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merlinscholz··on LXC vs. Docker
Cloudflare recently posted a great blog article on how/why they use nomad: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?
Since when is this site a tech support forum?
merlinscholz··on ICANN 1174 TLDs Registry Listings
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...

If I understand correctly, $185.000 and the costs to keep the infrastructure running.

merlinscholz··on ICANN 1174 TLDs Registry Listings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
merlinscholz··on LXC vs. Docker
I recently started using containerd inside Nomad, a breath of fresh and simple air after failed k8s setups!
merlinscholz··on Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit
Interview: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/kenneth-finnegan
merlinscholz··on Audiblegate
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492810241372741636.html
merlinscholz··on I Finally Installed an Ad Blocker
If you are on iOS and Safari, AdGuard (free version) works perfectly fine
merlinscholz··on Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
I use the Oracle Free Tier Arm instances for the same purpose! 4 cores, 24gb RAM, 200gb disk with unlimited 0.5gbps uplink, completely free forever.
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers
https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/
merlinscholz··on Alternative DNS Roots
The root ca installation is the boring part, installing a local Let’s Encrypt instance is much more fun
merlinscholz··on Alternative DNS Roots
That post is in the works for months now, I have a huge list of dumb ideas to go through
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Is the US still the best place to live?
Sorry but this just feels like you've never left the US:

1) The diversity may be partially right, but even if you are a citizen there still is enough discrimination especially against black people than in many first-world countries

2) Okay I grant you that, for a single country the US is very beautiful, mostly because of its sheer size. That's not to say there aren't beautiful spots in other countries though, there just cannot be as many

3) LGBT and abortion rights while there still is the bible belt, people blocking planned-parenthood institutions, and a significant part of the government actively trying to ban abortions and same-sex marriages, partially successful

4) The new world perspective through the rise of a new country only a few hundred years ago lead to lot's of innovation, but it is an illusion that the USA is the only country where any innovation and creativity happens

merlinscholz··on Ruby's Email Address Regexp
Relevant: Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html

merlinscholz··on Ruby's Email Address Regexp
And even though that sounds reasonable, it is still wrong. Technically, you do not even need the dot, if you add an MX record to a whole TLD or have some other funky DNS setup.

Source: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/email.html

merlinscholz··on Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022
Please do not add logo customization. This will end with prompts asking you for your Apple and Microsoft passwords which are difficult to differentiate from official prompts (at least for end users).
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?
https://dropbox.tech/

https://tech.trivago.com/

merlinscholz··on A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
Speaking of Germany, do you mean De-Mail? Because while it is similar to email, it is not email compatible and had a lot of shortcomings.
merlinscholz··on Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
Would using the home assistant app and api be a solution to that problem?
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
Personally, I do not classify that as minor: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzgB7QFX0AEAQIs?format=jpg&name=...
merlinscholz··on Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
Be aware that Unifi's products sometimes require cloud accounts, depending on which update is installed. ALso, the dashboard is full of ads.

I definitely would recommend MikroTik, sold my Unifi stuff for MikroTik and would never go back.

merlinscholz··on The Google home page is 500K
174 KiB (419 KiB without gzip/deflate) https://search.brave.com/
merlinscholz··on Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
There is a simple checkbox to turn those off. IIRC they even are opt in.
merlinscholz··on What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Sadly, as long as they are closed source, there is no way to check their privacy guarantee.
merlinscholz··on Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
The IP logging they were legally obliged to set up, so the IP of a specific account would be stored upon the next successful login? Where’s the problem with that?
merlinscholz··on Apple to face EU antitrust charge over NFC chip
It does, Volksbank Germany offers a dedicated app for NFC payments that does not use Google Pay
merlinscholz··on Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud
There’s also https://baserow.io/
merlinscholz··on BANCStar: Financial Programming Language
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar_programming_language
merlinscholz··on S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'
Netflix provides the ISP with the box, afaik the box contains a signed certificate for a Netflix subdomain specific to that box. The "real" Netflix servers direct the customer to that subdomain for the actual content.
merlinscholz··on [dead]
Normally email shouldn’t be used for secure communication since it is insecure by default. The best solution is to use email to set up a connection over an encrypted channel (matrix, signal, …)
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