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by cnst 5y ago
It's a problem of their own making that doesn't require a solution. After the client gets the IP address of the content web server from the DNS resolver, the client has to connect directly to the content web server, and the whole
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by cnst 5y ago
Not April 1 yet?
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by cnst 5y ago
A good example is Cloudflare's own CDN business — they require you to delegate your domain name to their DNS servers by name, not by IP address with your own glue records on your own domain name. Because they want to be able to use all
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by cnst 5y ago
Aren't you a big enough player to have your own recursive DNS, then? Plus, if you get so much bandwidth from your provider, are they really still messing about with your DNS?
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by cnst 5y ago
Doesn't T-Mobile US offer home internet over 4G and 5G in most of the US now? I've actually been using tethering for home internet, and it's often faster and cheaper than landline alternatives. Easily get 100Mbps in my locati
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by cnst 5y ago
So, they basically still collect, log and process the exact same data as Google DNS, but disallow anyone else from having it, breaking legitimate uses of DNS for GeoIP targeting and DoS mitigation? How convenient!
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by cnst 5y ago
This is simply unsubstantiated — there's absolutely no reason to believe Cloudflare won't play ball with authorities. If anything, ISP DNS being a distributed system with independent ISPs all across the world, it would be much mor
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by cnst 5y ago
It's a little ironic complaining about a single webpage on the internet, when you're suggesting that we use a single resolver on the internet instead of a distributed resolver system that we have otherwise. FWIIW, I use the resolv
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Why do you view FB, IG, TikTok, Snapchat as “not-Internet”?(blog.archive.today)
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by cnst 5y ago
Don't we have a term for that — software coupling? A microservice architecture has weak coupling.
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by cnst 5y ago
Very nice guy! I will remember him for his CDDL flames and my invitation for him to answer the CDDL/GPL debate over at the brand new SE OSS site right at the launch in 2015, which he gladly accepted. I vaguely recall making this questi
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by cnst 5y ago
It's only not a problem for Apple fans because they've learned to accept subpar products with gimmick features and misleading marketing. Plus, the anticonsumer features being sold by Apple as security requirements. And I don'
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by cnst 5y ago
A single bank being down is definitely NOT the end of the world, provided you personally do have alternative accounts. I think a few years ago one UK bank had a downtime of a few days on their payment network. Wasn't that limited to a
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by cnst 5y ago
Exactly! The Chase cards I've mentioned are actually different, too, and give different benefits. I don't even churn them per se — there's still a benefit to keep all of them open longer term, because either there's no a
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by cnst 5y ago
I have both an iPhone with Apple Pay and an Android with NFC and Google Pay (previously known as Android Pay before the rebranding). Did you know that you can use Android NFC to read the full 16-digit card number of any contactless card, in
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by cnst 5y ago
It's just another over-engineered gimmick from Apple. 12 (10 to third-party at intro?) may be slightly better for an average user than 8 (7 to third-party at intro?), but it still means that you have to delete and re-verify cards all t
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by cnst 5y ago
In the US, I've even had bank representatives during a fraud alert call tell me I always need more than one card in case one is restricted in any way. (Presumably from different banks/issuers, too, but even a single issuer is also
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by cnst 5y ago
What would you do if it's declined or the number is compromised? I stopped carrying cash like 10 years ago. Even banks themselves recommend having more than one card just in case an issue occurs, to ensure you're not left stranded
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by cnst 5y ago
Exactly, I carry and regularly use only 3 physical cards. The rest of the 20 or so cards I only carry in Google Pay, with the physical cards staying in the drawer and which I only ever use for the 3-digit number when I verify Google Pay on
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by cnst 5y ago
It's not uncommon to be able to collect more value from the rewards than what it costs for the merchant to accept the credit card. For example, it often costs 3% or less to accept payment for a merchant, but there are many cards which
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by cnst 5y ago
That's the whole purpose of the digital wallet. I fail to understand how can anyone claim that an 8-card limit in a digital wallet on a 32GB+ device is reasonable, when you can literally store more cards than that even in an average ph
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by cnst 5y ago
Good artists copy, great artists steal. Apple literally copied half of the Android long after stuff made it to Android. They've even copied Swype keyboard like 10 years later!
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by cnst 5y ago
You know what, it's probably the same reason Walmart Pay is based on QR codes, too. It's probably why NFC is not universal on Android as well.
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by cnst 5y ago
But doesn't Android sell more devices overall? Does that imply Android is better?
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by cnst 5y ago
But then that's Apple issue. Simply refer the Apple fans back to Apple, or advise them to switch to Android.
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by cnst 5y ago
So, it's Apple's job to tell me how many cards I am allowed to have? And it's okay?
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by cnst 5y ago
So, basically, you're telling me I'm better off NOT storing my Hyatt, Marriott and IHG cards in my digital wallet only because I use them once every few years? Why exactly is that? Why not store all the cards in the digital wallet
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by cnst 5y ago
Yes. Many/most Wells Fargo ATMs have had contactless for several years now. Their Android app used to offer NFC contactless support so that you never had to even use Google's Android Pay to use contactless. I think they originally
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by cnst 5y ago
Exactly. Perhaps they went with the 8 card limit because they didn't expect that it'll be as popular in the US, and you don't hear that many complaints about it because: * People in Europe who use contactless all the time rar
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by cnst 5y ago
Well, yeah, but it's 20 accounts over a period of 7 to 10 years, which represents 2 accounts per year. That basically represents the idea customer for a bank.

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