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Oh yes, I'm constantly clashing with unavailable/blocked Japanese content. Crunchyroll has quite a bit of non-anime content to offer, but it's still far from other country specific streaming sites.

The oddest thing for me are the constantly blocked Japanese music videos on Youtube. I'm not talking copyright infringing content, but music videos published on the official band/performer's channel and being viewable from within Japan only. Why is a music video blocked outside of Japan, when you can buy the song via the regional iTunes store? One would assume that a music video is meant to promote the music sales, so why are so many of them blocked outside of Japan then?

Their blocking seems to be quite aggressive, as a lot of regular hosting providers even had their IP ranges blocked by them. I've been following a few forum posts where people were sharing their working VPN provider/ISP, but those were showing the same error message a few days later, so it looks like they are actively monitoring traffic and maybe even social media to block further IP ranges.

I'm curious if all those decriminalizations and legalizations in various states & countries are having an impact on Netherlands' tourism.

I fully agree. Plus, most of those games are lacking in at least one of the two areas, so that you end up with either a bad game, or a bad programming lesson. Maybe the new VR market is going to introduce some new ideas in that area, but so far I'd prefer to either play an actual game or follow a proper programming lesson, instead of a mediocre combination of the two.

I once had an incident with a server which triggered notification alerts about a failing httpd service. While I was looking into the issue, the mail service suddenly stopped working, then the database service went down - it was like a slow cascading failure, affecting all services on the server one after the other. I finally noticed the 'rm' command in the process list and asked the client if he ran any custom commands as root on the machine. Turns out he followed the instructions on a website to install some custom software without checking any of the commands and just copied & pasted them into the prompt. He basically managed to "rm -rf" on / and deleted his own server.

Luckily recent backups were available, so the damage was rather small, but it was interesting to see someone just pasting & executing commands without knowing what they actually do, especially when logged in as root.

I think that exact capability also attracted a lot of great musical talent to it, who used crazy techniques and experimented with it continuously to get new sounds out of that breadbox. It had a sense of evolution where you started with a beeping machine, then a game gets released with such a great soundtrack that you'd simply leave it running just to listen to it (Ninja, Traz, International Karate, Giana Sisters, ...), and then you get a demo that manages to play back the stoning scene of The Life of Brian - all that's still stuck in my head from my C64 days.

It's extremely annoying, but usually the attacker will switch to another domain after a few hours or days. The mail notifications can be delayed by a few days, depending on the individual mail server's settings, so you should see a slowdown of the incoming bounce messages after a while before it will stop eventually.

This funny website lets you see what's available in the $1M range in Vancouver: http://www.crackshackormansion.com

In my case they mocked themselves, as I'm working on an old Macbook model. I'd love to upgrade, but everything is still working. The things I like about the new Macbooks barely affect my work and if I spec one out to my preferred options, then it ends up with an astronomical price tag. It just seems like they are advancing in some areas (screen, touchpad, ...) but are stuck in the past in several others (memory, HDD, ...).

I'll most likely be getting a new Macbook once my current one finally decides to visit its ancestors. With that said, I'm actually impressed with its longevity, as none of my other PCs (desktops & laptops) ever lasted that long. So, I actually see running on old hardware as an impressive feat (unless you're a gamer).

I was running GitLab on a VPS with specs close to the lower end of the recommended requirements and its performance would gradually slow down over the course of the day until pages seemed to never finish loading. Restarting gitlab got it responding properly again, but the whole process would repeat over and over again, so that it had to be restarted every couple of hours just to be able to use it.

I then switched providers, which also came with more system resources, and GitLab was working without any issues right away. It could have been caused by an oversold node at the previous host, or the slightly higher system specs at the new host made the difference, but I've been running GitLab on that new server for a couple of months now without experiencing those slowdowns again.

If you've noticed a gradual slowdown to the point of pages getting stuck on loading indefinitely, then try to up the system specs a bit, as it could make quite the difference.

Those companies that have kept running outdated IE versions will most likely still ignore upgrading. I've had a client upgrade their IE6 machines to IE8 just a few months ago. Even their own employees were frustrated with the old equipment, but there was nothing they could do until their IT dept. finally provided the upgrade for them.

The thing I like so much about it are the different civilizations, which come with their own unique language and music. It's a minor detail and helps a bit with the immersion, compared to just a simple paint job to differentiate between them.

I believe in Angular's case the changes from 1.x to the 2.x branch didn't help much either.

The 8-Bit Guy has some great videos about how graphics worked on the older systems (including C=64): https://youtu.be/Tfh0ytz8S0k

A client once had an issue where his account got compromised and everything pointed to having his actual login details leaked. His password was something like his username plus an assortment of random characters. It turned out that the system his account was on basically ignored everything after the 8th character, so that you were able to login with the username as the password.

Also, during the early days of inline password generators, there were cases where the suggested password was incompatible with the associated system.

Costly? I was under the impression that this kind of overtime isn't compensated in a lot of cases?

I've heard one reasoning that if they wouldn't do the (free) overtime, then there wouldn't be a company for them to work at, as it couldn't afford to pay their employees then. However, this was a mid-sized local business and not a multi-national corporation.

There was a post here a while ago about s.o. coming to the US on a tourist visa asking to do volunteer work in return for a place to stay. I'm just curious if you've ever dealt with similar cases, where people came into the country with the wrong visa, found a place to live/work, but then had to get their papers sorted out to be able to stay? Were they actually able to stay or did they have to go back and apply from outside the country (US) again?

And more of a personal anecdote than a question, but during my own immigration process I've noticed that there appear to be mostly people who are either extremely over-prepared (have all the documents filled out in advance with additional papers/proofs/documents for every single step), or they are not prepared at all. My fondest memory was a man walking into the embassy asking to immigrate right now. No papers, documents, nothing. Just walked in, went to the clerk's window and asked to immigrate today. Even the clerk was a bit dumbfounded by the demand.

"Please, don't re-use the same password to «fool» the robot while restoring your password — this will result in your account being vulnerable. Yes, several people have done that."

Wow, this is the scariest part. You already have your details leaked, get notified about it and still decide that resetting the token/login to the original value would be the best thing to do.

I really hope this catches on, because there are places with more modern approaches on paper, but there's no way for the employee to make use of it without consequences.

Thank you for the additional information!

My guess is that they would not fall under the 2. category if the spouse continues working, so that they may not be eligible for it then. The 1. category would not be an option for them, as they are all Korean/Korean couples. However, I will pass this on to my friends just in case they weren't aware of the 2. category already, as the high day care costs topic has come up quite often.