Actually it looks like it's because DO accepts Paypal, most hosts will require a credit card because of PP fraud but I guess they're going for markets where it's not common to have one. They do have free credits but PP billing requires a $5 charge which is already higher than a lot of other VPS plans.
No, it's not really because of PayPal. You can verify with a card, and stolen (or virtual) cards are cheap and easy to get.
Even if you do the PayPal way and pay $5, that's still better specs and lasts longer than what you get with a $5 VPS, because the trial credit is $200 for a few months (or if you go the commonly abused method: GitHub student, you can get $200 for a year).
And then combined with poor anti-fraud, poor abuse handling
I think it's probably harder to sign up for hosting with a credit card than you think. It was a struggle for me until I managed to get a secured credit card (A deposit is made against the limit) which is very different from a debit card (Almost nobody accepts these) or a virtual card (these were impossible for me to get)
I didn't specify credit card and what do you mean almost nobody accepts debit cards? My entire life I have pretty much only used debit cards everywhere and not once have I had an issue, especially not at hosting providers. Hetzner, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, GCP, I can keep going, all of these have accepted my debit cards.
And I was also not just guessing when I said those things, I have been in those circles previously.
> Make sure your health insurance plan provides coverage overseas. Most care providers overseas only accept credit card payments. See our webpage for more information on insurance overseas. Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information on the type of insurance you should consider before you travel overseas.
> Gas stations in rural areas can be far apart. Some stations are unattended and require a credit card with a chip to purchase fuel.
I will say they have made it increasingly difficult to do that.
Behind VPN? "Log in to confirm you're not a bot."
Someone says the f-word or talks about a no-no topic? (oh no!) "Age restricted video, log in to prove your age."
I find the second one especially hilarious, given that I see borderline porn in the shorts section when I'm not logged in with no browser data for it to drum content up from, and that same screen displays to kids when they pull up YouTube.
"For the children" is always a lie, but it's so funny when it's that obvious.
All that said, I don't quite trust it for some reason, but I've been sandboxing FreeTube and using that, seems to work well generally.
> Behind VPN? "Log in to confirm you're not a bot."
Disable it then.
> Someone says the f-word or talks about a no-no topic? (oh no!) "Age restricted video, log in to prove your age."
Saying fuck is not enough to make it age restricted, and logging in isn't enough to verify your age because they require either a face scan or credit card.
> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
> If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers.
This is a blog post and going to the homepage I only see a waitlist.
It also makes claims about transparency, open-source, self-hosting but the Github repo has no code, there's only a LICENSE and README... so I can't do any of that.
Fair point — I should have submitted this as a regular post rather than Show HN since there's nothing to try yet. The product is pre-development; I'm validating demand before writing code. The repo and AGPLv3 license are there to signal intent, not to mislead. I'll come back with a proper Show HN once there's something to demo.
> and have it dump to s3 so I can paste around links to screenshots everywhere for work.
I wanted something like this too but I modified Flameshot so I don't need a bash script in-between.
Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur so I modified that and also added some small things (like randomized file names, some new config options).
> Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur
Didn't they remove it though? Because someone complained about "privacy" or something? Devs promised to bring it back as the plugin, but I wasn't following progress on it, I don't know if that happened yet.
> I use 1password extensively on my phone and the process of loading and unlocking involves multiple superfluous animations for a task I'm trying to do quickly.
I do too. The animations take barely any time, unlocking the actual vault is what takes time.
They can make great phones and still be spying on the user and everyone near them.
They wouldn't be good for intel gathering (either deliberate or incidental, c.f. FitBit or whatever leaking some US military info because of all the soldiers tracking themselves) if they weren't also just straight up good products.
This lack of exclusivity between "quality" and "spying" is also why I found it hard to trust US products even before Trump 2.
I guess it comes down to "does the government that is spying on me, want me to succeed in general or fail in general?"
As a British citizen living in Berlin, running US software on Chinese hardware (iPhone? Made in China; Kindle? Made in China; MacBook Pro? Made in China; random torches? Made in China; PV? Made in China), it's kinda hard for me to guess who is doing what spying and what they care about with that spying.
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