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Years ago now, they pushed an offer for lifetime subscription onto my server. I clicked it, went through to their website and bought it, paid, the subscription activated and worked.

The next day they emailed to say actually i wasn't eligible for the offer, they cancelled it and refunded me and said it would actually cost $30 more.

I installed Jellyfin that same day, it was pretty buggy back then but was definitely the right decision.

I do this. I already had a cloud vps with a vpn on it for remote access so i figured i might as well set it up to route traffic as well.

Still get loads of sites blocking me

Yes, you need the sandboxed Play services and have to gove it a few extra permissions but it works fine after that.

Helped a disabled pensioner recently with her phone that kept plaging loud obnoxious ads at her even while locked.

She had 4 different "virus scanners" that were all fake adware.

I speed ran this. First job right out of uni, the team lead went on holiday 2 weeks later and never came back. Everyone else was gone within 3 months.

Bought a new dryer recently and ended paying more for one that didn't have internet connectivity. It's entire operation requires physical presence, why would i need ever need remote access. It's just something else to go wrong.

It doesn't say that. The potential fine the higher of 23M or 10%. Not that 23M is 10%

Yeah, maybe the contractor thought he'd get more work fixing it but he was long gone by the time I got it so i never met him

One of bugs I got was performance because the search didn't work, with about 600,000 assets in database it would timeout searching for one by exact match on ID. It took 45 minutes to return 1 result.

I got dumped with fixing some bugs in a project written by a contractor who had literally done this but with extra steps.

Backend was sql server and c#/asp.

There was an api endpoint that took json, used xslt to transform to xml. Then called the stored procedure specified in request passing the xml as a parameter.

The stored procedure then queried the xml for parameters, executed the query, and returned results as xml.

Another xslt transformed that to json and returned to the client.

It was impressive how little c# there was.

Despite holding all the business logic, the sql was not in source control.

Came here to say this. Scariest encounter I had was earlier this year with a stag. He was standing on a footpath, it was dusk and he was shadow so I didn't see him until I was 5m away. I'm 1.9m and he was looking down at me. Had another 1m of antlers. Then my dog started barking and he just turned and walked away into the trees.

Same dog once tried to fight a pair of geese, she's similar size to them, they didn't back down.

Had a 3 year old one this week. A loop that builds a list of messages to send to a queue for another service to consume then it calls BatchPublish.

Only Batch Publish was inside the loop so instead of sending n messages, it sends 1+2+3... +n

We never noticed before because n was never more then 100 and the consuming service is idempotent so the duplicate messages don't cause issues. I think it's (n(n-1))/2. So n=100 is 4950. That's only 4 minutes work. Also that code only runs at 1am.

Recently n has been hitting 1000 which produces 499500 messages and it takes a few hours to clear and triggers an alarm for delayed processing.

Was wondering about this, I'm in UK, I could just make my own instance, I'm the only user so I verify my own age, federate with everyone. All good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯