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AlfeG··on Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium
Just don't use and especially pay to sites that will enforce this.
AlfeG··on Review: The AYANEO 2S is my new favourite handheld
There were even a time when they release a model, that were few millimeters off (height, width, thick and camera location) on the same named model for different countries. Have fun to buy a proper case for it.
AlfeG··on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy
But they don't compare sensor modules, they compare consumer devices
AlfeG··on Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
This kind of QR codes should work nice on big billboards
AlfeG··on Investigating Linux phantom disk reads
Because otherwise competitive benchmarks will show not so great results against other dbses
AlfeG··on Google Cloud Europe service disruption
Every customer of affected region try to restore data/compute in other regions. It's quite known and expected issue in case of region loss.
AlfeG··on iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
Or usability of this feature would be so frustrating, that no one will use. Constant security popups on every start, very limited available API for apps, etc...
AlfeG··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Afree.

Skip locked main utility is to provide work queue capability to PG. Even documentation of PG is referring to skip locked as a main driver for work queues

AlfeG··on React is holding me hostage
VsCode + Volar + Vue + TS do what is expected. Fully typed autocomplete experience, same as for Typescript. Zero problems.
AlfeG··on Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole
From my experience randomly blocking rules in WAF is essentialy a feature of the WAF. I have random issues with WAF all over the places from random providers on different projects.

And yep. Disabling WAF were always a good enough solution untill we figure out which of the request parts are triggering rules

AlfeG··on De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
There is an Explorer Patcher tool on Github. It's doing pretty much great work for fixing Win11 issues!
AlfeG··on This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
I have an AI service from my mobile company that talks to scammers. Idea is to hold scammer on call as much as possible. Then you can listen or read transcribe of those calls.
AlfeG··on CDC File Transfer
Torrents are no longer main source of copyrighted materials, at least for shows and movies. There is a bunch of illegal services that provide Netflix like experience against pirated content.
AlfeG··on Don't Use Stripe
Are there no real banks in USA provide API to process payments?
AlfeG··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
There is similar law in Ukraine for quite a long time. Everyone just ignore this law..

I bought flat for cash in USD not even in local currency. Car were bought in cash in severL transactions to be below limit. Part of payments were in foreing currency.

It only consumers who became affected. Less protection from law in case of fraud. By documents car price were 10 times less You pay.

Meanwhile this law has not prevent any corruption or apply any incovients to local barons.

AlfeG··on Lastpass Security Incident
And very low ability to do any improvisation. Without specifying every detail of implementation task will not be completed. Even in areas that don't require very specific solutions, and need to just work.
AlfeG··on Username cannot contain 'clyde'
Because it's not working. Put a big red flag that this is a scammer, and still there will be people falling into scam
AlfeG··on Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year
Is it possible to create another god keys with this key? Will other keys expire also?
AlfeG··on Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size
Should I write my own QR parser or just use available one. Should I write my own crypto algo or just use battletested one.

Every line I write - line I need to support.

AlfeG··on .NET 7 is Available Today
It took almost two years of development to do this conversions in out project... but in my case heavy lift of move from webforms to mvc were already done, so it a bit easier.
AlfeG··on .NET 7 is Available Today
It's same issue as deploying containers.
AlfeG··on .NET 7 is Available Today
I guess You need net7 of You really need every bit of performance.

In our case improved hit reload is very welcome. So I guess we will incremenet our runtime.

AlfeG··on An account was suspended
It's not Russian accounts. It's Ukraine account. My mother's home is located in occupied territory. Now Amazon consider that I'm affiliated with LNR.

Russian accounts are not banned. If anyone interested.

AlfeG··on An account was suspended
Only when it's not. It's legal for AWS to have business with Russian entities. It's illegal to have business with occupied territories (LNR/DPR in particular).

It's like You know. I have not suffered enough according to those sanctions. Lost a flat of my mother in my homeland. And now loss Amazon/IMBD accounts. Seems that I will be loosing my Google account soon.

AlfeG··on An account was suspended
I got my Amazon account deleted. I have old credit card linked to AWS with billing address in one city of Ukraine. Few weeks later after city been occupied I got message from Amazon that my account is locked due to sanctions. They give me ability to comply by removing offending credit card. But I can't do this because account is locked. I've got zero human response only broken scripts from support that I need to login and change my details.
AlfeG··on That Shouldn't Happen – UnreachableException in .NET 7
Invalid Data, not date
AlfeG··on Taildrop
For two years I've been remote working from home on the PC located in office via Remote Desktop. While ZeroTier is still enabled as fallback solution to get access to work PC (as well as Chrome remote) Main workforce became Tailscale.

With Zerotier RD connection were not stable. Even using same ISP at home and at work don't help a lot. With Tailscale I've forgot about this kind of issues. It's just works.

Also now I'm constantly using Tailscale as a VPN on mobile devices.

AlfeG··on Lufthansa has not banned AirTags
All airline I've been travel, disable WiFi during takeoff and landing.
AlfeG··on President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia
Recruiting 300k and number of dead soldiers are not always correlate. It's amount of land to control and amount of soldiers required is in correlation. RF seems underestimate amount of soldiers need to control and protect land, they dropped lot of land and reduced length border to protect.
AlfeG··on Trending tabs are being deprecated due to low usage
Trending is only way to observe trends outside of personalized or curated bubble. Not a lot of spam happen in trending tabs.
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