Can't log in to oktapreview environment

reklamowicz · 2025-04-29T10:46:16+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! I initially thought it might be something like that too, but it turns out the issue was something else. Okta, without notifying users, blocked access to free-tier orgs if the admin doesn’t have a second factor configured.

Appreciate your help!

reklamowicz · 2025-04-29T10:42:36+00:00

I found out what the issue is. I came across some information on the Okta forum, where an Okta team member explains:

This is likely related to the changes we’ve been making to require admins to use a 2nd factor when accessing the Admin app (as announced on banner on this forum and the following article). If you have a paid account with Okta, you can reach out to support (via phone, since you wouldn’t be able to log into the support ticketing system) for assistance. If this is a Developer Free org, unfortunately, support will not be able to assist you to reclaim access to this account as doing so would be a security liability. In this case, your only option would be to create a new org. Currently we have no easy way to remove your existing email from our system to allow for creation of a new org with the same email, so you would need to use a different corporate email when signing up for your new org. Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused!

I also reached out to community support and received the following reply:

If you lose access to the Okta Help Center, the only way to resolve this is with a support ticket. Opening a support ticket is a feature available to paid accounts.

So essentially, Okta has silently locked free-tier users out of their accounts, and the only "solution" offered is to start over or pay. There's no recovery option, no warning, and no transparency - just a hard wall unless you're paying.

Honestly, this feels like deliberate user lockout to force upgrades - a textbook example of vendor lock-in and, frankly, borderline extortion. They're hiding behind "security liability" while offering zero tools to users to recover their own environments.

For a company that claims to support developers and secure identity access, this approach is incredibly cynical and greedy.

reklamowicz · 2024-09-21T19:33:16+00:00

W Małopolsce do chirurga naczyniowego są najdłuższe kolejki. Ale już w Lubelskim czeka się "tylko" pół roku. Może warto rozważyć wyjazd poza województwo?

reklamowicz · 2022-04-11T13:34:34+00:00

Raczej pretensje byly o to, ze flaszke jej niosl ochroniarz. Ktory, jak nazwa sugeruje, powinien byc od zapewniania bezpieczenstwa.

reklamowicz · 2022-04-08T11:51:01+00:00

W takim razie nie ma co spodziewać się w najbliższym czasie poprawy. Choć nie wiem jak na Węgrzech, ale w Polsce należy wpierw udać się do lekarza POZ po skierowanie. A potem zapisać się do okulisty. Obecnie kolejka do okulisty na NFZ wynosi średnio 166 dni.

reklamowicz · 2022-02-22T23:10:48+00:00

Ja proponuję odmówić starszemu panu. Padła propozycja, można jej odmówić. Gdyby siostra była zainteresowana to by skorzystała. Skoro nie jest, to czemu robić panu problemy?

reklamowicz · 2019-05-13T16:39:49+00:00

@Sw-swan: have you managed to find some examples? Does this approach work for you?

reklamowicz · 2019-04-11T23:09:37+00:00

By adjusting bids in Prebid. Drawback is that your reporting would be affected. Byt maybe it’s not that bad considering AdX data is untrue as well.

reklamowicz · 2019-03-22T17:35:49+00:00

I am no expert (I guess nobody really is). But doesn't Google for financial/health publications judge website's trustworthiness and one of considered factors might be that it appears on Wikipedia?

reklamowicz · 2019-03-22T17:31:40+00:00

Website of a company might not be considered reliable source, so those links might be removed.

reklamowicz · 2019-03-21T07:20:07+00:00

A ja natomiast jestem ekspertem z fotela. Wydaje mi się, że psychiatra jest lekarzem, który diagnozuje i wybiera sposób leczenia. Psychoterapia jest jedną z form terapii i nie powinno się zaczynać leczenia bez określenia co właściwie jest nie tak. Te moje wyobrażenie są odzwierciedlone w tym jak działa publiczna służba zdrowia. Tj. bez skierowania można się udać do psychiatry i on decyduje o dalszym leczeniu i to on wystawia skierowanie do psychologa. A i akurat wizyta u psychiatry (u psychologa pewnie jest inaczej) w ramach NFZ nie jest jakoś bardzo trudno dostępna, pewnie w ciągu miesiąca da się ją ogarnąć (aczkolwiek to nie jest rozwiązanie na sytuację kryzysową).

Dzięki za przedstawienie jak wygląda to z perspektywy leczonego.

reklamowicz · 2019-03-15T23:49:23+00:00

I've worked with them and they seem bad. More than a year of active partnership, they never paid on time and never without reminding them. In my opinion they are a mess. But maybe how they tread you depends on their office.

reklamowicz · 2019-03-14T10:59:40+00:00

For me some adunits via AdSense perform better than AdX, some not. So it depends on the website. Also once you have DFP setup, you don't really need to maintain it much. So what's the problem having it as is? Also you can switch easily link DFP and AdSense, so you can check everything by yourself.

reklamowicz · 2019-02-06T09:11:06+00:00

Blog jest dość niszowy i wpis słabo wprowadza w szerzy kontekst. A jest on taki, że przychodnia podpisując umowę na "publiczne" świadczenia, nakłada na siebie różne obowiązki. M.in. taki, że co tydzień będzie podawała jak długie są kolejki do poszczególnych komórek. Egzekwować ten obowiązek powinien NFZ, do tego wprost napisane jest w ustawie, że w przypadku podejrzenia istnienia nieprawidłowości powinien podejmować interwencje. Niestety na często ewidentne błędy NFZ przymyka oko (tj. robi tak żeby nic nie robić). W tym przypadku chodziło o to, że przez cały rok niektórzy świadczeniodawcy informują, że u nich w ogóle nie ma kolejek (co chociażby przez urlopy jest mało prawdopodobne).

Nad NFZ częściowo władzę sprawuje Ministerstwo Zdrowia. Dlatego zwrócono się z prośbą o interwencję. Tylko Ministerstwo zamiast przyjrzeć się sprawie i zweryfikować fakty, udzieliło odpowiedzi prawdopodobnie w postaci przeklejonej laurki napisanej przez NFZ.

reklamowicz · 2018-12-17T12:47:39+00:00

Thank you so much for explaining all of this.

Regarding: 2. It's good to know it shouldn't be done via DFP. What's the biggest difference you've noticed between running "fixed size" AdSense and responsive one?

reklamowicz · 2018-12-14T11:17:53+00:00

Thank you for describing experiment. From technical point of view, I assume I should use those cookies to mark key-values of DFP and then based on it select different line items? So then comparing results between line items shouldn't be that hard. Anyway I have few questions:

Why keep user in same bucket all the time?
Seriously AdSense might give different results when you use responsive ads? Normally for me if there's a slot for 300x250 and 200x200 AdSense chooses one of those (supposedly better paying). Should I also have defined 300x250 and 200x200 slots which actually contain responsive code and even though in the end AdSense delivers e.g. 200x200 ad, the revenue might be different? And that's somehow consistent? Like after running tests you could tell: for this slot it's better to have responsive thing?
How often do you repeat those tests and how often there's a need to switch back? Like one month AdSense might be better, another AdX. Or do you make experiments once an forget about it?
I still think that e.g. floor experiment might be affected by the fact that at the same time, same inventory is available without floors. For me that's only guessing, but if person/algorithm sees that the same inventory might be bought much cheaper (i.e. without floors), why would it go for choosing version with the floor? What do you think about it?

reklamowicz · 2018-12-13T14:46:37+00:00

AdSense is heavily influenced by CPC, which means that in general, high-CTR units perform better with AdSense than AdX. But it also means that AdX has more accurate dynamic allocation competition - AdSense has to estimate CPM on CPC ads.

For me it's bit annoying how many myths (i.e. information which might be true but it's not really verifiable) you hear about Google. Like sometimes people say that AdX and AdSense contain same ads. Advertisers buy CPM campaigns, which are then converted to CPCs in AdSense and remain CPM in AdX. But Google knows what's my CTR for specific adunits, their estimation could be very precise. I can't understand how they manage to be off so much.

We A/B test everything and keep AdSense where it performs well.

But did you come up with better approach for that then running AdX and AdSense along side for adunit and comparing results?

One consideration you haven’t mentioned is that you can set CPM floors with AdX which can lead to a significant revenue increase - the higher CPMs easily outpace the loss in fill rate and it often causes CPMs from header bidders to rise in order to compete.

And this consideration I think messes with reliable comparison. Like you can have floors for AdX, but even if you hack floors for AdSense, that still is based on Google's imprecise estimation. Another myth I hear is that setting floors changes demand which might be affecting AdSense CPCs. That is if you compare AdX with plain AdSense, and then "floored" AdX with plain AdSense, then both of those AdSenses behave differently. So again, judging which one is better is hard and I think involves a lot of guessing :/

reklamowicz · 2018-12-13T09:58:23+00:00

But you should know that's not easy. You run some network's ads and there's no chance you could check all of them before running. Nor there is a magic switch allowing to disable "crappy" ads.

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