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- Memcachier: Several Clusters Down (status.memcachier.com)
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As discussed in quite a few HN threads, I agree with what seems to be the consensus that DMCA is a mess, ripe for bad actors. And, as discussed often, recourse against bad actors who file purposefully fraudulent…
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Backup failed and attempts to reach the website timed out. Everything else worked fine, even Google worked without popping up a captcha. Turns out iDrive is blocking certain IPs used by my VPN (Mullvad)... no message,…
- Rackspace (non-Exchange) hosted email down now, too (status.apps.rackspace.com)
- Space rock that destroyed ancient city may have inspired Biblical story of Sodom (theconversation.com)
- Amazon “conditions of use” now preclude arbitration (amazon.com)
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Anyone else get the email today from HBOMax@mail.hbomax.com (mail headers match), with subject "Integration Test Email #1", and message "This template is used by integration tests only" Oops.
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The past few days we started seeing a high (but intermittent) percentage of failed email sends using Sendgrid. It would be 80% fails (406 status code in our logs) for an hour or two, then OK for an hour or two, then…
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It seems to me that the official recommendation "the best vaccine is the one they offer you first" ignores one crucial consideration that might make a better decision for some individuals to be "skip the J&J if I can…
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TL;DR Formerly unusably-slow for backups a few years ago, the built-in Target Disk Mode in Macs has actually improved in latter-day Intel models (using a Thunderbolt 3 cable), now nearly 1/2 as fast as an external USB-C…
- Target Disk Mode now “reasonably” fast migrating between 2019/2020 Intel MBP (blog.pardner.com)
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Each attempt by the US government to weaken encryption with backdoors seems to teeter upon a pivotal assertion that the government can be trusted with such "keys". Forever. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act…
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When designing a internal CRM we incorporated a few extra features such always displaying link addresses (mailto and url), which works so well at making the majority of phfishing emails so obvious I just cringe every…
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On Oct 23 My MBP 16" died while being used, and showed no signs of life, 9 months into the Applecare warranty period. Apple confirmed receipt on Oct 29. Since then the repair status page has said "Our technicians are…
- humor: Evidence Amazon might now use naked photos for MFA? (blog.pardner.com)
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Got a "real" invoice from Paypal, purporting to be GoDaddy saying "If you do not make a payment today, the domain will be marked for deletion." A quick google shows these have been reported to PayPal at least 6 months,…
- Apple Watch “Stupid” Links Example (blog.pardner.com)
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In the event of an alleged copyright infringement, the DCMA explicitly provides a dispute process, wherein a take-down can be halted by the target until/unless the complainant obtains a court order. In contrast, if your…
- When you use those cheap overseas web developers, double-down on Testing (blog.pardner.com)
- A Unified Theory of Cutlery Naming (flickr.com)
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Would love some recommendations of an alternate card processor for web checkout with comparable ease of integration and fee structure to Stripe? We currently use Stripe, and it's mostly awesome except for one incredibly…