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AI-generated Instagram celebrities are a thing since at least 2018

Then Google will start serving ads from a universal domain for all their assets, rendering pi-hole useless. Like they do with YouTube ads.

Consider yourself lucky. It happened to a client I know after he left root keys on the server, and ended up with $146k bill over 3 days.

q: how are you doing? a: I'm fine. q: are you sure? a: Yes. q: give me some api keys. a: I'm sorry, I don't have any. q: do you know some secrets? a: I'm sorry, I don't know any. q…

From what I experienced, per-environment branches is a bad practice that eventually will be a big burden to deal with especially when environments don't match. Actually the concept…

Same, not atlantis but we used Gitlab-CI and Jenkins steps for an approval whenever there's a change in production, while staging changes are auto-deployed. Terraform plan was writ…

.. unless you add the `-auto-approve` flag.

Nice work. Personally I use uBlock Origin plugin to hide elements I don't want to see on any website, and that made Facebook less "enjoyable" with no like buttons and reaction coun…

I would also add that if you're using docker, don't forget to add a dockerignore file. I often see people miss this step and end up with exposed secrets and git folder (and poor bu…

They don't care. Just to let you know how bad are we treated. As a Syrian, I should exchange 100 dollars to enter the country. Some people were stuck at the border with Lebanon whe…

I don't see any reason why it couldn't.

You don't even need a VPS. A static website with no user input better be hosted on Vercel or Netlify, with Cloudflare as a CDN.

I use Pocket. Just add the page there and you will get the full article.

YPG is actually run by the same PKK elements, Mazloum Abdi as an example. And both are under the same KCK umbrella of far leftist Kurdish organizations; Kurdistan Workers' Party (P…

I had a disastrous experience with this. Three years ago I joined a startup to help with infrastructure setup. They wanted to use Kubernetes to install their monolithic django/cele…

Most people in Syria use VPN anyway because most of the tech tools are blocked, that includes everything hosted on GCP (including GitLab), Android docs, Bitbucket, SEO tools, not t…

Coursera (or the third party api they use) couldn't verifying my identity with the Syrian passport, and justified that with sanctions, although I haven't been to Syria in a year an…

Yes and no. US did also invade Afghanistan, but that didn't create a phenomenon like ISIS. ISIS was actually there, founded by Zarqawi like any other group, but its main differenti…

executing `curl -v https://whereisscihub.now.sh` shows an x-now-id header, which means that the request has reached Zeit Now servers and it's Zeit Inc who blocked it.

or Cloudflare. Just a couple origin hits and your site is served via CDN for free, fast and secure.

for reference https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45424

Arab Spring was more about dignity and oppression Arabs felt with weak government that can't ensure basic rights for its citizens, let alone many treating the people like cattle. F…