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cstraton IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on

I'd never seen this before thats hilarious. Wonder how much of this really exists in the wild.

I've done this too before, weird thing to have to do but sometimes people just don't get it. Although, nine times out of ten I get asked if I work at that business because the first bit of my email address is their business name.

cstraton Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

Learned so much and turned me off ever wanting to manufacture something!

cstraton Check If Email Exists

Yeah I do the same thing with FastMail - its awesome.

Here is a recent story where this came in handy.

I recently had a spam phone call from someone fishing for personal information, using a 'survey' as cover. During the call I learned that they had my email address as 'ledger@xxxx.xxx'. This must have come from the Ledger data breach (https://www.ledger.com/message-ledgers-ceo-data-leak). This made the call even more nefarious than I originally thought... nothing I can do, they have that email address and my personal number. Just made me more aware of what is going on.

cstraton Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

No one has one - none have shipped. Your backer position is irrelevant right now. If they had released a batch of 2000 and you missed out, yes I'd be upset. They are still fine tuning their tooling to mass produce. It's way behind schedule, but with everything on kickstarter - allow for 2x the time to avoid disappointment.

cstraton Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

I loved their post on the iButton. https://blog.flipperzero.one/taming-ibutton/

I've never actually come across this interface. It's not common in Australia, I still really enjoyed the write up and seeing how they overcame the difficulties.

cstraton Flipper Zero: How it’s made and tested

Everyone is in the same boat - they are taking time with production. At least they are communicating and showing the effort that is going into production. This is 100x better than some of the other products I've `backed` on crowdsourcing platforms.

cstraton Run your ghost blog on Raspberry Pi for free

Ah ok cool, I guess it isn't hard to find then.

I usually have my docker-compose.yml file in a dir along with the mapped volume directories. Allows me to just rsync that one folder to capture all config & data.

Are names volumes just a way to not have to worry about the files and leave them handled by docker?

cstraton Run your ghost blog on Raspberry Pi for free

Maybe I don't understand docker as well as I'd like - but why do you create the named volume instead of simply mapping to a local folder on the host?

In my experience mapping to a local dir is nice because you can browse the files on the host machine and can implement backups etc... quite easily.

When you do a named volume like that, where are the actual files on the host?

cstraton Inside a viral website

It’s all done just by image processing. Once premium you can see the screenshots of the items on market used to provide the price estimate. They must have a couple accounts running continually going through the market checking prices. That’s why some items are 2-3 hours delayed.

cstraton Inside a viral website

I also pay for tarkov-market :D

It is almost a must if you're a casual player. It is too hard to keep up with the barters, flea market rates and even just the quests and items for quests.

cstraton Comparing Svelte and React

This comment makes me want to seriously give Svelte a try. I've browsed the docs and it looks really cool, I've always just held back because I feel like I am juggling enough JavaScript libraries in my head already and React has been great.

cstraton Germany to let citizens store ID cards on smartphone

Might be a stretch to say its integration, but you can scan a QR code and sign into a RSL. Edit, I too haven't carried a wallet in years, how good is it.

cstraton Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005)

In addition to the shorts, when people buy call options - doesn't that mean someone else is on the hook to provide shares at a later date, and they might not hold them at the time of selling the option?

cstraton GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

I'm unable to watch any of them, only the first few seconds loads. Hopefully they can improve because this is terrible

cstraton Due to a problem with AWS, many "smart" vacuums or doorbells will stop working

It could also be a safety mechanism if the contents is too hot?

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https://www.alexiuminternational.com/

These guys have a product specific for that industry, non-toxic etc... not sure if they are sold in the UK. It is an Aussie business H/Q in USA.

cstraton One-Word Domains

I had the same thing happen! I bought a domain a long while back, it auto-renewed and charged me more than $500 for 1 year. I've never used the domain properly and would have just let it lapse, they did warn me of the pending auto-renewal but I ignored it thinking it would cost $30 or something.

This was for a `.club` TLD.

cstraton PWA Store

Oh I missed that bit? That is good to hear.

cstraton PWA Store

Code-Server/Coder/Hosted VSCode

https://github.com/cdr/code-server

This is amazing. I mean it isn't a stretch considering the main VSCode app is Electron based, but having a hosted development environment like this has always been a dream...

cstraton Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb

You need a certain amount of karma before it is enabled. I can downvote comments - but not posts. I've got just over 500 karma. I think 500 was the tipping point.

cstraton Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month

Oh wow, so it really is 0 free emails...

cstraton Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement

The photo of the wallet falling apart with the Indian cough syrup packaging is hilarious... wow what a shambles having the same product code recycled by a vendor for multiple "crappy" products.

cstraton Category:Obsolete occupations

Yeah, some are actually not obsolete like Scribe.

cstraton How fast do I talk?

I feel like I experience this in a similar way to yourself.

I also struggle to see images in my head sometimes, I am mostly of european decent (German/Czechia on one side - Australian/English on the other side). Loved reading as a child, although I wouldn't say instead of socialising but I read a lot more than was typical.

Couple this with an addictive personality. I really get into sports, activities, and video games. Obsessed with them for months at a time. I love the idea of building xxx app/business - but I rarely stick with these through to completion. Almost as if I get all the joy and enjoyment from the formulation of ideas and the beginning of the journey but get over it quickly and move on to something else.

cstraton 16-inch MacBook Pro

I went searching for it too, couldn't find this anywhere either.

cstraton Doodling can help you pay attention

Is this doodling on an iPad or do you scan this in? Looks amazing.

cstraton We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems

That is true, but nothing I have access to right now (with one of the big 4 aussie banks)

cstraton We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems

Firstly I want to say that as a user I hate using the Mac App Store - mainly for all the reasons posted there.

There is one large benefit which is often forgotten. When I use the App Store I don't need to worry about your website/database getting hacked or leaking my personal data/credit card information. This is mostly avoided by indie developers using Stripe or some other popular payment gateway, but it is still a concern and annoyance that is removed by something like the App Store.

cstraton Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

It is an acronym for the National Broadband Network. A government owned enterprise which was supposed to build a ubiquitous broadband network covering Australia but has been plagued with political meddling and interference since the get-go.