It is down for many years already and no one spotted.
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raxi commented on Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io github.com/kubero-dev/lad... · Posted by u/2cpu1container
You can make an HTTPs certificate with that in the SAN section, and it should work fine. You can't get one from a publicly trusted provider, of course, but that's fine; you don't own the IP.
In other words, make your own certificate authority for your own machines. It isn't that hard.
The problems here is not that hardness, and not even yearly certificate updates, or bothering with new certs on every IP address change, but (as the commentator above rightly pointed out)...
1. Planned obsolescence built into HTTPS: no HTTPS-aware server device from year 1999 would work with 2023 browsers. Just because "too old crypto". Plain HTTP works.
Being on a buy side I am against HTTPS in such devices, but I understand the sell side's position.
Well, given that the modern web has a lot more requirements for security to even permit most browsers to view a site, it makes sense that the base hardware needs have increased noticeably.
Exactly those PIC18 devices, still in production and on sale, w/o any changes during the years: http://utronix.se/
Of course, no https, but.. it is not a platform limitation, just an undemanded feature: how would you get a https cert for 192.168.0.1 or a similar intranet address where those device suppose to work? They are just not for cloud datacenters
~20 years ago there have been websites running on 8-bit chips consuming 400 bytes of ROM and 32 bytes of RAM (e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20050601082859/http://www-ccs.cs...., an open-source clone: http://web.archive.org/web/20010109144200/http://www.chat.ru...)
A 32-bit CPU is very rich
raxi commented on 12ft.io has been banned by Vercel twitter.com/thmsmlr/statu... · Posted by u/bytebln
It is online at 1ft.io
I read that from recent magnolia commits, it falls back to {12,1}ft for some websites (apparently, some techniques cannot be done on client-side, perhaps, they require proxies in particular countries or google network to impersonate googlebot better)
raxi commented on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia mastercard.com/news/press... · Posted by u/bradvl
140 million little people pay taxes to support Putin's invasion.
It's the little people's money that supports war crimes.
This is not a country that lives off taxes from the little people, it lives off the sale of natural resources.
Moreover, many people are in a grey area of the economy, paying no taxes at all: for example software developers making software for the West.
Looking at the ridiculous "sanctions" of recent days, I cannot say who they are directed against. In long run, they benefit Russia, preventing leaking of brains and capital.
raxi commented on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia mastercard.com/news/press... · Posted by u/bradvl
raxi commented on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia mastercard.com/news/press... · Posted by u/bradvl
So individuals who recently left Russia out of fear for the regime and may be in very vulnerable positions have potentially unexpectedly lost access to their funds until they can sort that out...
Meanwhile, for The Real Russians, business as usual.
This looks like theatre hurting the wrong people.
Lyon Feuchtwanger, a Jew and anti-fascist who fled Hitler's Germany, lost all his savings in banks in the US, Canada, Britain and France. Because of the sanctions imposed on him as a German citizen. The only bank he still had money in his account in 1945 was ...German.
Regardless of your intentions, your list idea would be used for racist discrimination.
You might consider a list of registrars that do stuff you disagree with instead.
No, it's about protecting against racist discrimination.
I would prefer to work with companies where different nationalities are represented.
90%+ of employees in one country (be it Ukraine, Russia, USA or China) is a geo-risk for clients.
And mind you, Namecheap doesn't ban clients based on their agreement or disagreement with something. It bans pro-Ukrainian dissidents in Russia too.
Racism culture thrives in mono-ethnic companies and this Namecheap case is a good example