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iggldiggl commented on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/abraham

wolrah · 16 days ago

> (Even for a fully self-hosted system you'd still have to figure out how to interface the certificate renewal mechanism with your DNS provider, so not as easy to set up as individual certificates for each subdomain.)

That's exactly what the new DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge is for, being able to authorize a specific system or set of systems to request certs for a given FQDN and optionally subdomains without having to give that system direct control over your DNS as the existing DNS-01 challenge requires.

iggldiggl · 15 days ago

Yup, although who knows when/if ever shared hosting adds support for that, too. Still, at least it's something, that's true…

iggldiggl commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

ryandrake · 23 days ago

"Buyer beware! You are responsible for checking for X!" is a lame excuse, and just enables the worst possible behavior from vendors and service providers. I shouldn't have to check 500 things every time I choose to do business with someone! This is madness.

Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

We shouldn't all have to live our lives with Caveat Emptor as some sort of horrible default societal moral framework.

iggldiggl · 15 days ago

> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

Reminds me of that Burkiss Way sketch where somebody wants to book tickets to a West End show, but they all involve the spectators being poked in the eye with a pencil:

https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...

iggldiggl commented on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu/accepting-us-car-... · Posted by u/saubeidl

impossiblefork · 17 days ago

I think Eastern Europe can afford EVs now. 20,000 euros for the Twingo, 15,000 euros for Dacia Spring. This is cheaper than most petrol cars.

iggldiggl · 17 days ago

> This is cheaper than most petrol cars.

Still somewhat more expensive than petrol cars in the same category, though.

iggldiggl commented on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days letsencrypt.org/2025/12/0... · Posted by u/abraham

Shish2k · 17 days ago

I'm a small time webmaster and I haven't "set up" any automation - for my shared-hosting sites, the host has it built in; and for my self-hosted sites, the web server has it built in

iggldiggl · 17 days ago

The problem is that this breaks down if you don't want to leak any obscure subdomains you might be using via CT-logs – shared hosting rarely supports DNS-based certificate renewals for wildcard certificates, and even less so for domains hosted by an external registrar.

(Even for a fully self-hosted system you'd still have to figure out how to interface the certificate renewal mechanism with your DNS provider, so not as easy to set up as individual certificates for each subdomain.)

iggldiggl commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham

Dylan16807 · a month ago

Or they could have figured out a new version of MTP that supports basic features like concurrent access and normal metadata. Or they could have gone for SMB/NFS over a virtual network link. Anything but this horrible interface they've doubled down on.

iggldiggl · 25 days ago

> I know that read/write conflict concerns are what got USB Mass Storage mode removed from Android, but surely there's some way to resolve that.

Depending on whether the respective kernel supported it, you were still unofficially able to switch removable SD cards into mass storage mode (though only with a rooted phone), although somehow, even if I remembered to officially unmount the SD card from Android first, it somehow still often led to mild filesystem corruption (luckily never anything fatal, though) that required regular chkdsk-usage.

> Or they could have figured out a new version of MTP that supports basic features like concurrent access and normal metadata. Or they could have gone for SMB/NFS over a virtual network link.

My current phone no longer supports the above mass storage mode-hack for the removable SD card, which annoyed me enough that I actually wrote my own SMB server app (https://github.com/buttercookie42/SimbaDroid), because all other SMB servers for Android that I'm aware of were either outright broken, unsupported, buggy or fiddly to use. Sadly the only open source Java-based SMB server only supports SMBv1, so you're stuck with that, and you still need root for full comfort, but within those limitations it works quite nicely.

iggldiggl commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

drstewart · a month ago

>Don't believe me? Go and find a single instance of a service that used to be provided completely by the government, that got BETTER FOR USERS (that is: The Public, not investors) after being privatized. I'll wait.

You won't have to wait long: flying. Shocked? You shouldn't be. In the 70s, you'd have to pay thousands of dollars to fly across the country. Now you can get a flight between NYC and London for $200.

Time to retract your entire little rant.

iggldiggl · a month ago

Competition dynamics for air traffic are different. Railway infrastructure can only support a very limited number of competing companies before you run out of capacity, and especially on classic mixed traffic routes it is very easy to run out of capacity. Once that happens, rail operators have to start competing for paths instead of directly for passenger, which can definitely lead to misalignment of incentives.

On top of that, there's the problem that it's physically impossible to run competing services at exactly the same time. This means that for customers with schedule constraints (i.e. you need to arrive somewhere specific by a certain time at latest), competition becomes much less effective, because you're no longer able to freely choose among the competing operators, but are instead forced to simply take the train that arrives at the right time.

A similar thing is for journeys that involve changes of trains – it's physically impossible to have attractive connections (i.e. without hanging around the station for ages) between more than one or at most (if that) two operators per route, because trains running along the same line always have to be separated by at least two or three minutes.

With air traffic it's different. While airport and air space capacity isn't quite unlimited, it's still not as limited in the way a mixed traffic railway is. Plus a much higher proportion of air traffic is holiday traffic and other long-distance journeys where even a few flights per day would be considered frequent service, so competition is much less limited by that fact.

iggldiggl commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

mhh__ · a month ago

This is only "true" because anything run efficiently by the private sector is so demonstrably better than any communist-fantasy alternative that no one bothers arguing any more.

Should Tesco be run by the government? I use Tesco more than I take trains.

May be of note also that the best train in London (the Elizabeth line) is run by a tendering process

iggldiggl · a month ago

> May be of note also that the best train in London (the Elizabeth line) is run by a tendering process

But that tendering is just internal between the state and the operator – fares and service levels on the other hand are set by TfL (and probably also the DfT to some extent, especially on the GEML and GWML sections).

iggldiggl commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

aubanel · a month ago

Other sources indicate that privatization was a huge success!

The number of passengers dropped after nationalizations, and exploded after privatisation (despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GBR_rail_passengers_...

iggldiggl · a month ago

> despite taxpayer money investment logically dropping

Did it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GB_Rail_Subsidy,_1985-201...

paints a slightly more complex picture.

iggldiggl commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

martinald · a month ago

This just isn't true on any measure (apart from affordability and true high speed penetration in some countries).

Affordability is really driven by how much the operators are subsidized by the govt. It's hard to calculate this on a like for like basis as some subsidy goes to the track operator and some to the train operator, and in eg Germany you have a hugely complex set of subsidies and fare zones in operation from various levels of government.

I don't expect the other European systems to be any cheaper - it's just hidden in the tax system instead.

Where the UK shines imo is two things. 1 is the frequency of many services. It's rare to have less than 2 trains per hour on an intercity route, and often far more.

This compares to France (outside TGV) which is atrocious. Non regular timetable with often 2-3 hour gaps on trains.

Spain (even on the high speed lines) is even worse. Some _high speed lines_ can't even manage an hourly service. This has got far better recently on high speed lines with private competition, but outside of that the timetabling is terrible.

The other is some of the ticketing options. Firstly, there is a no questions asked delay repay feature which means you get a substantial portion of the ticket refunded if there is any delay for any reason, starting at a 15minute delay. Obviously no delays are better than a refunded one, but I've had some atrocious delays in mainland europe and no option to apply for a refund.

The other is no composlary reservations (though I'm not sure how long this will last). If you have a valid ticket, you can get on. In many EU countries if a train is out of seats you don't even have the option to buy a ticket and stand. Combine this with poor timetables on many routes and it can cause huge problems if you are travelling at short notice.

Netherlands and Switzerland good for sure - better than the UK I would say. But Germany/France/Italy/Spain have a lot of issues.

iggldiggl · a month ago

> The other is some of the ticketing options

And despite privatisation, a national fare system with through ticketing between operators was maintained.

iggldiggl commented on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure rosalux.de/en/news/id/539... · Posted by u/robtherobber

epolanski · a month ago

In many European countries trains do make money.

The model should be that rails are public and are leased to private operators.

The private companies pay for the maintenance and such, and then are free to do what they prefer.

iggldiggl · a month ago

> In many European countries trains do make money.

Only if you discount the infrastructure subsidies, I think.