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zhan_eg

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zhan_eg··on Boeing 737 catches fire and skids off the runway in Senegal
Some more info on AV Herald [0]

[0] https://avherald.com/h?article=51867a11

zhan_eg··on Meta outage
It looks like Meta acknowledged a problem on their status page [0]

[0] https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api at "5:32 PM GMT+2"

zhan_eg··on The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)
Previous discussions - [1] [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24106213

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173173

zhan_eg··on Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API
I have been using Addic7ed [0] in cases where I need subtitles. Any new shows/series get their subtitles uploaded extremely fast, and as I understand translations also happen there (when already not available from a streaming service).

On the other hand I was using VLSub, a VLC addon, which downloads subtitles automagically. But now I see it used opensubtitles :(

[0] https://www.addic7ed.com/

[1] https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154045/

zhan_eg··on World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
Or "The Sky Lords" trilogy [0]

[0] The story is set in the future, after the 'Gene Wars' have turned the Earth into a blighted wasteland. The inhabitants of Earth live a tribal-like existence and offer tributes to the Sky Lords. The Sky Lords live in giant airships and are the rulers of the people below.

zhan_eg··on Tell HN: Cloudflare and Scaleway have a peering issue
Thanks for the suggestion, that sounds like a workaround too.
zhan_eg··on Tell HN: Cloudflare and Scaleway have a peering issue
Issue is solved. The context for anyone interested from one of Scaleway Engineers [1]:

> To give some context, there are a lot of possible path between Cloudflare and Scaleway : France IX in Paris, NL IX in Paris and in Amsterdam, AMS IX in Amsterdam, and the transit in both region (Cogent, Lumen, Arelion). Cloudflare is announcing some prefixes only on some of these links.

> We were trying to find the root cause since Monday morning, but as we did not have any errors visible on our side, it was pretty hard to identify the faulty path.

Another fun fact from Scaleway CTO is that Cloudflare started answering ... just ~30 minutes ago. [2]

[1] https://scaleway-community.slack.com/archives/C7Z76CCUE/p167...

[2] https://scaleway-community.slack.com/archives/C7Z76CCUE/p167...

zhan_eg··on Tell HN: Cloudflare and Scaleway have a peering issue
Hopefully not because of this submission, some more updates started flowing on the Scaleway side [1], but nothing solving the issue.

The are some workarounds (from Marco@ [2])

> moving workload out of scaleway to other datacenters and keeping all cloudflare CDN and features working perfectly (seems to be affecting exclusively scaleway/online.net)

> disabling all cloudflare features (DNS only) (some people can’t do it as cloudflare could be integral part of webapps flow and servings)

But applying those can't be done in all cases (i.e. disables Cloudflare WAF, CDN, etc.).

[1] https://status.scaleway.com/incidents/y19hcz28rkwp

[2] https://scaleway-community.slack.com/archives/C7Z76CCUE/p167...

zhan_eg··on International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems
Based on discussions with friends who have been medalists from International Olympiads more than once, there is no need of any real linguistic knowledge.

General knowledge of language groups may be helpful, but often the problems were for some language used from <1k people. And usully you wouldn't have heard them at all, or would not have additional information where it is spoken.

zhan_eg··on ISS Docking Simulator
Just FYI, this looks the same simulator from 2020 they released before the Demo-2 mission. The old discussion for reference [1]

Still, it is super cool

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23162820

zhan_eg··on I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
@robfitz, not related to the content as I couldn't get to that on Firefox 95

Opening the website returns:

NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY

By a cursory glance, it looks like some misconfiguration (supporting HTTP/2, but no presenting TLS1.2 at the same time .. even that it looks available).

SSL Labs results may help you diagnose [1]

[1] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.robfitz.c...

zhan_eg··on Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
Well, when talking about NATO countries, MIGs and older aircrafts - Romania and Croatia still operate MIG-21s [1] :)

And MIG-29s are present also in the Bulgarian [2] and Slovak [3] airforce too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21#Curren...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Air_Force#Current_in...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Air_Force#Current_inven...

zhan_eg··on Fastly Outage
Bitwarden is also down (the Web Vault, not the website).
zhan_eg··on Backblaze S3 API is having some downtime
Well, it looks like it is in the time frame of their scheduled maintenance https://www.backblaze.com/scheduled-maintenance.html -- Disregard, I got AM and PM confused :(
zhan_eg··on GitHub: Partial System Outage
There is nothing mentioned in their Twitter Status page too [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/githubstatus

zhan_eg··on Show HN: MASV – Send 20GB+ files up to 1 Gbps. Pay-as-you-go and custom branding
Didn't have issues with the starting the trial on FF 61 Beta, with uBlock and Privacy Badger enabled.

The service looks fairly good, but the speeds are not impressive. It looks Azure is used (and you can test your speed on it here http://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/UploadLargeFile)

zhan_eg··on Ask HN: Error tracking SaaS hosted in Europe
Thank you for the response, I'll contact you shortly :)
zhan_eg··on Ask HN: Error tracking SaaS hosted in Europe
Thanks for the suggestions. AppSignal [0] are supporting just Ruby and Elixir, so won't work for us, as we are searching for a Javascript tool, but may work for someone else :)

[0] https://appsignal.com/plans

zhan_eg··on SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)
The text on the dashboard of the Tesla - Don't panic.
zhan_eg··on Lenovo laptops use hard-coded pass on their fingerprint sensor(CVE-2017-3762)
Link to the official advisory from Lenovo - https://support.lenovo.com/bg/en/product_security/len-15999
zhan_eg··on GitLab 10.4 released
Using gitlab.com with a group of ~20 devs - one of the main complains some of them had was 'It is slow'. From the last few months I hear more and more 'It is not so slow now, same as github'. So good job on all the performance improvements, users can feel them.

So it really depends how long in the past you are talking about :)

zhan_eg··on Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups
I managed to fool it by hand movements (up and down and bending my fingers), so for sure no face needed.
zhan_eg··on Show HN: HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments
Hey, just FYI - on both Firefox/Chrome with uBlock the main content is hidden, because of ##.newsletter-subscribe (part of Fanboy’s Annoyance List, not enabled by default, but still)
zhan_eg··on A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree
Screenshot of the flight shape at the moment https://i.imgur.com/oPk8XY8.png
zhan_eg··on Show HN: Crypto Tab – Replace Browser New Tab Page with a Bitcoin Price Chart
New Tab replacement page that instantly gives you information about the Bitcoin price.

Choose a period (hour, day, week, year) and be always up to date with the Bitcoin volatility index.

zhan_eg··on Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (2016)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465978
zhan_eg··on Google Drive is down
Link to the concrete issue https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=4&iid=76... (nothing interesting as of now).

It was not totally down for me, but really buggy on browsing/uploading/etc. (on a non GSuite account)

zhan_eg··on AsusWRT sends network traffic data to Trend Micro if certain features enabled
Regarding if upstream service is needed for bandwidth usage history, as it needs computing power - well not at all. DD-WRT has basic banding report by days of month for close to 10 years [0]. I'm personally using it for 5+ years on a 20$ TP-Link and it just works, without the need of an external service.

[0] https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/images/3/3c/TrafficByMonth.Sampl...

zhan_eg··on Network Performance Issues in multiple locations
Some of my experience and solution to those issues

1) UptimeRobot [0] - use to monitor various client websites. The free plan checks every 5 minutes, which should be enough. Notifications can be sent to email, slack, sms and many others. If you think there may be a problem only from some locations make a fast check with [1]. If you suspect DNS issues [2] or [3].

2) Again use UptimeRobot for monitoring device publicly accessible from your network. Moreover, if you are in control of your office network, using pfSense [4] notifications when a network gateway goes down works well (still, that works only if you have 2 or more ISPs). Or use a dedicated monitoring device/service like Zabbix.

3) Using to Twitter to Slack notification, subscribe for updates from both services that you use and major services responsible for Internet backbone. An example is, that using GitLab, comes with multiple time when the service dies (even that they are improving) - seeing the message in Slack that something is WIP currently by all team members (in a dedicated channel), helps to skip unnecessary debugging [5] :)

Not affiliate with any of the service. Still - met the UptimeRobot guys some ago - they are a small startup based in Malta, are very cool and have very stable service :)

[0] https://uptimerobot.com/

[1] http://www.super-ping.com/

[2] https://www.whatsmydns.net/

[3] https://dnschecker.org/

[4] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Gateway_Settings#Gateway_S...

[5] https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus

zhan_eg··on Show HN: NoFile.io – A simple file storage site with lots of perks
"Encryption - Protect Your Files

Protect sensitive files with encryption. Only users with the URL will be able to view it. "

This is not encryption - you should change the copy to tell what encryption is used (AES-128 from the info here), even if it's beta. Some more information on that will be welcome.

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