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synotna··on Requests, Please
You're acting as the firewall, not the application. That was not one of the rules for the day. In the first place a waf is specifically to stop malicious requests hitting the app.
synotna··on US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
That is incredibly shortsighted

Datacenters are means of production, no different than factories

Without means of production, you are at the mercy of those with

No different than outsourcing manufacturing

> huge load on the power grid

Then build reliable power plants, ideally ones that aren't turned off every day at 10pm

synotna··on Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool
Don't give programs unnecessary access - problem solved
synotna··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
Part of the struggle is that renewables have state aid exceptions, enabling massive taxpayer funded subsidisation of the """industry"""
synotna··on ‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms
> are people running energy generators

In Germany's case it's the tax payer, thanks to extremely generous subsidies that are excluded from state aid regulation

synotna··on The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
For dmarc purposes it is moving to DNS, with dmarcbis the psd tag and treewalk will replace hoping everybody uses the same file and keeps it up to date
synotna··on Not all browsers perform revocation checking
OCSP is deprecated for CRLs

Let's encrypt already EOLd OCSP

synotna··on Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old
Congrats on the launch

Please consider fixing that middle click opens in a new tab

synotna··on Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
New/improved rail links are planned/in progress as part of TEN-T which will probably help

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu... https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...

synotna··on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
If both leave, then the predecessor to the Kingdom of Great Britain was the Kingdom of England

Wales was already part of England, as principality / having been conquered

Though "United Kingdom of England" could argue that they kept the Irish crown :)

synotna··on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
The predecessor to the UK before Ireland was the Kingdom of Great Britain, so would be correct to go back to afterwards

Of course to save money (and face) it probably wouldn't

synotna··on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
United Kingdom came from the GB+Ireland, not England & Scotland

England + Scotland were the Kingdom of Great Britain

synotna··on The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
Doesn't need to be November

Germany is dark and windless plenty of the time during summer: ~8 hours a day

I frequently saw our solar and wind usage below even 5% of their respective capacities

synotna··on The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy
Because people want heat and electricity when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing enough (or at all) which happens pretty regularly

If you haven't won the geographic lottery then...

You can burn coal like there is no tomorrow (see Poland)

Or gas (see Germany, and most of Europe for heating), and enable Russia and other undesirables

Or nuclear and have energy security without directly and indirectly causing death and suffering for millions

synotna··on WebSockets in curl
Your question is answered on the page
synotna··on How safe are nuclear power plants?
Heatwaves caused by other countries burning coal and gas due to people that prefer burning burning coal & gas and causing climate change

Countries like here in Germany, where we have problems delivering coal to our coal plants due to low water levels caused by climate change caused by burning coal, poetic justice

synotna··on Adtech giant Criteo faces $65M fine in France for GDPR consent breaches
Hopefully followed by Techcrunch for cookie wall without one click reject
synotna··on EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO
She was proposed by the European Council (made up of more or less democratically elected heads of state/government) and approved by the European Parliament (democratically elected representatives)

That is as "elected" as many heads of government i.e. any prime minister system

Directly electing presidents doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes

synotna··on Two types of privacy
I agree, alas legacy in society is even harder to get rid of than legacy in software (:
synotna··on Two types of privacy
Being a member of a church should be opt-in not opt-out - by the individual, not their parents

e.g. upon reaching adulthood you are sent an opt-in confirmation

If you ignore, you are automatically removed

It is absurd that you have to waste your time & money to make an appointment, go to the appointment and on top of that pay to opt-out

synotna··on Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?
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synotna··on Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”
I dunno about de-facto, my anecdata is my heating is in the process switching from L-Gas to H-Gas, have not heard any mention of replacing gas in the near future for existing properties

Wonder what the stats are for new builds being with gas heating vs without

Am not optimistic about German electricity handling the switching of heating and transport (cars) on top of existing usage+growth as long as we're antinuke (:

synotna··on The US should compromise on NATO to save Ukraine
The EU is also a mutual defence alliance, Article 42.7
synotna··on Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Germany needs gas thanks to years of anti-nuclear, which is why we have 4x+ the carbon output for electricity of "nuclear is in bad shape" France

The only way Germany is getting rid of coal & gas is if France builds enough nuclear to power and heat Germany

synotna··on Getting Started with Security Keys
You can't
synotna··on Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it already exists?
And Dropbox is rsync, we know already
synotna··on A barber shop on wheels that you book via an app
I bought a bike pump yesterday from the bike shop around the corner

I checked Amazon first to have a price in mind (12€), I paid 13€

1€ to not have something shipped to me & convenience of getting it immediately, plus helps keep the local bike shop around in case I need a repair I felt was worth it

synotna··on Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
I have Syrian refugee neighbors, we live almost a stone's throw from the Rhine, they seem fine
synotna··on Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament
The EU is already far more democratic than the UK - see the house of lords, althought right now it is the sanest branch...
synotna··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Configure Facebook to always use it's own container
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