Rants & Thoughts of Gagah Putra Arifianto
It has been a while since I posted here. But in the spirit of wanting to write more and improve, I think I’ll post more, starting with this one. I used to write a lot, both online and offline, but at some point, I stopped. So here we go. Looking Back I joined HostPapa in […] The post Life Update. appeared first on gagah.me .
ICANN will have a month to stop exposing private registrant data in their public whois, thanks to GDPR. The Register: The Whois public database of domain name registration details is dead. In a letter [PDF] sent this week to DNS overseer ICANN, Europe’s data protection authorities have effectively killed off the current service, noting that […] The post ICANN’s Public Whois vs The EU appeared…
From Cloudflare blog: Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We’re excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service Nice to see another alternative for reputable public DNS resolvers other than OpenDNS (owned by Cisco) and Google, both of […] The post Cloudflare DNS appeared first on…
Working in a hosting industry as a customer service rep, you’ll find that 8 out of 10 issues reported has to do with emails. Take a look at a person with zero computing experience, and ask yourself, if they want a website, where they should go to. You might think a drag and drop site […] The post Email Application Hell appeared first on gagah.me .
Interesting. From The Register: And that’s where the surprise came in – at least for those that believed a VPN is a complete protection: “Significantly, PureVPN was able to determine that their service was accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses” (those IP addresses were at Lin’s work and home addresses). The post PureVPN Helping The FBI appeared first on gagah.me .
Techcrunch writer Josh Constine, on the post about the shutdown of AIM: So, farewell to AIM and my embarrassing screen name KDog313. Being a teenager will always sound like one of your incoming messages. Techcrunch writer Taylor Hatmaker, 10 hours later (awesome name btw): Sharing old credentials online is a bad idea. From a security […] The post Techcrunch Being Techcrunch appeared first on…
DSLReports: Cloudfare has begun banning websites that coverly embed cryptocurrency miners into their website code to boost website revenues. After the dailystormer brouhaha, i guess we’re starting to see cloudflare becoming the police of the internet. Makes sense, since their product use cases really does cater to shady website (and legit ones too of course, […] The post Cloudflare Came to The…
So the best news that i hear last week is that The Pirate Bay, the pirate’s favorite never-say-die torrent indexer site, has implemented a feature(?) in which a visitor to the site will share their CPU resources to mine some cryptocurrency for the site. Following that news, some news sites started reporting that this “feature” […] The post Cryptocurrency Finally Found The Right Product Market Fit.…
One concept that I find valuable is that good ideas are fragile, and needs protection from the people higher up the chain in an organization. The gist of it is that for an idea to survive the process from being born to this world from the head of some lowly staff, on the very bottom […] The post Expiration of a Good Idea appeared first on gagah.me .
On Youtube there are several channels that dedicates itself to streaming music 24/7 for free. Typically these channels, at least the ones that i stumbled upon, play music that are royalty free, or made by artists who are just starting their careers and want a place where they can promote their stuff for free. One […] The post Art is Supposed to Make You Feel Something appeared first on gagah.me .