Hacker News: alternize

New comment by alternize in "Comparison site for digital analytics tools"

alternize — Wed, 17 May 2023 13:10:36 +0000

I also tried a bunch but am now keeping Matomo. I like it for its cookieless (and as such consent-less) mode.

what I miss from GUA/GA4 is a "top pages" report. Matomo seems to only support a url-path-based treeview like Pages report which makes it quite difficult to find the top performing pages if the site has many sections/categories

New comment by alternize in "25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build"

alternize — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:30:55 +0000

sounds intriguing for backup purposes. I was not able to find this pricing online (without contacting sales), would you have a link for this?

New comment by alternize in "Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea"

alternize — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:02:36 +0000

while I share your sentiments regarding some other companies, I was able to get in touch with an actual cloudflare technician (and not some outsourced first level support with standard boilerplate replies) in a timely manner even on their free tier when I ran into a problem with one of their system. every support case with them has do far been a real pleasure compared to what you experience with other companies. I only hope they will be able to keep this level...

New comment by alternize in "Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare"

alternize — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:24:46 +0000

for our sites behind cloudflare, it seems to be a routing issue (among possible other things) - some visitors can still access the sites, others can't. traffic went down roughly 60%.

New comment by alternize in "Show HN: A Color Picker I Made"

alternize — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 23:38:04 +0000

great color picker, really love the preview images. the only thing missing for me is to have the possibility to specify a specific color in hex as a starting point: most of the time when I'm looking for additional colors for a project, the main color is already pretty much set.

New comment by alternize in "What Was the Microsoft Network?"

alternize — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:51:46 +0000

I had the chance to be part of a beta tester group for The Microsoft Network in my country for roughly two years. while the network's content itself wasn't that attractive, it could also be used to access other internet services, similar as AOL provided.

beta testers were provided access through a toll-free number. exciting times for teenage me, after years of fights due to BBS-inflated monthly family phone bills.

New comment by alternize in "OVH to close HubiC cloud storage service"

alternize — Tue, 22 May 2018 11:50:26 +0000

they are not even allowing existing customer to upgrade the subscription. I just received an email this morning that my 100gb are full and wanted to upgrade to the next tier.

New comment by alternize in "Appalachian miners reject retraining because they think coal will make comeback"

alternize — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 16:15:37 +0000

that was a great 10 min watch, thanks!

while there are several good points made in the video, one really made me think: if you're in an IQ segment that gives you lot of opportunities - as the prof said: "not just opening word, but programming" -, it is really easy to forget that many people might struggle with "reasonable simple" tasks.

New comment by alternize in "Windows for Linux Nerds"

alternize — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:16:39 +0000

> For many use cases it suffices to symlink a Windows directory (e.g. /mnt/c/Users/myuser) into your WSL $HOME directory somewhere and do your source work

that's what I'm doing for quite a while now and works well for my workload: fast IDE on Windows 10 for coding, reasonably fast building on WSL side.

sure, file access in WSL is slower that native, but still way faster than any other combination I've tried in the last few years (VM + Shared Folders, VM + SMB, VM + file sync, ...) when lots of files are changed at once, for example when switching between project branches.

New comment by alternize in "Hey Synaptics, Can You Please Stop Polling"

alternize — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:53:39 +0000

this problem has been introduced in a driver update around march. but it has been fixed for me (lenovo x1 yoga) in the latest synaptics touchpad driver update v19.3.4.97 [0]:

   [Problem fixes]
    - Fixed an issue where Touchpad Driver might cause high cpu usage of
   "WmiPrvSE.exe".

[0] https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/ch/en/products/LAPTOPS-AND-NETB...

Netflix booed at Okja’s Cannes premiere

alternize — Fri, 19 May 2017 17:04:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/19/15662542/netflix-cannes-film-festival-booed-okja-premiere

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14377528

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by alternize in "Let's Encrypt is down"

alternize — Fri, 19 May 2017 13:55:28 +0000

additionally, error responses from the OCSP servers are cached 600 seconds - use SSLStaplingErrorCacheTimeout to lower this to a more sane value: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslstap...

Grsecurity: No more public test patches

alternize — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton_faq.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205145

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by alternize in "USPS confirms Byuu’s PAL SNES package has been lost"

alternize — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:55:54 +0000

I can see it even in an anon browser session:

    .@USPS @USPSHelp Thanks, I found my missing package ... label. Your employees ripped it off the box and stole a $10,000 package from me. pic.twitter.com/LfuPZ9vZ8U

here are the two pics posted: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEKCVcAATKva.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4wfEssVcAANYlw.jpg

New comment by alternize in "Incorporating a limited company in Germany"

alternize — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:09:56 +0000

sorry for the late reply. nidwalden and zurich... there was not much difference between the process in the two cantons. we had a lawyer and an accountant help us in the beginning to get the hard-to-figure-out things during incorporation right. money well spent!

New comment by alternize in "Incorporating a limited company in Germany"

alternize — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:21:54 +0000

huh, where does your experience come from?

currently running two small swiss it companies (3 and 6 employees), and ran several more in the past. none had a "full-time administrator".

founding costs (notary, fees etc) were always around €2000 for GmbH and €5000 for AG. our yearly expense for an external accounting expert to do our end-of-year accounting and taxes is around 1k to 2k per company (i.e. 1 to 2 man-day).

An Open Letter to the Professional Esports Association and the CS Community

alternize — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@sirscootscs/an-open-letter-to-the-professional-esports-association-its-member-teams-and-the-counter-strike-db2fb8b55f75#.pvcnkiu0f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13244228

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Avalanche network dismantled in international cyber operation

alternize — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/%E2%80%98avalanche%E2%80%99-network-dismantled-in-international-cyber-operation

Hacker News: alternize

New comment by alternize in "Comparison site for digital analytics tools"

New comment by alternize in "25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build"

New comment by alternize in "Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement with FIDO2/WebAuthn is a bad idea"

New comment by alternize in "Route Leak Impacting Cloudflare"

New comment by alternize in "Show HN: A Color Picker I Made"

New comment by alternize in "What Was the Microsoft Network?"

New comment by alternize in "OVH to close HubiC cloud storage service"

New comment by alternize in "Appalachian miners reject retraining because they think coal will make comeback"

New comment by alternize in "Windows for Linux Nerds"

New comment by alternize in "Hey Synaptics, Can You Please Stop Polling"

Netflix booed at Okja’s Cannes premiere

New comment by alternize in "Let's Encrypt is down"

Grsecurity: No more public test patches

New comment by alternize in "USPS confirms Byuu’s PAL SNES package has been lost"

New comment by alternize in "Incorporating a limited company in Germany"

New comment by alternize in "Incorporating a limited company in Germany"

An Open Letter to the Professional Esports Association and the CS Community

Avalanche network dismantled in international cyber operation

Effective DarkComet RAT Analysis in 10 Minutes and 3 Clicks

Local privilege escalation for OS X 10.11.6 via PEGASUS