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x13on Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'

Garrett Langley wants to watch everyone; kids, parents, everyone. He puts the "sir" in surveillance state.

x13on Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters

you're gonna love hanging baskets

x13on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

Convenience? Maybe a belief the media would be accessible for a long time, versus the ever-changing catalog available from streaming services?

Consumers are lured into walled-gardens all the time - consoles, app stores, hardware. Where would you suggest someone purchase a digital license for a movie?

x13on We’re making Bunny DNS free

don't compare it to a public resolver like 1.1.1.1.

It's authoritative name servers for your domain. Compare it to AWS Route 53, Akamai Edge DNS, IBM NS1.

x13on We’re making Bunny DNS free

AXFR is not supported by AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, Azure, Rackspace, Hetzner, Bunny, Alibaba Cloud DNS, No-IP, nor Tencent.

It is supported by Akamai Edge DNS, Oracle Cloud, enterprise Cloudflare accounts, IBM NS1 Connect, ClouDNS, CloudFloorDNS, and DNS Made Easy.

x13on Dell inks $9.7B Pentagon contract after Trump acquires stock

The only conflicts Trump wins are conflicts of interest.

Remember when breaking the law was illegal?

x13on A web server on a single floppy disk

an Apple camera perhaps? I loved that camera

x13on Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

does the FCC still exist?

x13on Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]

maaaaybe it was the Nazi salute

x13on Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

proton

x13on Apple Services Experiencing Outage

Apple Pay, with 65M users, can rely on external content from Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepayontheweb/d...

x13on Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year

Settings > General > Screen Capture > Full-Screen Previews

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/change-the-screen-cap...

x13on Delta pilot performs 'aggressive maneuver' to avoid a B-52 bomber

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-begins-firings-o...

x13on Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries

How are you handling this?

https://stripe.com/legal/marks

Use or incorporate any of our Marks in your own trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use), or use any trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use) that is likely to be confused with any of our Marks.

x13on !Camera

$14.. for a camera app. oof. uninstalled before I could take a photo and judge the quality of the app.

x13on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?

https://opensrs.com/email/pricing/

https://proton.me/mail/pricing

https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/us/

https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/pricing/

x13on Ask HN: Why are banks charging so many fees for accounts and cards?

In 2023, JP Morgan Chase collected $1.1 Billion in overdraft fees

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-repor...

x13on Dual-Link QR Code Generator

ok, so you're going to explain to people to scan it at different angles? absurd. this is like having a hyperlink go to a random destination.

x13on Rivian is opening its charging network to other EVs

3,500 new locations is helpful for all EV owners (and brands)

x13on Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report

SV is wrapped around Elon's finger, sadly.

x13on Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains

Globally distributed critical infra isn't free.

"As of March 31, 2024, we had 172.5 million .com and .net registrations in the domain name base."

https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/2412702e-e744-485...

"1865 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators."

Verisign maintains root servers at 209 locations. ("A" and "J") https://root-servers.org/

Latency https://a.root-servers.org/metrics

13 root servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

x13on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

https://peering.google.com/

x13on What Are You Building? Share Your Projects

Turbo - Bitly + Stripe for easier payment acceptance.

Copy, Paste, Paid.

https://tur.bo

Inspiration - Receiving invoices without a clear alternative to mailing a check.

x13on Tech giant with 30k employees has no return-to-office policy

Yes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globant

x13on Solidigm 61.44TB SSD

yep!

x13on Show HN: Wife couldn't find a dev job so I built a tool to automate the search

Why does your app want to access my camera? (Using the Windows build)

x13on Elon Musk to Take on Gmail with New Xmail Service

vaporware; Space Karen just wants to stir the pot.

x13on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

  Location: Colorado
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Product Manager / Product Design / Fintech & Telecom experience, passionate about payments, checkout, tokenization, orchestration, ACH, RTP.
  Résumé/CV: https://scottgalvin.com/resume.pdf
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgalvin/
  Email: On my resume.

x13on Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?

check out their public SEC 10-k filing, just a few pages in will give you a plain-English explanation of their size.