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Ah yes. There’s nothing to censor if you keep your mouth shut ;)
There's a difference between saying "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us." and "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us because the people at company X are really on our side!"
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This seems to be a general rule-of-thumb tendency with "distributed anything". In general, in distributed systems a number of inconveniences arise as a natural cost of the distributed nature of the system. This creates a tendency for a critical mass to circle around a single central entity that uses its central position to provide convenience and further creating a "distributed in theory if you really want it but not…
Github's existence does nothing to change the distributed nature of git, just like GMail's existence does nothing to change the nature of email. They offer/sell a service that is built using those technologies. People go to them for the convenience you mention. If there were other convenient ways to use those services people would use them as well. ... and there are! Github has competitors (Gitlab, bitbucket, ...) an…
That's far from the perfect opposite of “distributed and open”, since these habits can be more fluidly shifted and alternate versions of the convenience processes can exist in theory, but it's also far from what I usually hear people implying when they expect things to be socially distributed as well as technically.
(I'm told that GMail similarly changes the nature of email by making it socially unsafe to operate email addresses in certain ways, but I believe this effect is weaker and I don't have real experience with it.)
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Ah yes. There’s nothing to censor if you keep your mouth shut ;)
There's a difference between saying "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us." and "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us because the people at company X are really on our side!"
> Section 18 - Because Cloudflare has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Cloudflare is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.
It's a clear ToS breach, a bit of thought would have avoided the whole thing. You got lawyers on hand? Talk to lawyers!
Interesting that https://1.1.1.1/ has a valid SSL Cert when you can't issue public valid certs for IPs
Interesting that https://1.1.1.1/ has a valid SSL Cert when you can't issue public valid certs for IPs
(You might have been thinking about issuance for IP addresses in private/reserved IP space. That is indeed prohibited nowadays, just like "internal names", i.e. domains that don't end in a public suffix.)
Interesting that https://1.1.1.1/ has a valid SSL Cert when you can't issue public valid certs for IPs
The concerning thing about this is that internet is increasingly dependent on Cloudflare, making it a single point of failure and exploitation. Somehow, people are not talking much about it, but a significant amount of sites have opted in for Cloudflare proxying, allowing it to see the traffic in plain text, while the visitors are made to believe that the connection is secure. Similarly, users will now use their fast…
What about akamai? They are a much larger CDN (no one talks about it on HN because they are not a startup). I agree with your assertion that it will become a single point of failure with many web properties but also I think that HN has a sort of filter bubble on startups (for obvious reasons) and I'm not sure cloudflare is as big as people make it out to be. Also, Google has 8.8.8.8 which could be for the same thing…
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I agree - there are not very many internet-scale (for lack of a better term), completely free and fast DNS servers who have an IP address that's easy to remember. Is that specific? sure, but I'll tell you when I go to set a new system up I'm going to type 8.8.8.8 because it's what comes to my mind.
There is quad9 - 9.9.9.9 :)