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alternize··on Hetzner under large ddos attack
yep. and i'm pretty annoyed that they do not update their status page more regularly while things seem to get worse by the minute.
alternize··on Hetzner under large ddos attack
it seems large parts of their address space within the 144.76.0.0/24 netblock (and not just the mentioned 144.76.36.0/27) are currently shut down. ipv6 traffic is still fine.
alternize··on The Wallaby Card
so, what's their business model? data mining?
alternize··on Coin
they are "only" doing a preorder, the launch seem to be in summer 2014
alternize··on Coin
at least in the non-us market, this awesome idea comes a bit late: not only are chip + pin pretty much standard nowadays, and new means like contactless payment creditcards / nfc-payments are being rolled out now.

i really would love to see a one-card-for-all tho that supports chip + nfc, but my understanding is that card issuers are eager to ensure that this will not happen.

alternize··on End of Inception decoded [video]
brilliant, thanks!
alternize··on Zero to Peanut Butter Docker Time in 78 Seconds
while docker seems really awesome for development, all articles i've read so far stop at the point where things run, but are not yet really production ready: your article ends with running django in a docker container, which is really cool - but on a random? nat'ed port.

what would be the next steps to actually expose this django container to the public via port 80 and surviving a host server reboot?

alternize··on Do you use native PHP settings?
my settings for php 5.5.5 on debian wheezy with the dotdeb.org apt-repository:

  error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE
  expose_php = Off
  log_errors = On
  display_errors = On
  display_startup_errors = On
  date.timezone = 'Europe/Somecity'
  magic_quotes_gpc = Off
  max_file_uploads = 256
  max_input_vars = 10000
  post_max_size = 296M
  upload_max_filesize = 256M
  session.cache_limiter = ''
  
  opcache.enable=1
  opcache.memory_consumption=128
  opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8
  opcache.max_accelerated_files=4000
  opcache.revalidate_freq=30
  opcache.fast_shutdown=1
  opcache.enable_cli=0
alternize··on ZFS - the future of file systems?
Published: 14:00, 14 August 2006
alternize··on Man compelled by police to undergo surgical procedure to "search for drugs"
and they try to collect the money for the procedures from the victim.
alternize··on NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
while they might not have access to the "Google servers", it now is almost certain they have access to the "Google network" (i.e. fiber cable access). as seen in previous reports, intercepting sea fiber optic traffic between continents seems something the NSA has mastered...
alternize··on ECMA-404: The JSON Data Interchange Format [pdf]
thanks. was wondering the same...
alternize··on Iconic: Advanced icons for the modern web
it's on the main kickstarter page:

"Although this new version of Iconic will be commercial, it's important to state that the current open source version of Iconic will remain freely available."

so the version for which the kickstarter runs will be a new, commercial version:

- with a price >$70

- based/derived on the existing opensource iconic

- the icons in the opensource version will receive an update if they are also in the new commercial version

what i really miss tho is what kind of commercial license the backers/buyers receive for their backing.

alternize··on Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
you might receive notice for your apartment for doing too much of those things, but certainly no fine for showering.
alternize··on Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
you may get fine for taking a shower late in the evening erhm... no. while there might be house rules set by the lessor which prevents certain things that might disturb other inhabitants, it's not a law.
alternize··on Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
i haven't yet made up my mind either. personally, i find the upcoming "1:12" vote [highest salary in a company may at most be 12x the lowest salary] much more dangerous to the swiss economy. the discussions on both votes are very interesting and healthy tho.
alternize··on Google Web Designer
the first two links on that help center page result in 404s: "In Quick mode, you ..." (https://support.google.com/webdesigner/topic/3227054) and "... animation, Advanced mode lets ..." (https://support.google.com/webdesigner/topic/3228643)
alternize··on Gmail service disruption
emails started to pour in here... some with roughly 4hrs delay.
alternize··on Contact form encrypts message with PGP before sending

   $.get("/static/pgpkey", function (key) { 
      // store key
      // hook to submit button click event & encrypt before submit
   });
for the pgp encrypting he's using http://openpgpjs.org/
alternize··on Left with Nothing
thanks. unbelievable - modern government sanctioned robbery
alternize··on Left with Nothing
the article's title makes it hard for me as a non-us citizen to understand what foreclosure means in this context.

what i got from the article is this: due to the financial situation of the owner, a small unpaid tax turns due to unfair practizes into a larger debt of like $5000, which then allowed a judge to enforce the sale of the house so that unpaid taxes could be paid off.

now if the house was sold for the mentioned 197'000, does that mean that the owner at least got the proceeds minus the debt? the title suggests that this would not be the case...

alternize··on Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier
It looks like BeeLine didn't improve your reading speed this time through.

i found the colors to be rather distracting and not helpful. the results of two tests taken seem to agree with that.

alternize··on Show HN: Spotify for Independent Music
cool design! the images load quite slow tho, inspecting them shows that they are fullsize images even when used as mini-icons. quite noticable on all pages...
alternize··on PostgreSQL 9.3 RC1 Available for Testing
while there are a lot of different improvements, i'm really looking forward to the enhanced JSON functionalities (particularly the new operators [0]) and the LATERAL JOIN [1]

[0] http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-... [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/queries-table-expr...

alternize··on Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
absolutely. yet if it won't work properly with the monitor turned on, there's little use for it.
alternize··on Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
same here. my device reports "bright light detected" even when there's not enough ambient light to see the keys on my keyboard. turning off the monitor seems to help, but...
alternize··on CSS Absolute Centering
in this particular case, the company is global and has a fixed load set for their computers/notebooks. the last version was compiled together around 5 years ago.

when you have to support multiple thousands employees, having a stable environment is key. upgrading becomes an expensive and slow process.

the next load set at that company is currently in testing for the last 9 months (!) and will upgrade to ie9 and office 2010 - both will be around for a few years to come, their extended support periods end in 2020.

alternize··on Experiment: To work primarily on an iPad for a week
that's my first thought as well: "what's this guy's/girl's daily job?!". and i wasn't any wiser when i read the job title ("Customer Success Manager") on the infographic.
alternize··on You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
last year, i - without having a facebook account - tried to get the data facebook might have stored about me through the corresponding EU privacy protection laws. all i got was the answer that they do not compile custom data exports upon request anymore and that i would have login into my facebook account [sic] to any data through some data downloading service...

now i wonder if i should have pestered a bit more, i.e. by demanding the release of the possible stored data (which definitely exists seeing the "please join"-spam from some years ago) in writing through snail mail. anyone had any success with that?

alternize··on CSS Absolute Centering
around 2% here... but by far some of the best paying ones (corporates).
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