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Only Apple can make people clap and screech for introducing a freaking charging port - USB C. :)


Telecos are still careless inspite of the widespread nature of this attack.

What can be the solution for a SIM swap? Fingerprint (or iris scan) plus email OTP mandatory to get a SIM replaced?


Quote of the day - If your world view has been degraded to see zero trust as a solution rather than a dystopian end state, meaning you’ve lost all trust in society, you’re highly vulnerable to be conned by the authority figures you secretly crave to trust.

Very well said.



So I checked with Google One support, here is the answer from them: (and they were fine with me quoting them in a public forum)

Q: if I have an email account X and it auto-forwards email to an email account Y , will X be considered as an active account

A: “The short answer will be NO. Google considers an account active if there is a recent login to the account.”


Disgusting position, thanks for sharing though


It’s a decade+ long problem asking for a solution. Not just this one site, Amazon, Google etc are littered with fake reviews and none of those companies are concerned.

If these companies don’t get their act together soon, I’m sure the Govt of various countries will compel them to do so.


My solution is to wait for people in my network to bring up that they watched and liked something.


Similar case with .tv domains by Tuvalu.


Fiber comes to my lower ground floor, from there there are several cat6 that runs across length and breadth of lower ground and ground floor. Provides excellent connectivity across the house. Just ensure there is minimal channel interference across various connected routers.


This reminded me of AWS in plain English https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/


It's interesting to me that many of the non-AWS products they list under "it's like" have equally incomprehensible names.

API Gateway

Should have been called: API Proxy

It's like: 3Scale

SNS

Should have been called: Amazon Messenger

It's like: UrbanAirship, Twilio

Kinesis

Should have been called: Amazon High-Throughput

It's like: Kafka

(It always gets me that someone actually named a large software product "Kafka".)


It makes me wonder too how many of these actually _are_ the "it's like". For example, I know that Elasticache actually is redis or memcached... makes me wonder if Kinesis isn't actually Kafka rebranded.


It's not. Kinesis was around before Kafka became the de-facto tool for data streaming. AWS has a separate managed Kafka service called MSK, which came much later.


Kafka was made at Linkedin and then opensourced in Jan 2011, almost 3 years before AWS Kinesis (Dec 2013).


Pretty sure it's not Kafka. Kafka is way more complicated than Kinesis is and has a completely different API.


I guess the point is not that other companies also have products with unrelated names, but if you happen to be familiar with Y then saying "Amazon x is just Amazon's version of Y" is very succinct.


> Kafka

Same. Though, I forget what it is since I heard about it. Now I think it's funny that it could refer to either cruel bureaucracy or turning into a bug.


Amazon Drawer of Old Android Devices has a certain ring to it.




Oh dear! I'm not even an azure user and I know what AD is and does. Why are they throwing out all their brand recognition for "Entra"??


I correct people on this daily just because I think its hilarious they changed the name.


The exception that proves the rule.

But my goodness, what an exception....


This is a hilarious blog.

Honestly, it’s not just the icons but the names as well. A lot of them are completely unrelated to the product and make no sense


Some of these names are actually worse. For example they propose "Unlimited FTP Server" for what is essentially an HTTP-Blob-Storage.


> SWF

> Amazon EC2 Queue

Nothing to do with EC2 but okay.

More like Amazon Distributed Functions.


Most of these are really funny, but I feel like they should have just left out the reasonable ones. There's enough of them that it kind of kills the humor after a certain amount of "actually this one is fine" imo.


I tried sending test files from ios to android and vice-versa.

Both the times it errored out with “it was not possible to establish direct connection with the peer”

Both devices are in the same wifi network.


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