chaoskitty
"Claims that we’ve shifted this approach or policy are completely false."
Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothing like a modern motherboard. The two CPUs take 64 watts each.
Now we have AMD CPUs that can take 170 watts? That's high, but if that's what the motherboards are supposed to be able to deliver, then the pins, socket and pads should have no problem with that.
Where's AMD's testing? Have they learned nothing watching Intel (almost literally) melt down?
> said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law
So you think they'd accidentally misconfigure DNS, then explain that the site has been brought down because they comply with the law some other way? That doesn't make any sense, and suggesting this might just be a mistake in light of this information just makes you seem like an apologist.
So if I wrote, "You would put" instead of "You put", then what? Would you be comfortable using their "AI protection" simply because it's free?
You might want to read some threads on here about Cloudflare.
One thing the author does not mention is using other storage instead of the SD card. One can boot from or root on NFS, or a USB attached disk or SSD, and have much greater reliability. I'm running several Pis like this, with constant use, sometimes with heavy swap usage, and at the same time with half year to year long uptimes.
It is good to see the recommendations, though, and I look forward to trying the hardware watchdog, for instance.
Some email providers don't like brand new domains, yes, but if a domain is brand new, nobody is going to immediately start using it for mission critical things. That's just common sense, although now I want to buy a domain to see how much of an issue this really is.
The cost and quality of a VPS means very little because if a VPS is on a network with a poor reputation, one can easily smarthost through a mail provider that has a good reputation.
Likewise, people can run servers at home, or they can colocate, or whatever, and don't have to run a VPS at all, although I think you're just generalizing and aren't suggesting that people can't use other servers.
Bots are a fact of life. Secure your site properly, follow good practices, set up notifications for important things, log stuff, but don't look at the logs unless you have a reason to look at the logs.
Having run web servers forever, this is simply normal. What's not normal is blindly trusting a megacorporation to make my logs quiet. What're they doing? Who are they blocking? What guidelines do they use? Nobody, except them, knows.
It's why I self-host email. Sure, you might feel safe because most people use Gmail or Outlook, and therefore if there are problems, you can point the finger at them, but what if you want to discuss spam? Or have technical discussions about Trojans and viruses? Or you need to be 100% absolutely certain that email related to specific events is delivered, with no exceptions? You can't do that with Gmail / Outlook, because they have filters that you can't see and you can't control.
It's like talking about getting murdered - it happens, and there are statistics, but if you're literally expecting everyone to change their whole lives based on the fact that some people are murdered, with zero consideration for the where, why and how, you're doing it wrong.
I love how so many of these apologists talk about stuff like "maintenance costs", as though it's impossible to write code that's clean and works consistently across platforms / browsers. "Oh, no! Who'll think of the profits?!?"
If you had any technical knowledge, you'd know that "maintenance costs" are only a thing when you code shittily or intentionally target specific cases. A well written, cross-browser, cross-platform CAPTCHA shouldn't have so many browser specific edge cases that it needs constant "maintenance".
In other words, imagine you're arguing that a web page with a picture doesn't load on a browser because nobody bothered to test with that browser. Now imagine you're making the case for that browser being so obscure that nobody would expend the time and money. Instead, why aren't you pondering why any web site with a picture wouldn't be general enough to just work? What does that say about your agenda, and about the fact that you want to make excuses for this huge, striving-to-be-a-monopoly, for-profit company?
Cloudflare wants to "protect" the world from the evils of DNS services other than themselves even knowing what geographical region people are in, so they strip all geographical information, even general, broad location, from DNS lookups. This has the effect of increasing latency for non-Cloudflare CDNs sometimes, since data will sometimes end up being served out of the wrong region.
I've wondered since I first heard about this if this is their way to enshittify CDN deliverability in general and make their latency look better in comparison.