HN user

dashesyan

118 karma
Posts0
Comments22
View on HN
No posts found.
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others 3 months ago

Time Machine has a similar issue. OneDrive silently corrupted hundreds of my files, replacing their content with binary zeros while retaining the original file size. I have Time Machine backups going back years, but it turns out TM does not backup Cloud files, even if you have them pinned to local storage! So I lost sales those files, including some irreplaceable family photos

I’ve added restic to my backup routine, pointed at cloud files and other critical data

0ThreadHN
The dark side of Shopify 4 years ago

I don't know about Stripe, but PayPal refunds PayPal fees if you refund the customer. Net amount in and net amount out are the same.

0ThreadHN
Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling 4 years ago

This doesn’t duplicate one of the best features of Ngrok: the local web server that lets you inspect and replay recent requests. This feature makes writing webhook code so much easier, because if your code doesn’t work right, you can inspect the request, fix your code, and have Ngrok replay the request until it’s all working properly. That’s even in the free version! And the paid version is also pretty cheap, and you don’t have to maintain, nor pay for, a cloud instance

0ThreadHN
The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap 7 years ago

You're giving away my secrets! I've bought 3 of these types of HP workstations over the years, starting with a Z210 with a Xeon E3-1240. I added a graphics card to make it a super budget gaming PC.

My most recent one is an HP Z420 workstation with 128GB of ECC memory, an 8-core Xeon, and Win10 Pro installed for $620 delivered. Benchmarks of the CPU show its comparable to a Ryzen 1700X in single and multi core, but I really bought it for the RAM. It's a great machine for homelab-type virtualization.

0ThreadHN
How Hackers and Scammers Break into iCloud-Locked iPhones 7 years ago

The article linked to a 34 minute YouTube video which demonstrated one unlock method: they replaced a locked iPhone's CPU, baseband CPU, baseband EPROM, NAND Flash (reprogrammed), and touch ID sensor with ones from a donor iPhone and were able to restore iOS.

0ThreadHN
Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide 7 years ago

To be vegetarian is to be vegetarian in mind and identity.

I've been a vegetarian for 7 years. I identify as vegetarian. That doesn't mean I have some sort of purity of mind and spirit. It just means I don't eat meat, gelatin, etc... I enjoy fake meats, and I'm excited to try one of these.

0ThreadHN
TruffleRuby Status 10 years ago

What is TruffleRuby?

"JRuby+Truffle started as my internship project at Oracle Labs in early 2013. It is an implementation of the Ruby programming language on the JVM, using the Graal dynamic compiler and the Truffle AST interpreter framework. JRuby+Truffle can achieve peak performance well beyond that possible in JRuby at the same time as being a significantly simpler system. In early 2014 it was open sourced and integrated into JRuby."

via http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/

I've used JRuby for a while, but I hadn't heard of Truffle

0ThreadHN
MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval 10 years ago

I've had this in my .profile for years:

  alias sleepsafe='sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25'
  alias sleepfast='sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0'
  alias sleepdefault='sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3'
Whenever I travel or need to leave my laptop, I always run `sleepsafe`, which will delete the key from memory and hibernate the computer when I close the lid. It has the added benefit of saving battery life.

Day-to-day, I use `sleepfast`, which is faster than the default hybrid sleep, because it doesn't spend time copying the contents of memory to disk.

I very rarely switch to `sleepdefault` which is the insecure and slower hybrid sleep.

This has been a known issue for years http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/06/maximize-filevault-security-d... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/02/02/filevault-encryp...

0ThreadHN