fortunateregard

Hetzner was the only provider where I was banned despite providing everything I was asked for. I've deployed services on plenty of providers (AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc) without issue.

Apparently, this has been an on-going struggle for them. A few weeks ago they were even called out on an episode of the syntaxFM podcast for this behavior after one of the hosts had his account banned [0].

It's still a bit of a mystery to me honestly. Is their fraud detection so poor where they're forced to ban new sign-ups in this manner? How can Hetzner's competition tell that these accounts are legitimate (without ridiculous requirements such as passport) and Hetzner can't (even when provided with full home address, passport, etc)? I'm assuming Hetzner can't because they've seemingly developed a reputation for banning legitimate developers and the only reason I can think of where they'd be fine with that is if they actually have a very difficult time telling whether an account is legitimate or not.

[0]: https://twitter.com/stolinski/status/1750226126499139665

While you're at it, I'd recommend to consider uploading the new bookmarks to a dedicated bookmark manager and avoid having the browser manage your bookmarks. For folks who rely on bookmarks, dedicated bookmark managers offer great value (eg. auto-archiving a copy of every bookmark to combat link rot). I currently use Raindrop, but if I were to start fresh I'd go with Linkwarden instead.

In case anyone is looking for an up-to-date NixOS guide/cookbook, I've found lots of value in this [1] resource.

[0] - https://nixos.wiki/wiki/PulseAudio

[1] - https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/

Only because my use case is very trivial and does not require most of the features. On the other hand, it did get the job done on the first try so I can't really complain.

To illustrate, assume I frequently browse a blog and want to trick my browser into thinking that I have "favorited" every post. It's trivial to write a for loop that iterates over response.json and sets `is_favorite = true`. But it's not as clear to me where this script should ideally live in order to have the logic always executed before the response is made available to the site.

Your comment made me think about whether I can replace my overkill solution (https://requestly.io/) with something lightweight.

You're not kidding. I used nixos-anywhere [1] for the first time the other day. You can point it to any linux host and it will partition, format, and supplant the target's existing OS with your nixOS config, all with a single command. Incredible.

[1] https://github.com/numtide/nixos-anywhere

Combining nix with direnv is a popular combo for dev environments. Example: https://determinate.systems/posts/nix-direnv

If you haven't worked with nix before, the quick start here is a good place to start https://zero-to-nix.com/

https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime

Is there a reasonably legitimate reason to stop using this?

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  # Expects a single argument: git-peek://<path>
  # Example: git-peek://https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/peek
  kitty --single-instance --detach -e zsh -c "source ~/.zshrc; git peek $1"

It uses a temp directory, and deletes it when you close your editor.

around the 7:00 min mark

  javascript: (() => { document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = prompt("Set video speed multiplier:", "3"); })();

`yt` yank (duplicate) a tab

`W` detach tab to new window

[1] https://vim.reversed.top/

[1] https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

[1] https://safeql.dev/compatibility/prisma.html

A few months ago however, I bought a moonlander keyboard. Now, I've got one of it's keys that, when held, maps the right side to a full traditional numpad. Typing numbers is much more seamless now. Besides numbers, other keys that always broke my flow (looking at you right curly brace) are much easier to type.

Just thought I'd share as it really elevated my overall typing/vim experience.

A few minutes after I hear the fans on my pc start ramping up. Sure enough, I open the system monitor and see chrome going crazy on my CPU. In chrome, I open the task manager, then click sort by CPU. The entry at the top of the list reads:

> subframe: facebook[dot]com

I get taken to the open downdetector.com tab after double clicking the entry. After closing the tab everything goes back to normal.

Does anyone know why or what downdetector/facebook would do that requires 100% of my CPU's resources?

PS. I have ublock origin installed. My cpu is an i9-12900K.