Readit Newsdguo commented on Google banned me from Google Voice dannyguo.com/blog/google-... · Posted by u/petemilly
Was the number used to sign up for, and receive communications from credit card companies? Is the ban related to signing up for +100 cards?
https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-credit-and-debit-card-colle...
Author here.
That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies. It's pretty much limited to an occasional authentication code for logging in (since TOTP-based two-factor is so unfortunately rare).
dguo commented on My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack dannyguo.com/blog/my-cat-... · Posted by u/dguo
I know this from a few startups and it really is not that bad. You really triage what should wake you up and what's ok until morning. It works well as long as the technical founder is ok playing a goalie and essentially being always on call (even though others catch a lot of alarms).
It stops working when the company grows and no one understands the whole system and you need on-calls from several teams. Then the company does some formal on call rotation and it's fine again. It hurts during the transition only.
Good point about the technical founder. That was certainly the case for us, as our CTO handled many issues himself.
dguo commented on My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack dannyguo.com/blog/my-cat-... · Posted by u/dguo
> we didn’t have a formal on-call rotation yet. That was a deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team was good about just collectively keeping an eye out for urgent alerts.
That seems like a terrible solution. Yeah, being on-call is painful, but at least I know beforehand when I'll be on-call and get compensated for it. Always being expected to keep an eye out for urgent alerts just sucks all around.
I know it sounds bad, but in practice, it really did work fine for us for quite a while.
1. We didn't experience that many incidents that couldn't wait until working hours.
2. There was never an explicit expectation to keep an eye out. We did it anyway because we were at an early-stage startup, and we all deeply cared about making our products work for our customers.
dguo commented on My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack dannyguo.com/blog/my-cat-... · Posted by u/dguo
And here I thought your somehow hooked up a cat feeder to alerts.
Regardless, very cute - what’s your cat’s name?
Writing this post did make me think that if someone had a well-trained dog, they could hook up a monitoring service to something that makes a particular sound, which tells the dog to alert the person.
Her name was (I sadly lost her to cancer) Bamboo! Because one of the first things she did after I adopted her was to try to eat my bamboo plant.
dguo commented on My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack dannyguo.com/blog/my-cat-... · Posted by u/dguo
> We didn’t reply, though in retrospect, it could have been fun to try to troll them.
Not replying is the only valid answer. Trolling them could potentially put you more on their radar and get targeted for other attacks. And for what?
Yep, I know it could only invite more trouble. It was fun to fantasize about though, especially after watching the video I linked to in the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E
So apparently we can control our tensor tympani muscle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle