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ZWoz··on HTTPS Everywhere will sunset in January 2023
> HTTP is not ok. Anyone can ready / modify what is being sent.

How do you plan demonstrate that in my local network, connection between my computer and printer web based interface? Generally, we had several decates HTTP as main protocol and that worked out.

ZWoz··on DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing
Look into some kind office internet ISP, who offers static IP-s. At least my experience with those is good. You probably need to make exception in Spamhaus PBL list ( end-user IP address ranges), I haven't seen any problems after removal. If that isn't possible, go with some solid colocation (old school company, who don't offer cloud services).
ZWoz··on I Miss Heroku's DevEx
Have you ever seen documentation from seventies? Are you familiar with Usenet? I think jdlshore point needs to be reiterated: markdown follows older stylistic conventions. That article is written like typewriter produced document (except few details, like image on top and so on).

Same with emoticons vs emojis: those "textual representations" of emojis, like ":-)" predate emojis.

ZWoz··on Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations
Your description ([nnn,nnn]) reminded me TOPS-10 and indeed, that AMOS link mentions this: "The similarities with DEC's operating systems, particularly TOPS-10, were not lost on Digital Equipment Corporation". So, that file hierarchy model is even earlier, than 70s and 80s. Wikipedia says that TOPS-10 was released in 1967 (back then different name, renamed in 1970). DECsystem-10 was anyway pretty different hardware from modern computer, running from tapes and so on.

Sorry for that offtopic rambling, I am little bit enthusiastic every time, if I see something TOPS10 related.

ZWoz··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
> And not suffering, not being in pain was maybe what allowed her to begin to heal.

I think that is somewhat well known? I don't have good references about humans, but veterinarian James Alfred Wight (wrote books as James Herriot) has written about it, how lost cause lamb "miraculously" recovered after big dose pain killer (sorry, don't remember details, only his thoughs, how getting rest from pain helps).

ZWoz··on The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated
Yelling "Fire!" in theatre is miscontructed-misunderstood idea and probably legal: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
ZWoz··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
I have noticed that most those services (twitter, Skype and so on) block login without giving phone number...until few months later they automatically unblock. I simply check out in every week, are they removed block or not. Once I was stupid and gave phone number one of those kind services, that was bad idea. Account went into some weird state after giving code received from SMS. So my personal experience: wait, never give phone number.
ZWoz··on Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?
Little bit different route, but usenet. UI wise there are several clients (newsreaders), thunderbird is usable. Finding good healty groups can be challenge, but they are there. One thing I like, there is healty amount of non-english speaking groups, like germans or italians.
ZWoz··on Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
If you have new IP and that IP don't have bad history, then your main issue is hotmail and Office365. There is little bit rate limiting over next 24h period, but if you host yourself and don't send unsolicidated bulk messages, then you don't see those limits. Some anti-spam services graylist you, that causes usually 5 minute delay for delivery.

90% spam score comes from message, sending server isn't that relevant (if you base configuration is reasonable: PTR is right, server knows it's hostname and don't EHLO himself as localhost and so on). You can look at SpamAssassin default rulebase[1] for common rules.

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[1] - https://spamassassin.apache.org/old/tests_3_3_x.html

ZWoz··on Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
There isn't much breaking usually, I really don't remember big issues in my 15+ years self-hosting time. I have changed colocation place several times, some places have been offices with average office internet (without redundant links or BGP peering).

I can see issues, if you over-engineer and try build some microservice farm in some cloud provider, but simple physical server with DC grade disks in RAID and backup (tested and out of server) is pretty reliable.

Of course, when you really don't want to do it, then paying for someone else is reasonable, no issue with that. But its not fair to make mail self-hosting look like something very complicated and dangerous, I would say that modern web service stacks are more complicated and fragile. Lots of guys here are writing own internet facing software, handling customer data. Compared to that, using pre-existing mail server software isn't that hard.

ZWoz··on Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
People in HN are weirdly afraid running own mail server. Thats not that hard. If you are web developer, who is capable setting up linux+varnish+nginx+php-fpm+redis+mariadb stack, then I would say that functional mail server has less moving pieces. I think most horror stories are related to trying run own server in bad neighborhood, in some cheap VPS service. Now entire IP block has bad reputation and indeed there is hassle with delivery.
ZWoz··on The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
You experienced badly run shop. You can have remote hands (if you don't have your own DC, but buy colocation service). You have spare disks in server. I don't know, how end-to-end encryption is linked to bare metal, those physical servers are several abstraction levels below.
ZWoz··on TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter
That sounds like you paint corporate control over politicians in positive light. I am glad that American mogul don't have direct line (preferential treatment) to EU top level officials.
ZWoz··on The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing
App is shorthand from application, no known person "coined it", because that term is going back to eighties or earlier. Apple had MacApp (which was application framework) in 1985, that time app was already well known shorthand, for example Atari had file extension .app.

Unrelated, but TOPS-10 operating system had executables named with extension .exe, that happened somewhere in 1967-1970. TOPS-10 had lots of interesting stuff, that later is similarly done by newer OSes. Probably my favorite is ctrl+t, which sends SIGINFO in FreeBSD, giving you status from current running program. And what we see in TOPS-10 manual: "When you type CTRL/T (control-T), the monitor prints status information pertaining to your job on your terminal."

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ZWoz··on Why Lichess will always be free
I am not sure, what parent thought and I don't have examples without any spending to advertisement, but there is very "low profile", almost no ads categories. 1) Big business-to-business manufacturers. I haven't ever seen ads for compal or asml. I am sure they are presented in trade shows and contact directly to potential customers. 2) Small data recovery shops. I know few those, one don't advertise at all, one uses only google ads (and only few keywords, not big budget).
ZWoz··on When 70M people visit your joke site
If you have hobby site, then failing action "going dark" is better than "going cost 1000 times more".
ZWoz··on The Decline of Heroku
What is Render and what is does?
ZWoz··on In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
They don't contribute changes. Server and official client is maintained by Stockholmsstad contractors. Open source project is alternative client, not full solution.
ZWoz··on Seagate's Roadmap: The Path to 120 TB Hard Drives
> have killed off high-RPM hard drives

Depends, 15k RPM are indeed gone. 10k RPM drives are sold and used.

ZWoz··on Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
Why? They aren't making any sort guarantees with those locations, those aren't advertised as separated fault zones. Those buildings are meant as expansions for existing site.
ZWoz··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
Pareto improvements are theoretical concept. neonological argues here, that those are impossible in reality. I think this is pretty hard to argue one or other way, because side effects of our activities aren't always obvious. Things like tumbleweed in northern america or any accidentally imported plant/animal is good example about costs, that arrive later and for other people. Though I think there is possible to construct some clear Pareto improvement cases, like early improvements of internal combustion engine, where I don't see possibility of negative effects, only additional power out of same amount of fuel.
ZWoz··on Gmail is a huge source of spam
How to you really test that? Any provider is autonomous, you really don't verify delivery. You have few technical options, like DSN or MDNs, but servers or clients don't need honor them. I didn't mentioned clients, I had few of them too. Some used internal mailing list style things, group addresses forwarded some outside service, like hotmail or gmail. I didn't had any complaints from them. Now talking about personal experience, your assumption is wrong. I don't change mail only with my family or friends. When you write merchant or government agency there is even more initiative to notice missing answer.
ZWoz··on Gmail is a huge source of spam
Well, for personal matters I don't write usually letters without needing feedback. When I get answer, then my previous mail is clearly arrived. My friend has forwarding to gmail address, so he can compare both ends. Over years there isn't been more issues than mentioned spamhaus incident.
ZWoz··on Gmail is a huge source of spam
I have run small servers something like 18 years, my own personal something like 15-16 years. I still don't have much trouble. Only issue I had few years ago was spamhaus suddenly listing my IP as residental, that was annoying few hours.
ZWoz··on Gitlab Project Hit by Spambot
Thats about initiatives. Many daily drivers break some laws, like speeding or not using turn signals. Does that make traffic frontier territory? :) Try something serious, like operating black drug market or treatening high level politician (in internet): you going to be surprised, how well different countries co-operate. For example operation involving 30 countries: https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/%E2%80%98avalanc...
ZWoz··on Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS
That probably depends, how strongly Stream and RHEL actually are going to be linked. If this relation is indeed similar to current situation, but centos and RHEL changing places, then there isn't much point holding QA until RHEL release. Actually, there is going to be good initiative: when you upstream is unusable, because too buggy and untested, then what? Whole point of Stream seems to be usable base to RHEL.
ZWoz··on Centos.rip
You can check out SUSE. Depending what you do, maybe go with FreeBSD instead linux.
ZWoz··on Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)
Are they? You still are in same infrastructure and legal framework. Thats like saying you are free not visiting neighbouring apartments. Their "influence" (smoke, noise) is still leaking to your space. Same with web. Like facebook negatively affecting separated web forums.
ZWoz··on No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
My personal take, maybe not suitable for everyone. Don't use github. Github is that big faceless storefront. Use your own personal site, make it really simple. Now you don't have random "drive-throughs", who really don't care about your project, but are ready to give unsolicited advice. No point to have public issue tracker, when developers are known and small group. I like Drew DeVault projects, like sourcehut - doing things simple and off from big corp infra.
ZWoz··on Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
Do be clarify: you want virtualisation environment, hypervisor? If yes, then you can go with VMWare ESXi or Proxmox. Both have web based consoles to add and manage virtual machines. Like you mentioned, you need additional IP-s, Hetzner has 6 (/29) for €6.72 per month [0], OVH has one time fee €2.00 per additional IP[1].

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[0] - https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/ip/ip-addres...

[1] - https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/bare-metal/rise/options/

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