I was also with a provider that didn’t offer API access for the longest time. When they then increased prices, I switched, now paying a third of their asking price per year at a very good provider.

I guess migrating is difficult if the provider doesn’t offer a mechanism to either dump the DNS to a file or perform a zone transfer (the later being part of the standard).

Can only recommend INWX for domains, though my personal requirements aren’t the highest.

A lot of paid cert providers were not so great before LE put the spotlight on the issue; it was more of a scheme to extract money from operators who couldn’t afford to not offer TLS / SSL. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959 was a famous post that made fun of / criticized the system before LE. This hurt security, and if not free, LE wouldn’t have worked.

Also wildcard certificates are more difficult to do automated with let’s encrypt.

They are trivial with a non-garbage domain provider.

If you want EV certificates (where the cert company actually calls you up and verifies you’re the company you claim to be) you also need to go the paid route

The process however isn’t as secure as one might think: https://cyberscoop.com/easy-fake-extended-validation-certificates-research-shows/

In my experience trustworthyness of certs is not an issue with LE. I sometimes check websites certs and of I see they’re LE I’m more like “Good for them”

Basically, am LE cert says “we were able to verify that the operator of this service you’re attempting to use controls (parts of) the domain it claims to be part of”. Nothing more or less. Which in most cases is enough so that you can secure the connection. It’s possibly even a stronger guarantee than some sketchy cert providers provided in the past which was like “we were able to verify that someone sent us money”.

I, for one, would feel incredibly owned. More owned than any liberal has felt before.

Those fascists got some ‘splainin’ to do.

One can only hope so.

First off: am European, not American. So this is an outside view and I’m not directly impacted, however US policy both national and international historically has a lot of influence on us.

It’s kind of refreshing to see Biden take the gloves off against Republicans. They’re fascist clowns that don’t feel bound by any rules and conventions. Their hypocritic calls for unity went out the window as soon as Harris announced her bid for president and they felt like they can’t use the momentum of the assassination attempt anymore.

The political climate that has been building to the last 10 years - even longer behind the scenes - is unfortunately only possible because the US moderate doesn’t push back against the intolerant. The tolerance paradox in action - but you have to understand that these people lie in your face and argue in bad faith.

I don’t know Harris and Waltz’ political history well enough to predict how their term will look. However, there needs to be a move to the left. The current issues in the US stem from inequality, both in wealth and in social standing. It needs to be made clear that if you are against a peaceful and just society for all (referring to ethnicity, abilities and identity, but not ideology), you have no place in society. And that’s a long way to go. And don’t stop just because some racists are cops.

Even though stated as facts, all of these are just my opinion. I hope it makes sense, English is not my mother tongue

He shows more signs of dementia than signs of being a mentally healthy person

What a weird thing to do.

But very fitting, because he’s weird.

Stupidity’s Carcinization

Nice until you’re at a hotspot that blocks most ports but the most common ones.

I use HTTPS for all stuff, that has given me the best results overall. But of course, you can offer multiple options simultaneously

Also game servers because they’re generally very easy to host at home, and due to generally high RAM and storage needs paying for hosting can be quite pricey.

Really?

I thought this was more the case with flexible providers like DigitalOcean. My current provider charges 5,36€ per month for 4 cores (though I assume this corresponds rather to 2 SMT-enabled cores), 6 GB of RAM and a 400 GB SSD. It offers better latency for most players (obviously not for myself) and in most cases has been sufficient regarding performance.

Maybe not the best acronym, with Node Package Manager around

That’s why I wrote about “technology faith”, in contrast to the topic “science faith”, because while I think the dangerous idiot is wrong as always, the related issue (as technology is applied science) exists.

Regardless, her motive is just to discredit proper scientific methods and results she doesn’t like, while my point was about technology and its limitations that people don’t understand yet think will fix everything.

First off, Candeath Omens can go fuck herself.

I do think however that there is a weird technology faith in that people believe technology will fix all issues long term or improve or all aspects of our lives. Like when people say AI will fix global warming / climate change… dude, it can’t even properly take orders at a McDonald’s, which is traditionally one of the least qualified jobs. And if you ask an AI how to stop it, it’ll just tell you what we already know, which people haven’t been doing for years. Because that’s what am AI does.

It’s mostly the people neither actually engineering the technology nor studying the actual issue that believe this. But it’s a huge driver in the discussion.