p4bl0
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Comment · 12 days ago
I really hope VeriSign will lose this battle, it will serve as a lesson to this awful company. VerSign is vampirizing the internet. They hold a very important power on the whole infrastructure and they are the opposite of a good steward. The third-level .name fiasco [1] in itself should have led the ICANN to stop working with VeriSign and give their TLD management to other actors, ideally non-profit structures. Instead of that the ICANN let them go with it based on the flat out lies VeriSign wrote in their request, and denied requests for reconsideration based on the same lies. So maybe this class-action in justice is the only way to get through to VeriShit.
Comment · 22 days ago
Boiling water in a kettle takes like 1 minute, in any cases less than two minutes. And other things can be done during this time. There's no real timing constraints that requires a wifi enabled kettle. You may prefer it this way, and that may be what matters the most here, but it's not really a constraint.
Comment · 23 days ago
Thanks for sharing this story from this point of view so genuinely. I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would enjoy any comments under this sad news.
Comment · 1 month ago
A link in a comment is not the same as a front page link it terms of traffic, and when this link is a .onion, you probably divide at least by a few hundreds if not thousands the number of people who will click on it (even the few percents who have Tor Browser installed probably visit HN using their regular browser so visiting the link requires to open a new browser — or to change your proxy settings of you use Tor the old school way).
I really believe the single threaded BusyBox httpd running on a low end mini PC in my bedroom will stand hosting my static web site without any trouble.
Comment · 1 month ago
My personal website has been hosted on Tor for years. It's easy to do from your home even behind a NAT because it's an outgoing connection from your point of view (which also makes it a great way to expose local services even when you are behind a NAT and don't not have a static IP), and by design your personal IP is hidden from your visitors.
I wrote about it in 2600 almost ten years ago (already?!). A copy of my article can be found here: https://pablorauzy.fr/outreach/2600/how-to-run-a-tor-hidden-...
If you have an Onion copy of your website, don't forget the Onion-Location http header which will automatically redirect Tor Browser users to the onion version of the website even if they visit it at the clear web address.
If it interests people, I also have a follow up article about I2P: https://pablorauzy.fr/outreach/2600/how-to-run-an-i2p-hidden...
Comment · 1 month ago
True, but beware of the domain name you're using. Because VeriSign may unilaterally decide to delete your domain name along with thousands of others [1] and you're back to square one…
Comment · 1 month ago
Like a lot of similar devices, it looks cool, but, just like a lot of similar devices which have a physical keyboard, it will probably never be released with anything else than a US qwerty keyboard, so I'm already out.
Update: didn't scroll down enough! Indeed they have. Neat.
Comment · 1 month ago
They also have a releases RSS feed. I have those in my mail client (Thunderbird) directly for the projects that I must closely follow critical updates of.
Comment · 1 month ago
That's awesome. Thanks for working on this!
Comment · 1 month ago
> you may get law enforcement knocking on your door with questions
If you host an exit node on your home internet connection, the daily thing you will struggle with is not law enforcement, but rather the fact that your public IP will be blocked by most big websites to the point that simply browsing the web will become a pain.
Comment · 1 month ago
Update report: they are still categorically refusing, even for third-level customer who are alone (and have always been for 20 years) on the second-level they use. It makes no sense.
Comment · 1 month ago
The .name predates the TLD well-off crap. The first huge bulk of new TLDs happened in 2014, .name dates back from 2001, just like .info or .coop.
Also, .name filled an actual need for general non ccTLD: companies had .com, organizations had .org, Internet related stuff had .net, there was .gov, .edu, .mil, and ccTLDs, but nothing made for individuals. It filled this use case, it actually made sense.
Comment · 1 month ago
> There should be a conflict resolution to gracefully degrade the third level to 2nd level when there is no competing name on the second level.
Yes. I've been asking VeriSign for this for years, and they always refused.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not at the very beginning, but then it became possible.
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