theallan

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by theallan 2mo ago
Should one of the first things you do with a database not be to have a backup strategy? I understand that HA would be a "nice to have" when first starting out, but surly if you have a production db, a backup and restore plan shoul
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by theallan 6mo ago
> I maintain an open source project funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund. I would absolutely love to know more about this if you are willing to share the story?
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by theallan 8mo ago
Can we follow along with your work / results somewhere?
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by theallan 11mo ago
The Minisforum V3 does: https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-v3 .
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by theallan 1y ago
An SEO thing for them. Useful income for me. It isn't much ($49/year), but every little helps...
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by theallan 1y ago
That's the only reason I could think of for doing this, but I saw zero evidence that it was done that way. Baffling!
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by theallan 1y ago
> Out of curiosity, could this have been a vector for a supply chain attack? If you were using the CDN without SRIs, then yes, that would have been the most obvious channel. However, I don't believe the attacker ever set up for that
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by theallan 1y ago
That's awesome to hear - thank you :-).
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by theallan 1y ago
Joker.com. Credit to them they fixed it reasonably quickly, but its a horrible policy to default to enact the change if no response if given. Their reasoning was what else would they do if someone got locked out of their email - they need a
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by theallan 1y ago
The blog feed is here: https://datatables.net/feeds/blog.xml . It is advertised on the landing page, but it looks like I've missed having it on the blog page! As you say, that has the releases feed - thanks for po
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by theallan 1y ago
Yeah - it was a well set up attack. What I don't understand is that there was no obvious follow on. I can only guess that it was a proof that it could be done. Maybe? Regarding the 1000 error - I didn't have any 1:1 support contac
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by theallan 1y ago
Yeah, I really wasn't happy about that. I did put it to the registrar that such a policy is wrong and open to such an attack. I got the impression that they weren't going to change their policy though. Such policies are something
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by theallan 1y ago
Didn't expect to see this here, it was over a month ago this incident happened! Happy to answer any questions about it (author of DataTables here). It was a super stressful event to say the least, and I've been reading along with
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by theallan 1y ago
Just looked up their stuff again (it's been a while) and they appear to be out of business, although the website is still running. Don't order from them, based on Reddit reviews... Real shame, I loved the Psion keyboard.
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by theallan 1y ago
Take a look at Plant Computers PDAs: https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/planetphones . The hardware is a bit old notre and if love to see a refresh, but the Pison keyboard is there!
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by theallan 2y ago
The flip side is, if you don't do auto updates and an exploit is published and used against you and you haven't yet tested / pushed the patch, that you would have been protected against if it had auto updated, you are up the
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by theallan 2y ago
Adding another one to say that I've only have a positive experience with Hetzner so far. 6 months in, and 4 machines. All doing fine.
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by theallan 2y ago
In case anyone finds this through search in future, I've just received this from the Yahoo postmaster team: > Our engineering team has looked into this and you'll need to have your users mark the mail and not spam. We don'
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by theallan 2y ago
SPF, DKIM, DMARC are all set up correctly. There is no issue with deliverability when just sending from an indiviual account of the charity's domain to Outlook / Yahoo, it is purely when going through Google Groups that there is a
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Ask HN: Email List Software
5 points by theallan 2y ago|5 comments
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by theallan 2y ago
Daft question, but if you hadn't realised, then your client's obviously asked that question yet (and might not)? Open source needs to find a way to make money and backlinks is a reasonable way of doing it. I should say for my own
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by theallan 2y ago
$100/m is cheap for a back link? (honest question - I've no idea). 67 logos on the home page at the time of writing this, that's $6'700/m. While obviously not FAANG salary scale, it isn't to be sneezed at eithe
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by theallan 3y ago
For anyone in central Scotland, come and check out the Scottish Model Engineering Trust - https://smet.org.uk . We've got everything from N gauge to 7 1/4 inch. I haven't been a member for long yet (a few years),
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by theallan 3y ago
Given that it appears to be Javascript based, and Ext JS is already well established ( https://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ ), I was initially thinking that this might be some kind of store front from Sencha. Th
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by theallan 3y ago
I think the GP is more disappointed that Microsoft choose to use Blink rather than Gecko as their rendering engine. Not that they abandoned the closed source EdgeHTML.
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Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 We made the rocks(nitter.net)
4 points by theallan 3y ago|1 comments
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by theallan 3y ago
Doesn't that make the page completely unreadable for those few who have Javascript disabled though?
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by theallan 3y ago
More details about that on their github page [1]. It seems you basically need to include a JS file from [their CDN](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/eruda). As someone who fondly remembers the early Firebug days, it is great to se
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by theallan 3y ago
I think the confusion is coming from the framing of "Email API for Developers Using React" as the title for this post. React has nothing to do with "an email API" as far as I can see. Your web-site is more clear in that
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by theallan 3y ago
How are you interlinking them? Do you compile to HTML for viewing?

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