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They didn't. Sounds like they gave the robot an AWS key from an account that was already linked to a credit card. The robot decided to spin up an expensive setup prior to getting a…

It all comes down to where the boundary for data access is implemented, and how strictly. If your webapp has unfettered database access then don't be surprised if it is hacked and …

Plus addressing (or movable periods in gmail addresses, etc) is increasingly pointless for a whole host of reasons. It may keep out the bottom x% of spammers/hackers but it doesn't…

Can confirm it's free. I tried it based on the GP comment. There are various ways to prove it is your domain: token sent to one of a small number of email addresses like {admin,sec…

Someone in the house pressed the button to update the printer (Brother DCP-L3550CDW) firmware and the CSV page that was the basis for an existing Prometheus exporter (drum/toner li…

Dave Eggers' novel _The Circle_ (2013) is looking more and more prophetic every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)

For my own 10G homelab network I jumped the gun and got a couple of Intel X540-T1 cards for my two servers and balked at the cost of the RJ45-SFP+ transceivers (Unifi's version is …

Indeed, however: 10 x 0.1 = 1

Some companies are purposely obtuse about it. My wife is trying to sort something with a famous Irish airline who are well known for messing people around. She has LPA/POA for her …

https://communityfibre.co.uk/fibre-deals for reference [EDIT] The asymmetric supplier is BT via Openreach. Google something like "BT Fibre 500".

> Going for a cup of coffee means physical walk. Detaching from focussed mode means your mind gets in diffused mode. This is where/when creativity ensues. Sure, but I want to choos…

The "Sasha" section brought back a load of memories from my childhood. As an Alex growing up in Western Europe with no connections to anything East it was just my Russophile father…

Edwardian houses in the UK rarely have that level of access. No basement at all and I can't lift the carpets and floorboards to get to where I might be able to pass things through/…

I had a big debate with myself whether to go Mikrotik or Unifi. Being EU based I really wanted to go Mikrotik but ended up with Unifi as I'd had more experience of it when helping …

The limiting factor for me is that I'm renting so I can't put my own cabling in to the property. And with the new place there's no existing cabling, nor any conduits to run anythin…

True, I don't really feel limited by my existing 500Mbps down, but knowing I'll be having 2500Mbps up/down soon means I want to have the infra to handle it. Basing things on 2.5GbE…

Ha. I meant the rest of the equipment (USW-Aggregation, Unifi Pro Max 16, UNAS Pro, Unifi Express 7) was somewhere around half retail price. I think I paid ~$15 for each X520-DA2 i…

I'm only planning on using one of the SFP+ ports on each of the cards, the dual port cards were just more common and cheaper on eBay. The specs say they require PCIe v2.1 x8 lane. …

I'm waiting for 3 DACs and a few other bits to arrive today to move closer to 10G networking at home. Moving house soon and the new place will have 2.5Gbps FTTP (both up and down) …

This is almost as good as the classic HN "Putnam" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 (Hint: No, he's not replying with AI. Two hyphens are not an em dash. Even the…

Some companies pay more if people are paged. It can create a perverse incentive not to fix problems or, in extreme cases, to watch things going wrong, waiting for the page, and the…

One team can't troubleshoot AND FIX every possible subsystem, so you just end up with lots (growing to hundreds) of people "on-call" anyway. As others have said, follow-the-sun typ…

Github measures/reports the SLA of the individual services. The external page linked above goes the other extreme and considers it a bad status whenever any individual service is d…

> But many years ago I gave up Scrum completely in my teams. What’s more, over time I almost stopped coming across startups where Scrum is used in its classic form at all. Many dis…

I think most people constantly try to adapt their setups based on every changing work/life requirements, plus also phases/trends of "lots of monitors" "single big monitor", etc. Th…