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kameit00
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- Your own words:
>> I'm the co-founder of an interview prep mentorship platform [...] my company's services so there is a small amount of overlap on the most experienced end of Codesmith and the least experienced end of Formation. <<
https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/18cpq98/ana...
- I am using my own Mail Server (mailcow) beside my old gmail and other adresses. But for convenient, searchable offline Backups, I use Mailsteward (macOS) ... if it is of interest for someone: https://mailsteward.com
(alternatives for other OS: https://alternativeto.net/software/mailsteward/)
Then I put the database on multiple backup locations regularly.
Another thing, some people do not already know: If you don't need a throwaway-adress for some services, and you just want to make your mailbox more structured, you can use '+' before the '@' to add another word to your email adress.
Like: your.name+randomName@gmail.com
The +randomName will be ignored and the emails are received at your.name@gmail.com. But most Servers (I use) will put a '[randomName]' before the subject of the received email. Which can be quite handy for handling your emails. Even more, if the company uses multiple different adresses to send you emails.
- Non paywalled version: https://archive.is/tJePt
- 4 points
- I switched from DigitalOcean to Hetzner for my cloud servers. They have a nice web firewall, that you could use. I use it to prevent access on some ports, for example on Port 22...
But wait, how can you connect to Port 22 then? I use Tailscale as a VPN for this. I installed Tailscale on my local computer and my servers, so I can use the VPN to connect to this port. The less open ports, the better.
What else... Use fail2ban or CrowdSec for banning IPs that probe your server. Don't use passwords for authentication. Don't use root, use another user. ... stuff you maybe already heard of or know. Here is a link to get started: https://blog.codelitt.com/my-first-10-minutes-on-a-server-pr...
If you knew this already, sorry, I wasn't sure where to start.
Maybe use a Hoster that provides 'Snapshots'. So you can safely play around and if something happens, just revert to your last snapshot, so you don't loose your previous work.
If you spin up a server, maybe use cloud config. You can use it to 'bootstrap' your server and let it install your main tools while it gets provisioned.
It looks something like this (HackerNews removes my line breaks...): ####
#cloud-config for installing fail2ban
package_upgrade: true
packages:
runcmd:- fail2ban
####- [ systemctl, enable, fail2ban ] - [ systemctl, start, fail2ban ]If you start and mess up something, it's handy if you have a cloud init to start a new server and don't have to install the basic stuff again ;-)
- How a mistake made by Companies House, a UK government agency responsible for registering companies, killed the 124-year old Welsh engineering firm Taylor & Sons Ltd. This led to Taylor & Sons' business evaporating as orders were cancelled and credit withdrawn due to believing the company had ceased operations.
- 5 points
- 2 points
- I switched from DigitalOcean to Hetzner. https://www.hetzner.com/
- 3 points
Codex was generating code, that began with ... Copyright [real name] ...
My fear were not patents, because the code is too simple, but similarity to existing code from this company. I did not know if this could lead to problems if the architecture or the code itself is too similar.