How often do the ticket inspectors come in right after the airport stop? If it's relatively rare, you theoretically could ride that one stop without a ticket (but of course that would be totally illegal, do not do it).
I was there recently for a conference, didn't know about the 9eur ticket and got the 10eur 24 hour ticket for zone ABC on the machine. Anyway, forgot to stamp the ticket, of course. The controller didn't give us a fine but warned us to stamp it before we get to the central station.
I got fined once when leaving SXF, because my ticket purchase in the app went through 20 seconds after departure (I rushed into the leaving train while buying the ticket). So, yes, they do check as early as that.
* you’d have to sign up with a colo provider first. since data centers in physical buildings, this just depends on where you live
* when you sign up with them they provide you with info like ip addresses or how to connect to their network (they might have dhcp, or you might have to configure static ips). usually there is a initial setup fee, around 1 month of rent.
* if you just rent a a 1U space you usually can get physical access to it while accompanied by someone working for the data center. usually this is during business hours, but each data center will have its own rules. if you rent larger units, such as a full rack (42U) or half a rack you usually get a key card and can access it 24/7 (this usually involves a phone call for them to remotely open a lock)
some years ago i ran a vpn service together with a friend. we had the second skill set you mentioned, but not the first.
we didn’t overhype the privacy aspect (and would in fact explain what _wasnt_ private about vpns, not that anyone was interested in listening) and primarily existed to serve a customer base for other reasons.
it was a good experience, but it went nowhere really. but i did quickly figure out that almost every large vpn provider out there has more of the first skill set you mentioned.
A lot of us dont trust them. They want credit cards and justifications and an approval process that seems like it is one of their con-fusion Enterprise apps. It's a hit or a miss especially if you want a machine in a geography that's not in the same region as your CC.
They don’t ask you for credit card details for their Free Tier version. I know because I’ve had that for over a year now.
In fact, their free tier is designed such that you only use free services. If you want to use their paid tier, you need to explicitly upgrade. I like that because that means I’ll never run into any unexpected charges.
I had to give a CC even for the free tier. Not sure if it some dark pattern that I could have skipped and on gone on to the next step. I filled everything in, nothing really came out of it other than an email or so but account details never turned up.
I'm already abusing (not really of course, I'm within limits) of my Heroku free tier and I had something running on Openshift until they removed the free tier.
It is true, I've been using them for one and a half years now and only one time I got an email that my instance had a few minutes of downtime due to an HW failure.
You also need to meet with Larry in a dark alley and sign over your soul in perpetuity, but other than that it's a great service.
Edit: To the downvoters, have you ever been through an Oracle audit? I can tell you it's "bend you over and thoroughly check out your insides" invasive enough that I will literally never again willingly work with such a company.
Honestly, I'm just looking for something I can run Wireguard on to proxy my traffic. It doesn't matter if it's ARM or not, what really matters is the public IP (IPv6 would be super cool) and lots of bandwidth.
(Edit: I hope I didn't sound sarcastic. I don't open random console pages and scroll all the way down to check for new features. Some people will have noticed, some won't.)
My web server hosts that directory with indexing enabled, but I don't use apache for it like most examples do. There's nothing special about it, it's just a directory tree built in a way that apt likes. (https://pkg.kamelasa.dev/). In fact, the entire configuration of the repo is visible there.
There's a step in the middle where I sign the packages with my GPG key, and the public key is available on Ubuntu's keyserver (http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/).
I don't need to run this workflow very often, as it'll take about 40 minutes to rebuild and push. But if I do update my SSG I know it'll end up in my debian repo with a version bump, so I'm happy.
On a second pipeline I can just do a simple 'add-apt-repository' and 'apt install'.
never uploaded anything to libgen, but i am setting up a http mirror of this and will also provide a .zip file, to make it easy for others to download the whole collection.
posting the link here when its done, then someone else can submit this to libgen and other places.
almost. the airport is one stop into zone C, and a “standard” ticket would only be valid in zones A and B.
you need either an ABC ticket or a standard ticket + extension ticket.