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VeganCheesecake

@ VeganCheesecake @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help

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  • It's not just convenience - depending on how you use it, Cloudflare is also pretty good at giving an additional layer of anonymity. They assign any user of your site to the closest CDN Server geographically, so it's is pretty hard to determine how and where your site is actually hosted. They also used to be pretty good about resisting takedown requests.

    Oh well. I'd say time for a federated CDN, but the legal costs would probably be rather annoying for most volunteers.

  • We Need To Invest In The Alternatives!

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  • I see your point, but still think that an onboarding site that assigns you an instance from a pool that's seen as reliable might be sensible. After all, we don't want "one big instance", that kinda defeats the point of the fediverse.

    Also, I feel the network effect is even worse for Twitter-likes. You're on Facebook for your friends/family, and you might convince some of them to move. You're on a Twitter-like to follow certain people, and whether or not they're on a different service is a crapshoot. And if they are, chances are it's Bluesky.

  • Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help

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  • Doesn't seem to be a DNS block. I just set Mullvad to the UK and visited one of the pages. Mullvad does run their own dns. Still got cloudflare 451.

    The error message reads like the website is using Cloudflare CDN, so Cloudflare'd be able to block any requests originating from the UK.

    Cloudflare's CDN is definitely used by a lot of torrent/piracy sites (e.g. 1337x, thepiratebay, Anna's archive), so we'll see what'll come off this.

  • We Need To Invest In The Alternatives!

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  • The problem is, it's the other way around. Facebook is the option that feels easy/safe/convenient. The fediverse has a long way to go for it to be something the average Internet user would use, both in publicity and in ease of use.

  • (S+) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Warum am Bahnhof von Bützow AfD-Flaggen wehen

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  • Ich würde ja behaupten, dass speziell dieses Privateigentum gerade von Rechten geschützt wird. Würde sogar sagen Rechtsextremen.

  • Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS

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  • Like Fedora Silverblue or OpenSuSE Aeon/Kalpa?

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • New Vector forked the matrix foundation owned projects for synapse, dendrite, and element, and pulled all their devs, changing the license and bringing them under closer control. The foundation repos are now archived, and only the new vector owned ones are being actively developed. They sell an enterprise license for their element server suite that, at least according to their copy, seems more performant, and also offers admin tools that the free version lacks.

    If you want to run a public instance that allows registration, you pretty much need some kind of external admin tool for moderation.

    It's of course still better than pretty much all proprietary options, but also quite some room for improvement.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • Take this with a grain of salt, I don't have it deployed right now, but if I remember the current state correctly, one on one calls are a thing, group calls aren't.

  • Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

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  • I'm pretty sure that warning used to be on the UEFI download page for Biostar boards, but they've completely redesigned it, so if it was them, it isn't there anymore.

    I've seen some Asus and MSI Boards getting only uefi updates marked as beta, with the next update, months later, also being marked as beta. With Asus, there have been allegation that they try to get out of warranty claims this way.

    I've had less problems with Dell and Lenovo, which probably comes from them being more enterprise focused. I think the problem is that the for the average consumer, uefi updates are last on their mind when picking a board.

    Apple, and, to a lesser degree, Lenovo and Dell, seem hardly comparable, since their focus isn't selling mainboards as a stand-alone component.

  • Please tell me

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  • I saw 6 bands during 2 concerts last week, three of them kinda rock/blues, three of them metal. All of them drank water from normal water bottles while on stage. No one cared.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • What I don't like about Matrix is that it's most visible homeserver and client implementations feel like they are being developed as a product by New Vector Ltd., not a community project.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • The lack of group voice calls is what mainly kept me from adopting that. Hope they get that working soon.

  • Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org

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  • Yeah. I an hosting a homeserver for my ttrpg groups, but it doesn't have any federation enwbled at all, and sign ups are invite-only.

    The amount of work needed to moderate a public instance, especially with the lacking tools available, seems crazy. Also, I don't love it that New Vector has an implementation for an admin console, that seems to be available exclusively for paying subscribers to the enterprise version of their element server suite.

  • Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

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  • This implies a world in which motherboard vendors actually regularly publish updates for their boards, or publish information about a board being officially end-of-life, which, for many consumer boards, just isn't the case.

    Some vendors still have a red flag on their support page discouraging uefi updates unless you're actively experiencing problems.

  • Why Chose Twitter Over Mastodon?

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  • One thing that Proton does better than Tuta - allowing PGP encryption. Like, if you want to send an encrypted Message with Tuta, to someone who doesn't have a Tuta account, it needs to be a link and a password.

    The idea of E-Mail is that it should be as vendor agnostic as possible. Tuta has a walled garden vibe. Securely e2e with other tuta users, but unencrypted with pretty much everyone else.

    Though it also took quite a while for Proton Mail to integrate PGP properly.

  • Error 1033 Cloudflare

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  • I'm in Germany, and it works pretty fine. They've got several datacenters around here, never had an issue with speed or latency.

    I don't like that they got that evil megacorp vibe, but what big Internet firm doesn't?

    Well, I need to run two separate tunnels to not run into hairpinning issue, so, some weirdness, I guess. More down to my services, though.

  • My employer might've killed people

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  • If you're working for a division of General Dynamics (which I dunno, but they've been reported to be behind that campaign), I'm kinda surprised that this is the red line.

    Like, your employer also makes miniguns and tanks and shit.

  • Grenzkontrollen: Was hat Dobrindts Grenzregime bislang gebracht?

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  • Hatte im Railjet von Wien bei Freilassing zuletzt immer Kontrollen. Weiß nicht, wie es im Regio der die Strecke Salzburg/München fährt aussieht.

    Ist alles recht traurig anzusehen, halte Schengen für eine der besten Errungenschaften der EU.

  • Error 1033 Cloudflare

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  • Interesting. As I said, I never tried yunohost. I usually work with podman, and just assign local ports to pods, then route traffic to those ports internally, which seems to work fine.

    Anyway, I feel like we won't be solving OPs issue here. Still, interesting to see some of the problems people with different setups have to deal with.