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YaBaon Ask HN: Anyone at Facebook can help me unlock my mother's hacked account?

Good luck with that mate. They make it hard to legit users, yet, scammers keep popping around without issues.

YaBaon Ask HN: Why does Facebook not have a way to report a scammer?

They don't care. Scammers are just numbers like everyone else. What matters is the numbers and generated traffic so that they can charge for ad prints, who cares if they're real people, cats, dogs, bots or scammers.

YaBaon Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API

I usually check up compatibility with Home Assistant and if the service is cloud or if it can work locally. If both check, they have a new customer, otherwise, there are plenty of brands and products out there.

Protest with your wallet, buy from others, the sooner the hardware companies realize this is a stupid move (locking down), the sooner we'll have better integrations.

YaBaon Ask HN: Is there ever a reason to expose an SQL Server to the internet?

No, however, I do know that a big national company does this because the customers need to upload data directly. IMHO they should use an API instead, so no, I don't see any reason to do it. I wouldn't do it, it's a major security risk.

YaBaon Ask HN: How do I stop companies from scraping my site?

You don't. If the information is valueable enough it will be scrapped, you can use captchas, logins and all the tips and tricks available, but at the end of the day, if a dev wants to scrape the info, it will.

YaBaon Ask HN: How does LinkedIn evade SPAM?

It's not spam, you've accepted the terms when registering. Now, you need to shut it off in Linkedin itself, not in the e-mail provider.

Real spammers don't give you an option to opt out, some even include fake "unsubscribe" option, which in reality, only confirms to them that the e-mail is active and valid.

YaBaon Ask HN: Have you ever had to hack into your own home?

My kid got locked out while I was away. Lauched Telegram, sent my Home Assistant bot a message to open the door covers; sent new message to unlock door and turn off the alarm. Done.

YaBaon Show HN: Backname.io – every IP address gets its own domain

Ok, but piHole can also be used to set up fake domains to be used inside the network.

YaBaon Show HN: Backname.io – every IP address gets its own domain

Thanks, but I can do the same using PiHole and setting up a fake DNS

YaBaon Show HN: Backname.io – every IP address gets its own domain

I'm failing to see the utility of this if I still have to type the IP address. Also, it fails using local address like 192-168-1-1.backname.io where it might be usefull somehow, so, please explain. Thanks.

YaBaon Ask HN: Gitlab or Gitea for self-hosting Git?

I'm pretty happy with Gitea, does the job, simple to set up and now it support actions with multiple runners.

Tried gitlab, was a nightmare to set up and consumed a lot of resources.

YaBaon Ask HN: How to transfer K8s cluster to on-prem Linux server

You don't need K8s for that, only gitea (with actions enabled) and a server running docker. Actions (like Github Actions) will take care of building, deploying and restarting the container.

YaBaon Ask HN: How to transfer K8s cluster to on-prem Linux server

The easiest way would be running K3S scripts. You'll have a master and multiple nodes running in minutes. Managing it however... it's a whole different thing.

YaBaon Ask HN: Please recommend me an NSFW content detection API

This looks nice: https://github.com/TheHamkerCat/NSFW_Detection_API

Paid solution: https://www.edenai.co/pricing?referral=how-to-detect-explici... or https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/nsfw-detector

YaBaon Ask HN: Why are Android apps so hard to use?

A bit unfair that title mate.

That's a single app in a million apps. Yes, there's poor and low standard apps in the market, but that can happen regardless of the underlying OS.

My only problem with Android is that Google doesn't allow to filter by country, I hate to see chinese clones while searching for something.

Other than that, it's the same across platforms, good and bad developers, good and bad UI/UX designs.

YaBaon [dead]

You're asking the wrong questions.

Buy yourself a new phone/computer/SIM card and get rid of the ones you own.

If you cannot even prove it, you're just wasting your time.

Having dealt with a paranoid customer in the past, I honestly don't believe when they said they've been hacked without even knowing what that means.

YaBaon Ask HN: Can I own an IP address and take it with me across providers?

Could you provide more details about IN-BERLIN ? I've took a look at the website, it's confusing, and they ask registration via post/fax, explicitly saying they do not accept e-mail. Which form have you used? (probably my issue is with DE translation).

Is there any other sponsoring LIR recommended? Thank you.

YaBaon Ask HN: Resources on reverse engineering web-applications?

Fiddler, BurpSuite, Postman are great tools.

YaBaon Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

Sad to ear that, but people have a wrong idea about the cloud, it's just others people hardware and like everything, there's a limit.

They cannot warn you because it's very hard to predict how many new customers will come or if the existing ones will create more instances.

I know about a bank with the same issue, basically, they've hogged all the resources in a specific region and yet, they need more. Unfortunately this things take time, MS cannot setup a new datacenter in a couple of days.

>but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us.

Why? it's easy: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manag...

Latency issues from app to DB?

YaBaon Ask HN: Why shouldn't I use port forwarding?

You would be better of to switch provider. ISP should have one purpose, provide internet access, not control what you do with it. Here they don't even block SMB, let alone other services. If one couldn't open services to the outside ISP would be out of business, in an era of IoT, almost everyone I know has at least one webcam exposed. Is it secure? well, depends on the person who set up the thing. Blocking common ports it's a router feature, but you can turn it off. Just stay away from those shady ISPs. I've been running my own HTTPS server, SSH bastion host and VPN without any issue for years.

YaBaon Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

We've all been there, drunk texting some ex :)

> What a weird blog post.

Thing is, Google, Twitter and many other platforms reinstate accounts after some public crying like this one.

> Now, I have been pretty vocal in my support for Ukraine

This pretty much answers it all, OP wrote the tweet, remember that there are no evidences of account being hacked? Account got blocked. OP makes a fuss about it hoping that visibility from other platforms will help him.

Just delete the tweet and get over it...

YaBaon Ask HN: Why don’t you use Linux as your daily driver OS?

I always had a dual boot system until Windows 7 became EOL. Now Linux is my primary OS and couldn't be happier. Still use Win7 in VM because the lack of support of some special software I work with. For everything else, Linux is the right way.

YaBaon Why Are People Leaving WhatsApp in Favor of Telegram?

Why not? Internet always worked like this. As long as enough people change, others will follow. In the last few days I've received a lot of notifications from people migrating. Also, I don't trust Facebook, Whatsapp was an exception on my mobile, not anymore.

YaBaon Ask HN: Why are you still using Windows 7?

I'll never install Windows 10, went from dual boot (Win7+Linux) to full Linux system + VirtualBox with Win7 because some of my work softwares won't play along with Wine. I don't think to change in the nearest future, everytime I open a tech site, it always has news about bugs and problems with the "new" update. Use your time with useful things, not solving around stupid bugs, installing and uninstalling stuff just because Microsoft doesn't care about their customers being betatesters.

YaBaon Ask HN: What is a product you wish was sold in your country but isnt?

BladeRF, it's a SDR and Nuand won't sell it to Europe.

YaBaon Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online

Makes sense, thank you.

YaBaon Ask HN: Why didn’t Cyberpunk do a beta program and avoid all the bugs?

bold of you to assume they have QA.

YaBaon Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online

You tell all over the site that Flurly only charges 1% but then at "Pricing" says: 1% + 2.9% + other fees. Care to explain that? I see it like: here's a new iphone, 1$, cheapest in the market. And then at small print: 1$ + 999$.

YaBaon Ask HN: AWS rejects my request to close my account, is it legal?

Since the typo is a valid domain, get in contact with that person, explain the situation and close the account. Domain in use? talk to the owner. Domain parked? buy it. Yes, it's stupid, Amazon should solve it, but you can try different approaches.