In old times people had no money, they exchanged goods (barter). So money is some sort of substitute, a promise to do the job for the bought goods/services.
Be very careful when recommending Racknerd. Owner of that hosting company was involved in Alpharacks exit scam. Google properly before signup, don't be blinded by the price of service.
You're the first person I've heard with those sorts of accusations, so not sure what to make of them.
But more broadly, any prepaid service is potentially an 'exit scam' and the point is to minimise your risk.
So in the end the price of the service (along with quality/value) is really the main consideration. Losing $20 at some point in a year is not much of a risk. I've used many providers, maybe using a bit of judgement, and I've only once come anywhere close to this, but even that seemed to just be a business failure and my account was sold but the replacement service was not as good.
"Dura" in Russian language is "idiot". Specifically female idiot. Is it really hard for developers to enter word in google before naming application? This is ridiculous.
Guys, if you omit a letter, omit the "K". Because Harkov or Harkovchanka are close enough to the original pronounciation (Kharkov, Kharkovchanka), while Karkov or Karkovchanka do not even ring a bell.
I've recently discovered that my entire country mispronounces "sheikh", so for now it's my pet peeve of sorts.
In the case of Russian, the transliteration kh is used because it was developed for rendering Russian words in French, which has no H sound.
For sheikh, I assume, like Achmed, that having the sound in a syllable-final position didn't work for whatever the target language was. It might have been English; we can't do /x/ or syllable-final /h/.
> I've recently discovered that my entire country mispronounces "sheikh", so for now it's my pet peeve of sorts.
If you expect everyone in your country to accurately produce a sound they've never heard, you're in for some disappointment.
> If you expect everyone in your country to accurately produce a sound they've never heard, you're in for some disappointment.
It's Polish and we have all sorts of sounds, this and much worse. The atrocious story is that we even have an earlier Persian-sourced word "szach" which we pronounce sensibly as <<shakh>>. But at some point we've got a duplicate via English, pronounced <<sheik>> (written "szejk"). Ouch...
That transliteration is poor but it’s also poor going into Russian with for example gamburger [гамбургер]. But it’s also no big deal and doesn’t matter because people understand these transliterations.
I guess ProtonVPN also is not an exception to such "undeniable" requests. Bad day for company who bank on "no log" policy. Their marketing division will have a ton of work to fix reputation :)
I assume what they mean is that - they might have to log connections to their service (like with ProtonMail), but they won't have to provide what data that user account has accessed through the service, same as they didn't provide the actual emails of the account in question, but "just" the connecting IP.
This news is a shakedown for entire web hosting industry. Most small to medium companies are running this software. They are effectively destroying it by increasing prices...
Advantage comes with those who attack, not defend. Attackers will always find new ways to attack and eventually break-in. Be ready for this. As history shows, crackers (DDoS'ers) always win if the price for your head is high enough (money or fame).
