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Re:Distributed Systems 4th Edition on Sunday November 17, 2024 @09:55AM (#42164489)
received almost immediately.
(as a devops/security minded engineer) ...and companies wonder how supply chain attacks are possible
I recall there was an outage 6 years ago. And many companies migrated to dot com over night.

https://hackernoon.com/stop-using-io-domain-names-for-produc...

Re:Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads? on Saturday May 04, 2024 @02:41PM (#40259466)
My previous company used Cloudinary for the purpose and amazingly lot of time was saved.
Most Indian Banking services, Payment endpoints, OTT platforms have adapted phone numbers as identity.

Your phone number is your identity. You can receive or send money only through your phone if the SIM is installed and validated by sending an SMS.

Getting a replacement SIM card requires physical verification using Aadhar (Identity service) with One Time Password validation (Email/SMS). Once the new SIM is active, you will not receive any SMS for the first 24 hours after getting a replacement SIM card. This is to reduce the attack surface of SIM Swap attacks.

Wait! Why not bitcoin?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:32PM (#34235665)
Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now.

move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.

Standard marketing page for improving SEO.

Short answer: it depends

Re:I’m Disappointed with 1Password on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:31PM (#30798356)
Subscriptions lock you in on various levels. It’s very similar to renting a house. You can get kicked out by the owner.

Subscriptions for individuals is different from subscriptions for companies. Companies want to optimise time, individuals may want to optimise cost

personally, I am inclined to pay for IDEs as I spend more than 50% of the time on it, but not so much similar amounts when I use tools no more than 5-10 times a day.

Re:I’m Disappointed with 1Password on Thursday March 24, 2022 @11:28PM (#30798340)
I let my subscription expire about 3 months ago. (CC handling changes in India, you know)

I have only updated about 3-4 passwords out of 100s of items I store. This has been a realisation for me.

1pass, leaves the account in read only mode since it comes from your local storage anyway.

I need to get familiarised with the Bitwarden UI, its not very similar to 1pass, so there is a adoption curve. Hosted Bitwarden with the rust variant option is an option to consider.

Re:The hardest thing about engineering is requirements on Monday March 14, 2022 @07:01AM (#30670864)
Yes agreed. Assuming software engineering context here, not civil or mechanical or other mature industries which usually require millions to create, validate, test and release a new product.

Negotiation of requirements is a problem based on limitations like recources (money, people), known knows and known unknowns.

Re:The hardest thing about engineering is requirements on Monday March 14, 2022 @12:40AM (#30668577)
Requirements is a communication and expectation problem. Not an engineering problem.

Software or hardware engineering is a solution. You can solve the same with a pen and paper if you know what the user needs.

Agile is a way to iteratively validate expectations and revisit and update things with minimal wastage

Voice to Text via https://speechtyping.com/voice-to-text-english

I have bookmarked this a while ago. May not be open source, and does not use the internet to convert. Would work for many use cases, but wont be as good as Google's AI.

works with just the browser with help of webkitSpeechRecognition built into the browser. Works on both Chrome and Safari (not Firefox).

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:17AM (#25792505)
previously present as Friendfeed (till it was shutdown) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed
Re:Ask HN: Where to get cheap VPS with big storage? on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:11AM (#25716079)
bandwidth through Cloudflare or the alliance they formed is free.
Re:My million dollar domain hobby on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:45AM (#25346718)
.app names list by some other seller - https://offbyonenames.com/
Re:Everything You Know About MongoDB Is Wrong on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:59PM (#25216981)
i will leave this here for anyone to validate the original article - http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
Re:AWS Outage – 25Nov2020 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:06PM (#25211430)
> This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard.

looks like a circular dependency to be fixed.

Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:17AM (#25137664)
Mobile Apps are open source, this is not an self hosted solution.
wait, don't they have a legal entity registered in Ireland?
Interesting to see they have cheaper pricing in India - $5/month for a family subscription - https://www.apple.com/in/apple-one/

Usually, the hardware usually costs 30-40% more in India than the advertised price in the US.

Re:Apple One on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @02:19PM (#24484704)
Only $5/month for a family subscription in India - https://www.apple.com/in/apple-one/
Re:Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:08AM (#24478943)
and there is inlets too https://github.com/inlets/inletsctl

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