Hacker News: aussiedude

New comment by aussiedude in "Google vs. SerpApi: The Court Granted Our Motion to Dismiss"

aussiedude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:49:48 +0000

They are also a google workspace user. Wonder how they feel about google as a company.

New comment by aussiedude in "Every Cloudflare enterprise feature, available to everyone"

aussiedude — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:25:13 +0000

As an enterprise customer it’s already self service.

Support is very poor, rackspace level at the moment.

CloudFlare will be abused even more. It’s IP ranges blocked and that will be the only enterprise difference- premium IP pool.

New comment by aussiedude in "Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract"

aussiedude — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:43:13 +0000

Amazon tried with its work suite - work mail, work drive and chime but failed miserably.

It’s now a Microsoft 365 user

New comment by aussiedude in "Microsoft rewarded for security failures with another US Government contract"

aussiedude — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:41:47 +0000

Which iDP are you thinking?

Also how’s fastmail with calendar invites to companies on exchange? What would you use to replace teams? Zoom?

New comment by aussiedude in "OpenAI weighs "nuclear option" of antitrust complaint against Microsoft"

aussiedude — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:49:08 +0000

It didn't expect to be the most well known ai company.

Insiders are pissed they don’t have billions of stock like other big tech founders.

New comment by aussiedude in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

aussiedude — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:20:47 +0000

Where are the AI features?

New comment by aussiedude in "Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another"

aussiedude — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:58:12 +0000

Also European Union and India!

New comment by aussiedude in "[dead]"

aussiedude — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:04:03 +0000

He's going to have to do a lot of cameo's to pay for that.

New comment by aussiedude in "Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf]"

aussiedude — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:33:20 +0000

But DNSSEC in root zones isn't unique to .nz.

.au, .us, .com, .net, .gov, .io, etc all have the same challenges.

New comment by aussiedude in "Review of the .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 [pdf]"

aussiedude — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:14:19 +0000

- Responsible for .nz tld are staffed by 4 technical employees doing 24x7 on call support

- Engagement surveys captured staff feeling fatigued and under resources at entire org level

- Hard to hire for roles due to specialisation

- Team moving away from BAU work to projects

- Issues raised by external partner but team had other immediate work pressures

- Had to contact ex-employee that use to worked there to help resolve

- Once a year critical take just done by one team member

- Many IT operations tasks have sufficient external dependencies that it is impossible to tell – for certain that the task will be successful in production without doing the task in the production environment. - We've all been there.

Sounds like InternetNZ should actually outsource all of this to an external party and just focus on governance work.

New comment by aussiedude in "Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M over email access issues"

aussiedude — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:01:32 +0000

You'll be surprised that non-technical users will just keep trying with the vendor until fixed.

They won't help themselves and just switch and wait for the other provider to fix.

New comment by aussiedude in "Gergely Orosz: on the risk of Google shutting down Google Cloud Platform"

aussiedude — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 01:33:52 +0000

Google really annoyed early adopters of Google Apps (now workspace) with the legacy to paid migration, then oh no you don't have to pay here's 300 free user licences nonsense.

I can totally see how CIOs and other tech savvy leaders in business really look at anything they use Google related and wonder to themselves if it might be wise to look at alternatives.

I agree with lot of comments in that Twitter thread.

New comment by aussiedude in "Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups"

aussiedude — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:24:20 +0000

Is anyone happy with Gitlab public runners?

I've found them extremely unreliable both in my free account (every failure takes 1-2 mins away from my 50 minutes!) and in my employers paid subscription so we self run but run into issues with not being able to scale runners enough to meet developers demands.

Its also super annoying that you can't use your own docker containers hosted on ECR on public runners (no way to provide auth)

New comment by aussiedude in "Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week"

aussiedude — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:51:17 +0000

So why did investors have to loose big time on a 1.8B loss when the bank had 16B in assets?

Seems like SVB was scarified

New comment by aussiedude in "GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain"

aussiedude — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:28:30 +0000

I was honestly confused for a bit, then realised that your site was redirecting to Gitbook.

;; ANSWER SECTION: help.leavemealone.app. 0 IN CNAME help.leavemealone.com.

help.leavemealone.com. 0 IN CNAME leavemealone.helpkit.so.

leavemealone.helpkit.so. 0 IN CNAME helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com. 0 IN CNAME helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net.

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 0 IN A 216.24.57.3

helpkit-ssr.onrender.com.cdn.cloudflare.net. 0 IN A 216.24.57.253

New comment by aussiedude in "GitBook bypassing Cloudflare DNS to route traffic to their domain"

aussiedude — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:15:19 +0000

This seems wild to me.

So reading this, their SaaS SSL solution basically takes over your hostname if configured with a SaaS provider?

Does Cloudflare require any verification before hand?

New comment by aussiedude in "Integrating with Fastmail"

aussiedude — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:54:17 +0000

Until they offer an office suite, cloud drive and directory that supports SSO/SAML they’ll stay a fringe email provider.

Why pay $5 to fastmail when Microsoft offers heaps more.

New comment by aussiedude in "GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome"

aussiedude — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:23:47 +0000

I wonder if they are using some Akamai bot blocking feature.

New comment by aussiedude in "Ask HN: Best open-source alternative to Slack?"

aussiedude — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:08:09 +0000

What's wrong with just using the chat app with your productivity suite? Example Google Chat for Workspace and Teams for 365?

New comment by aussiedude in "Lawsuit: Tesla broke US law by not providing 60-day notice before mass layoff"

aussiedude — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 03:03:26 +0000

I don't get what Tesla is doing? Mass layoff and your expecting to re-hire even more people in 12 months time?

I haven't seen any indication that demand for Tesla's or EVs in general are falling, is this just an attempt to sack everyone and re-hire when the job market is soft after an economic slowdown late next year?