I've been with DO since checks mailbox 2014. Honestly never experienced an unannounced outage.

Yeah overall they are ok. I think 3 times managed db and one or twice a vps just dead. No issues in a year or so.

They were always hardware failures, took about 45-120min. Not the end of the world, but also not fun getting lot of client complaints.

I can only speak for my countries, but almost all payment terminals now have the option to scan a QR code with your mobile banking app to pay using Wero.

That's good. Maybe I haven't seen it because direct debit via contactless (including Apple Pay) is faster, hence the default, where I am.

If they haven't been redirected to their bank, verifying with their mobile banking app using a QR code will not work.

Can't the attacker just man-in-the-middle to the real bank, and show the QR code to the phone?

Does the entire transaction take place on the phone? I don't think that's a good option.

Not credit card. Bank account. Webauthn/passkeys could also work for auth as they check the domain and can't be phished

That’s why we don’t pay 3%+ on all transactions

I get 3% cash back, though.

Surely it will wait when the connection is marked as metered.

I definitely trust Google's team (and large trillion dollar companies with sufficient resources to do this) to make reasonable choices for their users... said, perhaps, someone ever? Certainly not me.

(I wanted to write something far snarkier and sarcastic but getting annoyed at google is like getting annoyed at a lawnmower/Oracle. That plus HN guidelines.)

A tethered connection often just looks like a normal WiFi access point to the computer.

That's why you can mark any WiFi connection as "metered" in Windows.

Nope! The Chrome updater on Windows 11 ignores the metered flag.

That is about production. The story that you don't get from these graphs is that Belgium is highly dependent on imported energy because the production is just too low.

Strictly: Engie was forced by a previous Belgian government to decommision the nuclear power plants.

If it's not working on Chrome nor Firefox, it's safe to say it's incompatible with almost all browsers.

I only tested on Safari - whoops! Fixed now.

Minor usability comment: the screenshots are too small to be readable. Whenever that's that case in my blog posts, I make those screenshots clickable and add (Click to enlarge) below it, to make it easier for readers to see the image are original resolution. In markdown, I do that like this:

[ ](image_url.png)

(Of course, I can also right-click and do "Open image in new tab", but that's one click extra...)

Congrats on the awesome project, BTW! You were lucky that I wasn't sitting next to you on the plane. I would have wasted so much of your time asking dumb questions.

Images now expand when clicked - thanks for the feedback!

Only tested on Safari running on a Wii?

It works on Safari.

Works on Orion.

Already banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.

In his defense, he built the entire language :-)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Sagan

The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.