Marek Obuchowicz

Explosive mix of developer, sysadmin, data architect and entrepreneur skills. Hobby snowboarder, techno dj, photographer, sneakerhead.

[Marek Obuchowicz @MarekObu]

@SimonDixonTwitt @Snowden How many bitcoins did you spend on lunch at that conference? Guess you needed a few of them to pay for a dinner in 2011…

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@ThePrimeagen JFYI may be interesting thread about unreliable opsgenie behavior regarding account suspension (can’t see payment status, retry or change payment method, even open a support ticket - we had to escalate via atlassian to just get in touch) and charging us at same time

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Warning for @Opsgenie users: a failed credit card payment will not be retried - they’re suspending account access - blocking not only alert sending, but also possibility to access billing settings, see invoices, and opening a support ticket to solve issue. That’s… unreliable

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Im not sure how long our account is suspended because luckily we had last alert in early April. I believe we’ve been blindly suspended since May, and despite of that Opsgenie charged June and July fees anyway - which assured me (wrong) that all is good with our account

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@PioneerDJglobal @PioneerDJ I've been trying to buy CDJ3000 in EU since 4 years. It was like "pay now, wait a year or two and you'll get it". Now shops don't even accept backorders ("distributor is unreliable"). How can DJs/Clubs get your players without waiting for YEARS?

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@cramforce @EchoDesertRobot There are much cheaper options to provide uptime than building 24/7 on-call team, but obviously ToC calculations always take inflated, unoptimized costs for comparison.

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@sszuecs @JScigala Now, when I think about that... I'm not sure. Low crime rate in CH, AT comparing to DE; highest crime rates is poor countries - those kind of suggest to me, it's not a very important factor. I see more correlation to low- and mid-class status

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@JScigala Definitely, yes! That is however difficult problem. DE has too attractive social welfare, which constantly attracts people from abroad who become benefits. That diminishes effects of lifting mid-class

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@suereact It has minimalistic design i didn’t come up with. It’s my github profile. It contains very few words, and just a clear list of my open source contributions. No website, no design will ever provide better value, IMO

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@sszuecs @JScigala (8) In December, some mid-east looking person tried to lockpick my neighbours door, during the day. He just quickly ran out of the building, jumped into car, drove away. He clearly knew how to protect him, that law has priority to care about his privacy.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (7) Some of my experiences: car hit/run my bike (Mitte), was driver's fault. Didn't manage to note reg plate. Police just took some notes, but clearly said: we have no way to finding out who it was.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (6) I agree that fast action helps drop crime rate. Slowness is however not the only problem of DE. Other is severe lack of effectiveness, and lack of data is, in my opinion, big problem causing that.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (5) GDPR can't be blamed - it's same in PL/DE. It's about other, ancient german laws.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (4) A friend had his bike stolen in a place observed by DBahn's CCTV. DBahn has ignored the request to keep those records for police investigation, as this may violate privacy laws. Another example of law actually doing favours to bad actors.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (3) Data protection laws don't protect us from scammers, bad marketing, Schufa, etc. But they're too strong when it comes to personal safety. If I have camera at home, I first need to inform the burglar that he's being recorded - and he may use this card at the court.

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@sszuecs @JScigala (2) Crimes like small theft, burglary, drug dealing usually don't leave valuable evidence, and can't be effectively solved with no data

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@KVD3Z9 @ABucks2 @IonicDigitalX They also couldn't deal with not losing $1B on balance sheet, not publishing personal data of every creditor, etc. - basically, I think that US law is sh*t and I've already withdrawed most assets I've been holding at US entities. I just don't trust US legal system anymore.