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[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 months ago

Thanks. This is pushing the limits of my current understanding, but unless I'm mistaken, this reads like 'anyone who chooses may hijack part of your domain at any time if you both use cloudflare'. Sounds crazy.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, there's alternatives: Aws, Google cloud and Azure all have their own cdns if you want to use those

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's not that you're wrong. It's more that I don't understand what you're proposing as an alternative. To add to the comments here pointing out that that's how CDNs work: for many designs of website, the CDN essentially is the website, being served from a cache by the provider. Even when this isn't the case, you would normally have a load balancer in front of whatever was serving your website so that if you need to swap out the server for maintenance upgrade, etc. you don't need to tell who your visitors to go to a different address. In that case, your certificate would be attached to load balancer rather than the server behind it.

If this was a 1990s and I were trying to run my own server on my own hardware in my bedroom, you might have a point, but please explain how you would implement an alternative in any meaningful way today.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

If you follow the links, you'll see that it's essentially a new name for/ release of CBL-Mariner. from the GitHub readme:

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

On checking: You're correct that the royal mail and the post office are separate organisations. They split in 2012. At the time of the majority of the active development of the horizon scandal, they were the same organisation however.

I would still want to apply the same test - not just demonstrating a notional or paper loss, but that something has actually been stolen and acquired by some other party. This was one of the signal failures with the horizon scandal: that it was simply a bookkeeping error and they were unable to show beyond that any theft or loss on their part or gain by another party.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but at this point my money is on the Post Office being incompetent and dishonest. They have form given the ongoing Horizon scandal.

  • This is a newly introduced system
  • There's no evidence it has ever worked correctly
  • I'm not seeing any corroborating evidence, e.g. people being prosecuted for making or selling forged stamps
  • I'm not seeing an explanation offered as to why such forgery is only happening now as opposed to before barcodes were introduced
[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The article is from the guardian ( a reputable UK newspaper) reporting on an article by 'Which?' a UK consumer magazine with some very specific standards. The Which? Press release has citations.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was it axed (cancelled) it just never made? Personally not interested in shows about people I don't like doing things I don't like or don't care about.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Hate to break it to you, but these concerns are pretty specifically about iOS. Pretty much all of them have been addressed since the beginning and continue to be addressed today adequately on Android

 

Amazon sold bottles of urine marketed as an energy drink, a new documentary reveals. The company also makes it alarmingly easy to sell dangerous items to children.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd check that you're actually installing the most appropriate package. For instance on Ubuntu there's kid3 which is a MP3 tag application that will pull in the entire k desktop environment. Or you can install kid3-qt which packages its own version of those dependencies and doesn't pull an entire desktop environment in if you're using a non-kde environment.

[–] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

It didn't used to be this way, but modern power adaptors are required to implement standby power:

In the past, standby power was largely a non-issue for users, electricity providers, manufacturers, and government regulators. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, awareness of the issue grew and it became an important consideration for all parties. Up to the middle of the decade, standby power was often several watts or even tens of watts per appliance. By 2010, regulations were in place in most developed countries restricting standby power of devices sold to one watt (and half that from 2013).

 

Thanks for a great app. Miles better than Jerboa and better than the initial version of Sync! I have a feature request (apologies if I have misunderstood something):

I have multiple Lemmy accounts on multiple instances. If I want to browse in a public place then I 'hide' NSFW. If I want to browse NSFW then I will switch account but I then have to also unhide and unblur NSFW. Could it be possible for these settings to be set in the context of the account rather than the app so that switching accounts could also switch these settings?

Thanks

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