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Comment · 10 days ago
So it's only allegedly illegal to drive 200km/h in a school zone. We can't know for sure whiteout a judge present.
Comment · 14 days ago
The ING outage was unrelated to Google's.
Comment · 17 days ago
He's officiously talking about DDoS.
Comment · 17 days ago
For the edgy luls. To trigger the normies. etc.
Comment · 25 days ago
"easy to fix" is relative. This "new domain equals bad" thinking has spread in the IT security world. My corporate anti-virus blocks them too and I see it a lot while browsing HN on the job.

The only real solution, as a "holder of a young domain" is to wait 30 days before you use it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Melodramatic mutch? The first new IDE HDD I ever bought died within a week. The first new USB HDD I ever bought was dead on arrival. My first server SSD became read only after a year.

Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s

Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, the innovation would be to not make everything in-band. Which implies proper file formats for source code for example. I know, that is blasphemy against 7bit ASCII.

It's like the telephone networks of old. They eventually realized that that is not so good. The computer world is still in its analog telephone phase. ;-)

Comment · 1 month ago
It makes me sad that shells, operating systems and languages have basically made zero progress / had zero innovation in the last 60 years.

"Escaping" should be something some graybeard is mumbling about.

Yet here we are in 2026, still having to be on the lookout for a wild /../

Even PowerShell is boilerplate, boilerplate galore.

Comment · 1 month ago
They also pull this off in the other direction too. You having earned money by showing ads? They claim there was click-farming ...and it's gone!
Comment · 1 month ago
www.uceprotect.net does that for email. It's a DNS blacklist that puts hole networks on it, even if "only" a individual hosts SPAMs.

It's a double-edged sword. That is how you end up with most ISPs blocking port 25 completely. If your hosting provider is on the list you are collateral damage. You yourself can do very little to remedy the situation except to beg your provider "to look into it".

What do you expect the ISPs to do in this story? We are talking about TSL connections. Block port 80 and 443 and expect the costumers to use your HTTPS-Proxy. Than they could inspect and block individual actions.

Comment · 2 months ago
The ratio between people who lost their "free big provider" account do to arbitrary algo decisions and people who lost their domain because they ignored provider's invoice for over a month must be 1.000.000 to 1. :-)

I use a prepaid provider. If at the day of the renewal there is no money "in the bank" they immediately release the domain. So yeah, I treat their reminders with priority. I really should change providers...

Comment · 2 months ago
It still works with regular mail servers:

Quote from https://providers.delta.chat:

"Usually, it just works, but for some providers, you need to adjust the settings. In this case, click on “prepare” for details.

Please note that push notifications do not work with classic providers and esp. large classic providers often have sending limits and overzealous spam rejections. This can worsen the chat experience, as messages are delayed or missing messages may even disrupt groups."

Comment · 2 months ago
> I was unaware German Impressum applied to a natural person who is not running a business.

It doesn't.

Comment · 2 months ago
> teachers somehow understood that I was one of these

Are you sure your parents weren't involved in the background?

> Extra time for someone who struggles to complete on time isn’t cheating - it’s allowing people to demonstrate what they can do.

For me it becomes cheating when its no longer allowed to be mentioned on the certificate that extra time was given.

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