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mritzmann··on Is Web3 Bullshit? (Transcript)
Yes.
mritzmann··on Mastodon instance admins can read PMs freely and more
Sure. The same goes for email, Twitter, Telegram, Nextcloud and any other service that is not end-to-end encrypted per default. However, I see the least danger with Mastondon, since the discussions usually take place in public anyway.

And: I don't know if this is only the case with the instance on which i am, but Mastodon is even transparent and displays the following hint when you want to send a PM.

> Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.

mritzmann··on Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers
> Most linodes have fixed IPs

I would expect the opposite. Doesn't DHCP make more sense, for example, if the user creates a snapshot and restores it with a new IP? I don't use Lenode, so I can't judge, but I would expect DHCP to be default.

mritzmann··on Ask HN: Have You Migrated from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2?
> We migrated from S3 to Minio

Hosted/SaaS Minio or self hosted?

mritzmann··on Communities Now Available
First paragraph:

> Today (..) we’ve started to roll out Communities (..) globally and this will be available to everyone over the next few months.

mritzmann··on See a Satellite Tonight
You see a light fly by.

- If the light flashes, it is an aircraft

- If the light is not flashing, it is a satellite

- And if the light is very very fast, it is a shooting star

mritzmann··on All new cars sold in Europe must be emission-free from 2035
I'm not sure I'm a fan of that. I would like to see more cars parked in garages or underground garages and not "polluting" the streetscape. Before we had so many cars, the streets were so much emptier and nicer. Here in the neighbourhoods the cars cover the pavements and in other places the shop windows. A large part of the quality of life in cities is lost due to parked cars.
mritzmann··on Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
> [..] and that the rollback lasted so long

That does not surprise me. There are companies working with CI/CD systems whose tests easily take more than an hour. And until they are completed, they cannot start releasing (enforced via system permissions). This is a good thing, but the possibility of an emergency rollback should be considered beforehand and maybe (it always depends) exceptions made for such purposes.

And sometimes it makes more sense to revert slowly to make sure it doesn't get worse.

mritzmann··on WhatsApp goes down for users globally
> You can improve the UX of Matrix clients

No. Most people can't do that (because not everyone is a software developer).

mritzmann··on WhatsApp goes down for users globally
Telegram (per default) does not have end-to-end encryption.
mritzmann··on I help seniors with technology issues
> Question: why does the market fail so miserably in this respect?

In my environment, more and more people are switching from $BRANDXYZ to Apple (or Linux). To me, it doesn't look like the market is failing, rather the opposite. But of course, this is not a Representatione evaluation.

The problem is, however, that not everyone wants to or can afford this.

mritzmann··on Scaleway will increase prices in Dec 2022 due to rising energy costs in Europe
> I have a feeling this might not end well for European hosting companies

To be fair: So far, price increases in most cases only affect cheap hosting providers like Hetzner, Scaleway etc.

mritzmann··on iOS allows DNS request to escape the VPN tunnel
Fraud detection happens on the server side. The IP address is more reliable than GPS, because the client can fake GPS at any time.
mritzmann··on Ask HN: How to build a website that will last 30 years?
Use only static content and a webserver you don't have to configure (no htaccess files, no nginx try_files etc.). Do not use special file formats like webp, but old standards like jpg or png. Do not use Javascript.
mritzmann··on Ask HN: Where is the ARM desktop PC?
I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. Apple has some on offer, doesn't it?
mritzmann··on Walking to school is more likely to keep kids active as they age
I wish people (children included) would go to school or work by bike or on foot more often again. And yes, I am aware that not everyone can do that. Here in Europe, however, we often see fit and healthy people taking the car for journeys that can be made on foot within 20 minutes.
mritzmann··on Fast Company is shut down after breach
That also applies to me. I would welcome it if the title were changed.
mritzmann··on Google’s Feedburner just voided RSS URLs for CNN, Marketwatch, etc.
Host you own RSS Feed under your own Adress? Then you have the advantage, that you control the URL/Address. The Load is not that big if your feed is a Static file.
mritzmann··on Comparing 2 serverless platforms: Cloudflare Workers and Deno Deploy
> Only 34 different locations

Sure, compared to Cloudflare it's less, but overall it's a lot. I know few companies that really deploy to so many locations.

mritzmann··on Cloudflare Tries to Ignore the World
Now the question is: Is Cloudflare a source? Probably not from a hosting point of view. From a network point of view, however, it is, as Cloudflare acts as a proxy and is therefore directly involved in delivering the website.
mritzmann··on Show HN: Share Beautiful Screenshots
Feedback: I find autoplay videos with sound extremely tedious.
mritzmann··on Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
For data protection reasons, this has not been the case for a long time. Both for Firefox and Chrome.
mritzmann··on GitHub Is Down Again
#HugOps to GitHub Engineers! Such things are usually stressful, especially before the weekend. In addition, in some European countries today is a bridge day (day between a holiday and the weekend, many people take off on such a day).
mritzmann··on Ask HN: Are there any free Cloudflare competitors?
- CDN: Fastly, BunnyCDN, KeyCDN, AWS, Google, Azure, etc.

- Worker: Fastly, AWS, Google, etc.

- Static Site Hosting: GitHub, other CDNs

mritzmann··on Cloudflare blocks 15M rps HTTPS DDoS attack
> The top networks included the German provider Hetzner Online GmbH (Autonomous System Number 24940), Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia (ASN 262186), OVH in France (ASN 16276), as well as other cloud providers.

It's interesting that Cloudflare is doing public shaming here. That's a good thing in this case, isn't it?

mritzmann··on Ask HN: What do you hate about Slack?
Back button (top left) or back button on my mouse works fine for me. Also, slack now supports split view (https://slack.com/help/articles/4403608802963).
mritzmann··on Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
I am a Fastmail customer for 2-3 years. That was the reason, why I switched to you guys!
mritzmann··on Zas Editor
I am an Apple MacBook user. However, personally I try to use only software that is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. This allows me to switch operating systems more quickly, should I choose to do so. Don't want to make myself dependent on one manufacturer.
mritzmann··on Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool
and _how can i update my app?_
mritzmann··on Ask HN: How do you stop forgetting to commit or push?
Use the same device. With a powerful notebook and a docking station (usb c to power, hdmi, mous, keyboard) this is very comfortable. At least for me.
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