redcalcium

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's the point of sending traumatized soldiers back to the battlefield? Aren't they a liability?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kids used to spam hadouken and kamehameha to each other back then. Not sure what kids these days do though.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do they strip off HTTPS somehow?

Well yes, how else they can provide their services such as page caching, image optimizing, email address obfuscation, js minifications, ddos mitigation, etc unless they can see all data flowing between your server and your visitors in the clear?

Cloudflare is basically an MITM proxy. This blog post might be helpful if you want to know how mitm proxy works in general: https://vinodpattanshetti49.medium.com/how-the-mitm-proxy-works-8a329cc53fb

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 70 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I'm truly torn with this. The first one seems sensible (action -> target) and easier to read and reason about (especially with long names), while the other one looks more organized, naturally sortable and works great with any autocompletion system.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 43 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Remember when google was beloved by everyone back then when they're still have "don't be evil" motto? Cloudflare right now is like google back then: super useful, provides a lot of free services that would be expensive on other providers. But unlike google, if cloudflare go full evil in the future, the impact will be much larger because they're an mitm proxy capable of seeing unencrypted traffics across all websites under their wing. Right now they're serving ~30% of top 10,000 websites and growing.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 200 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Blocking adblockers apparently doesn't work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Philippines and Vietnam, which are on the front lines of territorial disputes with China, maintained strong support for the US. In 2023, the US and the Philippines updated their mutual defense treaty and expanded defense cooperation agreements. Vietnam upgraded its bilateral relations with the US and entered into a maritime cooperation agreement with the Philippines in January 2024. ​

I think it's wild that Vietnam, a communist country, aligns more to US instead of China.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Generally yes, but keep in mind that apt packages are maintained by canonical, while snap packages could be maintained by canonical, the apps' original developers themselves (e.g. Firefox snap is maintained by Mozilla), or a 3rd party unrelated to canonical or the app's developer (i.e. random dudes packaging apps into snap and submit them). If the snap packages are not maintained by canonical, there is nothing stopping the snap packagers to use a different versioning scheme, though it's unlikely. In general, it's a good idea to check the package entry on snapcraft.io to figure out who packaged them so you can decide if it's trustworthy or not.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Since both Russia and Ukraine now have prisoners in their military force, how likely it is to have an Ukrainian prisoner serving Russia fighting a Russian prisoner serving Ukraine in the battle field?

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 17 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Due to how federation works, downvotes are actually somewhat public because instance owners can query them in lemmy database, though instance owners probably won't tell you if you ask due to privacy reason. If you're interested in something like this, you can run your own instance.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 6 months ago

They don't say unlimited, but they also won't say the limit of their reverse proxy service. It's intentionally vague.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Regardless of who's right or wrong in this dispute, it's just another example of why getting deep into cloud vendor lock in is not great for your company. If you went balls deep into cloudflare's offering, e.g. using cloudflare workers, kv, cloudflare access, etc, you can't afford to get kicked out of cloudflare for any reason. What are you gonna do when their sales rep tells you to pay more this year? Refusing is not an option because it'll screw your company hard.

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