I can't update DNS entries for my domains with Porkbun, because it's "Powered by Cloudflare".
Readit NewsMildlySerious commented on Cloudflare was down cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/mektrik
MildlySerious commented on Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare blog.cloudflare.com/why-r... · Posted by u/chmaynard
So how long until Cloudflare joins the hated monopolies list?
Their entire business model is effectively centralizing the web. The downtime over the last two weeks shows some of the problem with that.
I have used their products and have more favor toward them than I do for the corporations you're referring to, but ultimately my question is the same.
MildlySerious commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I feel like that's the whole point of the OP. I agree with the overall post but mentioning the ICE relationship seems to detract from the main point.
"I hate GitHub because X Y and Z features are bad" is a good reason to move away; "I hate GitHub because one of their thousands of enterprise customers does not align with my political views" is not, in my opinion.
For the record, I do not support ICE
People protesting ICE do not do so out of political concern, but humanitarian concern.
This seems like a minor nitpick as those two are intimately tangled up, but it matters to make the distinction. Standing up for others is not petty or self-serving and that's exactly what this sort of conflation can falsely imply.
MildlySerious commented on Rust in Android: move fast and fix things security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/abraham
They found a memory safety bug in their Rust code and assumed it was the only memory safety bug in their Rust codebase. And then they compared it to the historical average in C++ code that's been around for almost two decades in production. I can't be the only one here who sees how biased this comparison is right?
Even if they are off by a factor of 100 it's a huge win and the point stands.
It's fair to point this out and worth the mention. Still, I'd like to think that the engineers behind this can at least gauge the benefit of this endeavor with some accuracy despite the discrepancy in available data, and stating the data that is available only makes sense.
MildlySerious commented on Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack worldpoliticsreview.com/e... · Posted by u/_tk_
No one listened, no one prepared.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladim...
It’s not like there was any warning signs…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
Bullies exploit weaknesses. Time to grow a pair.
I have always found the summary of Foundations of Geopolitics[1] to be an interesting re-read whenever some larger event involving Russia happened. It feels like the puzzle pieces have been coming together at least since Brexit, if not much longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con...
Who cares about per capita emissions? Billionaires could have 1000x the emissions as normal people, but there are so few of them, cutting their emissions down to zero would have absolutely no impact on climate change.
You could cut the emissions of the top 1% in half, or reduce the emissions of the bottom 4 billion to 0. Same result.
Which do you believe is likely the lower hanging fruit, has a higher return per dollar spent and is likely to be more ethical and less invasive?
So yeah. I care about per capita emissions on the grounds that things need to change fast, and adjusting the lifestyle of a few million is radically easier than wiping half the planet off the emissions map.
Don't know what rich assholes have to do with it, when all things I've seen proposed hurt poor people the most. Make meat unaffordable, make private transportation unaffordable, make travelling by plane unaffordable, make new clothes unaffordable, and the list goes on forever.
That's exactly what rich assholes have to do with it. Why do you believe all the consequence falls onto the working class and the poorest, when the richest have per capita the largest emissions, by whole orders of magnitude?
Yeah, the changes required are systemic and go from the top all the way to the bottom, and the things you mention are part of that process, but pricing people out of everything without offering an off-ramp is sadistic bullshit, and the only reason it's a thing is because rich people and stock prices have more representation in politics than the poor and the environment.
MildlySerious commented on DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service helpnetsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/stanislavb
i'm sure many eu citizens will be happy to have a dns option not reliant on american companies
Quad9 and dns0 are the current "go to" EU options I believe. I would wager that most users of those services would be more wary of an option directly provided by the EU instead of a third party, not less.
MildlySerious commented on DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service helpnetsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/stanislavb
Why can't I find there who the idiots putting these shits forwards are? They should be humiliated in media over their tries on government overreach.
They refuse to disclose the authors. [1]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/eu_is_plann...
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168134
It is amazing how eagerly we give decision making power for our lives and biosphere to people who see us as non playable characters.
For free, too, expecting absolutely nothing in return. No accountability. No responsibility. There is simply no exchange happening. They take, and that's it. Somehow.