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Posted by
purge on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @01:34PM
from the postgraphile.org dept.
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.
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
I love postgraphile and the graphile toolkit (worker and migrate are best in class imho).
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.
Posted by
purge on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:53PM
from the medium.com dept.
Posted by
purge on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:36AM
from the blog.plover.com dept.
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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.
Posted by
purge on Friday February 12, 2016 @07:03PM
from the stevemcconnell.com dept.
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purge on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @05:49PM
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purge on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:52AM
from the xkcd.com dept.
Posted by
purge on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:53AM
from the drive.google.com dept.
Posted by
purge on Thursday October 30, 2014 @07:43PM
from the github.com dept.
I don't understand how this scam was realised then. They must've managed to get access to the applicants true email address somehow?
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.
Posted by
purge on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:43AM
from the reddit.com dept.
Posted by
purge on Thursday February 20, 2014 @06:04PM
from the spikeaerospace.com dept.
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.