neftaly

I have been experimenting with a dictionary-based encoding system for this kind of data - https://neftaly.github.io/radixWord/

To prevent a similar-looking-fingerprint attack, you could just re-hash the fingerprint with a secret salt before displaying. I wonder if XOR'ing the fingerprint against a plain hash of itself could also be difficult enough?

I set an alarm at 4AM NZ for the OnePlus preorder, it was a huge pain in the ass. They were running Magento (!) on what appeared to be AWS and expecting Cloudflare to magically pick up all the slack. Guess they never heard of load testing (or at least a static PayPal cart as a bulletproof failsafe).

Apparently they also had a bunch of staff in the office at the time; wonder if they at least attempted to spin up a few more servers and increase the DB instance size?

It's actually super cheap & easy. The setup below costs a few dollars a year and uses ~20MB RAM total:

* Get a box from http://lowendspirit.com/ (or http://lowendstock.com/)

* Install OpenVPN & setup client certs with https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

* Setup your hosts file with http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

* Install & config the OpenVPN connect app on each device (no SFTP? use https://transfer.sh/)

I'm probably misinterpreting your requirements, but you should look into Korean IPS monitors. They're generally very cheap, are far better at reproducing colours than standard LCD monitors, have higher pixel densities (1440p@27") and can often be overclocked (90-120hz). The best deals are usually on ebay, shipped from Korea.

http://www.blurbusters.com/overclock/120hz-1440p-ips-monitor...

All the way to a throne of wood and iron!