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Super not true. Unless they're actively _impersonating_ a Coast Guard officer and acting overtly in that purported role, there's no crime. Simply having a thing called "coast guard" doesn't run afoul of anything. (18 USC SS 912/913).

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It’s DNS so they just have to accept the query and redirect it to a local server that answers for anything and returns the 451 error. However, it’s also worth noting that Cloudflare is a giant MitM proxy who already decrypts everything and retransmits it. No communication with any domain fronted by Cloudflare is secure.

That’s not recidivism, which is the return to committing crimes after release. This is a punishment for bad behavior while inside the jail. It’s a method of behavioral control in real time. I doubt that anyone who gets out of jail is using the argument of, “maybe I’ll have to eat Nutraloaf if I go back to jail” as a factor in choosing to commit or not commit further crimes.

And it also isn’t “dreadfull.” I am very skeptical of taking any advice from a person unable to use basic spell checking before publishing an article. I’m also skeptical of advice from someone who has only recently discovered a possible solution for his very personal problems and feels he should share it with the world. In the 12-step world there are people who only do the first and last steps. They’re called two-steppers. You can look up the steps yourselves, but essentially it translates to, “we admitted we were powerless, that our lives had become unmanageable, and having had a spiritual awakening, we told everyone else how to fix their lives.” There are a lot of steps in between being stuck and becoming unstuck. The author should just quietly repair his life and shelve his egotistical need for external validation.

Syncthing is great, and I use it at home. For a robust multi-user alternative to Dropbox (or *cloud), I can also recommend Seafile. I replaced Dropbox with a self-hosted version of Seafile and have never looked back. Also, for a fantastic mail server solution with a great webmail client, look at Axigen. Their free version is more than enough for a personal server, and you can use Amazon SES for outbound mail to avoid reputation issues. I host mine at Linode and love it. If you have a business need or are larger than the limits of the free version, their license costs are quite reasonable.

Something that I don’t see people talking about here is that MyQ is the core/required integration component for Amazon Key in-garage delivery, a service used by millions of people to have their packages delivered to their garages instead of having them stolen off their porch. That’s why it needs Internet access. All the talk about how Chamberlain will go bankrupt because a comparatively small number of tech people stop using the product is fluff. I ran into the MyQ API problem with Homebridge a couple weeks ago, and I bought a unit from Meross that integrates directly with Apple HomeKit. I still have the MyQ installed because I _need_ it for Amazon deliveries. Yes, all the fury about ads and user hostility and probable polling requiring extra resources with no recompense is correct and justified. But at the end of the day, Chamberlain doesn’t care if they piss us off. They get all their money from the same people who think their phone screen is _supposed_ to be covered in ads on every page they visit, and they likely get TONS of money from Amazon.

Back in the early 2000s my secondary DNS server was getting slammed with MX requests from some spammer. I set up a BIND view for just that requesting IP that returned the IP of the FBI mail server for every MX request. I then contacted the spammer’s ISP and told them what I had done. I’ve never seen an ISP take their customer down so quickly.

I just logged into AirBNB after not using it for a few years (pandemic and all), only to find that my account was deactivated for not following their ToS and community standards. I only ever had great reviews from the places that I stayed, so I figured they just deactivated it because it was stale.

I requested that they reactivate it and got an automated response saying that they deactivated it because of information in my credit report, and until I dispute that information, their decision is final.

I went and pulled all three credit reports to find that I have no negative information in there at all. I have stellar credit, scores in the "very good" to "excellent" range, minimal debt, no collections, great ratios between available credit and current balances, no negative consumer information...so what's there to dispute?

I've asked them to reinstate my account, but as someone who reads HN and knows how these automated systems behave, I have minimal confidence that they'll do anything about it.

I also reported them to the FTC for misusing/abusing consumer credit information, and I encourage anyone who has been swept up in their Kafka-esque universe to do the same.

That is most often caused by reputation issues around the IP where your mail server lives. If you host it at home or in any “residential” block of addresses, then most definitely. Same if hosted on a VPS or with a provider whose address space may have been burned by spammers spinning up machines and then redeploying them when they start getting blocked. As someone said further down below, you can still host at home and use Amazon SES as your verified outbound relay. I do that with the Axigen free email server, and I have no issues with reputation.

This site is a scam. They can’t even spell “breathe” properly. Airlines have pressurized, climate controlled cargo areas where a small number of pets can be transported. They have strict rules and regulations about carrier sizes and other things that are there to ensure that your pet is safe. The site is pure FUD - saying that darkness is bad for animals is garbage. Saying that cargo areas can get above 140 or below freezing is not true for the areas where pets are shipped. How are you supposed to drive your pet internationally across an ocean? My money says that if you ship with this company, they will charge you a premium and ship your pet via the same methods available to you directly with the carrier. You should use a pet shipper because they will handle the paperwork for clearing customs, and they know the carriers who will ship your pet properly. I brought two 65 pound dogs from Chile to the US and spent $7k to do it because they are family. I also moved with three cats from the US to Poland and back, and then to 2y later moved with them to Chile. No one died in transit.

We lived on a farm with two colonies of boring brown rabbits. We had lived there for years and never seen anything other than boring brown rabbits. At the time we had a black cat, and he died of old age. We buried him in the orchard where one colony of rabbits lived. Less than two weeks later there was a single full grown black rabbit in that colony.

I stopped hunting those rabbits and would just watch him through binoculars. He even hopped differently, with a weird leg twitch that was similar to the way that my cat would kick his back legs when he would start to run.

I want to say that of course my dead cat could never become a rabbit, but it was eerie. I enjoyed watching him for the remaining year that we lived there, and he sired a whole wave of charcoal rabbits.

Hazel is good at finding files related to a deleted application and offering to remove them.

I slept for three years on a slab of concrete with a folded wool fire blanket as a mattress. On top of it I had sheets and a top blanket and a regular pillow. My roommates thought I was crazy, but after a few days of adjusting to it, I found it to be the most comfortable sleep I had experienced up until that time. All back pain disappeared. That was thirty years ago. I sleep on a regular American bed now, but any time I’ve had any issue with back pain or core muscle strain, I think back on that concrete slab with fond memories.

It's impossible to traverse NAT without having ports forwarded between the public and private IPs. My comment meant that I didn't want to manually configure port forwarding on my edge router back to hosts and then have to maintain that configuration and update it as things change, especially for a solution like a VPN that's going to have a lot of dynamism to the ports where it's running.

I wanted a robust solution with minimal manual intervention, and with Tailscale, Traefik and Flux, that's what I was able to build.

Traefik has over 2 billion downloads from Docker Hub. Lots of people are using it. I left Rancher/SUSE to work for Traefik Labs because it's a product that stands out in a space where it's pretty hard to differentiate.

Hi. I'm the video creator. I didn't even know this was submitted to HN until I saw the view count today. I definitely didn't do it to spam the referral to DO - in the entire time that I've had that referral link, I've made one $25 credit off of it.

I did it because it was the only way I was able to move all of those services off of the DO cluster and into my house, over NAT, without a static IP. Doing so saved me about $3600/year. I think it's an awesome solution and that Tailscale is an awesome product. I've expanded this with other sidecars that enable me to do things like run a local Node Red environment to control and monitor the solar installation on my old property back in Chile while I wait for someone to buy it.

There are a lot of Kubernetes multi-cluster solutions, but they have preconceived notions of how your cluster should look in order for them to work. Dynamic IPs on the edge break everything except for Tailscale. I spent a month going through all of the solutions before settling on this one, and I was positively thrilled to put all this together and share it with the world. I'm thankful for everyone who watched it, and for those who have implemented it.

I worked for Rancher Labs for four years in various roles, including the Director of Community and Evangelism. I currently work as the Head of Developer Relations at Traefik Labs. I've been building internet infrastructure since 1996, with 14 years spent running an MSP that built and managed datacenters for US media companies like Sesame Workshop, Scholastic, BET, Right Media (prior to the Yahoo acquisition), and properties of MTV/Viacom.

Part two of the video is here: https://youtu.be/OIwxIdyZg7A. It's also linked in the end screen, and I've added it to the video description. Thanks for sharing that you were unable to find it.

I'm curious - if you didn't like this video, which I intended to be a tutorial in how to solve a complex issue in under thirty minutes, what would you have liked to see instead?

I’ve run my own mail server for decades, and if you set up SPF and DMARC correctly, you won’t have any real issues. The biggest problem I had over the years was with outlook.com blacklisting all of AWS as spam IP space, but once I contacted them and explained what I was doing, they investigated and whitelisted my elastic IP address.

This doesn’t deserve to be downvoted. The statement is correct. I have a permanently destroyed right foot and ankle because someone made a left turn from the right lane just outside the Holland Tunnel in NJ back in 2004. The driver “didn’t see me” before making the illegal turn and planting his Mercedes horizontally across my lane as he slowed to enter the gas station driveway. I laid my quiet 800cc bike down and plowed into his car at 40mph, crushing my right leg between the bike and his driver side door. I now have 4 toes, limited mobility, and near constant pain with every step I take. After that I put straight pipes on my bike and had countless other situations where a car would start to change lanes into me and then move back when I gunned the engine to let them know I was there. Loud pipes save lives. Car drivers are often oblivious of their surroundings or distracted by their phones or music. When they check their blind spot the brain is looking for car or truck shapes and ignores motorcycle shapes as it quickly assesses the clearance of the lane. I’ve had people look right at me and then change lanes into me. I’ve kicked cars and cabs from my motorcycle as they are pushing me off the road. 100% of accidents where a car hit a bike use the excuse of not seeing the motorcyclist. I’ll make sure they can hear me too.