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Should one of the first things you do with a database not be to have a backup strategy? I understand that HA would be a "nice to have" when first starting out, but surly if you hav…

> I maintain an open source project funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund. I would absolutely love to know more about this if you are willing to share the story?

Can we follow along with your work / results somewhere?

The Minisforum V3 does: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-v3 .

An SEO thing for them. Useful income for me. It isn't much ($49/year), but every little helps...

That's the only reason I could think of for doing this, but I saw zero evidence that it was done that way. Baffling!

> Out of curiosity, could this have been a vector for a supply chain attack? If you were using the CDN without SRIs, then yes, that would have been the most obvious channel. Howeve…

That's awesome to hear - thank you :-).

Joker.com. Credit to them they fixed it reasonably quickly, but its a horrible policy to default to enact the change if no response if given. Their reasoning was what else would th…

The blog feed is here: https://datatables.net/feeds/blog.xml . It is advertised on the landing page, but it looks like I've missed having it on the blog page! As you say, that has …

Yeah - it was a well set up attack. What I don't understand is that there was no obvious follow on. I can only guess that it was a proof that it could be done. Maybe? Regarding the…

Yeah, I really wasn't happy about that. I did put it to the registrar that such a policy is wrong and open to such an attack. I got the impression that they weren't going to change…

Didn't expect to see this here, it was over a month ago this incident happened! Happy to answer any questions about it (author of DataTables here). It was a super stressful event t…

Just looked up their stuff again (it's been a while) and they appear to be out of business, although the website is still running. Don't order from them, based on Reddit reviews...…

Take a look at Plant Computers PDAs: https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/planetphones . The hardware is a bit old notre and if love to see a refresh, but the Pison keyboard is there!

The flip side is, if you don't do auto updates and an exploit is published and used against you and you haven't yet tested / pushed the patch, that you would have been protected ag…

Adding another one to say that I've only have a positive experience with Hetzner so far. 6 months in, and 4 machines. All doing fine.

In case anyone finds this through search in future, I've just received this from the Yahoo postmaster team: > Our engineering team has looked into this and you'll need to have your…

SPF, DKIM, DMARC are all set up correctly. There is no issue with deliverability when just sending from an indiviual account of the charity's domain to Outlook / Yahoo, it is purel…

What do you all use / recommend for mailing list software? I help a local charity with their website, and we have a number of Google Groups (with our domain) for our internal commu…

Daft question, but if you hadn't realised, then your client's obviously asked that question yet (and might not)? Open source needs to find a way to make money and backlinks is a re…

$100/m is cheap for a back link? (honest question - I've no idea). 67 logos on the home page at the time of writing this, that's $6'700/m. While obviously not FAANG salary scale, i…

For anyone in central Scotland, come and check out the Scottish Model Engineering Trust - https://smet.org.uk . We've got everything from N gauge to 7 1/4 inch. I haven't been a me…

Given that it appears to be Javascript based, and Ext JS is already well established ( https://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ ), I was initially thinking that this might be some ki…

I think the GP is more disappointed that Microsoft choose to use Blink rather than Gecko as their rendering engine. Not that they abandoned the closed source EdgeHTML.