They never stopped supporting it, to my knowledge. I first started using their certs for my IMAP and SMTP servers 10ish years ago, at least.

If you use HTTP-01 challenge method you require an HTTP server on the host.

If you don't want an HTTP server on your imap/smtp server you need to use the DNS-01 challenge method.

This makes me wish I took photos of Diversi-Dial (aka D-Dial) setups, which somehow impressed me more due to how much they accomplished with much much less hardware.

They were able to set up a 7 x 300baud modems in real-time chat system on an Apple ][ . The original marketing called it a CB (Citizens Band) Simulator. They were able to run up to 1200baud, but I never saw one of those functioning.

As if 7 people chatting through a single 6502 wasn't impressive enough, many of them dedicated one or two of their lines to interlinking with other D-dials.

Talk about an esoteric memory.

- https://www.ddial.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversi-Dial

And the larger ddial sysops would daisy chain multiple Apple IIes together. A connector would take up one port on each machine. Two machine would give you 12 modems. Each new machine after the second would add space for 5 modems (-1 on old machine, +6 on new machine). For the sysop it was a big investment for very little, if any, monetary reward. I remember a user account would cost $5 a month.

Our ddial was a few towns away so we bought a line in the exchange in between that would forward to the ddial. This way we would not pay a bunch on long distance calls.

There are a lot of great comments here and I want to echo so many of them and not duplicate them.

There is one thing I'd like to add:

Learning to be happy while alone takes practice - lots of it. It's not easy, but it does get easier.

Learning to enjoy being along was one of the most important moments in my life, and it changed a lot of how I see the world now. I feel like this is up there with learning self-care that works for you - equally important and yet different.

Agreed.

Also, in my experience, a great way to run K8s in IAAS while minimizing vendor lock-in.

Agreed.

That said for some I can foresee Meta being hard or harder to disconnect from because of their percieved level of personal social needs.

I left facebook and many of my friendships faded away.

Awkward bumping into people conversations would happen such as: "We missed you at my birthday party!", "I didn't know about it, else I would have been there!" "We posted it to facebook..." "I deleted my facebook account 2 years ago."

My personal philosophy was maybe they were not real friends to begin with. After all in the now 5 years since deletion, not one has reached out to ask if I'm even still alive. I've reached out to a couple people, with little to no reply. None the less, it was a hard transition.

For others', that might be an impossible task.

I removed Facebook about 11 years ago now. I made new friends who know I’m not on social media so we organize through text or discord. And for my core friend group they also moved to discord servers, so that made the switch easier.

I guess it can be hard initially though. Also, my core group of friends is less than 10, but that’s enough for me. I don’t need to follow what 100 other people are doing in their day to day haha.

To over-simplify, it's about conflicting philosophical alignment:

- systemd: integration and features at the cost of complexity and scope

- traditional: simplicity and composability at the cost of boot speed and convenience

systemd conflicts against the more traditional unix philosophies as well as minimalism.

systemd also replaces some pre-existing services with its own reimplementations that are worse. The systemd developers aren't e.g. DNS or NTP experts, but they act like it and the results reflect all that.

You are correct. My comment was over simplified deliberately. I felt integration and scope accounted for the details in a TL;DR one slide answer.

This cannot be repeated enough.

This makes me more likely to buy Bose.

Why would I buy something that a vendor intends to kill off in an attempt to make me buy again?

This is the extension I use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/

Not only do I translate x.com -> xcancel.com, but

- cnn.com -> text.cnn.com

- youtube.com -> inv.nadeko.net

- instagram.com -> imginn.com

And more.

Regular expressions allow translations of paths for the redirection, so it does not just happen at the top level.

I can't tell you how happy you have made me with this post. This is such a great extension. Instagram, especially, is such a nightmare to navigate.

That looks rather useful. Do you by chance have an export of your current redirects and if so could you sftp them to

    sftp scratch@scratch.newsdump.org
    cd pub
    put _your_redirect_export.json # or whatever the extension is

Why does Redirector fog out the background when you add a new redirect? I can't see their example of how to fill it out. Bad UX.

It's quite simple but unusable on Firefox Mobile :-/ (Cannot edit Sites).

You actually can edit your redirects in Firefox Mobile (at least it works in Nightly). There is a focus bug in the Edit Redirects popup.

Tap the Edit Reditects button. Nothing seems to happen, but then tap the back-arrow at the top. Go to your Firefox tab switcher, and you should now see a "REDIRECTOR" tab. This is the editor.

Thanks for improving my web experience.

Care to share your redirects?

It depends on your threat model, but generally speaking would not trust default container runtimes for a true sandbox.

The kata-containers [1] runtime takes a container and runs it as a virtual host. It works with Docker, podman, k8s, etc.

It's a way to get the convenience of a container, but benefits of a virtual host.

This is not do-all-end-all, (there are more options), but this is a convenient one that is better than typical containers.

[1] - https://katacontainers.io/