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Heard of haveibeenpwned? You'll end up there, eventually.
Ending up on HaveIBeenPwned is only a problem if you reuse passwords.
Nope. It is a problem if you reuse email addresses.
I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
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Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#282What do American colleagues think when they read about this trend among Europeans to abandon their platforms?
It seems smart to me. Our leaders are intent on burning it all down, and I don't think anyone should be shocked as the smoke starts to billow.
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#283> Your users expect "Sign in with Google" and "Sign in with Apple." You can add email/password and passkeys, but removing social logins entirely is a conversion killer. I know this is true, but I genuinely don't understand it. I want email/password and passkey, I will always go out of my way to avoid "Sign in with ...". I just don't get why people love this.
“Sign in with Apple” allows me to use a random “Hide My Email” address for services that I can’t bother with so it’s absolutely a godsend for me.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if there is no Google/Apple button, will you just leave? Like not even create an account? That's what "conversion killer" means.
I won't but a decent % of people do ye. In fact a decent % of people stops shopping on your site if there's a few ms lag. At every step a few percent of revenue is lost your competitor takes in.
> In fact a decent % of people stops shopping on your site if there's a few ms lag.
While it's still true, I have read that the accepted lag today is higher than 10-15 years ago, because they have lower expectations due to a general decline in page load speed. (React pages with spinners/placeholders, newsletter popups, higher page weights etc.)
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use my password manager across multiple devices daily. Apparently it has not been working without me noticing it?
I assume they're thinking about the 'offline' style where one would shuffle a database file and probably resolve conflicts. There's an app/extensions nowadays, man! I don't even bother with a VPN, just occasionally push a 'sync' button on the roaming devices [when they return to LAN] . DB transactions [new credentials] averages ~0 per month... but there's plenty of capacity. Works extremely well.
The truth is that even with KeePassXC, I just really do not notice stale passwords across devices.
It's just really not a huge deal for me personally. Maybe it is for normal people.
I sync my databases maybe once a year if I'm lucky.
Re: I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
#287Thank you for this. I'm in Europe with an established SaaS that's been running in production for years and I've converged on a similar stack (OVHCloud instead of Hetzner). However, I've realized you can stay sovereign and independent in any jurisdiction (not just Europe) just by simplifying your stack and running a few baremetal servers in-house. Just buy a few Mac Studios and run them in-house with power supply back…
> Managed databases are a scam. I, too, once believed this. Then I had the displeasure of watching a $10,000 server fail during Christmas travel (about 20 years ago now). A single RAID drive failed. Then, during the rebuild, a second drive failed. Then the RAID controller itself failed catastrophically, losing all the RAID volume metadata. When we restored from backup, we discovered that the sysadmin who had just qui…
What about a hybrid approach?
You could use a managed db service as a live replica dedicated as a backup only. The queries would go to your local database on beefy hardware, while the replica would just have to be powerful enough to keep up with the WAL stream.
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#288Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin…
Why do you need to move from Porkbun though? I don't get it.
gp, like OP, are moving away from USA based infrastructure.
you ca see this on the footer of porkbun.com:
> Made in the USA
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
But everyone has a password manager now. They come builtin to all major browsers, Apple ecosystem, etc. My non-technical girlfriend uses one.
Yeah, and I support anything that makes security by default easier. I'd love to see adoption numbers for in-browser password managers, though, because I feel it's not very high yet.
> I'd love to see adoption numbers for in-browser password managers, though, because I feel it's not very high yet.
Why specifically in-browser?
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I use my password manager across multiple devices daily. Apparently it has not been working without me noticing it?
... And how do you access the passwords that password manager manages?
With the "password manager" program? I have one on my desktop and one on my smartphone.
How do you expect to access the passwords that the password manager manages?