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Web Bot Auth 11 months ago

Couldn’t agree more — Much like running my own DNS or email server, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to running my own website directly on the internet. It’s just not worth the hassle. For stuff only I use, it sits behind my VPN. For anything that _must_ be public, it’s going behind a WAF someone else can run.

I’m not sure you can really categorize rust as a high level language, unless you’re stating crypto primitives should only be written in assembly.

EDIT: Given this attack was also applied to OpenSSL, amongst many others this high level language comment seems doubly odd/dubious

EDIT2: another rust TLS implementation was among only 3 that was initially verified to be not vulnerable as well..

I will given Berlin credit here — after checking in to our accommodations (took a taxi from the airport), I poked a ticket machine, quickly saw the Union Jack flag and got the machine into English. Couple minutes later we had our 1 week passes in hand. In general I found the system very approachable, using google maps for route planning.

Canadian but also lived in the US. Have not lived in the EU.

For Canada, while geographically large population wise it’s very small compared to the US. The big Canadian banks are targeting a similar sized demographic to California.

I’m less familiar with Europe, but I’m guessing most nations still have prominent national retail banks, with some having an EU wide market? Those national retail banks would effectively be regional in the US.

This isn’t entirely true fwiw. That assumes a constant load on the systems. If you start running into a capacity crunch on a given system, your best case is scale horizontally or vertically using established procedures. But if you hit a limit there (vertical scaling limit, architectural limit) and actually need to refactor? Good luck!

No. In general, Canadians just lost access to the medical system. Surgeries delayed, family doctors switching to only telehealth. Even now, in Vancouver — for my family doctor it would be a two week wait for a 10 minute phone call, followed by another two week wait to be seen in person (if he decided that was needed). Any type of non emergency walk in clinic is generally full within the first few minutes, due to line ups before opening. So for many, the only chance of seeing a doctor within a month your best option is waiting 7-12 hours in an emergency room.

I’ve lived in 3 Canadian cities and 1 major US city. Regularly used public transit in all of them. Used transit around both Canada and the US as a tourist, plus a few locations in Europe, Australia.

For any location where I was using it for more than a week I’ve encountered something unpleasant. Various degrees and extremes, but in my experience (not OP) it certainly seems to be intrinsic to public transit.

Some of these could arguably be a net good (it’s much better that the drunk is on the bus rather than driving himself!) and I continue to prefer transit over driving myself when available, but I would never deny that it’s not always an enjoyable experience

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Can the submitter include some information about why they think this is interesting or noteworthy? Appears to be just another proprietary MFA app to me.