there really isn’t much in the way of an alternative

Bunny.net covers some of the use cases, like DNS and CDN. I think they just rolled out a WAF too.

There’s also the “traditional” providers like AWS, Akamai, etc.

I guess one of the appeals of Cloudflare is that it’s one provider for everything, rather than having to use a few different providers?

This can happen regardless of language.

The actual issue is that they should be canarying changes. Push them to a small percentage of servers, and ensure nothing bad happens before pushing them more broadly. At my workplace, config changes are automatically tested on one server, then an entire rack, then an entire cluster, before fully rolling out. The rollout process watches the core logs for things like elevated HTTP 5xx errors.

Did you read the article? It wasn’t taken down by the number of bots, but by the number of columns:

In this specific instance, the Bot Management system has a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime. Currently that limit is set to 200, well above our current use of ~60 features. Again, the limit exists because for performance reasons we preallocate memory for the features.

When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit — resulting in the system panicking.

They had some code to get a list of the database columns in the schema, but it accidentally wasn’t filtering by database name. This worked fine initially because the database user only had access to one DB. When the user was granted access to another DB, it started seeing way more columns than it expected.

When are people going to realise that routing a huge chunk of the internet through one private company is a bad idea? The entire point of the internet is that it’s a decentralized network of networks.

This is why so many people are misinformed. Good journalism is paywalled while things like Fox News, Newsmax and Sky News aren’t.

Journalists do need to get paid though, and not everyone is okay with ads. People expect too much for free.

Try install a web server like Nginx. I think the Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, so sudo apt install nginx should work. Then hit the Pi’s address (no port number needed) and it should show a default page.

Phones sometimes will ignore your local DNS (if any) and still use whatever the vendor hardcoded.

For what it’s worth, this is mostly for security reasons - they’re using DNS-over-HTTPS so that the DNS requests are encrypted.

If you’re using the app on the phones, try the website instead?

Is it just Nextcloud having issues? Can you access other services on the Pi from the phones?

Your ps output doesn’t show systemd as running. The only output is the grep command itself.

If you want to play files over SMB, you can just open the SMB mount in the file explorer and double click it. On Windows you can mount it as a network drive (like V: for videos) so even non-technical users understand it. I don’t understand how mpv is easier for that use case.

With systems like Jellyfin and Plex, you can (and should!) turn off transcoding when streaming at home. The only times you should enable transcoding are when:

1. You’re away from home on a slow internet connection (or your home internet has slow upload speed); or
2. You’re streaming to a less powerful device that can’t handle the full bitrate of the video.

Transcoding is very useful, because otherwise you’d need multiple copies of the same movie to handle different environments. Transcoding can dynamically adjust the bitrate based on the connection speed.

If they want to try new distros, maybe try Fedora with KDE? Installing the Nvidia drivers isn’t too difficult.

For RTX 20 series and above, it’s recommended to use Nvidia’s open-source drivers. The instructions for how to switch on Fedora are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open. Note that this is not Nouveau, which is a different open-source Nvidia driver not made by Nvidia themselves.

you can not properly control dependencies per project otherwise.

Says who? Use proto for your tooling (which lets you lock the version per project), and a lockfile for your app’s dependencies.

Devcontainers work fine without an immutable distro, too.

I always use wireless charging, and have a silicone plug in my phone’s USB port to stop dirt getting in there. Very similar to these: https://a.co/d/aFWuSI3 (just standalone plugs with no adhesive). I see some in the photo with adhesive to stick them to the phone, but that seems like it’d look ugly.

In the rare case that I need to plug something into it, the port is completely clean.

My guess would be that you’ve logged into all of the accounts in the same browser, and thus they all shared a common cookie or something similar (like LocalStorage) at some point. It’s a common tactic sites use to mark multiple accounts as being operated by the same person.

I’ve never used Arch yet still use their wiki quite a lot.

Sure, but there’s Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don’t need them in a home environment.

It was a feature built in to the web browser, providing a website, file sharing, a music player, a photo sharing tool, chat, a whiteboard, a guestbook, and some other features.

All you needed to do was open the browser and forward a port, or let UPnP do it (since everyone still had UPnP enabled back then), and you’d get a .operaunite.com subdomain that anyone could access, which would hit the web server built into the browser.

This was back in 2008ish, when Opera was still good (before it was converted to be Chromium-powered). A lot of people still used independent blogs back then, rather than everything being on social media, so maybe it was ahead of its time a bit.

Depends on if you use any security features that require a TPM. If not, the older chips are fine, or some motherboards allow a separate TPM chip to be added.

For example, my employer requires TPM 2.0 for both Windows and Linux systems, since they store most encryption keys and certificates on it - including WPA2-Enterprise key for wifi, 802.1x key for wired Ethernet, SSH keys (in some cases), LUKS key for full-disk encryption on Linux, Bitlocker key on Windows, etc.

For home use, if you don’t use any of those features (or require strong encryption for them), the main thing you’ll miss out on is support for Windows 11, which is fine if you’re using Linux.

I’m sad that Opera Unite failed. It was the closest thing to self-hosting for regular non-technical people.

it lacks the magical TPM chip that Win11 demands.

How old is it? TPM 2.0 has been standard equipment for nearly ten years now. It’s disabled by default on some systems.

Intel Core 8th gen and above, and Ryzen 2000 series and above, should all have TPM 2.0 built into the CPU (fTPM)