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Re:Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:00AM (#46554574)
I think you're confused because this link is somewhat deep down: https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html

If you go up to https://help.kagi.com/orion/ it has this description:

> Orion is a free, lightning-fast, privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser for Mac, iOS, and soon Linux that blocks ads and trackers by default.

Re:Zig's New Async I/O [video] on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:43PM (#45751234)
I really hope this is going to be entirely optional, but I know realistically it just won't be. If Rust is any example, a language that has optional async support, async will permeate into the whole ecosystem. That's to be expected with colored functions. The stdlib isn't too bad but last time I checked a lot of crates.io is filled with async functions for stuff that doesn't actually block.

Async clearly works for many people, I do fully understand people who can't get their heads around threads and prefer async. It's wonderful that there's a pattern people can use to be productive!

For whatever reason, async just doesn't work for me. I don't feel comfortable using it and at this point I've been trying on and off for probably 10+ years now. Maybe it's never going to happen. I'm much more comfortable with threads, mutex locks, channels, Erlang style concurrency, nurseries -- literally ANYTHING but async. All of those are very understandable to me and I've built production systems with all of those.

I hope when Zig reaches 1.0 I'll be able to use it. I started learning it earlier this month and it's been really enjoyable to use.

Re:Show HN: JSON Query on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:38AM (#45730437)
It's likely because there's a citation in a paper. That's apparently the bar you need to reach to get Wikipedia to see something as significant enough. I tried to get a draft article about SourceHut ( https://sourcehut.org/ ) to be published after extensive improvements and they refused because there weren't enough third party links. This is despite the fact there's like a dozen pages in Wikipedia about software that is hosted on SourceHut, so it seems notable enough?
Re:Retiring Test-Ipv6.com on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:39AM (#45482365)
Are you running the long-term (6.x) branch? RouterOS 7.x (stable) is much better at IPv6 as far as I know.
Re:Retiring Test-Ipv6.com on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:37AM (#45482347)
When was the last time you tried? I used to run into issues too but for a few years now it's basically "just worked".
Re:Retiring Test-Ipv6.com on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:33AM (#45482307)
Oh this hurts a lot. I don't know of a good alternative to this website. Other sites I've found either run fewer tests (so are less useful for debugging) or incorrectly claim I don't have IPv6 (I do?).

I don't suppose we can donate some money to keep this website up? Or perhaps some company like CloudFlare would like to host a mirror?

Re:マリウス – Thoughts on Cloudflare on Sunday September 28, 2025 @06:38AM (#45403299)
We're slowly making progress. We're almost at 50% IPv6 worldwide traffic to Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Depending on what country you're in and what your traffic patterns look like, it might be higher. Some countries are >70% IPv6 traffic to Google.

Do you ever check your access logs to see when you're ready to go IPv6 only?

Re:Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:15PM (#45295674)
Yes and Finch wasn’t sure if what team Machine had done was a good thing, which is interesting given he’s usually so sure about resisting Samaritan
Re:Max, a Real Programmer on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:48AM (#44454473)
I don't think it's unrelated at all. I saw the same picture and just closed the tab right away. Why should I read this article, the whole thing might be written by an LLM.
Re:Fastmail: My Wishes for 2023 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:43AM (#34079966)
Sorry, I don't have an iOS device, so I'm not sure. The only mention I could find on the website was: https://www.migadu.com/guides/gmail_android/

> While Gmail is an IMAP client app, it will not check for new mails continuously. Not only it does not support IMAP Push extensions which are standard nowadays, but the [most] frequent polling interval is 15 minutes

Which I guess implies they offer IMAP push, since they're expressing disapproval that the Gmail app doesn't support IMAP push

Re:Fastmail: My Wishes for 2023 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:43AM (#34078972)
I was a happy FastMail customer for years, but lack of IPv6+DNSSEC was also disappointing for me. I eventually heard about Migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/ ) which has all that, and AFAIK, EU servers as well.

The only downside for me is the web UI isn't nearly as polished as FastMail.

I don't know a lot about C or the internals of OpenSSL, but going by the commit message, does this mean we should disable TLSv1.3 until we've had a chance to patch OpenSSL?

Edit: Actually, reading through the code a few times, maybe TLSv1.2 should be disabled?

I really wish we had some way to protect ourselves until the patch is widely available.

Re:1.1.1.1 doesn't have a valid TLS cert, only cloudflare-dns.com on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:58AM (#32936790)
Seems to be fixed now.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:27PM (#32664559)
Isn't the issue more with how we implemented IP than BGP? AFAIK, DDoS attacks would be far less effective if every ISP implemented BCP 38.
Re:Ask HN: Weird SSH Probes from Cloudflare IPs on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:54AM (#32053748)
Perhaps it's for https://radar.cloudflare.com/ or maybe a new service where they'll warn you if services like SSH are configured badly or not firewall'd off?

Also, is it possible this traffic is actually coming from a worker, i.e. https://workers.cloudflare.com/ rather than Cloudflare themselves?

Re: on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:41PM (#31403479)
AFAIK ZeroSSL does: https://zerossl.com/features/acme/ but I've never used them.

There are other providers out there. It would be good to collect them, perhaps into something like "awesome-acme" GitHub repo.

Re:PHP RFC: Deprecate ${} string interpolation on Friday May 06, 2022 @04:45AM (#31282881)
Can you tell me what in PHP 8 you're struggling with? Pretty much everything listed here has been deprecated for a long time or used by almost nobody: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.incompatible.php

I've made my whole career about PHP and had no idea it supported stuff like (uncast).

Right sentiment (look for a simple solution), but sadly that story isn't true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and...
Re:Show HN: A website to find public pianos on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:05AM (#30820336)
There's lots of prior art, such as https://wheelmap.org/ -- so I imagine OSM is somewhat open to this sort of thing. Might be worth looking at how Wheelmap edits OSM. I believe it's from a generic account and edits are tagged such to make it clear it's from a member of the public.

You could also implement OAuth (sign-in with OSM) to do edits, similar to how some tools like https://maproulette.org/ work, though you'll get less contributions if you don't have an option for anonymous public edits.

Re:Search engines and SEO spam on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:57PM (#29786769)
> Allowed you to block certain domains from your search results

I would love for Google to build this in. Until they do, there is a WebExtension that does this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ ("Block or Highlight Search Engine Results"). I use it to block stuff like W3Schools so when I search for something, MDN is always #1. Saves me a lot of time having to add "MDN" to the end of every query.

Almost all spam I receive is from Gmail. It's gotten so bad I've actually setup a filter that routes everything from @gmail.com into spam - except for some whitelisted email addresses. G Suite is fine, it's only @gmail.com that is an issue

And yes, it's genuinely from Gmail; valid SPF, valid DKIM, came from a Google IP address, etc...

To say the biggest source is Gmail might be technically wrong though - I suspect there's a large volume of spam that Migadu (my provider) is dropping before it even reaches my inbox, i.e. emails that it is 100% sure are spam and it can just drop. Nevertheless, an overwhelming amount of spam I observe/have to deal with is coming from Gmail. Second to that is outlook/hotmail.

Re:Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:53AM (#28810902)
Isn't Bitwarden Server AGPL?

If not, you can link me to the alternative?

Re:Modoboa – Open Source email server on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:53AM (#28584317)
How did you know to contact Microsoft to have them whitelist your IP? Was that from a DMARC report?

This is the sort of thing that puts me off self-hosting email, as much as I'd like to do it -- it seems like a huge amount of effort, tracking down who I need to shout at this week to have them whitelist my IP address.

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