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malikNF

2,639 karma · joined December 10, 2016

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malikNF··on Writing like a pro with Vale and Neovim
It's in their about page. https://passo.uno/about/
malikNF··on The Floppotron 3.0
Love this!!! Thanks op!

For some reason this reminded me of chiptunes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0 [Pretty sure some of you will recognize some of these tunes] )

---Edit--

There's more here if anyone's interested.

http://keygenmusic.net/

malikNF··on Binance has paused Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck on-chain transaction”
You do realize this is not something that's unique to the crypto space. [1][2]

Seriously dislike this attitude some folks on HN has about crypto, yes there's massive fraudsters and there's lots of technical issues in this space. But so is most other spaces, fraudsters and criminals didn't happen to suddenly pop up after 2009 you know, they have been here always, everywhere. There's valid uses for crypto and the blockchain, I personally know several folks who were able to move away from war zones with some of their wealth intact thanks to crypto. I know people who send money to their parents back home thanks to crypto, minus the ridiculous fees predatory companies were charging them to send fiat before. Its not all roses sunshine and butterflies, but there's real people who are benefiting from this tech.

[1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadas-major...

[2]https://www.google.com/search?q=Bank+system+outage&source=ln...

malikNF··on Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features?
Bought a LG C1 last year, every-time I got the option to say "NO" to any agreement I said no. So far I haven't seen a single advert in the past year. The voice commands don't work. But who really wants to talk to their tv lol.

I mainly use it for Plex and my Xbox, everything works really well for those purposes, so I appreciate LG at-least giving me the option to not use all of its "smart" features.

--edit-- I am using this TV in B.C Canada.

malikNF··on Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
True, I wish they gave a discount when paying for an year. BUT! with the quality of their search results I am still going to pay for it. I used ddg to get away from google and I often found myself doing g! everytime.

With kagi, I almost never have to go back to google. Its really good for programming related searches as well. One of my favourite features about them is I can block certain sites from appearing on my search results and see more of certain sites.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I should clarify, my account is a free cf account. Only thing I paid for was to extend my domain registration.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I used it for my personal email.

>I also find that nothing is being served from the domain mnf90.com after it's reinstated, not sure if this has been the case in the last few months.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/mnf90.com

lol there was nothing else running here. Now that you mention it, maybe I should start blogging here.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Yep, that's me. It's linked to my personal credit card from RBC bank Canada which I pretty much use for everything else. Haven't seen anything from my banks as well. I just see the refund in my account.

Lets hope cf would tell us what exactly happened and why they were so aggressive and why there was no warning to let their customers prepare before they decided to do this.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
>I have to ensure that it's always easy to take anything off of Cloudflare. I love Cloudflare generally, so this is really disappointing.

This line pretty much echos my attitude to cf going forward. Come to think of it, not just CF guess its going to apply to every company I deal with going forward. Although it sounds good in theory, wonder how hard it is going to be to apply this on every situation I rely on a 3rd party company.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I too host my sites manually. What happens when your site that's hosted on the VPS gets noticed by a trigger happy skiddie? What happens when they start eating up all your bandwidth? Your VPS provider will be more than happy to null route you.

For the websites you own, you registered your domain with someone right? What happens when that company decides to have some AI decide if you are doing something illegal?

Until today I "never had" any of these issues as well, the main issue here is we have to rely on large companies (or small companies for that matter tbh) to do "the right thing", and we don't have many options to solve it. I got super lucky some folks browsing HN decided to get my post some attention.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Cloudflare marked my domain as PENDING DELETE. So from what I have read in the past few mins my only option was to buy the domain the moment it gets released through another registrar and hope no one else snatches it. So yeh, VERY screwed.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
> I can’t believe how lightheartedly you are taking this.

What is the alternative though?

The web has turned in to this massive mess where most of us don't have the ability to do anything without having to rely on some ban happy mega corp.

Even something that was built to be decentralized like email has turned in to a (sort of) centralized architecture, try hosting your own email, everything goes in to spam.

Host a website and piss off some kid with $5 to spare, you get ddosed.

The web is owned by the big corps, as long as everyone of us come together and fix this it will be a very long time (if ever) before we have a truly decentralized internet.

So yeh, the only option I have is to take this lightheartedly and move on.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I agree 100%. And yes, without HN I will be really screwed.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Sorry, if my post wasn't clear. What I meant by mitigating this issue is, I am going to start looking in to other providers and escape routes if I anger the all mighty AI again.

I too am really interested in figuring out why I(free) and my clients(paid subscriptions) will trust cloudflare. Mistakes happen, but I can't even imagine my situation if HN didn't come to my aid.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Update 2:

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Helo,

To clarify the issue, this account was identified in a recent fraud review, however it appears to have been a false positive. We have left a note in this account for future reference.

Kind Regards, Cloudflare Trust & Safety

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
If anyone from CF wants to explain what happened, I give my consent to disclose what exactly went wrong. Provided no personal info is posted.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Update: Just received an email from CF.

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Hello,

With regard to your inquiry, we have restored the domain names in your account to active status. Please allow for normal propagation. You will need to re-add mnf90.com to your account in order to manage it. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Kind Regards, Cloudflare Trust & Safety

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Not much info lol, but guess its fixed now?

Thanks HN for up-voting my post and helping me get the attention of CF. Time to go figure-out how not to get in to this situation again, and a way to mitigate this incase the AI gets angry again. Funniest thing about this is, I wanted my own email because I was afraid of this scenario, getting locked out of everything, what happens if big G or M decide to close my account down?

Again, thanks HN. Really appreciate you folks for helping me get the attention.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
That's a good point. Will apply this going forward.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
haha yes, I am the one who initiated the communication. Just to be double sure, just checked the email header on gmail, gmail seems to agree the DKIM and DMARC are all good.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I just forwarded the email to them. I will update what happens once its sorted out. I am hoping this is a mistake on my end, because it would suck so much to move all the stuff from cf, this is pretty much the ONLY issue I have had with them in the last 6ish years of using and recommending them to everyone.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
Will do. Thank you.
malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I think this might be the best solution in this situation, ill wait for a few hours and see if anyone from cf could help me out with this, and if not use a different service provider.

I know @eastdakota mentioned he has a script that gets triggered when someone mentions cloudflare on HN, hopefully this will help resolve this issue.

malikNF··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
It is actually from cloudflare. When I stopped receiving emails I checked my cf dashboard and figured something was wrong.

So I opened a support ticket and someone from their support team closed the ticket and said their safety team will respond to me.

Few mins later I got an email from them with the content in the original post.

malikNF··on Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
https://github.com/geerlingguy
malikNF··on My mate is making a tool for DnD players to quickly visualise scenarios
>This app is in Beta - we are adding new features and making improvements every day. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let us know!

How exactly though?

Wish there was some kind of link on the message where you can submit feedback.

malikNF··on Airbnb wants to GPS track you also when not using the app
>Wouldn't you just put that in your privacy policy so when some bug makes it in

Well by that reasoning, all legal agreements should just say, "we are not responsible for anything, we take what we want don't, you can't sue us".

malikNF··on Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon
No its not a dumb comparison. Most of the folks who peddle this bitcoin is bad for the environment narrative don't understand what exactly bitcoin mining is.

The mining process is what makes bitcoin valuable, the energy is what's used to secure btc, there is "USE" to the energy used.

malikNF··on Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because Facebook is boring
I was a bit surprised why they used zukerburg to make the announcement in the first place. Fb is seen as a very creepy company. The amount of memes calling zukerburg a creep and the amount of jokes I have seen in the past few hours is astounding.

If fb did meta as a separate company/project and not directly linked to zukerburg and maybe had fb as a partner company they would have made this whole thing feel less silly and less creepy.

malikNF··on Drone operator will try to rescue dogs from Spanish volcano
While the situation is sad, it makes me incredibly happy there are people who worry this much about another living being.

Whenever I hear about tech helping save lives it always fills me with joy to think about all the effort that went in to building this tech, to all the people who involuntarily helped make that tech become a reality.

malikNF··on OVH is down along with its status page
This is one of those things I keep hearing but in my case I experienced the opposite. I have been using OVH for a long time, and their paid support is actually really good.

One of our projects used to get ddosed and as a small company the only reason we managed to survive was thanks to OVH. When the attackers kept changing their attacks, we were direct to talk to their engineers and they helped fix the issue, all we had to do was send a bunch of packet captures to them.

Over the years since then we had a few issues and every single time their customer support was really helpful.

I have used paid support from google, azure and amazon, but I have had a better customer service experience with OVH overall.

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