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I usually use only Firefox, but when I need to launch Chrome to test something, this reporter tool creates a very significant load one the system in terms of SSD and CPU usage. For the last few times I have simply killed the process, but will see if any of permanent ways to disable this reporter tool really work.

"- WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X." WSL 2 is not perfect, but its pretty stable. And it's available for everyone on 1903 update. No need to be in Insider program. Yes, no X, that's true.

There. Fixed even more: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%... . And if we take into consideration various versions of how to spell (for example vscode), Visual Studio code dominates even more.

I understand why stablecoin's are useful to the end user. I also understand how Bitfinex is cashing in on Tether. However how is Coinbase making money with USDC? They clearly will have considerable expenses (keeping reserve, legal team, development etc. etc.). But if I give them 1USD and get back 1USDC, which later can be exchanged back to 1 USD, where are they making money?

If i did my math correctly, then in my situation 0$ converted to ~400$. Google gave 500$ free credit, which will run out in 1 month. Simplest way to optimize things will be to replace dynamic maps with static and remove StreetView. Then i should be ~200$ monthly limit. Which is not safe place to be. Edit: Actually 500$ will last for 3 months. As each month there are 200$ free. Thus if bill is 400$, then half if covered by the free tier and second half from credit.

Revolut will not accept. But you will be able to exchange USD, EUR and other currencies to Bitcoin (and vice versa). But you will not be able to transfer Bitcoin to Revolut or transfer Bitcoin out of Revolut. At least not at the first iteration of crypto currency support.

To view whitelist you can go to "background page" of extension and check out source for /lib/background/index.js . Whitelist starts from line 12440 and ends on 50262.

Even though it's scary topic, currently they are still in good standing. At least in my eyes. Even though they collect data (how else can you evaluate who to flattr), its stored locally and they do not send it off. If there will ever be a situation where they send something more than they should, this project is dead and there will be no way back.

As Flattr 1.0 did not get any traction, my guess is that they went with AdBlock Plus creators (Eyeo) just because Flattr run out of cash and Eyeo was the one who offered to invest and later on to buy out. Simple math. Even though I'm not fan of what Eyeo have done in the past, fact that old team was able to continue to work on this, makes me hopeful, that this will not turn out to be some sort of malicious or grey area project. But time will tell.

I was big fan of original Flattr, that's why i was excited for 2.0 too. However that "extension" setup is something that still keeps me in evaluation phase, rather than 100% in. I inspected extension (not 100% of it, but a bit of code, storage, xhr calls). Some findings:

* They use whitelist (visible in source) of sites, thus they do not record activity on all sites, but just the ones in whitelist.

* You can individually block sites from being tracked even if they are in whitelist (by click on the icon). This gets respected.

* They store a lot of data "locally". Things like timestamps, cursor activity, time spent on the page etc. This does not get sent to flattr, but sits in local storage.

* Once "site/page" qualifies for a flattr, path with title is sent to flattr. No other information (i.e. - no query string, no mouse activity etc.).

* They record things, that they should blacklist. For example - common cms paths (wp-admin/) is reported, but should not be. In some sites they report paths that should be blacklisted (like in twitter they report /settings/ ).

* In youtube.com icon for extension looks disabled (like nothing is being recorded), however they still store data in local db (browsing history, videos viewed). Nothing is sent to flattr though. This should be updated. Either show in icon that you record data, or do not record anything.

All in all extension does not look malicious at the moment. But it's not perfect either. And i'm not sure that there will be a point where i will feel 100% confident with it. Most likely i will try to use it, but will continue to inspect regularly to see if its still solid.

Edited: fixed some typos.

I wanted to touch this part: "And then you can keep your desktop mail client." . Actually you can use your desktop mail client with ProtonMail too. All you need to do, is install ProtonMail Bridge. It's in closed Beta right now, but it works pretty well (i'm using with Thunderbird).

This 6min video does a great job on explaining the differences between Concorde and Tu-144 and why Tu-144 was so bad at many things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWbuKr5-I8

Local antitrust agency recently told that they will look into this "synchronized pricing rise". However I really doubt that they will do anything about it.

Telecom services are pretty cheap in Latvia if we compare to other countries in EU. However we cant forget, that Latvia is also one of poorest EU countries. While for some that 3€-4€ increase is nothing, others do feel it and are not happy.

This idea was good. But in reality what happened in Latvia was very simple and expected move by telcos - all three of them raised prices for all subscriptions by about 3€-4€ monthly (which is ~30% increase). Yes, now you can feel better while traveling, however everyone now pays extra every single month. For some situation now is better, while others pay for it even if they do not need such freedom. Those who are in first category are happy, others not so much.

Edited: It's interesting to see how comment which states facts, can get upvoted and downvoted this much. Sometimes voting in HN does not make any sense (to me). I understand that upvote is "thanks for letting us know those facts". What are downvotes representing? That I should not write at all, that price increase for all 3 telcos is fine, that everyone should be happy? Rhetorical question.

120 is for businesses. For individual developers its way cheaper: € 59.00 /1st year, € 47.00 /2nd year, € 35.00 /3rd yr onwards. And you can cancel your subscription if you are OK with 1 year old version that you will fallback to.

I'm one of those customers (for 8th year already) and for me it's not a big deal. Unless you are one of those high profile customers who needs constant API access, those few minutes of downtime is not a big deal. Not everyone is spinning up and down new instances all the time. Plus - not all attacks result in downtime for them. Sometimes you do not notice at all, sometimes responsiveness will suffer a bit. And as I said - their defenses have become way better than they were a year ago. And it's not really fair to compare Linode to AWS. It would be more interesting to see how would DigitalOcean handle the same amount of attacks. And I doubt DO would handle them any better than Linode.

I'm not really sure why "Linode" and "DDOS" makes the news. It happens regularly. And is nothing to be surprised about. What is new is how they managed to get their systems upgraded to the point where DDOS does not matter anymore. After big blackout (when they were under attack for weeks and even one of their DC's was completely offline for more than a day) their defenses have become way better. Of course - maybe attacks are not so big. I do not know that. It's my 8th year with them. During those years only once (I think) I had downtime because of those DDOS attacks. Not bad at all.

+1 from me. This would be good addition!

I still use RSS for about 250 blogs/sites (tracked by Feedly). That's no near to what it was in times of Google Reader. Some sites stopped providing RSS. For some there was just too much content and it was a pain to filter out everything. I have settled down on those two approaches:

1) If blog/site generates content rare and provides RSS, I use Feedly to track it.

2) If blog/sites generates a lot of content I expect that someone in my Twitter feed will post link to really good article.

So yeah - RSS is still valuable.

If this change is so beneficial to users - lets put it to the test. JetBrains - put up public voting (which you do not have control over) and let us vote on which licensing deal we like more: old one or new one. Then we can talk if this is really something that developers really want.

Release notes: http://docs.mongodb.org/v3.0/release-notes/3.0/

"MongoDB 3.0 will be generally available in March, when we finish putting it through its paces. Stay tuned for our latest release candidate, we would love it if you would try it out and give us feedback." So... no 3.0 final yet. That's disappointing. However - I'm really excited about 3.0. Initial tests show way better performance than 2.6. Plus data takes just 1/4th of disk space. That's amazing. I hope this is just beginning and each next release will add more and more features based on what WT can deliver.

Keep in mind that document-level locking will be available only for WiredTiger storage engine and not default one (MMAPv1). MMAPv1 will support only collection level locking. The same story goes for compression. Also only available in WiredTiger. Question remains - how stable will WiredTiger be in 2.8...

If i choose to ignore SSL warning I get ERROR 522. But I guess its better now to sit and relax while CF catches up with all this migration.

Enabled this, but when visiting website over https have error. "You attempted to reach YYYY, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as ssl2000.cloudflare.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of YYYY." Looks like things are still in progress and does not work out of the box. Will see what will be in a day or couple.

Why on Earth you had to tell that? After reading your comment I had to go and check out video on my own... Will not do that anymore.

https://twitter.com/linode/status/478548938010939392 for 10$ promo code if you want to try out. DigitalOcean very often gives out credits for testing, first time I see Linode doing that.

Sure it is. I use one of jetBrains IDEs as my main tool and it also have some DB tools integrated. Before adding one more tool to my toolset I need to know how much it will cost and how big return it can give me.

Main question ... pricing?