Zvyozdochka

joined 2 years ago
[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you want something quick and simple to make, not sure about prices up there in kkkanada, but here I can get a fairly large bag of pasta and a jar of alfredo sauce for a couple of bucks, makes enough to last a couple of days (at least for me, need to work on eating more, bleh) and is fairly tasty.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yep, USD. They've went up in price a bit here, I used to be able to get them for like 99 cents or a little over a dollar but they're still pretty affordable so they're still one of my gotos. They're actually cheaper than those instant ramen things you mentioned and the generic cup noodle right now which I also stopped buying, lol.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

spoiler

I used to buy those Sidekicks-style pasta things

These things?

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry for the late reply, kind of forgot to type this all out and it's kind of ended up being word soup and really simplified to make my point more accessible, but a lot of this can easily be researched in depth by just reading Cloudflare's own site/documentation if you're interested.

Firstly, as @nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net mentioned, a big problem is the ability for them to intercept all of your website's traffic if you're using their proxy service, which most people using Cloudflare are because it serves as a layer of protection from DDoS attacks since Cloudflare is able to filter/bear the weight of most attacks and only forward the "clean/legit" traffic to your website. In a world where passwords and other confidential information is sent over the wire in plain text because we're relying on HTTPS traffic being encrypted, this is a huge problem because Cloudflare ends up decrypting this traffic to provide their services which means they can see all this traffic in plain text as if it was never encrypted in the first place.

Secondly, they have the ability to just serve arbitrary JavaScript to your browser if they feel the need to. Just like they did a few months ago during the whole polyfill.io situation where they redirected all requests to polyfill.io to their mirror which could in theory host any JavaScript they'd like.

Thirdly, they offer a free service called WARP which promises you a faster internet browsing experience and was quite heavily marketed with lots of advertisements on YouTube some years back, it became quite big with all the tech channels showing it off, not sure how large it is now, but it's essentially a VPN, and as with all VPNs, they can see all incoming/outgoing traffic and do whatever they please with it, but don't worry, they pinky promise not to log or do anything with it!

That's just a few examples but if you look at the Cloudflare website they offer quite a lot of other services (a lot of which are free which makes them very appealing) which basically boil down to "let us control your infrastructure and all your traffic and in return we promise to make everything more secure and make your life so much easier".

All in all, it's just a bit unsettling that we're letting a private company that's based in the world's biggest surveillance state control over ~20% of the world's internet traffic. Especially when that traffic is unencrypted. I'm sure you've been around the internet long enough to know when Cloudflare goes down or has troubles, a large portion of the internet goes down and everyone starts panicking, lol.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ARM chips have ascended to a new level, they are the backdoor

AMD Platform Security Processor

The PSP itself represents an ARM core (ARM Cortex-A5) with the TrustZone extension which is inserted into the main CPU die as a coprocessor.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you're ever lonely just remember that you may have Intel Management Engine inside your computer

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Grafana & Prometheus is a good place to start, PeerTube even has a guide on how to monitor your PeerTube instance with them https://docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/observability

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 69 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  • While we offer unlimited bandwidth and space to our customers we reserve the right to request that you delete excessive file such as large logs or anything else we deem excessive. Any uploaded files that cause the server to lag or make the server unplayable are not the responsibility of FREAKHOSTING.

Things like this scream red flags in my eyes, they'd rather use a more preferable term for marketing and hide arbitrary limitations in their acceptable use policy that most people aren't going to read rather than just sell you a product with limitations upfront (something like a 30TB/month bandwidth cap with no restrictions which is pretty standard for dedicated hardware of this price)

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 59 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Death to Cloudflare, worlds greatest honeypot that everyone willingly hands their infrastructure over to.

hamas-red-triangle

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Can I just get unlimited sugar biscuits, those things are yummy

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

العالم يقف إلى جانب فلسطين وشعبها palestine-heart heart-sickle

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