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by combyn8tor 4y ago
In the era of beige crt monitors and not caring about electricity consumption it was all the rage to personalise your screensaver. A lot of people used them to display personal pics of their animals, family, cars etc. in place of putting ph
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
Does anyone know what Firebase uses for their functions service?
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
No probs, I run a niche gaming vpn service supporting a handful of games for Australian and New Zealand customers. It is mostly run out of a Discord server and any support work is handled via Discord PM's. All my new customers are from
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
That's pretty much what I'm after. Ideally the affiliate gets real $ in return for their referral instead of just credit for my service. I run a niche gaming vpn. Last time I looked at your competitors nobody seemed to be doing it
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
Can I use promo codes instead of website tracking? Most of my new customers come from a Discord channel and never visit my website.
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
Is there a template for replying to hackernews posts linking to engineering articles? 1. Cherry pick a piece of info 2. Claim it's not that hard/impressive/large 3. Claim it can be done much simpler with <insert database&#
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
> "I just read what they tell me to" Isn't it possible they're just talking about what their media advisers wrote for them? It doesn't mean they didn't set the agenda.
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
> other people's financial position IMO this is pretty much top of the priorities in Sydney. How much money someone is perceived to have is usually intertwined into their description along with where they live and how much money the
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
There are various issues but as others have mentioned tall poppy syndrome is a big factor in Australia that prevents people from trying. Outside of a very small group of tech/VC people, friends/family/associates will be linin
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by combyn8tor 4y ago
You can validate the data with Firebase rules. The other data can be updated with Firebase functions. They listen for state changes on the relevant data and then update the data that the user does not have access to.
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
A CDN solves those issues and is significantly faster than HTTP3 in your use case... why the hate for them? The centralised aspect?
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
https://clipchamp.com/en/blog/clipchamp-pwa-case-study/
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
It's pretty dam close to native. I would consider researching it again. You could do away with Electron altogether and just run it in browser. You can make it a PWA to give it that "Native app" feel so the users are none the
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Interested to hear if you considered compiling Rust to WASM and what your thoughts were?
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Okay that makes sense, thanks for the info. I'm new to Windows networking and thought WireguardNT was somehow using a WFP callout to encrypt plus reroute packets and then drop the original. Keep up the great work you're doing!
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Hi Jason, are there any plans for process based routing within the WindowsNT driver? For example, if a Windows user wanted to route only Chrome through a Wireguard tunnel but leave all other applications network traffic untouched.
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Well on one hand you've got engineers at a billion dollar company explaining how they've solved a problem. On the other hand you've got some random commentor on HN over-simplifying a complex engineering solution.
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Ethics aside, that is pretty clever.
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by combyn8tor 5y ago
Can anyone elaborate on how this is implemented? Are they using WFP in some way?