darkphoenix @jonas@evilcyberhacker.net

Look, someone actually put it on a sticker! Found @ #gpn20 #mastodon

Well this spread far further than I expected. To those who said yes, see if you can spot me :P

Where can I get myself a blue fox of my own? https://nitter.net/foxes_in_love/status/1527170136221827073

One thing that just keeps *pissing me off* is how Twitter insists at t.co-ifying every stupid link in their platform. They state in their own docs that there is no opt out, and they clearly can resolve it in place (as they show a preview of the full link in their own web app) but they intentionally don't resolve it when clicking, it always sends you through t.co. I imagine this is because analytics, but given that apparently something in my chain (I suspect Pihole) has t.co on its blocklist, it makes interacting with Twitter a pain until I whitelist it and give them that analytics data, which I don't really want to do either. Ugh.

In news unrelated to... well, anything really, I've been moving my domains away from #Cloudflare (fucking finally). I wasn't really using their CDN to begin with, but I was using them as nameservers for lack of a decent alternative. I had a slightly excessive amount of records, and the services offered by my multiple registrars kinda sucked (plus they would've made moving hard). So two things happened to change that - firstly, @ben_zen told me Hurricane Electric offers a free DNS service, solving the "I don't want to start spending money just to pay another giant cloud provider" issue, and secondlym I finally bit the bullet and properly codified my DNS mess using DNSControl. I'm still in the process of completely moving delegations around, and I've had some issues with a few wildcard records, but HE has been very helpful so far and I'm hoping they'll prove to be stable and fast enough I feel comfortable sticking with them for my DNS needs :)

so, quick random poll, who out of my extended fedi bubble will be at #gpn20?

Update, it appears they’re back. Oh, and the article talks about them running their own validator nodes for Ethereum in the near future. Ugh.
(also? I really don’t like how Cloudflare is expanding. This mail included a summary of new services, including more features for their serverless Worker platform like sending emails, a database server, and an S3 competitor. Add to that their “Teams” stuff they’ve added over the last year or two and I get the feeling they want to move from being the CDN in front of waaay too much of the web to being a general purpose cloud provider, which is just going to make that worse :/)

LOL, Cloudflare can’t keep their own blog online. The link I was following was for their “new Web3 gateway” so really they probably deserve this :D