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In my experience (in Germany and Switzerland) ISPs don’t care, but they will rotate everybody’s IP once or twice a year.

Friends from other countries, India for example, have had different experiences though, where IPs were on a much more frequent rotation and required scripted solutions.


You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.

If you need DDoS mitigation then you essentially need to rely on a third party. Every third party will have inevitable downtime. For many it’s just whether you’d prefer to be down while everyone else is down or not.

A lot of business would accept the rare downtime from Cloudflare in exchange for the DDoS protection.

If the internet was always a nice place we wouldn't need Cloudflare and similar :(


You also have the power to not pay money to big tech

Working on a charity + website (not live yet) that allows you to centrally manage your charity donations.

I'm in Germany so I'm working on a Germany-specific solution for now.

- you choose from a list of charities (right now I'm working with the list from the https://dzi.de plus a few such as Wikimedia Deutschland)

- you setup a recurring donation to our bank account

- we redistribute the money according to your split

- no spam in your email and snail mail

- one pdf at the end of the year for your tax returns

I'm not planning on taking any cut of the donations obviously, so this will be a fully self-funded project at first, but I'll reach-out to foundations once I'm up and running.

The URL will be https://super.giving/ (not setup yet, should be fairly soon).

I'm also planning on releasing the source code as open-source.

I'd be happy to hear your feedback, either here or via email :)


Are you experiencing the HN hug of death or is your website down? Either way I'm super interested in what you're building and I'd love to use it but I cannot reach your link at the moment. Good luck with the endeavor either way and thank you for building this.


Happy you're interested! I haven't set-up the website yet but feel free to reach-out via email (you'll find it in my hn profile)


> Having no prior exposure to any European languages

I'd classify English as a European language. It is even classified as a Germanic language.


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We joked yesterday with a colleague that it feels like the top AI companies are using the same white label backend.


I’ve been experimenting in the past few weeks with an old fairphone : https://far.computer/ Still work in progress, so I haven’t shared it here yet.


Same here in Germany


Same in France, both #fucktrump and #democrats are censored, #republicans and #fuckbiden are allowed


Same in Colombia, too


Fun! A friend of mine has been working on something similar: https://www.wintermute.org/project/The_Screenless_Office/


Ohh that Windows XP dinosaur cursor brought back so many memories!


As did the low res "Made with Microsoft GitHub Pages" banner at the bottom. What is this 90s aesthetic?


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