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Won’t someone please think of the white people
it's getting harder to be white day by day. /s
Please both of you refer to the rules, specially the part about assuming good intent.
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> I, as a brown immigrant, get to criticize my home country all I want. Countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist (it's a category error). Criticism of people of a country could be racist, but that's a different thing. Criticism of the government/establishment of a country could be racist, but again that's a different thing. Unfortunately these three separate things often get conflated and…
> countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist Then how do you explain those reactions? [1] "I'm sorry, but there's no other word one can use but racist". GP is totally right, nowadays any remote criticism -- and I'm speaking of the factual ones, not the injurious kind mentioned before -- of a foreign country (except China, Russia and NK for some reason) by white people is labeled racist. And…
A bit of context,
> "I'm sorry, but there's no other word one can use but racist," Colville said, responding to reporters at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland. "You cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as 'shitholes' whose entire populations, who are not white, are therefore not welcome."
You missed that second part.
Looks like they’re talking about dismissing the people of those countries just because they are from, what they consider, a ‘shithole’ country/continent.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
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Except if you get hit by a DDoS. The fact that you cannot put a cap on your spending is infuriating (the official AWS answer is "we do not want to break your business" (even if I want to)). To be fair, some complaining or crying in such cases usually gets your bill reversed.
You don't mean literally distributed denial of service attack, right? It's super easy to keep serving a static resource, so I think you'd need a huge amount of traffic to put a dent in Firebase's static hosting capacity. I've had spikes of up to 300k visitors to my Firebase blog in a month, and the bill was like $150. It seems hard to get bitten by huge surprise costs from a blog on Firebase static hosting, even if s…
That is... $150 you definitely didn't have to spend.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
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#415I use https://nearlyfreespeech.net for my static site. It isn't free -- it is pretty cheap -- but it has a lot going for it. It requires no custom tooling -- I upload via rsync. This makes it trivial to migrate to a new provider if necessary. I develop my site locally, then rsync it up. I have a custom domain pointed at the site, and also a custom .htaccess, so I have a good amount of control over the site. I do thin…
I have used nfshost for hosting multiple sites for over a decade. They're a fantastic service that's simple, secure, and provides great, fast support. They recently published this blog post: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-... After reading this, I made the decision to move my hosting elsewhere. I have never hosted content that is even remotely political, and have no intention to do so. I…
After reading this, I made the decision to move my hosting elsewhere.
Thanks.
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> I do things like serve html without the .html filetype in the url; e.g. https://zck.org/emacsconf2020 is stored on the server as emacsconf2020.html How do you handle it?
In the .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-D RewriteRule "^((?:.*/)*[^/.]+)$" "$1.html" [NC]
Thank you
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Who would you consider good DNS hosts? I'm looking at setting up a static site and am new to the whole process
Gandi.net is my favorite - their motto is "No BS" and I've found that to be true.
Used to be a happy Gandi customer but disagree. They ditched their no BS slogan, lost TBs of customer data and made inappropriate remarks about that on social media https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/cloud/gandi-outage-hardwa..., and the upgrade to a new customer portal has been nothing but messy and painful. Happy to no longer be a customer now
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There's a difference between "freely expressing your ideas" and eg. plotting a vigilante kidnapping. The former should be protected, the latter should be reported to the police. A lot of the people who say they want free speech actually have some kind of anarchist fantasy where they can do whatever they want without consequences. It seems like you care about free speech, not anarchism, so I'm not sure why the blog po…
Why are we letting tech companies become self appointed judge and jury, often forced to do so by online mobs? There's a full legal system to take care of those who actually incite violence/plot kidnapping etc. Nobody is talking about defending them.
The legal system requires companies to do so, not online mobs.
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I think we've both said correct things, but I think you've missed my meaning: yes, I understand that Github Pages is static hosting, I was point out that by default the build system uses Jekyll. This is nonobvious. This is in the docs: "GitHub Pages will use Jekyll to build your site by default. If you want to use a static site generator other than Jekyll, disable the Jekyll build process by creating an empty file ca…
I don't use Jekyll and I have never set up a .nojekyll file. I don't know what that is meant to do, but you can deploy whatever you want and it will work just fine. Maybe you need that file on the rare offchance that you're deploying a site that contains something that looks like a Jekyll config, but you don't want it to be built that way.
Yes, that's exactly the issue. I don't remember the exact file name, maybe it was a directory named "static". The behavior was not as expected, and only a Google search helped me figure out why files were disappearing.
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#420If you mean pure html/css, then the least friction would be NeoCities [1] It is free and not owned by Microsoft or Google. [1] - https://neocities.org/
Neocities must have an interesting story behind it. I seem to remember something about it being part of an effort to salvage Geocities. Has the story been written down somewhere?