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I've been using their DNS (migrating away from Cloudflare) for over a year and I've found it solid. Good latency and fast propagation. Custom nameservers are easy to setup. Migrati…

I had to use tailscale to bust through port forwarding on chained routers because, even with ports configured correctly, wireguard wasn't able to get through. My use case was for r…

When I lived in NL, it was explained to me that closing the curtains would imply, in some sort of weird Calvinistic belief, that the occupants were engaged in some nefarious activi…

These Cloudflare WAF rules (not my creation) should help mitigate some of the threat by blocking TOR traffic, blocking bots and blocking datacenter IPs (eg bots running on a VPS). …

Might be worth adding that Bunny offers DNS services as well. I've started switching a few sites from Cloudflare to Bunny and the experience has been great so far. Bunny offers cus…

Irish police used newly updated Cellebrite system to bypass security on murder suspect's locked phone. Suspect immediately changed plea to guilty. Irish government has banned purch…

Try voip.ms. Incoming texts can be sent to you as an email. A US number costs about $1.50 a month.

To be fair, it had all her stuff, so she couldn't just leave it behind. /s

Apparently the tradition continues. On our Peugeot 407, the button to open the boot (trunk) is in the "0" on the "407" badge.

SFR will switch you from cgnat to ipv4 if you contact customer support and explain that you work from home and need to open specific ports to access your work servers or VPN. I did…

Gobshite, while it might appear to be "mouth shitter", isn't used to describe a braggard bullshitter or liar, as the components might suggest. It's more commonly used to describe a…

Lane assistance is fine, if it can be permanently disabled. But I've rented cars where it seemed to have been hard coded to default = ON for each trip. Every time I started the car…

As an atheist, I would say that the opinions of these organisations do matter, insofar as they are likely to influence political opinion in the countries where they have significan…

First, nobody owns a domain; it is assigned to a registrant, by the registry, via the registrar. No domain "owner" has ownership rights; you have the right to use the domain subjec…

It's currently operated in Dublin. Barcode on back of each of 3 bins (recyclables, non-recyclables and organic). Recyclables and organic are free, and non-recyclables includes a qu…

Another happy user of Purelymail here. The GUI is unpolished, but deliverability and reliability have been excellent for me in the few years that I've used it. Unlimited custom dom…

I like them as a company, but I wouldn't use them as a registrar if there was a significant risk of UDRP. Domains are not their core business and customer service is close to non-e…

Most enterprise class registrars (registry =/= registrar) are brand protection and brand monitoring services. Quite expensive for individuals and probably not in the price range of…

Domain investor here. Some, but not all of the advice here is absolutely dreadful and is an example of why you should not take advice from random strangers on the internet. Some ba…

The government will put you in jail if you don't pay it. Not quite like a Netflix subscription, then.

Worth adding that it's a compulsory charge for every German household, regardless of whether they watch or listen to the programming, or own a TV. Non-payment leads to collection a…

At highway speed here in France, (110-130 km/hr), the wind noise is sufficient to cause tinnitus for me, if I'm not wearing ear protection under my helmet. The bike style is a fact…

For non-francophones, GPT sounds like "J'ai pété" (I farted). Now that I think about it, the term seems quite appropriate given the occasional brain farts produced by ChatGPT.