higher: 40.39%

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