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Spunkie··on Lastpass Security Incident
Also if you try to export multiple times it will start spitting out exports full of duplicates. Only safe way is to export right after a fresh session login.
Spunkie··on My thoughts on the Framework laptop
Building your own distro or "partnering" with a specific distro is just about the opposite of what I would want to see.

Hire more kernel devs full time, sponsor some more, get the hardware in their hands, make it their job to do nothing but fix or improve frameworks, and then get your shit merged upstream not in some random distro.

Spunkie··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
> It's not for displaying a webpage

The majority of of legitimate traffic to these txt files are by browsers(extensions) for the express purpose of displaying websites to a users specifications(without ads in this case).

A reasonably low estimate is that 20%-30% of global internet users are behind some kind of adblocker, almost all of which are default subscribed to easylists. So this txt file is potentially responsible for the way a BILLION+ internet users see and interact with near every single website.

Cloudflares claim that this isn't web content is full on reality warping. It only makes any kind of sense when masked under layers of abstractions and lawyer speak.

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None this should even matter though, someone seeing the big picture at CF should have done the napkin math and realized that the easylist bandwidth pays for itself.

Ignoring the soft cushion of the huge amount of globally distributed caching of these files, if easylist suddenly stopped working for a week then global bandwidth usage could see a spike. A pretty little chunk of which CF may be on the hook to absorb at no cost.

Spunkie··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
Why do people keep talking like you can't just navigate to a txt file in your browser and have it serve as any old web content? Which is something I have actually done many years ago to search for a domain in these types of lists.

Cloudflare is balancing on a razer for this TOS technicality.

Spunkie··on VESA Releases DisplayPort 2.1 Spec
The lack of VirtualLink/USB-C on nvidia cards seems like a major loss going forward.

Video cards are realistically the only component in a desktop actually hooked up to enough power to cover the full USB-PD spec(240w currently?) + the rest like display/audio/hub.

I can only hope the upcoming AMD 7000 reference series still has a USB-C port. In fact I would be perfectly happy with a card with nothing but USB-C ports on it.

Spunkie··on Ask HN: If Signal goes through with removing SMS, what app should replace it?
Signals position is moronic and if they go through with the change it basically leaves matrix as the only option. But matrix/element UI/UX is still not really ready for prime time.
Spunkie··on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership)
Was that really working an hour ago? Shows "Offer expired" now.
Spunkie··on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership)
Wow, nice pricing!

We have a lot of OG series and first gen NFC yubikeys floating around. So I had planned on moving my company to yubikey bio keys at the top of the year but this pricing on the basic keys might win out now.

Well, here's hoping cloudflare has plans to add an offering for the bio series in the future.

Spunkie··on Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]
It seems to me matrix wants to encompass all forms of communication, vrchat being one of those.

The marketing about it being a "metaverse" seems misplaced even if its technically true or not.

Spunkie··on A man who built his own cathedral
In central america most things are built with cheap cinderblock and concrete and the vast majority of them leave rebar exposed and coming out of the top floor/roof.

I've been told its for tax reasons, something about not needing to pay taxes on a building that is still "under construction"

Spunkie··on Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out
In that case you should def transfer your domains out of google registrar, I would recommend porkbun.

At work we had an entire .dev domain nuked at the registrar level by google because a developer generated some traffic google didn't like on a subdomain. They replaced the ENTIRE domain with a google phishing warning page with no way to bypass to get to the actual site.

It took multiple days to resolve the phishing false positive and restore the domain, if it had been our main domain it would have a major emergency at work.

Spunkie··on Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out
Considering cloudflare registrar doesn't even let you change your nameservers, saying they have "full registrar services" is a bad joke. They also don't support a lot of TLDs.

I would highly recommended porkbun over CF for registrar services.

Spunkie··on Tell HN: Transfer your Google domain to other registrar before it locks you out
Wait, you are using cloudflare as your .dev registrar or just DNS? My CF dash still shows my .dev domains as unsupported for transfer in.
Spunkie··on Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'
I also use porkbun, also because of cloudflare registrar not supporting some TLDs. One thing that really impressed me was porkbuns phone support.

When I transfered in some domains I had some questions about their UI so I gave them a ring, and immediately I was chatting with an extremely competent product engineer.

No phone system to navigate, no filtering through L1/L2 "support", no bullshit. I can't remember the last time I've had such a pleasant experience contacting support for a service.

Spunkie··on Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'
Cloudflares registrar service is quickly souring years of goodwill I had for the company.

Domain ownership/control is basicly the keys to the kingdom for most businesses and cloudflare should recognize that responsibility and fucking shape up.

Stop treating your registrar like its some side piece product you can use to lock people into your services.

Spunkie··on Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days
I'm interested in an EV for similar reasons but I also live in a remote mountain area where batteries, generators, and even propane tanks grow legs.

So the fact that my entire off grid battery system would travel with me when I'm not at home is a huge benefit.

Spunkie··on Ask HN: Cloudflare broke my domain's DNSSEC making it unreachable since 4 days
They are also the only domain registrar that I've interacted with this decade that does not allow you to set your own nameservers. Effectively locking you into using cloudflare DNS and related services until you can transfer again.

Its frankly, disgusting.

Spunkie··on Ask HN: Cloudflare broke my domain's DNSSEC making it unreachable since 4 days
I mean when you are adding a new domain, CF can clearly tell if a domain already has dnssec on or not. Seems like something that should raise a warning to the user.
Spunkie··on Show HN: We optimize your finances, for free - Uprise.us
I signed up with a gmail account before I saw your comment about the priority queue so I signed up again with my custom domain(via.icu).

The signup form looks like it accepts it but actually it never sends me the "You’re on the list!" confirmation email.

Spunkie··on OP-1 field
They also relist the same feature multiple times in slightly different ways ...

- INTERNAL FM ANTENNA FOR BOTH RX AND TX

- BUILT-IN FM RADIO TRANSMISSION

- OB–4 COMPATIBLE USING FM TX OR WIRE

Spunkie··on Zero Trust Hosting and Reverse Proxy via Cloudflare, Swag and Authelia
Oh hey, this article uses https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-mods/tree/universal-cl....

Pretty neato to see code I wrote pop up on HN.

Spunkie··on Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
Literally anything that puts oracle cloud in a positive light is a bold assertion.
Spunkie··on Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
On the topic of their "free accounts", I did personally attempt to go through that process last month and I really don't understand how they have managed to fuck it up so bad.

The basic idea is simple, "give developers free personal resources so they might be inclined to start using your cloud for work related thing". Instead, the "free account" is basically just a guided tour on OCI incompetence before it boots you out onto the street.

On the surface they have given it some thought with setting up the system perfectly with the whole, "if your account is free you can never be charged thing" but they can't seem to stomach people actually using their "free account".

Spunkie··on Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
Quite frankly it does not matter. Oracle has demonstrated that their cloud can not be trusted, full stop.
Spunkie··on Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
I won't even take on clients if they are using OCI now.

I've had previous clients whos entire account with production servers just get nuked without even so much as a curtsey email and OCI support WILL NOT HELP.

Spunkie··on Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
OCI support is actively the most unhelpful and useless waste of time I've had the displeasure of spending this year.

As an added bonus they will randomly nuke accounts and production servers without even a curtsey email.

I won't even take on clients if they are using OCI.

Spunkie··on Azure pulls in front of AWS in public cloud adoption
12 core 24gb for free you say, free for how long? Got a link to more details on getting some of those?
Spunkie··on Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
Migadu, Mxroute, or just cloudflares free email routing.
Spunkie··on On Emacs 28’ context menu and Unix mouse-usage in general
I really consider context menus to be the most intuitive way to work with git.

I made the switch to Linux earlier this year but I still miss tortoisegit literally every day.

Spunkie··on USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables
This seems like the place to ask, what is up with USBC displayport alt mode during boot/bios?

Like I'm traveling with a usbc only monitor connected to a 6800xt and everything has been working fine with it until yesterday.

I updated manjaro packages and the kernel to 5.15, and somehow that resulted in the monitor not working during boot anymore. Which I just don't understand the logistics of AT ALL. How does the host OS relate to video out during boot?

The video out also didn't work once booted into linux but I was able to resolve this by replugging the monitor a couple of times after each restart. Ultimately reverting back to the 5.14 kernel fixed it in Linux but didn't fix it during boot.

So now I just have to enter my LUKS pass blindly and hope for the best or that I never need to adjust my bios settings ever again.

And on a slightly related side tangent how do people who switch to a bluetooth mouse/keyboard adjust their boot/bios? They just don't?

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