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besides big tech i assume it will push more people underground (this is what i would do). and VPNs will get (yet another) big boost.

myopic governments pushed by myopic voters are apparently the new norm.


Understand that 99% of VPNs can be trivialy shut down if they wanted.

The loophole is tolerated. For now.


It will be tolerated for a long goddamn time though given how useful VPNs are for corporate security.


yes, very much aware of this. you can even block them at carrier level, but it’s a little bit more expensive


does anyone here use cloudflare as a registrar?

i’m interested in any potential negatives.


You're stuck with cloudflare nameservers¹, so if you want to change nameservers you need to transfer them to other registrar, how much of a deal breaker this is is up to you, to me is project dependent.

1. Section 6.1 of https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/


> 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS.

there are very few parts of that contract in all caps, but that's one of them :/


That's annoying. For some use cases, not a big deal. But I have used the AWS Route 53 'alias' functionality on a number of occasions and that requires the use of Route 53 nameservers.


I've helped move a few domains from Gandi to Cloudflare. The move was relatively straightforward (couldn't get the Gandi records export to import into Cloudflare so had to do it manually...), and the new domain and renewal prices are lower.

To replace Gandi email (that Gandi went from free to ramping up the pricing for when they were taken over), Cloudflare offer email forwarding so you can receive incoming mail from a custom domain to e.g. a gmail account, and for sending mail you can pair this with a custom SMTP service like https://www.smtp2go.com (1000 emails/month on the free tier).

Apart from that, DNS is something I barely touch for years sometimes so I don't find much difference between registrars beside their pricing and how much you can trust them.

Being able to point your Cloudflare nameserver records would be nice though, so worst case you'd need to move everything if another registrar had some services you were interested in? Would be curious to know more about how common this scenario comes up and why.


You should check out something like DNSControl. Makes switching or having multiple easy. I have mine going to a bind zone file and cloudflare, and use the bind file for Unbound


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I’ve got about twenty domains listed with them. No problems after 2-3 years, but I do wonder whether it’s a good idea to use the same vendor for DNS and domain registration.


Normally a registrar isn't going to have top tier DNS infra so you may as well separate, yes. Exceptions might be CF/Google/AWS/DO, but personally I don't like to use the big guns as registrars in any case. I use Namesilo and never had any issues but on the other hand have never run into any of these sorts of issues either..


I am happily using them for all of my domains they support. The problem with Cloudflare registrar is that they flat out don't support many domains/tlds.


i know of two companies (via acquaintances) that use skype (the regular non business version). one is a medium sized spam company that trades IPs and malware from eastern europe whose spam clients are all using skype. and the other is an online porn company whose contractors are all using skype. i couldn’t find out why they’re not using something else.


https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24306571/verge-subscripti...

> Our original reporting, reviews, and features will be behind a dynamic metered paywall — many of you will never hit the paywall, but if you read us a lot, we’ll ask you to pay.


It is funny, but HN wants reporting and publishing to be subscription based because Ads is evil. At the same time complaining about article requires subscription.


This is the second verge article I opened this month and I already hit the paywall


I didn't count, but if i ever open a verge article it's from being linked to on here. And the title has to be non click baity.

So... pretty sure i don't read verge a lot either. And I get the paywall.


an argument could be made that this was a once in a few generations chance to do something different, or at least change/add to the existing design. another argument is that the building saw many changes from ~1180 to today, so change was actually part of the history of the building.


> to do something different

Entirely just to do something different? Or for any actual reason?

I mean things like: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/france-notre-dame-gree...

are just outright plain ugly due to many reasons and this is one of the nicer looking alternative proposals that I could find.


they cancelled the design competition and went with an identical reconstruction: https://www.thelocal.fr/20200710/macron-gives-blessing-to-re...

part of the reason was to have it ready for the olympics since a design competition would take a long time.


If there's one reason the French can't compete in the modern economy its because they are so painfully conservative in their culture. Elon Musk might be a cook with reactionary tendencies but he is a far more imaginary cook than anything the French can come up with. Did it really all end in 1848?


What ended in 1848? I don’t really get the relationship between these two unrelated things, you’re free to use whatever architectural style you want when building new houses and office buildings in France as far as I can tell.

By that standard other Europeans are even more conservative.. Germans rebuilt the Dresden Cathedral and palaces despite them being a complete ruin for decades. The Polish rebuilt Warsaw, Gdansk and I assume other cities almost entirely from scratch pretty much as replicas of their pre-war state.

What does that say about them?


this one?

https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Filesystem:/usr/libexec/countr...

> countryd determines the user's physical country based on multiple characteristics. It is used by the eligibility system to ensure it is difficult to spoof the user's true physical location. It was introduced in iOS 16.2 and macOS 13.0.


Creepy that they feel the need to know exactly where you are IMO...


i'm guessing it's an indirect requirement from governments (e.g. "on our territory it's illegal to use the internet/device for X").


Meh, if they were really doing favors for governments they'd do something to nerf VPN software for places like China. I'm pretty sure this was created to serve Apple's intere$t$ first and foremost


oura ring does function without a subscription, but the data is obviously poorer.


Yeah I specifically referred to the API. Without the subscription their app is pretty whack and outside of that you can only download .csv from a link.


> a corp is trying to freeload on OSS community

automattic is worth a few billion. what are talking about?


They are the single largest contributor to the project ?


> making adblock less effective

adblocking still works just fine on Safari, which has been doing the same thing as Manifest V3 for years now.


Ad-blockers are not just about displaying the actual ads.

Does the Chrome blocks trackers even without ad-blocker Like Safari?


my adblocker on Safari blocks everything, including trackers. no idea about Chrome.


> Here’s the thing, it works great for 30-40 minutes, until it doesn’t and makes a completely wrong move almost causing an accident without user intervention

interesting. this wasn’t my experience. i did SF <> Lake Tahoe (which can stretch to 5hrs) a number of times when i was in SF and didn’t encounter any major issues. small issues sure, but it was definitely better than my driving.


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