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staticfish··on Tap your phone at Gold Coast bus stops to access my website
I'd say just by subjective observation that lockdown and limited staff availability have done a huge amount to take QR to ubiquity more than anything else.
staticfish··on Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
[citation needed]*

*I'm not implying this isn't true, and it's interesting if it is.

staticfish··on AT&T Unveils a Fake 5G Network Hoping You'll Ignore T-Mobile Is Kicking Its Ass
One thing that people forget: "LTE" stands for "Long-Term Evolution". It was built in to the name that the technology and stack is what we would consider a draft.
staticfish··on DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product
Second that. I was emailing back and forth all last week due to some tricky bind-related rDNS issues on an ipv6 issued 64 block.

While I do wish they built out features faster (their new beta console which seems to have actually dropped features, and things like CertBot plugins for LetsEncrypt wildcard DNS updates), the support is fantastic.

They are always are polite and ready to help, even if the issue turned out to be a misconfiguration problem on my end.

Long live Linode.

staticfish··on IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New Hardware
> <snip> if there were any obvious bugs they would have been found by now.

Really, that's what they said about CPUs - at least if you're not in the fab industry.

staticfish··on Warning signs for TSB's IT meltdown were clear a year ago, according to insider
But now a third-party scapegoat which would take the heat off of TSB execs.
staticfish··on Caddy – The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS
For someone that hates titles, you both managed to call yourself an 'SRE', and drop the fact that you've been 'building platforms for years'.

Just sayin'.

staticfish··on Show HN: Check whether an email address exists
Weird. I've disabled verify in Postfix on my mailserver, but it still can introspect email addresses:

disable_vrfy_command = yes

smtpd_delay_reject = yes

smtpd_helo_required = yes

staticfish··on Ask HN: Markdown or WYSIWYG editor for non-technical users?
You didn't mention your operating system, which to me is important, as there's nothing like the response and feel of a native application - especially when editing a document.

https://typora.io/ is my current Markdown client of choice. It's a native MacOS app, and it's free.

staticfish··on Cloud Identity
For the uninformed, how is this different to implementing Google Oauth?
staticfish··on ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live
It's not "software" in the historic sense, like buying Photoshop or a paying for hosted Slack service. It's literally a command to generate a certificate from their root CA chain.

Yes there's obviously business costs, and they have to employ people to do verification, etc (which they often do a terrible job at), but I think you see what the parent is getting at..

staticfish··on Show HN: ClapChat – Instant messaging for HN users
hit me up if you want help with this. -android dev.
staticfish··on Minoca OS: A new open source operating system
So true. it really is my biggest problem with the monolithic Linux kernel.
staticfish··on Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
Not parent, but Google Drive has always been great for me. It has much improved from the clunky offering that was the release version. the only trouble I've had was corporate proxies, but God knows what hackery makes Dropbox work in this case.

Now you have the ability to selected nested folders to sync, it does everything I need, and the storage is shared with Gmail, Photos, etc.

staticfish··on Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent
uBlock blocks webRTC leaking. it's also way better and faster than the crummy adblock extension.
staticfish··on Jeff Bezos just unveiled his new rocket. And it’s a monster
Stop sniggering in the back.
staticfish··on How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
My bad. (Not keeping great track of the architectures used in the engines used in browsers).

My overarching questions stands, however.

staticfish··on How does Facebook disable the browser's integrated Developer Tools?
Non-webdev here. Why did the Chrome team ever decide that developer access to the raw console though the DOM-like window API was a good idea?

This seems like it was initially granted external access for some reason, especially since blink is meant to be a clean room implementation of webkit.

staticfish··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
The toll charges for a trip across the Golden Gate Bridge were instituted to pay for the segment not subsided by the citizens on each bank of the San Francisco Bay.
staticfish··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
The TFL route-planner website is powered by Open Trip Planner.
staticfish··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
Simple. they pushed and pushed until they could get wheel arch counters installed on the buses.
staticfish··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
I'm not disputing your experiences for one second, but mine closely match OP's in Boston, and just about every other large city in the US.*

*With the exception of London. Maybe having to study The Knowledge has something to do with it..

staticfish··on I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
what a wonderful story. really puts arguing about typesafe frameworks in perspective..

A+++ would read again.

staticfish··on The Kifi Team Is Joining Google
Another entry for https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
staticfish··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
I believe the older models (and by older models, those that are 8(!) years and older) were deprecated as they didn't included a couple of the execution flags for processor assisted encryption.
staticfish··on 65M Tumblr Passwords for Sale on TheRealDeal
or a Gmail wildcard alias username+alias@gmail.com
staticfish··on Uber users with low phone batteries more likely to accept surge pricing
clunk clunk
staticfish··on HSBC slashes Zomato's valuation by half
Worked at U.S as an engineer in Seattle. can confirm. everyone left within 2 months.
staticfish··on Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth
another data point: I live in Seattle, too, and see surge all the time.
staticfish··on Enveloupe: An API for snail mail
Not really. I used Play Framework which is also its own webserver. SSL is at both the app and webserver level.
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