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ollybee

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I work for a fairly large web hosting company.

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ollybee··on Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses
I wonder how it works that they are banned from "routing internet traffic to IP addresses of all services present on the “Piracy Shield”. With a naive approach anyone who controlled the DNS records for a site present on the privacy shield could cause some serious mischief.
ollybee··on Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
What I really want form a bike route planner is a map style that shows smaller roads as you zoom out. When planning a cycling I'm interested in tiny back back roads but they are hidden as soon as I zoom out on any map enough to be useful for route planning.
ollybee··on SQLite Rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool for SQLite
It seems I have some scripts to update today
ollybee··on EV battery prices to fall by nearly 50 pct and near ICE parity by 2026
It's not 99% of the same things, you have cherry picked.

There's many studies comparing the cost, I've never see any that put the saving as low as 10 to 15%, 50% is a more common figure.

Most manufacturers grantee their batteries , mine has a 10 year warranty.Batteries developing problems and needing to be replaces is not really a thing.

ollybee··on Bop Spotter
"It's solar powered"
ollybee··on UK electric car drivers should be charged per mile, say campaigners
This already happens for cars in the UK with 13 different road tax rates based on g/km co2 emissions. https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables . My last petrol car paid £0 road tax.
ollybee··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
This is what I was looking for, where did you see that info?
ollybee··on Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
There's some good context in the Mozilla kb article on this feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
ollybee··on Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds
I don't think it is a blunt instrument, in fact I'd say the complete opposite. It's been a nudge of industry in a direction that's better for society, in a way that keeps that playing field level for different manufacturers, reduced their overall tax burden and not cost consumers anything. All this while avoiding any harsh ban, you can still buy high sugar drinks if you wish.
ollybee··on Children's daily sugar consumption halved just a year after tax, study finds
Yes absolutely. It's not a tax aimed at consumers, or even raising revenue. It's to incentivize manufacturers to reformulate their drinks to be less harmful and seems to have worked. An alternative might be a straight ban on high sugar drinks which seems blunt and less fair response.
ollybee··on Show HN: I made shopping clothes online easier
Are you monetizing purely on the cost of the pro plan, or are you planning on selling data or leveraging affiliate programs ? I make no judgement on those strategies.
ollybee··on Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
Bundlers also tie clients to developers without them realizing. I work for a webhost and Many people still assume that if they have access to their hosting then they have their "source code". We see often that people migrate a sites after breaking ties with a developer only to find what they have may function, but is unmaintainable.
ollybee··on It seems routine to see a bunch of browser User-Agents from the same IP
"I often am repulsed that servers reads user agent." That is a backwards way of looking at it, they dont take the user agent, you give it. You you give any user agent you like or none.

No one providing a free resource online has any obligation to treat your requests in a particular way. If you dont like the way a particular HTTP service is responding, then dont send it requests.

ollybee··on Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
The device is attached to a fabric wristband. The device is reusable, but the wristband is disposable, and can be branded for different events.
ollybee··on Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file
What others do you know of, or is there a resource to find out more?
ollybee··on Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created
The amount of json you get from it it terrifying. If you do play, I found when piping though jq it could not keep on on my machine, but a jq clone called jaq handled it with no problem.
ollybee··on British Placename Mapper
bank is interesting, broadly north west, when you might expect south east.
ollybee··on Show HN: DMARC Checker
This seems similar to https://www.mail-tester.com which I use all the time to quickly diagnose mail issues
ollybee··on Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge
I'm pretty sure those already exist. As other have said, this is not a new technology.
ollybee··on Ask HN: 40yo adult learning to drive what is different vs. learning young?
I learned at 38. It's was hard but you can do it. Find a good driving instructor and do what they say. I thought I couldn't do it but in the end it took as long instructor told me it would.

As with anything, don't over think it, just put the hours in.

ollybee··on Ask HN: Got a /22, cool things to do with it?
Aa awful of a lot of people _think_ they need dedicated public IP's for their hosting though.
ollybee··on Building end-to-end security for Messenger
An argument, not a valid argument.
ollybee··on A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions
describing the costs of long term local storage in terms of "a one-time payment for an external hard drive" shows a lack of understanding. I want to keep my important photos for decades which is beyond the life of a single disk, or even a RAID. For most people cloud storage is a rational choice.
ollybee··on Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
I was certain this wa going to be a new video on this YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@kiwami-japan?si=Vw81ovNna7x74pEh

Although the fact it did not work gave it away.

ollybee··on List of experts advising the EU on CSAM has been published
The two UK government members listed published a detailed paper last year "Thoughts on Child Safety on Commodity Platforms" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09506.pdf With a stated aim to "to educate and inform in order to allow a more detailed and informed debate to happen" and appears a genuine in that goal.
ollybee··on Interactive examples for learning jq
Exercism also has a jq track with interactive lessons : https://exercism.org/tracks/jq
ollybee··on Show HN: Streamdal – an open-source tail -f for your data
Is there not a literal "tail -f" type client to send data from log files?
ollybee··on Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)
In case it's not clear it's the same single file that runs on all supported operating systems. One file, run anywhere.
ollybee··on Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
I think you have discovered meditation.
ollybee··on The Cloud Computer
It's a fair point! I would certainly trust the opinion of Bryan Cantrill over my own as well.
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