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leowinterdeon Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images

RIP. Time to leave unsplash

leowinterdeon How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

The same report by the ZDF (second german television): https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/cryptoleaks-bnd-cia-o...

Alternative is mailcow https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

leowinterdeon Run an Internet Speed Test from the Command Line

So Google Fiber is throttling your connection, as you paid for, but the network connection to netflix is unthrottled. Netflix is also deploying OCA (Open Connect Appliance) servers directly inside most big ISPs - https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/#sample-architectures

leowinterdeon My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Very questionable, as fallback possibly ok but not forced. Is it the same with home mini devices?

leowinterdeon Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers

GCE and Azure is missing or did I miss that?

And a info on the provider AS or a link to the PeeringDB/looking glass would be nice to have. Other than that a super helpful site, thanks.

leowinterdeon SpamAssassin is back

Running rspamd on some servers which filters fine and the dmarc reports are an awesome feature. A comparison would be interesting in the future.

leowinterdeon Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD

Using mailcow for hosting your own mail server is a awesome and smooth experience

leowinterdeon Backblaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018

The upcoming blog post about helium-filled drives sounds very interesting.

leowinterdeon DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS

Quad9 has several IPs and different services, see (https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/2/3/1/7/9/4/7/quad9-feature-mat...). For some reason this is hidden on the quad9 website.

leowinterdeon Alibaba hits nearly $18B in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours

Just use the mobile page without paywall https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/alibaba-singl...

leowinterdeon InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively

Great, if you guys bring Clustering back to the open source version i would be thrilled.

leowinterdeon GitHub is down

https://status.github.com/messages :/

leowinterdeon 33C3 talk on dissecting cellular modems

Video recording on yt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq9chzNVoXg

leowinterdeon China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27ZWhOM2W8

leowinterdeon Facebook Messenger Platform

https://messengerplatform.fb.com/ "Powered by WordPress.com VIP" lazy faebook developers...

leowinterdeon Facebook was down

yes

leowinterdeon Germany plans highway test track for self-driving cars

A highway is not a German Autobahn.