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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

Do Linux users actually use Homebrew day to day? My impression of it was that it's mostly for MacOS users that want to keep doing things the same way instead of learning the Linux way (using the OS package manager).

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

A lot of the sites that use shadcn's default styling are AI-generated. The people that use it in hand-written code usually customize the appearance at least a little bit.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

It uses shadcn so often, to the point where seeing shadcn components with default styling often means the site was built by AI. It's like Bootstrap 10 years ago - so many sites used it with default styling that it was instantly recognizable.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

Fewer people view their site (since their questions can be answered by LLMs) which means their paid services (Tailwind Plus and links to sponsors) get fewer views and thus fewer purchases.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

"from scratch"? No way. It's using Next.js test suites and the AI is almost certainly using Next.js code as part of the output.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

This doesn't really matter if you disable password authentication.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

There's many providers that have similar pricing, sometimes as their normal day-to-day pricing, and sometimes as sale pricing just for events like Black Friday. I've been happy with HostHatch, GreenCloudVPS ("Budget KVM" like), and RackNerd. RackNerd always have a sale running. GreenCloudVPS often have stock for their cheap ones (starting at $15/year). HostHatch has decent regular pricing (they're trying to compete with Hetzner), but their sale pricing is especially good.

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hace 10 mesesdiscuss

You need to keep an eye on the configurator page, or monitor it some other way. AFAIK they don't have many servers in the USA, so their US VPSes are available sporadically when people cancel theirs.

You have to order through the OVHcloud US site to see the US locations. If you use their "global" / Canadian site, you'll only see the Canada location.

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The majority of internet users are either unwilling or unable to pay for content, and so far advertising has been the best business model to allow these users to access content without paying. Do you have a better suggestion?

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

> which database is more common.

SQLite is #1 by far, with MySQL a distant second.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

I'm still wondering why Diaspora didn't take off but Mastodon did...

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

I used one of their 20% off coupons for a Simplehuman bin a while back (one of the ones with recycling on the left and trash on the right).

Having said that, I don't think they actually take coupons any more. It stopped when all the physical stores closed. The offer here is a cash back offer, where you pay the full price then another company (like TopCashback, Rakuten, apparently Microsoft too) gives you 10% cash back.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

I'm surprised 192.168.1.0 is still there 2.5 hours later https://dnstools.ws/lookup/microsoft.com/A/

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

In a way they're lucky DNSSEC took it down, otherwise they may have not noticed the issue of using stale data for much longer.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

> I was shopping around for an alternative after mullvad blocked port forwarding

AirVPN let you forward several ports (up to 20, if I remember correctly) and you can pick the port numbers.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

Yeah, that's pretty common. If you get a large amount of traffic, they take the domain from you and try to sell it back to you as as "premium" domain at a hugely inflated price.

You don't have any rights to free domains. Freenom are the 'official' owner of the domain and can do whatever they want with it.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

That's right. The 'official' NIC URL for .tk is http://www.dot.tk/, but this is ran by Freenom. Similarly, the official URL for .gq is http://www.dominio.gq, which initially looks different, but it has a "powered by Freenom" logo at the bottom right.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

Freenom own the TLD so you don't really have a choice. Every other registrar that offers the TLD is just going via Freenom anyways, and any major issues that affect Freenom will affect the entire TLD.

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hace 4 añosdiscuss

This article is from 2021 so I'm not sure why it's being posted again

    Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 04:23:25 GMT

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hace 5 añosdiscuss

Note that you can't use a free Cloudflare account just for things like images, video and other binary files, as they'll suspend the account. It must be used primarily for a website, not content hosting. If you only want to use Cloudflare for files, you need a paid account.

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