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Comment · 2 years ago
First of all thanks for providing an alternative 2FA app on iOS platform that is open source.

I wanted to be one of the users but when I tried to import my backup from Raivo your app just gives null point exception error. I sent an email to your support team and they said they will get back to me once they hear back more from devs, which was 2 weeks ago.

For now I am using 2FAs but it would be great if I can get to try your app once importing works fine.

Good luck!

Comment · 6 years ago
Out of curiosity, what are the options for log parsing? The ones I know are Awstats and Webalizer. Is there any more up to date or more modern alternative to these two?
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
I meant the letter published on the article link shows the client's name, without any redaction even thou some other info is redacted. That's why I assumed it's safe to mention client's name here.
Comment · 7 years ago
The letter mentions the client's name as Mr. Niemela, upon some Googling you can see that he sued Google and some other companies to remove his online presence and some news about him. So it looks like it's just usual practice for him & his law firm.

(This info wasn't redacted so I assume it's safe to mention it here)

Comment · 7 years ago
It also includes information of 3rd world country citizens'. Like passport info, photos, fingerprints, their visit to Schengen countries.

When you apply for visa for Schengen countries, your info will be recorded on SIS. And stored there for 5 years.

Note: EU uses the term "3rd world country" term themselves and Im citizen of one of those countries.

Comment · 7 years ago
You can use Pi Hole both on your local network and on cloud as VPN on your iPhone (only DNS or for full traffic)
Comment · 8 years ago
There is practically nothing on the webpage for uBlock, Ghostery and Privacy Badger to block.

It's like a dream come true.

Comment · 8 years ago
Like others mentioned, Amazon sends the question via email to verified buyers as "some user have a question and needs your help" and there is a button to answer their question (which opens the browser).

I saw lots of "I don't know" answers to questions, I guess Amazon realised this also as now they put "I don't know" button to emails.

Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not exactly sure if it's for scam or some problem on Amazon side.

I was looking for gaming mousepad for a known brand and item was sold by Amazon. Majority of the reviews (mainly 3 stars or less ones) were mentioning as sensitivity of the mouse is not good or one of the mouse button got broken quiet fast.

I don't think a well known brand would do this trick but apparently there is a problem and Amazon should fix it.

Comment · 8 years ago
As I see, it looks like Chrome will block mainly other ad companies' ads. If you try to use Adsense ads like this, it will result in penalty/ban because it's already forbidden by the rules of the program.

So this feature just blocks the interrupting ads, Google already announced earlier that they will be downgrading the sites on SERP if they contain annoying/interrrupting ads, like full screen, sticky, hard to close etc.

Comment · 9 years ago
I was looking for a password manager for a long time and ended up with KeePass. There is KeeWeb version, which looks neat but I think original KeePass app is better because of better plugin support.

I use key file and Master password to access my password storage, which is hosted at Dropbox which is behind 2FA. Key file is hosted locally. So I believe this is more secure than just using Master password.

For iOS , I use minikeepass, you can export the password database from Dropbox if you install the app. The need of exporting password database to Minikeepass each time you make update on other devices is kind of annoying tho.

There is a plugin for connecting KeePass to Dropbox and Firefox has plugin for autocompleting and saving passwords to Keepass, so for me it works perfectly fine on desktop.

But in the end, I don't pay for password manager, and I can control my own data.

Comment · 9 years ago
I used Hetzner like 10 years ago and didn't had good experience. I doubt anything changed over time. They offer home grade hardware and low priority support in return of cheap prices. They only deal with hardware and network issues (which is quite normal for Dedi service with normal support option)

- Hardware they offer is more prone to fail because of using home grade hardware for long time (especially HDD).

- It's almost impossible to convince them HDD is failing even with showing SMART logs. Hardware needs to fail so they will replace it.

- Hardware replacement times are quite fast (thanks to SLA). They replace it with another used HDD, if you want something newer, than they ask some money for replacing with less used HDD.

- They scan their network regularly for hosted malware, trojan etc. so if one of your sites get hijacked and has iframe viruses etc. Hetzner will null route your server.

- If your IP gets DDOS, null route.

- If you get DMCA warning, null route without waiting 24 hours.

- If your NAT leaks your internal traffic to WLAN, null route.

- It takes almost few day to lift null route ban on your server when you get in contact with support. It's okay for support tickets to wait in queue for long time because of service level but I believe null route tickets needs priority no matter what.

We decided to move over to another provider after having problems.

Hetzner also owns few other brands like Serverloft.

Comment · 9 years ago
Looks like there is a small difference as voice search and voice activation.

I own smart tv (Sony) that has microphone on the remote which you can only use at Youtube search bar (then light lit on the remote when microphone is active), and I believe it's quite nifty as typing via remote is PITA.

On the other hand I don't know voice activation features on smart TVs. Do you tell your TV to "turn on" or "change channel", which is not practical IMHO.

It makes sense that personal assistants (amazon echo, apple siri, google whatever) listen all the time as you use trigger words to activate them but it's so useless for TVs.

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