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sashk··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
I had similiar problem. I called them, got to the real person, who fixed issue within 2 minutes. Total call time was about 5 minutes. That included time, I was searching for invite and so on.
sashk··on Visual Studio Code 1.11
Hi Tyriar. Your team doing great job and I understand it's on roadmap -- I just can't wait for it soon enough. Oh, and I didn't complain :) Thanks!
sashk··on Visual Studio Code 1.11
I miss only "project" feature -- ie ability to open multiple directories in single window. Because of this I now have 5-10 windows open and I'm getting lost...
sashk··on pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution
Agree. I've been running pfSense on HP thin client (T5740[1] with expansion module + gigabit dual port ethernet NIC) and was pretty happy. Cost to me was about $60 for fully working firewall/router.

[1]: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_...

sashk··on CIA Declassified Coldwar Russian Jokes [pdf]
Nope, those are actual jokes we were laughing to back then, there.
sashk··on GitLab Database Incident – Live Report
Backups sucked for the starting in 8.15 on our instances of GLE, because someone decided to add "readable" date stamp in addition to unix timestamp in backup file name without proper testing, which caused many issues. It was somewhat fixed, but I do still issues in 8.16.

I'm not complaining, but backup/restore is important part, with 100% test coverage and daily backup/restore runs.

sashk··on GitLab 8.16 Released with auto deploy on GKE and Prometheus monitoring
Are you on Chrome by any chance? I have exactly same behaviour, which I can't track down.
sashk··on Ask HN: Dual monitors, or single 4k?
At work I have iMac 5k and extra 4k 27" dell monitor. It works great. At home almost same setup, but 1080p 27" dell monitor. Not a huge difference. But two monitors is bare minimum for me.
sashk··on Which editor/IDE do you use and why?
PyCharm for Python.

Sublime for Markdown/notes, etc.

Trying to use Visual Studio Code instead of PyCharm, but it's not yet ready to fully replace PyCharm.

sashk··on IINA – A modern video player for macOS
Well, you can use mpv now -- build using homebrew and then make a config file (yeah, config file sucks, but then you get something you want) :)

    brew install mpv
sashk··on Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
I use two devices to handle usual definition of the router:

  1. Mini PC[1] running as a router (pfSense);
  2. eero to handle the wifi.
Why? I've tried many times to use dd-wrt, openwrt and tomato firmwares on my routers, but every time I failed miserably: it's either something stops working, or I need to schedule routers reboots and so. So I gave up. Since that time, mini pc [1] is the third system which routes my traffic, acts as VPN gateway, proxy server and so on on my home network and I've never been happier. With eero I've got even better coverage comparing to the previous Airport Express.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Latest-windows-8-mini-pc-min...

sashk··on Dumb Password Rules
CPanel -- https://features.cpanel.net/topic/better-password-strength-c...

Will say that "correct horse battery staple" isn't secure password and will give it a score of 0/100. While "123!" will get 66/100 and will get accepted.

And this is control panel used by many hosting companies. :)

sashk··on Ask HN: Good email host?
I understand that, but unfortunately my provider at home is blocking port 25 (both directions), so that's not an option.
sashk··on Ask HN: Good email host?
I was researching this. And still am.

I always come to conclusion that either I have to host mail for myself, or use Google Apps.

I can't trust Microsoft to host my email, nor I want to trust Rackspace (for some odd reason, two feedbacks I received were from people who had negative experiences with them). Zoho is nice choise, but they had multi-week outage year or two ago, with somewhat unclear notification to users.

Fastmail was always second choice, because it was more expensive for amount of mail I have now, which will need to be stored on their servers.

Also, as I'll be hosting email for family, I calculate for 5 accounts.

Google Apps came out to 25/month.

Self-hosting option came out to one Linode machine, plus one other VPS provider machine located in different location for backup MX. That came out to 15/month.

Fastmail was more expensive at the time (was I looking at business account for some reason?), but their pricing page -- https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ -- shows that they are same price as Google. Can't seem to find their multi-year discount information.

sashk··on Russians seek answers to central Moscow GPS anomaly
You might want to read an article [1] (automatically translate from Russian) explaining what is possibly going on.

[1][https://translate.yandex.ru/translate?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftjou...]

sashk··on Ask HN: Is WhatsApp down?
They aren't down -- but DNS they use seems to be down at the moment.

for me github, twitter, seamless and many other down. looks like it's dyndns related, as it doesn't respond.

Google's public DNS isn't responding to them, but opendns (208.67.222.222) helps here.

sashk··on Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions
When I bought my latest car, navigation package included few safety features I wanted to get, so I had to get them to get somewhat safer car. My car -- Mazda, comes with free 3 years of map updates. I am yet to update it, because I'm lazy. It also comes with optional paid for traffic service. Why do I need to waste my money on that, when I can get free (I know, I know) Waze, Apple Maps or Google maps which will get me where I need to get avoiding traffic. Despite driving 2016 model year vehicle, I GPS/entertainment center feels like from 2010 or so. So yes, I use my phone for navigations most of the time.
sashk··on Dropbox hack blocked by Apple in Sierra
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12468573

sashk··on Master Plan, Part Deux
I hope I will live to use that bus, which won't be handled by driver, who thinks that he is god in the bus and can do whatever he wants while he has steering wheel in his hands. i hope, this will bring few things which will improve my commute:

- on time performance (I'm yet to leave bus stop in the morning on-time after about 10 years -- bus is always late); - less traffic in the bus terminal, where drives always make wrong assumption and create traffic where it could have been avoided; - safer commute (not that it isn't safe enough now, but there are drivers who prefer driving way too fast).

Oh well, this is only dreams.

sashk··on Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?
Three years ago my answer would be GitHub. But since then I've been forced to use (and manage) Gitlab. Within that time, I fell in love with Gitlab and it simplifies many of our tasks. We are using self-hosted instance and worth every penny we spent on it's license. (Gitlab CE was enough, but we were looking for few features available in the EE).

So now my answer is self-hosted Gitlab.

sashk··on Your DNS Provider Should Not Be Your Registrar (2014)
I don't mind hosting my DNS at registrar, since they provide the service, but I do want to have secondary DNS servers/provider somewhere else: dns.he.net (free), or paid service elsewhere. But, unfortunately, none of the registrars I tried allow you to have secondary DNS server, ie allow dns AXFR for the zone file. (godaddy, hover, gandi, namecheap and 1and1 -- note, I tried them over the time and asked all of them for AXFR to have secondary zone elsewhere -- all of them declined. Latest and current is Hover).

After long time researching, I've decided to use $2/month plan on cloudns.net for primary DNS, and secondary at dns.he.net.

sashk··on Ask HN: Does anyone still uses Google+?
I do daily. And there are many people who do more than I.
sashk··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Team Viewer?
I've been using join.me and HipChat's builtin screen sharing. Back in days, when I had to manage many Windows hosts, I've used Radmin (https://www.radmin.com/).
sashk··on Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
Another service which Google will kill in X years?
sashk··on Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?
I've got Echo sitting on my desk. Sometimes I ask her how much gas left in the car (via Automatic). Weather. Asking to remind me something only to remember next day that that thing is called "timer". When remember what I need to say, I'll ask her to set temperature on my ecobee to one I want.

As to Siri - I use it slightly more:

  - tell my wife I'm on my way. 
  - ask my wife what to buy in the grocery store.
  - wake me up tomorrow at 5am
  - delete all alarms
and many many more.

To sum up: since I don't use Google much, Echo is mostly useless to me. I can't do much with it, and getting mostly "Sorry I could not understand your question."

sashk··on GitLab Security Vunerability
Do I understand correctly that Gitlab 8.1.x and earlier is not vulnerable to this issue?
sashk··on Dropbox Project Infinite
Finally.

But for me it's too late.

sashk··on PfSense 2.3-Release Now Available
Yeah, old design was feeling dated when I had to make couple changes from my phone.

Only wish list I have -- allow ZFS on root with zraid. Hope, it's possible in the future.

sashk··on Your new home for saved images and links
Another service from Google, which they will kill in a year or two?
sashk··on DNS Outage at DigitalOcean
For me - neither.

But if I'd be tied in into Amazon's cloud infrastructure, I would have to use many of their features going against my rules above.

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