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AlfeG··on Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal
Most of the donateshitgames are targeted for adults with money actually. There is built-in socialized competition on donates. In every guild/group/party without donating You will be outsider and a person that pull whole team down.
AlfeG··on Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?
Yandex Ads network has a wonderful button - "I'm already bought this product" to stop ad spam on the things already at home )
AlfeG··on Dapr – Distributed Application Runtime
Before 1.0 release there are a notification on home page, that it's not affiliated with Dapper. For quite a long time.
AlfeG··on A “Predatory” Stop-Sign Camera Is Terrorizing My Neighborhood
In Russia tickets from camera are issued by police officer. There is also a lot of errors, but You can go to court with a person that sign You a ticket. And it works.
AlfeG··on Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
No need in charges. Strong person identification via Passport or Bank. Limit those request per identified person or throttle them.
AlfeG··on Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked
I imagine if that happen in real courts. And You got jail without any info on why on how to evade - or You will behave properly on not go in jail
AlfeG··on RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme
It's not friendly to mobile and too grey for my taste. Reading on this site is really hard task
AlfeG··on Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)
I wonder why author think that it hard to steal modern cars. This IS a billion bucks business. Car part prices are high as never. Why not some person to buy replacements from shady market?
AlfeG··on An Unlikely Database Migration
That's good. But single file could break on powerloss. I use sqllite. It's quite easy to use, not a single line though.
AlfeG··on Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days
- instant search. I use tg for notes. It blazing fast. Just try to search in Skype for something to compare
AlfeG··on Telegram surpassed 500M active users. 25 mil new users in the last 3days
I guess this is a wave of WhatsUp-privacy-gate
AlfeG··on WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app
I'm on opposite side. Literally no one use whatsup, only Telegram or Viber
AlfeG··on Telegram's getting ads
But ads is already there. Every channel at some point start to show Your ads. As far I understand telegram will take a bite of those ads and provide to channel owners some platform.
AlfeG··on Google disabled my husband's account
Do You know, is there a self hosted solution for automatic photos upload to own server?
AlfeG··on Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account
Hard thing is that even legit political opinion will be banned if there is enough people that is not in line with your vision. Or like in Ukraine where Facebook moderation team is very very pro government with very narrow vision.

Imagine USA moderation of Facebook consists only of pro Trump's fans with power instant ban Your account.

AlfeG··on AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
Webpack compilation of hello world projects are insanely long task. If new CPU can reduce this *hit in 20% I will be happy
AlfeG··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
With some reasonable delay VSCode will even manage format and highlight this 60mb json. Search will work instantly.
AlfeG··on Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]
This actually helped me to find a contact for old child friend. My phone were still saved in his contact list.
AlfeG··on Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
500 000 000 requests per month is just about 200 request per second. Why there should be any problem for any DB?

As for question - I saw a lot of great reviews on ClickHouse DB

AlfeG··on Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
But the real cost is not 11 month. Db Dev were not 100% working in this project, just monitor from time to time that everything is ok.
AlfeG··on When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]
Play Store
AlfeG··on Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
Syrange, but it works almost without lags on S10 phone.
AlfeG··on Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
I'm really shocked that attacker of so much sophisticated attack, haven't generate unique bitcoin address per tweet.
AlfeG··on Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1 year validity for TLS certificates
This is true for enterprise, but for small business Caddy or Traefik is totally fine.
AlfeG··on Russia lifts ban on Telegram
This ban is useless. Telegram keep working without issues. I haven't hear about any issues about connecting to Telegram servers in RF. Some govn't entites are using Telegram, some high profile people from Ministry using Telegram.
AlfeG··on Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
On one my past job there were fingerprint reader system on enter to office. Almost 6 years later, I were still able to enter office with my fingerprint.
AlfeG··on Ask HN: How does your company manage its encryption keys?
We have very simmiliar issue. All our databases have password Qwerty1234 Android keystore is checked in repository with access key in scripts. Security keys for external services are also checked in into repository. Some external services for production are managed by devs that are long time ago not working in our company
AlfeG··on Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims
For PG - DBeaver do a damn good job for me.
AlfeG··on PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released
There is an option to omit roles on backup `--no-owner` https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html
AlfeG··on The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
For this reason, I bought used cheapest GPU with 3 outputs. More than happy.
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