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jonatronon Django REST framework 3.15.0

I find it hard to criticize DRF, but one thing that could be added to the documentation is how to deal with M2M. Last time I tried a few different ways of doing it, and only two of them worked, then I had to figure out which way is better.

Also, https://www.cdrf.co/ helps with the class inheritance tree.

jonatronon Intentionally Blank Page

jonatronon New FCC Broadband Standards Should Consider Latency

I remember having problems with Meraki Access Points where if you set the channel to auto, it'd choose a DFS channel, then within a day all of them would be on the same non-DFS channel. Manually setting each AP to different non-DFS channels helped but eventually they were replaced with better non-Meraki APs.

jonatronon The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service

What if you have 10 brands, with 10 products each, and there's 10 marketplaces.

jonatronon The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service

You sell jastingo™ brand widgets, but you notice fakes are being sold on eBay, Amazon, AliExpress. You set up a scraper to search for jastingo widgets every day on every marketplace site, but you get blocked. So now you need an unblocker to enforce your copyright/trademark/patent.

jonatronon BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel

To me it's surprising they didn't keep them for backup / resiliency. There's a lot of rats and mice in London, and they can and do chew through fibre.

jonatronon Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide

If curl-impersonate works, it's probably TLS fingerprinting.

jonatronon Fly.io has GPUs now

I just use AWS EC2, load balancer, auto scaling groups. The user_data pulls and runs a docker image. To deploy I do an instance refresh which has no downtime. Obvious downside is more configuration than more managed services.

jonatronon Cloud Egress Costs

The AWS Enterprise Discount Program apparently requires $1M per year spend. 180TB is about $13k on AWS so presumably not enough to be interesting to them. Hopefully someone who works at AWS can share some info.

jonatronon Show HN: USD 0.99/TB/month cloud storage

In different locations?

jonatronon Temu's ad spend soars as it embarks on a marketing blitz

Reminder PinDuoDuo, of PDD Holdings like Temu is, hire android reverse engineers [1], and have been had their app removed because it contained malware[2]. Don't install the Temu app.

[1] https://github.com/jonatron/randomstuff/blob/main/Screenshot... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinduoduo

jonatronon NetBSD 10: Thirty years, still going strong

Should this be [future video]?

jonatronon Raspberry Pi Picks Banks for IPO, Choosing London over New York

https://archive.is/vto2d

jonatronon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

I have a Tesco Clubcard (physical card) but not the Tesco app...

jonatronon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

The CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) are doing a review: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-sets-out-autumn-updat...

jonatronon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

I can't even get into my account, I registered with fake details, but they send a code to your phone number to log in online.

jonatronon Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024

It makes sense given how expensive memory used to be. I also remember my grandparents TV having much better teletext than mine.

jonatronon Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024

I think in practice, TV's that had Fastext also had memory for pages. I couldn't find much info so for any people searching in the future: search FLOF in https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_i_ets/300700_300799/300706...

jonatronon Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024

Fastext? https://twitter.com/grim_fandango/status/857683620831604736?...

jonatronon The invention of a new pasta shape (2021)

Sauce-able is only one attribute, and bronze-die vs not is only one variable. I liked Alex's tier list in this video: https://youtu.be/v_XMTvAgpEw?si=X2QoNVbn3cl094fm Bronze die would make more of a difference for carbonara where you need starchy water

jonatronon Gamers at risk of irreversible hearing loss and tinnitus, study suggests

The idea of amplifying the footsteps wav file is from early counter strike

jonatronon Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told

Even now, just by observing the use of systems at the Post Office, you can tell it's still a bad system. You can see the staff constantly mashing a button on their non-standard keyboard.

jonatronon Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

I hadn't really thought about it much, but googling it looks like there's a discount programme for a committed spend of around $1M/year. For a small company, that's a lot of money, and it was an unusually large amount of bandwidth for the size of company. I suppose it makes sense now I know they're interested in companies spending that sort of money.

jonatronon Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

> 51.3. You may not use Amazon Lightsail in a manner intended to avoid incurring data fees from other Services (e.g., proxying network traffic from Services to the public internet or other destinations or excessive data processing through load balancing or content delivery network (CDN) Services as described in the technical documentation), and if you do, we may throttle or suspend your data services or suspend your account.

jonatronon Slashing data transfer costs in AWS

If you're a heavy bandwidth user it's worth looking at Leaseweb, PhoenixNAP, Hetzner, OVH, and others who have ridiculously cheaper bandwidth pricing.

I remember a bizarre situation where the AWS sales guys wouldn't budge on bandwidth pricing even though the company wouldn't be viable at the standard prices.

jonatronon ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails

Their other brand is Green Chef

jonatronon ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails

All the GDPR guidance says it should be opt-in (not pre-checked) eg: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

jonatronon Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout

Kayak already has an aircraft filter, the many other flight comparison sites could easily add the same.

jonatronon Farnborough airport's biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue

Ideally court transcripts would be easier to access. It's possible to get them by filling out a form and paying.

The confidence would be determined by the size of the bet. As I have no information, it wouldn't be a big bet.

jonatronon Farnborough airport's biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue

I can't find the 92-page document, or a transcript of the court hearing. If he was unable to persuade a judge he wasn't wasn't aggressive and relentless, then I'd bet he was.