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Re:Postgraphile v5 Released on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:34PM (#47506307)
a ground-up rewrite of the popular GraphQL API from schema builder
I send money to 'the third world' a lot and it's extremely easy without having to resort to crypto nonsense. Hearing these implausible points repeated every time this question comes up just seems desperate now.
Re:Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL on Thursday May 30, 2024 @12:23PM (#40525520)
postgraphile v5 has significantly improved query generation (https://postgraphile.org/postgraphile/next/) since moving to grafast (https://grafast.org/grafast/)
Re:Why, after 6 years, I'm over GraphQL on Thursday May 30, 2024 @06:03AM (#40521945)
many of these concerns are mitigated by ensuring you are using trusted documents (https://benjie.dev/graphql/trusted-documents)
Re:A New Era for Mixed Reality on Monday April 22, 2024 @01:09PM (#40116366)
it requires a meta sign-in, which isn't a facebook account.
they made the change from any to unknown in the catch handler so its not without precedent
Re:GraphpostgresQL: A GraphQL Extension for PostgreSQL on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:55PM (#29435311)
I love postgraphile and the graphile toolkit (worker and migrate are best in class imho).
Re:Why are hyperlinks blue? on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:02PM (#28316692)
The second screenshot is from windows 2, which was released in 1987
I'm not sure about the peering connections but Uganda does have a good range of ISPs (outside of Kampala connectivity is mobile network only).

The mobile providers are:

- Africell (was orange)

- MTN

- Airtel

- Smile

- Uganda Telecom

This is good to know about (and a great idea) - i'll take a look later. The other issue with using a VPN is people can no longer use the 'social pack' which is a cheap social media only data package available on all the networks.
I'm living in Uganda at the moment and have a couple of things to add:

1. VPNs still work fine (I'm using one right now, though its one I installed on a digitalocean instance - it's possible those receiving lots of traffic have now been blocked).

2. This tax is unaffordable for many Ugandans (it would be about 5% of the average wage here). Whatsapp is very popular here and this has impacted everybody I know. Most people I've talked to are using a free VPN (they aren't aware of the risks here).

I haven't done much analysis of the blocking yet but I will be doing a more in-depth post about this whole debacle in a few days.

Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:19PM (#17128635)
The backend API is indeed (modern) Perl and the repository is here: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api
Re:Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates (2017) on Thursday January 04, 2018 @07:06PM (#16075323)
full history of Symantec CA issues: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Symantec_Issues
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2016) on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:08AM (#13080377)
SEEKING WORK - Brighton / London, UK. Remote.

Experienced freelance dev React and React Native.

Backend node.js / postgresql / graphql / REST

Email: [email protected]

Web (updating soon!): http://papercreatures.com

I feel I should do the obligatory Dan Carlin link here: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...

Long, harrowing and left me hankering for more. He covers Verdun in the later episodes.

Re:Mandrill’s Betrayal on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:48PM (#11205017)
We had issues every few months because the server we were assigned would be added to a RBL. Customers would notice, we'd talk to Mailgun and they would move us to another server. rinse, repeat.

The only way to avoid this was to get a dedicated IP which is an additional $59 / month.

I'm not sure why Mailgun couldn't detect this themselves, maybe they do now.

Re:Be aware of phishing at airbnb on Monday July 21, 2014 @09:31AM (#8063553)
I don't understand how this scam was realised then. They must've managed to get access to the applicants true email address somehow?
Re:Be aware of phishing at airbnb on Monday July 21, 2014 @07:50AM (#8063291)
One of my friends was caught out by a similar scam last year. There is plenty of prior art for airbnb to look at when developing a safe platform for people to communicate through. At the very least they should disallow exchange of e-mail / non-airbnb websites via the platform communication channels.
This has been the single best investment i've made to my workflow for years. Really communicative, friendly developer too.
Re:Squarespace: They Asked for My Password. on Friday February 14, 2014 @09:15AM (#7238572)
I was somewhat dumbfounded when I was asked for my apple id and password when I went to get my screen replaced at the apple store.

After some debate with more senior team members, I reset my password to something generic and gave it to them, but it sets a bad precedent for customers who should be educated into never giving their password, under any circumstances.

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