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d2wa

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    Comment #36504108

    Vivaldi has feeds built into the Mail client and browser.

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    Comment #33583325

    The Jellyfin web interface is much better than the Android TV app. You’re not missing out.

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    Comment #33583294

    There’s no cloud services in Jellyfin. You have to set up a VPN on your server, and an account for them on the VPN, plus create a user account for them on Jellyfin. It’s not imposs…

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    Comment #33583286

    I use Jellyfin’s web interface on the TV. It’s way better than the Android TV app.

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    Comment #32936862

    > Trying to preserve part of the Internet is apparently against the rules. It’s against copyright laws too , unless you get the right holders’ go-ahead first. Some regional differe…

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    Comment #32936855

    Anti-discrimination laws should be updated to include personal software preferences. “You can’t tell my gay-ass not to use Firefox on Linux!”

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    Comment #32936836

    (Author here.) Complain about in a blog post and hope it gets picked up on Hacker News?

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    Comment #32936825

    That’s one of the theories discussed in the article, yes.

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    Comment #32936820

    (Author here.) This is possible, but implausible. I log network traffic and haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary. The point of the article was mostly to complain about the …

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    Comment #32936813

    (Author here.) I don't use a VPN from my home connection.

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    Comment #32936799

    You can't have privacy-focused and free services. You're either the paying customer or the product being sold.

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    Comment #32933372

    They're a powerful tool that lets you shopt off your foot and half your brains with the same bullet. However, this my router isn't compromised. MikroTik routers can easily be misco…

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    Comment #32933355

    No. It isn't.

  14. comment
    Comment #32914809

    Dear John. What am I — as a normal human being/end-user — supposed to do in this situation? People can’t do anything without any information about why they’re blocked. Who do you c…

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    Comment #32914686

    I edited and added a second link to a support page that mentions it too.

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    Comment #32914591

    It’s absolutely required for most multiplayer games. Many need random ports and some even refuse to work if UPnP is blocked even if you manually open a port for them.

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    Comment #32914507

    (Author here.) I am. There’s plenty of accessibility labels in place. It’s literally just the name attributes. No user ever sees this, whether they’re using accessive technologies …

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    Comment #32914477

    >> Verify the Host and Origin request headers > > Yes. You should be doing that. (Author here.) If I remember correctly, his browser of choice predates the Origin header.

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    Comment #32914421

    (Author here.) That’s missing from the article. But I have logs of the network. There’s nothing out of the ordinary. “I don’t know what I did wrong,” as I started the article, mean…

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    Comment #32914386

    > That's not what Bandwidth Alliance is at all. It's about reducing or eliminating egress fees between a cloud provider and Cloudflare. Not sure where the idea that it's about shar…

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    Comment #32914347

    (Author here.) My router isn’t a domestic router. It’s a MikroTik running RouterOS, completely unsupported by the ISP. Outgoing connections and DNS is logged. UPnP is only allowed …

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    Comment #32914300

    (Author here.) Plenty of logging of outgoing connections and DNS. Nothing out of the ordinary.

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    Comment #32914291

    (Author.) My ISP only rotates IPs when they reboot their central equipment. Not enough to do it on my end.

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    Comment #32914278

    The author, me, does have a dynamic IP, but it only changes once every two years or so.

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    Comment #32724022

    (Author here.) The estimated savings is roughly 24 Euro/year assuming the AP is completely idle (which it mostly is at night). So, that's the savings from just disabling one of the…