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freerk··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
No, that doesn't work with Bitcoin, it only works with a fork of Bitcoin that has less than 0.5% of the value of Bitcoin.
freerk··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
But not on mobile. First iPhone with USB-C was iPhone 15 released late 2023. The Google Nexus 6P phone had USB-C in 2015, 8 years earlier.
freerk··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
I just got a R36s retro handheld console for 31€ (US$35) including a 64GB microSD and shipping from Aliexpress. Apparently sometimes you can get it for as low as $25. It has a IPS instead of a eINK screen, but the CPU, RAM, Storage, battery etc. are as good or better as any ereader, so it is possible to get a tech device for way less than $80-100. But I guess it won't count as mainstream and nobody should expect support. It relies on open-source software (ArkOS) and ships pirated roms of abandoned game consoles, so there is no option for the manufacturer (unknown) to earn more after the sale.
freerk··on EmailBTC – A new way to send and receive Bitcoin using only email addresses
You claim "open-source simplicity", so where is the code? I can't find a Github/Gitlab link or something like that anywhere on the page.
freerk··on Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU
Interesting, might be useful as a backup connection.

Currently I am using https://silent.link since several years and I am very happy with that. For 5$ you get a eSim without any time limit and roaming in almost all networks in almost all countries. You just pay for ever MB of data a reasonable amount (not as cheap as local options, but not bad either). This is perfect as a backup eSim for traveling, even just in my own country because I can roam in all three available networks. You can only pay with Bitcoin/Lightning but it works great since 3 years or so. This is just so much better than all those travel sims which only work for 30 days in only one country...

freerk··on Absence of orgasm-induced prolactin secretion in a healthy multi-orgasmic male
AFAIK this has been known already? See the Off-label section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabergoline
freerk··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is locking out Linux users
The captcha on https://app.ahrefs.com/user/forgot-password from your video works fine for me with both Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. Do you use any fancy JavaScript blocking plugins?
freerk··on The floppy disk just won’t die
yep, sounds like getting something for 21$ on Aliexpress (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832100710868.html) and selling it for >13x more.
freerk··on Boosting upload speed and improving Windows' TCP stack
How come Linux doesn't have this issue? Why did Microsoft had to fix TCP with the RACK-TLP RFC when both Linux and MacOS implementations did fine already?
freerk··on Ask HN: What are some hobbies for a 72-year-old retiree? Maybe OSS?
Besides of open source software development I'd propose envolvment in Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. Both are kind of welcoming communities where you can easily spent a full time equivalent of work in. In most bigger cities in the world there are (used to be before Covid) regular meetups in real live and it really feels as a useful service to the world or local community. Or maybe local wireless communication networks are a thing in your area (like Freifunk)?
freerk··on Ask HN: Do you have a spare domain that I could use?
Just register a free .tk/.ml/.ga/.cf or .gq domain on freenom.com
freerk··on Show HN: Fast and simple way to get EV SSL certificates
gogetssl.com sells Comodo EV certs for 126$/1y or 221$/2y. certsimple costs more than twice as much. And I am not sure if there is actually such a big difference between the verification process since both are just resellers of another CA...
freerk··on WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate
update: WoSign now has a new page https://buy.wosign.com/free/ which is in English, works without creating a account first and wraps up all the steps in one simple page. The issue with "Submit request contains invalid data" some people ran into was fixed as well :)
freerk··on WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate
Yep, I have full permission do use the instructions :)
freerk··on WoSign: Free two-year multi-domain SSL certificate
...because in China pre-SP3 Windows XP is still alive and doesn't work with SHA2
freerk··on Mapping the World
Looks nice, but I am disappointed they choose Google Maps over OpenStreetMap for this :)
freerk··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
Cheap root server providers, mostly in Germany if nothing mentioned otherwise, all with own infrastructure (no resellers) and my personal experience. Note that prices mentioned in Germany are almost all the time incl. VAT, so you might be able so save 19% on those prices.

https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver - Hands down my favorite. Very powerful hardware for the price, very professional, good network

https://www.webtropia.com/en/ - extremly cheap, many different offers, good quality, good option if price is very important

https://www.hosteurope.de/en/Server/ - The "Root Servers" they sell are actually VMs. High price but good quality

https://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/server/dedicated/ - Belongs to Deutsche Telekom, big company, I never used their dedicated servers (the VMs are crap though)

http://www.server4you.com/dedicated-server/ - cheap, big company, quality is ok. Other brands are Serverloft, Plusserver, unmetered.com

https://www.1and1.com/server-dedicated-tariff - big company, good network, not that cheap

http://www.euserv.com/en/dedicated-server/index.php - many different offers, good support, good value

https://english.keyweb.de/products/server/dedicated-server/ - never used the dedicated servers, VMs are crap

https://www.ip-projects.de/produkte/premium-rootserver/ - no personal experience

https://contabo.de/?show=server - Small company, good offers, good support

https://www.manitu.de/root-server/ - Small company, very good support

http://www.seflow.net/dedicati/ - ITALY, small company, very cheap, good

https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server - FRANCE, very big company, very cheap, good network

https://www.digicube.fr/index/comparatif - FRANCE, extremly cheap, network not that good

http://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/ - FRANCE and CANADA, very cheap, good quality, very good dDOS protection. Other brand of OVH is SoyouStart

https://www.leaseweb.com/bare-metal-server/all-servers - NETHERLANDS, very big company, very professional, kind of expensive, DCs in different countries

freerk··on Let's Encrypt: How It Works
Sure, fixed it. Thanks!
freerk··on Let's Encrypt: How It Works
Apparently they will use the same certs as implemented on letsencrypt.org, so the free certs will work without error on every client which trusts the "DST Root CA X3" CA. Can we collect a definitive list of clients which include this CA certificate? Similar to the list for StartSSL (https://forum.startcom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1802).

Firefox: Mozilla added the certificate in NSS 3.11.9 on 2008-01-31, see http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss... and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411299 So Firefox starting with 3.0 works

Chrome: When the first Chrome came out it used Mozilla NSS which already included the certificate. Now Chrome uses the OS key store: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-polic...

Microsoft: The certificate is trusted by default since at least IE8 (http://www.herongyang.com/PKI/HTTPS-IE-8-Trusted-Root-CA-Cer...) and Windows automatically updates the certificates, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx

Apple: Since iOS 2 (2008-07-11) (http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2185) and at least since OS X Mavericks (http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203120), but probably way earlier.

Java: Yes: https://gist.github.com/saltlakeryan/8479238

freerk··on Embracing HTTPS
SNI is not supported by the schannel implementation of win XP, it is not an IE6 thing, IE8 on win XP doesn't know SNI either :(
freerk··on Zipcar's certificate revoked
SSL Labs analysis: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=members.zipca...

They might have revoked the certificate themselves via the GoDaddy webinterface by accident: https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/4747/revoking-an-ss...