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Came here to post this - this was a great (and short!) read to help validate if your idea could be something somebody wants to pay for.

I think a high definition photo taken on a recent phone takes up an awful lot more device memory than a "big number of chats"

Though I would add that looking back to when I was an IC, my Computer Science degree hadn't given me much if any formal training in Software Engineering (especially in a large team…

To put it another way - there is no security risk that fail2ban helps with that can't be resolved in another, better, more robust and less risky way.

If someone is performing a denial of service attack from one I.P. address then this will help. To tptacek's point, you've got to ask yourself is a denial of service attack in your …

fail2ban is a real pet peeve of mine because anyone security conscious enough to deploy this will have likely already mitigated any actual security risks this could help with eithe…

There are a bunch of projects from Tor to aid in circumvention of the great firewall of China: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-ch...

Don't disagree - but if I have a limited amount of resources to harden my Drupal server, it might be best to start looking at hardening around the most commonly exploited Drupal vu…

Implementing what you describe sounds to me way more "clever" and less robust than the canary page approach described above. Specifically - I wouldn't fancy writing the "consistent…

Fair point!

These services help some issues but don't solve all of them, just a few off the top of my head: Legal differences can be significant - for example, in France it may be difficult le…

I read recently about a large open source project using waterfall (it wasn't very popular). Are there open source projects or software companies / startups following waterfall meth…

As a tech worker, I love tinkering with tech in my spare time but don't have that much spare time. Also, over the years, I've learnt the value of keeping it simple. I want to run a…

Throughout my career I've been dogged by poorly thought out engineering appraisal or review processes. Especially at larger companies where everyone from the CEO to the Junior Deve…

Presumably in the short run it makes Google money - a great deal of those blocked ads are AdSense ads and Google gets cash for every click. Though that obviously isn't sustainable …

> but they don't want to use Docker, at least not immediately, because it requires to learn a few Docker commands That's not what the blog post says. They don't want to use docker …

Whilst it may be a better user experience for those with Saudi numbers in Saudi Arabia (calls would be blocked anyway) it is a much worse user experience for those with Saudi numbe…

If your tag line is "The World's first $9 computer" I don't think it's totally unreasonable for people to point out that you have to pay more than $9 to get the thing.

I appreciate this is tongue in cheeck but given that it should be possible for me to constantly scan his server and get each port change is there anything I can do with that? i.e. …