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bonjurkes··on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
First of all thanks for providing an alternative 2FA app on iOS platform that is open source.

I wanted to be one of the users but when I tried to import my backup from Raivo your app just gives null point exception error. I sent an email to your support team and they said they will get back to me once they hear back more from devs, which was 2 weeks ago.

For now I am using 2FAs but it would be great if I can get to try your app once importing works fine.

Good luck!

bonjurkes··on GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
Out of curiosity, what are the options for log parsing? The ones I know are Awstats and Webalizer. Is there any more up to date or more modern alternative to these two?
bonjurkes··on My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20510933
bonjurkes··on EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
I meant the letter published on the article link shows the client's name, without any redaction even thou some other info is redacted. That's why I assumed it's safe to mention client's name here.
bonjurkes··on EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
The letter mentions the client's name as Mr. Niemela, upon some Googling you can see that he sued Google and some other companies to remove his online presence and some news about him. So it looks like it's just usual practice for him & his law firm.

(This info wasn't redacted so I assume it's safe to mention it here)

bonjurkes··on The UK authorities made illegal copies of the Schengen Information System
It also includes information of 3rd world country citizens'. Like passport info, photos, fingerprints, their visit to Schengen countries.

When you apply for visa for Schengen countries, your info will be recorded on SIS. And stored there for 5 years.

Note: EU uses the term "3rd world country" term themselves and Im citizen of one of those countries.

bonjurkes··on iPhone Apps Surreptitiously Communicated with Unknown Servers
You can use Pi Hole both on your local network and on cloud as VPN on your iPhone (only DNS or for full traffic)
bonjurkes··on GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
There is practically nothing on the webpage for uBlock, Ghostery and Privacy Badger to block.

It's like a dream come true.

bonjurkes··on Amazon’s Fake Review Economy
Like others mentioned, Amazon sends the question via email to verified buyers as "some user have a question and needs your help" and there is a button to answer their question (which opens the browser).

I saw lots of "I don't know" answers to questions, I guess Amazon realised this also as now they put "I don't know" button to emails.

bonjurkes··on Amazon’s Fake Review Economy
I'm not exactly sure if it's for scam or some problem on Amazon side.

I was looking for gaming mousepad for a known brand and item was sold by Amazon. Majority of the reviews (mainly 3 stars or less ones) were mentioning as sensitivity of the mouse is not good or one of the mouse button got broken quiet fast.

I don't think a well known brand would do this trick but apparently there is a problem and Amazon should fix it.

bonjurkes··on How Chrome’s built-in ad blocker will work when it goes live tomorrow
As I see, it looks like Chrome will block mainly other ad companies' ads. If you try to use Adsense ads like this, it will result in penalty/ban because it's already forbidden by the rules of the program.

So this feature just blocks the interrupting ads, Google already announced earlier that they will be downgrading the sites on SERP if they contain annoying/interrrupting ads, like full screen, sticky, hard to close etc.

bonjurkes··on Who moved my cheese, 1Password?
I was looking for a password manager for a long time and ended up with KeePass. There is KeeWeb version, which looks neat but I think original KeePass app is better because of better plugin support.

I use key file and Master password to access my password storage, which is hosted at Dropbox which is behind 2FA. Key file is hosted locally. So I believe this is more secure than just using Master password.

For iOS , I use minikeepass, you can export the password database from Dropbox if you install the app. The need of exporting password database to Minikeepass each time you make update on other devices is kind of annoying tho.

There is a plugin for connecting KeePass to Dropbox and Firefox has plugin for autocompleting and saving passwords to Keepass, so for me it works perfectly fine on desktop.

But in the end, I don't pay for password manager, and I can control my own data.

bonjurkes··on Hetzner Private Cloud
I used Hetzner like 10 years ago and didn't had good experience. I doubt anything changed over time. They offer home grade hardware and low priority support in return of cheap prices. They only deal with hardware and network issues (which is quite normal for Dedi service with normal support option)

- Hardware they offer is more prone to fail because of using home grade hardware for long time (especially HDD).

- It's almost impossible to convince them HDD is failing even with showing SMART logs. Hardware needs to fail so they will replace it.

- Hardware replacement times are quite fast (thanks to SLA). They replace it with another used HDD, if you want something newer, than they ask some money for replacing with less used HDD.

- They scan their network regularly for hosted malware, trojan etc. so if one of your sites get hijacked and has iframe viruses etc. Hetzner will null route your server.

- If your IP gets DDOS, null route.

- If you get DMCA warning, null route without waiting 24 hours.

- If your NAT leaks your internal traffic to WLAN, null route.

- It takes almost few day to lift null route ban on your server when you get in contact with support. It's okay for support tickets to wait in queue for long time because of service level but I believe null route tickets needs priority no matter what.

We decided to move over to another provider after having problems.

Hetzner also owns few other brands like Serverloft.

bonjurkes··on Samsung warns customers that Smart TVs are always listening (2015)
Looks like there is a small difference as voice search and voice activation.

I own smart tv (Sony) that has microphone on the remote which you can only use at Youtube search bar (then light lit on the remote when microphone is active), and I believe it's quite nifty as typing via remote is PITA.

On the other hand I don't know voice activation features on smart TVs. Do you tell your TV to "turn on" or "change channel", which is not practical IMHO.

It makes sense that personal assistants (amazon echo, apple siri, google whatever) listen all the time as you use trigger words to activate them but it's so useless for TVs.

bonjurkes··on Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014)
I never experienced cubicle environment (at least not like the ones at US offices), private space means like 4 tables placed like a square (one desk on each corner) and seperated with covers on desk. It's not ideal to work in cubicles which is slightly bigger than coffins.

Ping pong room, Nerf shooting ranges are all "fancy" rooms they use to give the modern, fun working environment message (or lie). If they need extra space, I am sure most companies would demolish even bathrooms but don't touch those "fun rooms". And I agree that it's bs.

bonjurkes··on Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014)
That's a good point. Actually I was in this situation. This is what happened: Team X requested a room for their department (4 person in total) because they need silence and quiet atmosphere to do their job, and open office was too noisy for them. Then other teams said that we need quiet atmosphere also, why they can get a room but our team can't.

Result: No team got any room (except heads and managers)

Bottomline: Equal opportunities should get offered to every team or drama happens. People don't mind if managers and heads have their own rooms (not even shared rooms) for some reason but if any other team have shared room but they don't have, then it causes drama.

bonjurkes··on Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (2014)
I am working for almost 6 years and all of my workplaces were (are) open office. But I believe there is a big difference as privacy at open office and private office.

There are open offices with privacy (covers around your table) and just 10s of people sitting next to each other on a row with tiny tables.

Problem with no privacy is, people tends to talk next to each other compared to open office with privacy (people use messengers more often then). This creates a lot of noise in the office which causes needing of headphones. And of course there is always some person that shouts from first to last row about some joke.

If you are not giving constant smoking breaks your only breaks at work time is visiting some non-work website (facebook or news site etc.) and when you visit one of these sites, your colleagues just start eyeing up your monitor, or you get eye contact with your boss (Murphy's law). Thanks to big screens nowadays, someone can see your screen 3 rows behind you whenever you switch to not work related website.

Having private office for everyone won't be possible on space wise and I believe author and other people just needs open office with covers around. Sitting at row of tables like at internet cafe is bad impact on your performance for sure (and also privacy wise).

Last but not least, I should say that, because of productivity reasons (usage of personal phones, social sites etc.) is a big bs. for having open offices. As long as you do your duty on time with good quality, you should be allowed to use your personal phone or facebook or whatever. Blocking usage of these items or websites doesn't assure of better productivity.

bonjurkes··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
Which means your VPN service is telling your IP to authorities, which makes it not secure, which brakes the purpose of VPN service
bonjurkes··on My search for a MacBook Pro alternative
XPS user here, I really love this laptop (L502x) but I will "never" buy Dell laptops again.

Because, this laptop is 4 or 5 years old (work like charm) but the problem with all Dell laptop models are, their adapter has worst quality ever. Simply, Dell adapters are not built to last long.

When Dell adapter is broken (a.k.a the chip inside doesn't send signal that it's genuine one) Dell laptop stops charging the battery, shows annoying adapter not recognized message.

And most annoyingly it drops CPU speed, I have Sandybridge 2630QM cpu i7 with 2.5 Ghz but failing adapter makes it speed 900 Mhz and it doesn't get any faster. IF you plug out the adapter then it turns back to normal but putting back on "not recognized" adapter causes the same issue.

So simply, Dell kills your laptop completely if the adapter is broken. So now I either have to buy a new laptop or find a used adapter to replace my current 4 year one.

bonjurkes··on YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
"While in Nagpur, I met a young man who loved using YouTube to watch WWE wrestling and wanted to show us his favorite video. But after he found it and tapped to play, the video just wouldn’t load"

I believe this is really bad example, as WWE is a "premium content" so you have to pay extra to watch it. Therefore Youtube removes those videos (there is only 2 WWE videos which is from legal accounts).

So it's pretty awkward example just as "the young man in Nagpur wants to watch Game of Thrones with his HBO Go membership but he can't because of he is poor internet connection."

bonjurkes··on Mosaics Revealed at Ancient Greek City of Zeugma in Turkey
Turkish government has huge success for destroying historical remainings. They just send all Zeugma remainings under water because they wanted to build a barrage right there!
bonjurkes··on LiteCoin Mining on EC2 is currently profitable
It's already hvm. Amazon says Kernel ID : - . Can it be the reason? Should we choose kernel manually?
bonjurkes··on Sparrow alternatives (Mac)
Thanks a lot!

Too bad it's subscription based