It has its uses, but that doesn’t mean that the FCC should continue to give Musk’s company rural internet grants. Those should go to local fiber PUDs. Musk can fund it on his own.

It also means that you are supporting Musk when you use it, even if it’s the best option. It’s important to remember that.

There are also plenty of people that have been banned from using the app because they list a preferred name as opposed to a legal name, which is definitely transphobic.

I got permabanned for that exact reason, I used my preferred name. I tried to appeal, but they said that because the name on the property record didn’t match (creepy that they went that far in the first place), that I’d have to upload photo ID. I told them to eat shit.

That’s because it is

Yes, because an attacker already in your network will be able to view non SSL traffic.

I even have my unRAID endpoints using https. You can do self signed, or you can use something like let’s encrypt to do it for you. I use wildcard certs as any signed certs with the full subdomain can expose what services I host internally (since signed certificate provisioning is, by design, a public process).

Cloudflare’s checkbox appears when a “Managed challenge WAF rule” is configured and triggered, or when “under attack” mode is enabled. There are levels that can be used with it, one is interactive, and the other is not. Cloudflare generally decides which is presented to you based on a threat score, but sometimes these WAF rules can be configured to do one or the other.

The duration of the passed challenge (in other words, the cookie that passing the challenge sets) can also vary depending on the owner’s configuration. I believe it can be anywhere between 5 minutes to a day or so, depending on the plan the owner has.

The point is, if that sort of global cookie is set, it will be a abused to get around protections, making it worthless in the first place. It’s not even hard in that situation. You set the cookie, add it your scraper, and then your scraper bypasses the checkbox everywhere.

That’s ignoring the privacy implications of cross-site cookies, which should be disabled if you care about your privacy even a little bit.

I also have the same problem as who you’re replying to on a few of my websites. The only way to block them is Anubis or Cloudflare WAF.

I think you might be in the unique situation, to be honest. It may only be a matter of time until your solution also stops working.

I have a rather large array of refurbished 14TB WD HC530 drives and most are still going strong. Ive lost a couple over the last 3-4 years, but the vast majority are still going strong.

Since these are from goHardDrive, I’m guessing they’re most likely Seagate or the white label Seagates (I think they’re called MD drives)? I have had terrible experience with Seagate, even when new. I pretty much exclusively buy WD or Toshiba because of that.

All of that being said, have you checked your cables? Uncorrectable errors can sometimes be caused by bad cables, or they can be caused by actual disk issues.

Bad press doesn’t mean they can start losing even more money on space data centers (which are going to be incredibly inefficient and costly). They already do not make a profit, they’re all deep in the red.

Drag is not the only problem (even though these would definitely be LEO, it is just even more expensive to not have them in LEO and it increases latency), nor are bit flips. The biggest issue will continue to be heat. If you haven’t been to a data center before, you may be surprised at how much heat they generate. I’ve only been to non-LLM data centers, and the heat in the warm aisles was unbearable.

And that’s without the sun heating the exterior to incredible amounts. You cannot use contact to dump heat into space.

You might also be surprised at how much e-waste data centers generate, especially LLM-geared data centers. They obliterate hardware, even with optimal cooling, and that hardware requires constant replacement. How are they going to manage that?

Also, unless they use nuclear (which would drastically increase costs and add heat) they’re going to need gigantic solar arrays, much bigger than the IIS’ array.

This is exactly what I meant, thanks.

Good thing the whole idea makes no sense, because repairs are impossible, you can only vent heat in infrared, you have to use expensive rockets to get them up there, and if they’re in LEO, they’ll fall back down to earth. Oh, and there’s more likelyhood that bits get flipped from all of the high energy particles up there.

It’ll just make LLMs at scale even more infeasible.

This is true, yeah. I’m referring to the “normal” rpis, though. The ones that are the most affected by the price increase. I struggle to understand the usecase for those.

I didn’t say anything about “owning the name” other than just buying a domain in general (which you’d also need to do for something self hosted). I am simply saying that using providers that allow for catch all can give you privacy while also giving you the ability to jump ship.

My primary domain, for example, is not memorable, and it does not have ease of verbal transmission. It’s a string I randomly generated.

What is this endeavor? Control? Your own domain gives you control. Privacy? This is dependent on your provider, VPS, or otherwise. SMTP is generally blocked on residential IPs, so you’re going to have to trust and give up control and some level or privacy somewhere. Having a domain gives you the ability to self host if you desire, and if you don’t want to do that, then having a domain gives you the ability to easily change mail providers if needed, without the need to change hundreds of accounts.

NUCs and other mini PCs are better (for the most part) anyway. Many have msata or nvme support, replaceable and expandable memory, better cooling, more powerful CPUs, and some have the ability to add in PCIe cards. Some even allow for CPU replacement/upgrades.

For lower power stuff, esp32s are where it’s at.

I’m not sure what the usefulness of using a raspberry pi is, anymore. If you have something that you don’t want to suck power, ESP32s have you covered and will always use less power than a rpi. If you need a bit more performance, a mini PC will almost always outperform a rpi.

I was using Tuta to mailbox as an example for this very reason: you can move your catch all inbox from Tuta to mailbox.org, since it also supports catch all. I’m trying to highlight the benefit that using a service with catch all functionality adds, which is flexibility and easy migration. It was not meant as a recommendation to use Tuta.

This is the way. Use providers which allow for catch all inboxes on your custom domain and you have your own email aliasing service, too.

You don’t need your own server to have the benefit the person you’re replying to is pointing out. If you control the domain, you can just point your DNS at another provider. For example, you can move your catch all inbox in Tuta to a mailbox.org plan with a catch all with a simple DNS update. Then you don’t need to change your email addresses anywhere.

I mean, every person is different, but you kind of left the whole thing out of your initial recommendation and didn’t let others who might care know about it.

My other, non-moral concern, is that it might also mean that Mullvad’s owner is more willing to share user data with other far right governments in the future. Governments like my own, non European one. A gun generally doesn’t phone home or have the capability to expose your private communications.

The problem with Mullvad is that your money will be funneled to a far-right white supremacist organization.