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gcardone_on Stop the Apple Music app from launching

I hate how MacOS would start Apple Music every time I accidentally tapped my earbuds. To disable it I used an even lower tech solution, which works on corp laptops that don't allow installing arbitrary software:

1. Open System Settings

2. Navigate to Screen Time -> App Limits -> Add Limit...

3. Select "Music" and set an "Every Day" limit of 0 minutes.

gcardone_on Google Cloud's run rate is now over $8B

SNI is supported by GCP load balancers, see https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificate...

gcardone_on SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

Disclaimer: I am an SRE at Google, opinions are my own.

There's an excellent talk by Google VP of SRE Ben Treynor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9NoqYBb4U. tl;dw: try to measure actual user experience, and make sure that even the long tile of customer still gets a good product experience. What "good product experience" means depends, on your product.

The rest of the error budget is for you to spend on releasing new features, changing the underlying architecture, etc.

gcardone_on Spotify Form F-1

> Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.

My discover weekly playlist ALWAYS contains at least one song in Portoguese and at least two in German. I speak neither of those languages, and I've never willingly searched and played songs in those languages (except for "99 Luftballons" once).

I also get some terrible variation of "Here comes the sun" at least once a month despite not listening to The Beatles at all. [0] is the one that I hate the most.

Spotify, please sthap. I can't take any more Portoguese, German, and "Here comes the sun" cover songs.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/track/5PWh3rG5zWv7hVvWHRMbsf

gcardone_on iPhone X Teardown

Disclaimer: I'm an SRE at Google, my opinions are my own.

We actually release a decent amount of information, see [0]. I particularly recommend "Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network" [1].

[0] https://research.google.com/pubs/Networking.html [1] https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/46286.pdf

gcardone_on Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog used to do it too.

gcardone_on Analysis of 419,000 FlapMMO attempts

The author just updated the post adding a link to download the raw data.

CSV: http://files.t3hz0r.com/projects/software/sandbox/flappy/fla... MongoDB: http://files.t3hz0r.com/projects/software/sandbox/flappy/fla...