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I already implemented the logic for the in app purchases but, it appears it's not being processed at all... here is the code for my app. Is something wrong with my code? I already have my product ids set up and they are active in the play console and when I click on a button to purchase some coins it calls the "_buy_coins_10k() " function. But nothing shows, no purchase window for $0.99 for the 10k Coins I'm on Godot 4 using the Godot Google Play Billing plugin/addon version 3.2.0 extends Node # ============================================================ # SIGNALS # ============================================================ signal products_loaded(products: Array) signal product_granted(product_id: String) signal purchase_flow_started(product_id: String) # ============================================================ # PRODUCT DEFINITIONS (Consumables + Non‑Consumables) # ============================================================ const CONSUMABLES := { "coins_0.99": 10000, "coins_4.99": 60000, "coins_9.99": 150000 } const NON_CONSUMABLES := { "remove_ads": true } func is_consumable(id: String) -> bool: return CONSUMABLES.has(id) func get_reward(id: String) -> int: return CONSUMABLES.get(id, 0) # ============================================================ # INTERNAL STATE # ============================================================ var billing: BillingClient var products_cache := {} var retries := 0 const MAX_RETRIES := 5 # ============================================================ # READY # ============================================================ func _ready(): billing = BillingClient.new() add_child(billing) billing.connected.connect(_on_connected) billing.disconnected.connect(_on_disconnected) billing.query_product_details_response.connect(_on_product_details) billing.on_purchase_updated.connect(_on_purchase_updated) billing.consume_purchase_response.connect(_on_consume) billing.acknowledge_purchase_response.connect(_on_ack) billing.connect_error.connect(_on_connect_error) billing.start_connection() # ============================================================ # CONNECTION + RETRY LOGIC # ============================================================ func _on_connected(): retries = 0 _query_all() func _on_disconnected(): print("[IAP] Disconnected from Google Play.") _retry_connection() func _on_connect_error(code, msg): print("[IAP] Connection error: ", msg) _retry_connection() func _retry_connection(): if retries >= MAX_RETRIES: print("[IAP] Max retries reached. Billing unavailable.") return retries += 1 print("[IAP] Retrying connection (", retries, "/", MAX_RETRIES, ")...") await get_tree().create_timer(1.0).timeout billing.start_connection() # ============================================================ # QUERY PRODUCTS + PURCHASE HISTORY # ============================================================ func _query_all(): var all_ids = CONSUMABLES.keys() + NON_CONSUMABLES.keys() billing.query_product_details(all_ids, BillingClient.ProductType.INAPP) billing.query_purchases(BillingClient.ProductType.INAPP) # ============================================================ # PRODUCT DETAILS RECEIVED # ============================================================ func _on_product_details(response): if response.get("response_code") != BillingClient.BillingResponseCode.OK: print("[IAP] Failed to load product details.") return products_cache.clear() for p in response.get("product_details_list", []): var id = p.get("product_id") products_cache[id] = p print("[IAP] Cached products: ", products_cache.keys()) products_loaded.emit(products_cache.values()) # ============================================================ # PURCHASE FLOW # ============================================================ func buy(id: String): if not billing.is_ready(): print("[IAP] Billing not ready.") return if not products_cache.has(id): print("[IAP] Product not cached: ", id) return purchase_flow_started.emit(id) billing.purchase(id) func _on_purchase_updated(response): if response.get("response_code") != BillingClient.BillingResponseCode.OK: print("[IAP] Purchase failed: ", response.get("response_code")) return for purchase in response.get("purchases_list", []): _process_purchase(purchase) # ============================================================ # PROCESS PURCHASE (Grant → Consume/Acknowledge) # ============================================================ func _process_purchase(purchase: Dictionary): var products: Array = purchase.get("products", []) var token: String = purchase.get("purchase_token", "") var acknowledged: bool = purchase.get("is_acknowledged", false) for id in products: _grant(id) if is_consumable(id): billing.consume_purchase(token) elif not acknowledged: billing.acknowledge_purchase(token) # ============================================================ # GRANT REWARD / ENTITLEMENT # ============================================================ func _grant(id: String): if is_consumable(id): var amount = get_reward(id) GameManager._update_coin_count(amount) SignalsManager.emit_signal("coin_exchange") print("[IAP] Granted ", amount, " coins.") else: print("[IAP] Granted entitlement: ", id) product_granted.emit(id) # ============================================================ # CONSUME / ACK RESPONSES # ============================================================ func _on_consume(response): if response.get("response_code") == BillingClient.BillingResponseCode.OK: print("[IAP] Consumable consumed successfully.") else: print("[IAP] Failed to consume item: ", response.get("response_code")) func _on_ack(response): if response.get("response_code") == BillingClient.BillingResponseCode.OK: print("[IAP] Non‑consumable acknowledged.") else: print("[IAP] Failed to acknowledge item: ", response.get("response_code")) # ==================== func _coins_10k() -> String: return "coins_0.99" func _buy_coins_10k() -> void: buy(_coins_10k())

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I have seen people suggesting the fix is to disable IPV6 on the NICs. Doesn’t that put Windows in an unsupported state and potentially break functionality even if you don’t actively use IPV6 networking in your environment? submitted by /u/Fabulous_Cow_4714 [link] [comments]

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Web gui for BIND9?

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I am on the hunt for the best UI for my BIND DNS server to use at an enterprise level. I have found some, but they are either too old and not really functioning, or they are GitHub repositories maintained by a single user. How is this? I have also found one that I like, but I can't wholeheartedly say that the code would be suitable for production. Do you have any suggestions? I have also used Webmin, but that's not what I'm looking for. I have also managed bind sevrers manually before without gui. But I am not sure how you guys do it today in 2026? submitted by /u/AgreeableIron811 [link] [comments]

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New video diving into STANDARD service endpoints! https://youtu.be/HK6irXQNv2o 00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - Compute and PaaS 02:18 - VNet to PaaS communication 03:04 - Service endpoints 06:16 - Scale and complexity issues 06:57 - Standard service endpoints 07:12 - Network Identifier 08:26 - Network identifier association to subnet 09:07 - Enable NID with a service endpoint 09:39 - Details around Network ID use 10:34 - Demo of assigning NID 14:09 - Using NID with many subnets and service endpoints 14:54 - Associating NID RBAC 16:17 - Using NID to access PaaS resources 16:28 - Using a Network Security Perimeter 17:31 - Updating NSP to accept inbound NID 18:47 - Demo updating NSP 19:57 - Using NID with many NSPs 21:20 - Supported services 22:08 - Don't reuse public IPs with regular services 23:20 - Service endpoint policy support 23:36 - Pricing 25:05 - Scalability solution 25:50 - Close submitted by /u/JohnSavill [link] [comments]

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Where does Amazon Bedrock end, where does Strands start and what is AgentCore actually for? I built the smallest thing that uses all three and wrote it up. Posting in case it saves someone else the same head-scratching. Disclosure: I work for AWS. This is my own blog post and video. It's all one question "what should I make for dinner?", answered three ways: Raw Bedrock via the Converse API. Call bedrock, it runs inference and answers. Ultimately asks you what's in your kitchen, because it can't see anything you don't tell it. A local Strands agent with one tool, get_pantry, and the agentic loop. It's using the same model but now it checks the pantry and builds a real recipe. I didn't write an orchestrator or a parser, Strands is the harness that runs the tool-calling loop. This same agent deployed to AgentCore Runtime. Managed serverless endpoint. Four CLI commands the whole way (create, dev, deploy, invoke). A few things that tripped me up: agentcore create doesn't give you a blank project. It scaffolds a working sample agent (an add_numbers tool plus an example MCP client). Turning it into my agent came down to two file edits, the model ID and the tool plus prompt. The runtime deploys with networkMode: PUBLIC, which reads as scary and isn't. It means reachable over the internet, not open to the world. Every call still needs IAM SigV4 or an OAuth bearer token. "Anyone can call it" really means "anyone you grant bedrock-agentcore:InvokeAgentRuntime to." The CLI-generated IAM execution role is fine for a demo, but the AWS docs say those are meant for dev and test. Scope it to the runtime ARN before anything real goes behind it. Teardown is backwards from what you'd guess. You run agentcore remove all -y then agentcore deploy -y. You deploy the emptied config to tear the resources down. Cost is close to nothing on Free Tier. Chapters 1 and 2 are local Node plus a Bedrock call (this costs a little bit per inference call). Only the deploy makes billable resources and you remove them at the end. agentcore dev serves on port 8080 by default (override with -p <port>). Gotcha: if 8080 is taken, the server quietly moves to 8081 but the invoke still calls 8080 and fails — so pass the same -p to both the dev server and the invoke, e.g. -p 8099 on each. Stack: Node and TypeScript, Claude on Bedrock. Link to full written walkthrough Link to same build as a video on the AWS Developers channel if you prefer video format Happy to answer questions. I usually build Strands agents in Python, but wanted to try this one in TypeScript. If you see something you'd do differently, or you've got tips for anyone else on this stuff, please share out. submitted by /u/j-vogel [link] [comments]

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As an indie developer, I built an AI chat app that I want to release soon. I primarily built on Haiku given my cost. When GPT 5.6 came out I was curious to compare my chatbot with GPT 5.6 Luna, but then learnt that my account did not have access to any GPT 5.6 models because my account was new and new accounts have restrictions on expensive AI models. But now that GPT 5.6 Luna is 5x cheaper than release and ~4x cheaper than Haiku(that I already have access to), I am very interested to switch to Luna for my app before release. I have created a support case request, but I heard that the mods on this group have leverage to get things moving faster. Would the mods be able to help me here? Any other tips to get access to this model or improve my chances of approval? submitted by /u/DragonWarrior55 [link] [comments]

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Figured we'd do one of these too. LowEndTalk is a commercial platform, so might as well get our money's worth and let you see what exactly we've been up to. I won't bore you with a full change-log and history, but starting from August: August 1st: IncogVPN launched ( Twitter ) August 10th: Can now create custom firewall plans in your VPS control panel. (Though this is a virtualizor update, not ours) ( Twitter ) August 23rd: Created "TU.GL", a URL shortening service for shits-n-gigs ( Twitter ) August 23rd: Had our subreddit banned shortly after creating it. Still unresolved. Thanks, reddit. ( Twitter ) August 28th: A big improvement to our default DNS system used by domain name customers was put into production. The free DNS is 4 unicast DDoS protected servers using different TLDs for each nameserver domain, ideally increasing the resiliency of the product. (anycast setup is still a work in progress) ( Twitter ) August 31: New Netherlands KVM stock. ( Twitter ) September 5th: Started using IFTTT to cross post Twitter announcements to both or Mastodon and Telegram channel ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 7th: Completed a big Kansas City, Missouri expansion. This involved moving gear from our old rack and colocation provider to our new rack and colo provider, all under the same roof. This move will help accommodate planned growth in this location. Still some more work to do in this location before we begin offering Virtual Servers and other services here. Currently only housing a small number of blade customers and is part of our VPN and DNS locations in production use. ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 10th: Anycast network teaser. Still a work in progress and trying to fix weird routing issues where some (for example) Los Angeles or west coast traffic likes to go through... South Carolina? Currently testing this on Vultr. We don't want to allocate an entire /24 for just a few DNS servers, so we're looking into utilizing it to it's fullest for domain name DNS, public resolver (ad-blocking and non-adblocking), and maybe even something like a WAF or very small CDN. It's all pretty much experiemental at this point. Anycast DNS will certainly happen, but maybe at a smaller scale. We'll see. ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 11th: Didn't forget September 12th: Woke up to some great news, that our .ST Accreditation we had been working on for a couple weeks and waiting for an update was finally approved. This has already been a very big thing for us and we've sold a lot more domains between then and now. This means IncogNET is now an official registrar for the .ST ccTLD and we're currently offering it at the lowest cost of any other registrar. ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 17th: The website TLDes.com which compares the pricing of hundreds of different TLDs from different registrars added us. We are still the cheapest .ST: https://tldes.com/st ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 15th: Paid our BilohBucks to regain Patron Provider status. September 19th: Made a ton of WHMCS updates. I decided to login as a end-user and go through the system and realized I really hate the flow of things. Took a deep dive course on WHMCS hooks and made some changes including: Promotional banner rotation to the sidebar to promote any sort of deals we want clients to see, added the credit balance back to the Client Area homepage. It used to exist ages ago as a 3rd party module but we removed it due to security concerns and realized it was pretty simple to show the same info via a hook, soo..... Also took the Services / Domains / Tickets / Invoices status and tally and placed it on additional pages other than just the client area homepage. It's pretty vital info and the direct links to other places of interest within the portal are handy and relevant. Fixed some UI stuff on the Submit Ticket page, namely making the department list two columns instead of one. There were a couple more things we did only available from the admin side of things that were basically just quality of life improvements. Still a few things to do and some I may need to read more documentation or reach out to WHMCS directly for. ( No announcement ) September 19th: Sent some things to Kansas City to prepare for some other things. September 20th: We made a new site: https://dotST.st - Basically just makes it easier to search for a handful of available .ST domains and automatically add them to your IncogNET cart. ( Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram ) September 21st: In preparation of finalizing our CentralNIC integration, (We're a CentralNIC accredited registrar, too) I went ahead and secured the https://dotGD.gd , https://dotGL.gl , https://dotVG.vg , https://dotFO.fo , and https://dotBH.bh ... Some of these TLDs we'll be offering at or nearest the lowest available pricing (Using TLDes as a reference). ( No announcement, LET got it first ) September 22nd: About to attach more storage to our VPS Control Panel just to have more available storage for OS templates and so we can offer more default ISO options AND increase the storage that customers can use to temporarily store a custom ISO for installation (as well as the length of time we store it for you). This is just a nice little update that makes your experience better. (Will get to it after I get more caffeine flowing through me) Still to do: Update our website with new information related to .ST and some promos. More stock for Virtual Servers. Migrate Texas shared hosting customers to Kansas City. Our Texas Shared hosting service is the only thing we offer publicly that is not on our own network. Was waiting until after the above mentioned move to complete this migration. Finalize accreditation steps for Identity Digital. We've been on-boarded, but I still need to do some things first. Catch up on support tickets... There are a lot of very old tickets but we're working on getting to them, newer tickets have been getting quicker responses than normal. Create more knowledge base documentation Take our blog down and just start using the WHMCS announcements feature to replace it. Pointless having two systems that aren't really being used for anything. Looks bad to have both sit relatively vacant, so will instead start making WHMCS announcements. Better backup setup. Most end-user backups (shared hosting, VPS) are stored with a provider with 1Gbps ports. All of our VPS nodes in the US and Netherlands have 10Gbps connectivity (We just cap you at 5Gbps) so the 1Gbps port on the backup side is a bit of a bottleneck causing slower backups and restores than we'd like. May need to migrate to a new provider and purge data after X-amount of time to make it possible, though. Still weighing our options on that front. Still working on MyPrivateInbox. Haven't made much progress as of late but working on some interesting proof of concept setups that I don't want to go into full detail here. Am I doing this right? Figure anything noteworthy I'll just post in this thread, similar to how I do for Twitter / Mastodon / Telegram.

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I ask, as someone striving to move up into sys admin related roles. Tier 3 / infra.. I have a BS in IT and about 6 years experience. My career took a bit of a detour. I spent almost two years doing solo IT at a school and I hated it. I definitely had a taste of sys admin work, but without some technical aspects. I am currently back on a tech support team where I finally getting more hands on with a hybrid setup (on premise AD with Intune and Entra..) One consistent thing in my 6 years of IT, is that most infra guys I talked to had no certs at all. The exception was Network admins. Some had the CCNA. I don't tend to learn very well under pressure and I also struggle to want to spend upwards to $400 on a cert. That is a lot of money. I am sure it must depend a lot on what exactly I want to do. I was studying the MD-102 and learned PowerShell and will conitinue that, but I am not going to get the MD-102. Longterm I am interested in Cloud, but also open to hybrid. Overall, I just wonder if there is a bit of a hype for certs. I notice people who press really hard into them are those who are struggling to break into IT. Not those who 6 years experience. The only difference is that I am wanting to push past help desk and I'll have to either force my current experience to work for me or get certs. I just started my current job so I have no idea what all I might be able to get my hands into. Overall, I wonder if many sys admins don't even have certs. Or if you feel it was important for you. submitted by /u/New-Device-5166 [link] [comments]

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Hi everyone, I was browsing the official AWS Free Tier page, but I'm finding it a bit tricky to properly filter and separate the "Always Free" services from the "12-Month Free" trials. I have two main questions: Is there a direct link or clean list showing strictly the Always Free services along with their exact monthly allowances (e.g., Lambda 1M requests, DynamoDB 25GB, CloudFront 1TB, etc.)? What actually happens to the account, data, and resources once the 12-month free trial ends? Does AWS delete instances/data, or does the account simply transition into standard pay-as-you-go pricing for any non-Always-Free resources? Do the Always Free quotas remain active indefinitely on the account even after year 1? Thanks in advance for any insights! submitted by /u/ZealousidealCrab5086 [link] [comments]

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I'm fixing a Windows 11 Home laptop for one of our MSP customers, and he gave me his Microsoft account email and password. I logged in just fine to his MS account and the laptop with matching serial is indeed listed there. I need the Bitlocker recovery key to attempt to fix the OS damage and get it to boot. I hit Devices then "view recovery keys" or whatever it is on that page and it starts to load the next page then changes the URL slightly and tries to load again then goes back and forth in an infinite loop and never actually loads. I let it go for like a minute and it just reloads the page on a loop. I was in an inprivate Brave window so I figured there's a lot going on there lol. So, I tried a normal window in Firefox - same problem. Tried it in Edge with zero plugins, same problem. Tried it in a blank unmodified WIndows 11 VM in Chrome, nope, same problem. Thought maybe MS has a problem with our IP address or Fortinet web filter is having an issue? I logged into his account on Chrome on my Android phone with wifi turned off so it's using straight to the tower. Nope, same problem. Infinite page load loop. Is this some known problem? Anyone else seeing it and any way around it? Can I view it on a different URL/domain that actually works or something? Microsoft service health status website says everything is working fine (which is commonly a lie) submitted by /u/CeC-P [link] [comments]

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I have an opportunity to get a new job from help desk to a tier 2 position for double my salary. I didn’t sleep last night because I’m so nervous about it. Reality is my resume is good but has gaps and I need to communicate how my troubleshooting skills, ability to work under pressure, and being able to be a team player and effectively escalate tickets qualifies me for the job. Any last minute advice would on how to handle a phone interview would be much appreciated. I’ve been studying and writing answers using the STAR method and questions like, “Tell me about yourself,” “Share your experience in your current role,” “Why are you looking for a new position?” I’ve researched the company and have a good answer as to why the job itself and what they do is of interest to me. I’m worried I’ll over-index on stories of how I help users and why they like me, and I’ll just say a bunch of bullshit. submitted by /u/MENTactual [link] [comments]

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Hello. I'll just get straight into it. I am looking for ways to set the default printer for any user that signs into specific PCs. We are talking multiple lab environments with printers that are assigned to the COMPUTER, not the user. Classroom environment. I am trying to avoid applying configuration to users. I have to believe there is some way to make it so when you sign into a computer, you get assigned a default printer based on the computer's settings. Also, this should work regardless of whether the user has signed in before or not. Take it like this Printer1, Printer2 and Printer3, and Lab1, Lab2, and LAb3 - they are paired accordingly by the number. Labs are their own OUs, we place a GPO in the OU that says "Map printerX" (numbers respective.) No, I do not want to pay for papercut or printlogic. We actually moved away from them for issues, I dunno, it's before me. We have a print server set up and GPOs (not using GPPs) to map the printers to the computers. The only issue is we want that mapped printer to be the default printer when users sign in. I'd like to avoid removing all other printers (print to pdf is still really useful.) I've read a few different ways to assign default printers, but many don't seem to account for wanting a user-agnostic solution. I'm looking for something that will work. Fingers crossed someone might have a suggestion. The only thing I'm really considering is GPP in the user configuration with loopback processing so it only applies to the computers in that OU. I've heard that can slow down Group policy quite a bit though. I've read about setting a scheduled task that runs on log-on to map, but wouldn't that run under the system context still if I am setting it via computer configuration? Thanks. Sorry if I come across bumbling, uninformed, or otherwise. submitted by /u/JrSysAdminZ [link] [comments]

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Hey Azure folks, After years of building and maintaining Azure DevOps platforms I wanted to share patterns that actually work when you have real operational demands and compliance requirements. The challenge most teams face: You start with basic CI CD and it works fine. Then you add more services more environments more compliance requirements and suddenly everything is on fire. How do you scale pipelines without creating unmaintainable mess How do you automate infrastructure without creating constant drift How do you implement security without sacrificing speed How do you keep teams confident enough to deploy multiple times a day I documented what actually works including: Multi stage pipeline architecture with proper approval gates and dependency management Complete YAML pipeline example showing real patterns not toy examples Infrastructure as Code with Terraform integrated into your pipelines Automated testing and security scanning that catches actual problems Workload Identity federation so you never rotate credentials again Branch policies that enforce quality without being theater Container scanning and vulnerability management Connecting Azure DevOps with other tools so engineering and product actually stay aligned The real lesson I learned is that automation at scale isnt about having fancy tools. Its about building processes your team actually trusts. Clear gates proper approvals the ability to rollback in seconds if something goes wrong. I have documented this with code examples architecture diagrams and real lessons learned from actual production deployments. Please check the comment below https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/comments/1vegsoi/comment/p1grv62/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button What deployment patterns are you using in your environments What gotchas have you hit that other teams should know about What do you wish you knew when you started scaling your pipelines Would love to hear what works for you and discuss the real challenges of DevOps automation at scale. submitted by /u/muaadasif [link] [comments]

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​ We are getting a message "It's not you, it's us. We couldn't complete your request right now. Please try again later." No problem with accounts not SSO'ed. Applications are running fine and accesible. So it seem like a SSO problem only. Sending a ticket to AWS via Softchoice.. submitted by /u/mikepun-locol [link] [comments]

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Hi, I am looking for the following setup in the United States. Location is flexible. 3× Ryzen 9 7950X, 128 GB RAM, 10 Gbps port, IPv6 /64 1× Ryzen 9 9950X, 128 GB RAM 20 Gbps shared public bandwidth pool across all four servers All four servers connected through the same private VLAN at 10 Gbps or higher Private VLAN traffic must not count toward public bandwidth usage At least one IPv4 address per server Unmetered bandwidth preferred; please specify any traffic quota or fair-use policy It needs to be delivered as soon as possible. Thank you.

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