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devrand commented on Apple Debuts iPhone 17   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
burnt-resistor · 3 months ago
With inflation such as it is, finance it and don't be concerned about a temporary lock. Most carriers will unlock it after X months and/or for travel. Let the phone carrier eat it and conserve capital.
devrand · 3 months ago
It seems like you can also finance it interest free through Apple themselves without being locked to a carrier.
devrand commented on Apple Debuts iPhone 17   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
kotaKat · 3 months ago
Once again disappointed that we’re getting screwed over by “bill credit” carrier offers for 36 months and wish that US carriers would stop that crap.
devrand · 3 months ago
What's the concern here? Can the phone not just be bought outright?
devrand commented on 2.5B Gmail users endangered after Google database hack   pcworld.com/article/28808... · Posted by u/alhazraed
devrand · 4 months ago
This article links to a Forbes article that states it was a leak of a Saleforce instance that contained contact information about small and medium businesses.

This PCWorld article seems to be taking that to mean that every single gmail account (2.5B) is at risk with nothing to support that claim.

devrand commented on Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname   bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/xPaw
LiamPowell · 8 months ago
> You want private DNS to private IPs

Nothing stops you getting a cert while pointing your DNS records to internal addresses. The DNS-01 challenge exists to serve exactly that kind of configuration.

> lots of ISPs won't even serve your private IPs through their DNS caches

I have never seen this, could you give an example? However, if this is an issue then there's nothing stopping you from just using your public DNS for DNS-01 challenges and using your internal DNS for everything else.

It is also impossible for your ISP to do this if you're using DoH or DoT, which you really should be, especially if you already know that your ISP is messing with DNS traffic.

> You want subsigning CAs for your VPN, contractor services, websites, teams, etc.

You can't do this, but you can have your own ACME server that forwards requests to a public CA if you really need to let different teams manage their own certs. A better option is probably to use one of the paid CloudFlare tiers where you can create scoped API keys that provide DNS editing access scoped to a subdomain, or you could of course host your own DNS server or find a different DNS provider that offers this service.

devrand · 8 months ago
You could also use the `_acme-challenge` CNAME record to delegate cert acquisition, assuming you're using separate subdomains for each.
devrand commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain   status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX
jsheard · 8 months ago
GoDaddy operates the .us TLD, so Zoom registered the domain through Markmonitor, who acquired it from GoDaddy, who shit the bed and broke everything.
devrand · 8 months ago
ah-ha! Didn't consider that GoDaddy operates the TLD (in my mind I assumed it was just Verisign). Thank you for pointing that out.
devrand commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain   status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX
gkanai · 8 months ago
Companies pay MarkMonitor to NOT make these mistakes. So... GoDaddy failed?
devrand · 8 months ago
Yeah I don't understand this. MarkMonitor themselves are a registry, so is the potentially a mistake in migrating from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor?
devrand commented on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024   backblaze.com/blog/backbl... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
neilv · 10 months ago
Every year, this seems like great brand promotion for Backblaze, to technical prospective customers, and a nice service to the field.

What are some other examples from other companies of this, besides open source code?

devrand · 10 months ago
Puget Systems has similar publications covering their experience building client systems, though not always in the same level of detail. They also have PugetBench to benchmark systems in real-world applications/workflows.
devrand commented on Google open-sources the Pebble OS   opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/hexxeh
mavamaarten · a year ago
Yes and no. They did buy it and just let it die. They were so far ahead of the competition at the time.
devrand · a year ago
It was dead long before Google was involved. Pebble filed for insolvency back in 2016 with Fitbit acquiring much of the assets. It was dead at this point. 5 years later Google bought Fitbit.
devrand commented on New H1-B rule by DHS   twitter.com/FedericoNoemi... · Posted by u/mbrain
harleyjs · a year ago
I’ve noticed the use of L-1 visas nowadays.

In my recent conversations with recruiters, they've suggested joining the company and working from my current location, then transferring after a year.

devrand · a year ago
I presume it's in a company's interest as L-1 visas cannot be transferred so you're tethered to them.
devrand commented on SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There   wsj.com/business/telecom/... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2
skybrian · a year ago
Maybe they assume you know how to use an archive site, or that someone will post a link eventually.
devrand · a year ago
Looks like WSJ finally implemented bot protection as archive.today just has a CAPTCHA archived.

u/devrand

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