Google, Uber, Coinbase, Basecamp, HN's own pg - they were all in news because of racism and/or sexism.

Nope. The HN comment section (compared to other websites) is awesome.

Now, on the other hand, YouTube / Reddit, or worse, Facebook...

There's also 'Conduit', a Matrix server written in Rust. It's alpha currently.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/conduit

Fun fact - Textpattern and WordPress are both 18yrs old, PHP and GPL.

In software engineering, CI/CD or CICD is the combined practices of continuous integration and either continuous delivery or continuous deployment.[1]

In short everything has to be continuous, otherwise you'll stall and die. Now go buy some CI/CD from the shop.

[1] wikipedia

Cool. Now imagine I’m a business owner that makes and sells my own socks and happen to need a website to do so. What you’re talking about would still make zero sense to me.

I should have added it was sarcasm :(

I think most tracking is not visible to the user, as in seeing an ad.

About CNAME, I think this is what you're looking for:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09301

Your link just says what I said.

But your parent link indeed shows that ublock origin on chrome is crippled when compared to firefox, not just performance benefits.

More about CNAME:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347110

What about UCL?

https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl

Better ask that to a vet directly, if possible.

Counter anecdata - that's not my experience. Idk about US though.