I don’t think I’d make that information public were I in their shoes. Wouldn’t that be a hint for anyone attempting to crack them?

I’m explaining why I’m a programmer for some context why I’m interested in technology, not to argue that all programmers hate gaming.

I was replying against the smug “you must’ve been born in the 2000s” comment. I’m arguing that not everyone is into gaming just because this is a technology community, and to maybe drop the attitude because someone isn’t cOoL like them because they were born earlier. 🙄

I was born in the late 1980s, can I know what it is?

Edit: Looks like a game. Are we assuming everyone in a technology community cares about video games? I’m a programmer but can’t get into video games at all.

I think the part you’re missing (and others haven’t addressed) is that you don’t send 100% of your traffic to one endpoint (much like how most use VPNs). You can route different things to different places.

For example, I’m in the US and have two Tailscale exit nodes. Both are located on VPS machines in the US, but one sends traffic down a double-hop VPN back out into the US, the other does the same but to Switzerland. My “default” route is through Switzerland (better privacy laws) but I am forced to route some things through the US exit node due to websites that won’t work outside the US. For my personal devices, traffic routes directly to them via WireGuard tunnels.

In addition, my wife doesn’t care about blocking everything that I do (social media, tracking) but her phone still needs to update sensors in Home Assistant. She can choose not to use the exit nodes but can still communicate with our nodes on Tailscale. She also uses it to print documents at home from her laptop while she’s at work.

Recently I was waiting in a hospital with public (unsafe) WiFi that blocked UDP traffic, but Tailscale does some magic that will relay traffic via TLS. I was able to access services at home with a 20ms latency. The tech is very, very nice to have.

I wonder how this works in other countries because I know it’s normal to do (what we call) ACH-to-ACH transfers.

I’m actually all for speeding up ACH and using it more often (rather than P2P transfers apps), but you raise a valid concern here.

Mint Mobile only works on T-Mobile. I’m wanting something that works on both. My wife is still on T-Mobile, and whenever we travel our state one when one of us has no signal, the other does. I’d like an MVNO that can automatically switch between the two.

Google Fi supports this but last I heard it doesn’t work on iPhone.

So yeah, I’m the opposite: I have high expectations if I’m going to switch.

I was a T-Mobile customer for awhile and am on AT&T now. In my region it’s always one or the other with the best coverage.

I was going to switch to Boost Infinite right before they became Boost. Still trying to figure out if Boost will work on AT&T, Boost, T-Mobile networks like Boost Infinite did because if they do, smell ya later (kinda) AT&T!

I only have experience trying to run two Tailscale containers on the same machine and hit so many roadblocks that running it containerized just wasn’t worth it.

Containerizing is probably only worth it if you have an explicit need for it.

I don’t think it’s hard to understand regardless what their experience with billing terms may be.

“Don’t give them credit” still makes sense to me as someone who has that experience. It also makes sense to me as just a normal human that maybe we shouldn’t just let unreliable parties pay later given their wild (basically public at this point) history with paying people.

That might be true, but I think the point is that maybe it shouldn’t be rare (especially when dealing with these guys).

I had to start hashing passwords and sending it to the haveibeenpwned API.

I also fight with my users over data normalization because any time I add some rule (like don’t put “SO#” as part of the value of the “SO#” field), they’re too stupid to realize the point and find some other “hack” around it.

Was this due to DMARC/DKIM, SPF or something else?

I’m entrenched in Apple devices but in love with Linux on embedded devices, VPS servers, etc. I remember the magic of my first Linux install (Red Hat Linux on a Windows 3.1-era IBM ThinkPad that ran Windows 2000 flawlessly), and I’m really considering picking up some midrange laptop for a desktop install of Linux.

macOS does this too shockingly despite using the file extension as a “hint” to the file type. I think it’s unique in that most UNIX/Linux systems use magic number and Windows blindly accepts that the file is of the type that matches the extension.

I hate that they block VPNs, I’m forced to route Reddit traffic through my home router. I usually use a redirect to an alternate frontend but it’s been buggy lately.

And if you’re looking for legitimate reviews, good luck! Everyone’s an affiliate now.

I’ve been using this for about a year, but at work I’m still on Google (don’t know why).

What’s weird is SearXNG seems like it gets better results now, even though they’re just coming from the others.

One thing I like is that I can switch instances to get varied results based on the instance’s geographical location. In other words, it doesn’t feel like anything’s targeted.

And it’s definitely not simple. I hate dealing with AWS at work, shit is overly complex where it doesn’t need to be.

I’m noticing other comments are mentioning other services so I’ll just throw another one out there: Storj

I have a NAS, but use Storj for off-site backup. The performance, client-side encryption (by default) and price are all winners in my book. They’ve got an S3 gateway too but I personally avoid it due to it needing keys for encryption.

(I also used to rent out excess hard disk space to their network in the early days but that’s another story.)

To add to this, I’d personally just clone the card immediately to somewhere else then do all the recovery efforts on the clone; if only to avoid burning out the SD card even more during recovery.

Edit: Not sure if that would be better or worse.