No longer does one need a hard drive shipped from Backblaze to download your snapshot. Ignore the backblaze download utility and instead use the command line tool. With a few technical steps, you can download a snapshot, no matter the …
In .NET 6, trimming worked pretty well, even if your assemblies weren’t annotated properly. In .NET 7 and now with .NET 8, things have changed, and trying to trim with the same project files and settings will cause everything to …
I am pleased to announce that ipthreat.net is live and ready for use. My goal is to have ipthreat be Earth’s repository for bad ip addresses. The data is licensed under a creative commons by attribution license – that means …
As some of you know, ipban pro had an outage on 2022-08-04. This lasted a good 6 hours. I have been using Azure Functions as a proxy layer for all of ipban pro. At a basic level, Azure functions knows …
Storing terabytes of data in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud can get quite expensive. Per Backblaze, here is a brief breakdown of pricing as of June 2022: Backblaze will not charge for bandwidth for accessing public urls via CDN partners. …
It was about 7 1/2 years ago I quit my last day job at Ancestry.com. Now today I have left Jane.com as the vp of engineering due to personal health reasons and misalignment with top company management. I am taking …
Hello humans of Earth, IPBan Pro is beginning to pick up steam. As I optimize the simplicity, performance and feature-set, more and more people and organizations are turning to IPBan Pro to secure their computers. Recently I started receiving cyber …
It’s been over a year since the worst of my chronic health issues have flared up with only some relief. I am thankful that I’ve been able to find a way to live life despite the challenges. The perspective that …
Greetings once again. I spent some time at the Mayo Clinic a few months ago. I came out of there with a diagnosis that fits pretty well with what I am dealing with: – Chronic PPPD – Chronic, sometimes intermittent …
My health situation has continued to get worse. Brain issues including tinnitus, vertigo, brain zaps, general migraine along with anxiety and depression that comes with that are all a big challenge still. I have started reaching out to specialty clinics …