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bn7t··on Show HN: Icanhazaxfr.com – Open AXFR zone transfers
icanhazaxfr.com is a service that transfers the zone file of 'icanhazaxfr.com' to anyone.

The goal of the service is to provide a freely available axfr service with a concise enough zonefile that it is practical to use it for unit tests.

bn7t··on DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers
Please choose another hill to die on. This is just not worth it. Clearly it's possible to do this on device like mozilla did it.
bn7t··on Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability
>If you're making all your config changes from a prompt it's easy to forget how or why you set something up a specific way [...]

The correct way would be to just document the changes.

bn7t··on Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative
Codeberg is a customized version of gitea[0].

They have a repo[1] with the patches that are used on on codeberg.

[0]: https://gitea.io

[1]: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/build-deploy-gitea

bn7t··on Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record
Is there a link somewhere where he published the result?
bn7t··on The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history
It's still important to donate to them so they can stay independent.

Say Wikimedia would become dependent on the donations of a company, that company could technically force them to publish misleading information.

In regards to mozilla they are currently not financially independent.

Most of their money comes from google (in exchange google is the default search engine).

bn7t··on Cloudflare is turning off the internet for me
This isn't exactly correct (at least not in all cases): https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-onion-service/

[Nitpick: it's Tor not TOR]

bn7t··on DuckDuckGo Traffic
While they do have a favicon they however still show the url.
bn7t··on Show HN: Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network
Is this similar to cjdns or yggdrasil?
bn7t··on Firefox 72.0
IIRC they disabled autoplay for videos with sound. In the settings you can also completely disable autoplay for all videos.
bn7t··on Ask HN: How do you keep your notes organized?
I use Trilium notes. Their search and linking function is very useful for finding notes again.
bn7t··on PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
Can recommend ipredator.se
bn7t··on PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns
Can wholeheartedly recommend https://ipredator.se

There are real privacy enthusiaists behind ipredator.

bn7t··on Diamonds Keep Getting Cheaper
To be fair with bitcoin you can at least pay (in some places).

Also the worth of bitcoin is (kinda) backed by the worth of the electricty which is used to mine blocks (and consequently new bitcoins).

bn7t··on Social Media Is Warping Democracy: Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire
Very insightful article. Explains a lot that is happening currently.
bn7t··on Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
Also Void Linux is a systemd-free distro I can recommend.
bn7t··on Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
Addon support will be available in Firefox Preview. This has been clarified.
bn7t··on Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
Regarding brave see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21323576
bn7t··on Gfycat stops Archive.org volunteers from archiving content
It's ArchiveTeam not Archive.org which got blocked.
bn7t··on Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer
This is just a research paper on onion routing.

To get started with onion routing that's currently in use I'd check out the Tor FAQ [0].

[0]: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en

bn7t··on Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer
Analysis of HORNET (and Sphinx): https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13772
bn7t··on Roam – Tool for Thinking
This looks very similar to Trilium Notes [0] which I use.

[0]: https://github.com/zadam/trilium

bn7t··on Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) is pretty much what you're looking for.
bn7t··on Ripe NIC: 'In Five Weeks We'll Run Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses'
I think OPNSense has proper IPV6 support
bn7t··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
There are good reasons not to use brave:

- received venture capital from Peter Thiel (Chairman of Palantir)

- BAT tokens aren't backed by any real value

- https://jlelse.blog/posts/ditch-chrome/

More reasons: https://twitter.com/corbindavenport/status/11341432093896663...

bn7t··on Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
Website owners can just use the user agent in weblogs to determine this.
bn7t··on DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
Duckduckgo uses AWS for hosting. Although they have some crawlers hosted inhouse. IIRC their CEO told this once in an interview.
bn7t··on DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
>One feature I don’t have on DDG after all these years is limiting the search results to the past year. I go to Startpage whenever I need that.

They added it just recently. You can now limit the search results to the past year.