So if you want to opt out, there's no setting to switch, you need to send an email with a specific subject:
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If you like Magic The Gathering card playing game, avoid Forge (Desktop + Android) because it is open source (made in Java) and it has all the cards, gameplays, you can build your deck or choose from a huge list of ready-made ones and play against the AI and online up to 4 players in the same game I believe.
recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38651346 and XMage is usually submitted alongside them when any M:TG makes the front page, including the quarterly(?) "M:TG is Turing complete" paper thread
Thank you! Yeah, obviously the UI is a weak part. I'd like to improve it eventually but as a one-person project I don't want it to have as minimal of an interface as AirDrop. With all the ways transfers can go wrong, I want that information to be in the user's face so they can submit issues and I can help debug easily.
And no, it can't detect anything about the other device until they're on a WiFi network together, and that can't happen until it knows the peer's OS because it has to know whether it or the peer should be hosting the hotspot. Windows has precedence, then Linux, then Android. (The iOS version doesn't need to know the peer's OS because iOS and macOS can't stand up a hotspot programmatically anymore, so it always has to join.)
At a few months old, the laptop (a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 6) couldn't hold a meeting.
Their customer service suggested I disabled the graphics card and to throttle the CPU, converting a $2000 laptop into a $1000 one spec-wise.
After a year and a half, I've just moved to a Thinkpad at half the cost and I couldn't be happier.
I wanted to support a smaller company rather than Lenovo but that's how it is, there where many other nuances I had to deal with (2 dead pixels, awful sound, microphone was meh, TuxedoOS started giving me kernel problems every update...).
I understand this is more tailored at communities and such (being the Business plan the last in the tier), but for Linen to be a Slack alternative we'd need App integrations (Google Calendar, Jira, etc) as well as other features such as to send scheduled messages, snooze/bookmark incoming messages for later, a strong channel administration/management, and a few other features that increase productivity and we can't live without.
As I said, businesses are probably not the main target customers for Linen so it's completely understandable, I would've loved it though. Great work!
I would be very grateful if you could share any info about this.
Our small company's site got DDoSed a month ago and we just let it pass since we're not too convinced that the authorities will take us seriously. We don't even know where to start, just saved the logs with a few hundred random IPs from different countries hoping some day we can do something about it...
We report each DDoS attack our company receives to a special department our police has, your country likely has something similar and I guess it doesn't hurt reaching out to them.
From my experience they will get back to you quickly (usually in <1-2 hour) and they can try helping out if you are still under attack / need some consultation.
Will we ever get compensated for the wasted engineering time to stop these attacks? probably not, but if the police ever finds them and they have extra logs of companies that reported issues, its likely an aggravation of the case.
You're right, I guess I'm still thinking on a few experiences I had way in the past when the Internet was still early and contacting them was a waste of time: they couldn't understand you nor had the time to do so. It's true they now have many more resources and experts in their departments and, as you say, may at least give some good advice on what to do during the panic stage to try and at least mitigate it. Providing them with logs and proof would have been a good idea too.
Oh my, the attack caused so much wasted time and stress that it's still haunting me and the team, specially when thinking that it may not stop there and the attacker/s is just waiting for the next chance to hit us. The days after the attack the first thing I did after waking up was check the servers to see everything was safe. And our roadmap was severely affected too, prioritizing many security features we had in the backlog.
Things are significantly better now, I can't comment on how good the aid is if you are under attack since we always had a team ready to handle DDoS, however, their follow-up has always been fast.
Regarding security features, if you are on a cloud such as GCP, AWS or Azure things are complicated since you can't easily route the traffic elsewhere(you can have BGP connections to DDoS mitigation inside GRE/L2TP tunnels only when attacks occur and it would be cheap to rent on a monthly/yearly basis). Voxility is an example that comes to mind and they are very affordable in general terms.
HTTP or HTTPs attacks are easier to handle with Cloudflare, however, there are other interesting solutions such as Stackpath.
We were under a DDoS attack about a month ago too, but were lucky that it didn't manage to affect our business. With that in mind, we took it as a (precious) learning experience - how often do you get the chance to learn about DDoS defence 1st hand?
I realize we were lucky that the attacker didn't find any of the soft spots (or at least none that hurt us). We do prioritize security though, always.
I hope all goes well for you and that in time this is just another learning experience. Maybe next time you'll smile when an attack is thwarted because of what you've all learned.
We get attacked several times a month, we rely on Cloudflare & Corero to mitigate attacks.
Cloudflare handles HTTP/s attacks and Corero handles network level attacks.
Both require tweaking and are far from being 1-click setup tools (despite some marketing attempts that try to make it seem that way), however, if you can manage them, they are very powerful and considerably cheaper than other alternatives.
Thank you, I didn't know about Corero, will check them out. CF we use, and as you said, they are a tool. Plenty of ways they could be better, but they are still the best (in moderate price range) we know.
Glad to hear there's hefty sentences, many attackers don't realize how much damage they're doing and all the stress and effort that goes into trying to mitigate such attacks.
You might want to look into using Cloudflare for your infrastructure - the same folks that provided DDoS protection for most of the now-busted Ddos-for-hire sites!
In my case I spent 1,850€ (~$1,990) and ended up buying a ThinkPad P14s, couldn't be happier now.