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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to CENSORING ASSHOLES?! Cloudflare pulls plug this hour on Gab?!?!?! GAB.com BANNED OR BLOCKED??? that link , depending on when you click it proves thousands of people suddenly cannot access Gab.com ! Hurray for Ramble avoiding using Cloudflare! by smartypants

I didn't know Gab was using Cloudflare, but there it is: https://intodns.com/gab.com

edit: https://tv.gab.com/ works and so does https://dissenter.com/ . Might not be a Cloudflare issue, might just be regular ol' maintenance or outage. Cloudflare had a large outage last night that impacted most North American customers from what I understand so it's not like they're prone to breaking.

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riddler wrote

Reply to Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card by ____

This is more about charging higher prices to selected markets than increasing availability. Build products and sell them for what the market will bear. Stupid restrictions like region locking only make consumers bitter.

I've got a friend waiting on me to build a gaming PC for him for the past two months. Graphics cards are running 2-5x the prices they were running in late October. Ironically, the prices are still going higher. What was $180 in October became $450 in January. Now the same card is running in the $650 range. That is assuming I'm willing to deal with a sketchy third party seller. I'm sure there are many other people also putting off purchases because of the insane pricing. This is also likely cutting into the rest of the market (cases, power supplies, software, retailers, etc).

Allegedly the same problems with video card production are impacting automotive production as well. Globalism really is starting to look like third world for the entire world. We can't keep power or water on. We can't make computer components. All because of some flu that mainly affects old people in assisted living facilities.

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smartypants wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Global Cloudflare outage reported. by Rambler

Good for you!

Alternatives to Cloudflare DDoS protection:

BitMitigate (one time banned a domain, but bans far less than CloudFlare)
Digital ocean
Imperva Incapsula
Dynu Dynamic DNS
ClouDNS.net
Neustar SiteProtect
JavaPipe
ArvanCloud
CloudLayar

Cloudflare censor bans sites with no warning, (23 hours sometimes).

Cloudflare also demands no private jevascript cryptography of payloads, and all traffic must be in clear and use an evil CLOUDFLARE SSL KEY on your behalf!!

Its true! NOt one actual private person to person message was ever sent on voat.co in history, because voat.co used Cloudflare and thus, ceded all actual true https ability and cloudflare stores and copies all traffic for feds, as Cloudflare often revealed.

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smartypants wrote (edited )

Reply to New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card by ____

Thank you for posting this story!

It has immense interest to me, from my ancient career of exploiting these chips and other related chips via renting scanning electron microscopes and peeling off obfuscation grid atop the good parts, and also "runtime glitching" (voltage, temp, amperage, clock jitter) to glean internal keys of production runs.

Not for fraud, but for selling crypto services... I was a white hat and part of a team of guys... or at least I mostly a white hat, but not a gray hat, nor black hat.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by AWiggerInTime in Global Cloudflare outage reported. by Rambler

We never used Cloudflare for DDOS filtering. Cloudflare was honestly used out of old habit of quick DNS setup and on-the-fly SSL Certs. Habits are hard to break sometimes.

Our current service provider handles the filtering for us.

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Kalchaya wrote (edited )

Reply to Be cautious of (((people))) telling you the world's foremost problem is cultural marxism or islam. by Hitler_Was_Right

Of all the extant religions, none are worse than the Abrahamic-based ones of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Of all the political systems, none are worse than communism, socialism and the 101 flavors of leftist ideology. Take the total number of fatalities directly and indirectly attributable to Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Communism, Socialism, and various varieties of leftism throughout recorded history....you will have a combined body count equaled by no one or nothing else. Guaranteed!

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riddler wrote

Reply to Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks by Rambler

Google is by far the worst for this. If you have an account and use it for everything, this can completely utterly decimate your online footprint. I don't know how they haven't faced class action lawsuits for this. It takes a little time, patience, and planning to remove the requirement for a google account from an android phone, but it's well worth it.

Simply put, don't depend on google for anything. Not just because they completely violate your privacy, but also because they simply don't care about you from a customer service point of view. Articles like this are great for teaching normies to avoid one-account-everywhere that google wants people to implement.

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