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If we're honest: trusting the EU would help might have turned out a mistake.
It funds organized crime. With turf wars, kidnapping, shootings, child soldiers and dealers. All to fund some rich asshole's lifestyle in dubai.
Agreed! It just goes round and round and round!
Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?
Your domain will always have to be rented through a 3rd party. Cloudflare is (or was?) one of the better choices for that.
Cloudflare does other things as well, most notably it can acts as a proxy: an inbetween between your server and the users. This inbetween can be useful against DOS attacks, blocking of bots, etc. But for most self hosters that part is not necessary. It's a toggle in cloudflare's DNS dashboard: I think you'd want it to say DNS only.
Another thing cloudflare can do is tunneling. It's useful for when your server is behind a firewall or NAT or double NAT you can't or don't want to configure. You'd probably know if you use this, so I assume you don't?
Everything looked fine to me. I'm on mander.xyz
The reverse: I pay more for a worse experience haha. Illegal weed is cheaper and more convenient, they deliver to the door 24/7. But I'd rather not contribute too much to that economy, despite the legal industry having a worse experience.
I change clothes on arrival. Got to because of the stinky sweat anyways :)
Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?
They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.
A call to defend Europe’s digital future
Currently, the EU has no digital presence. It does not appear that it will have a digital future either.
I understand that something needs to change. The lack of relevance has societal, economic, geopolitical, and even military consequences.
I am not convinced that these specific laws are the issue. There seems to be a fundamental problem at the core of the EU's industry that predates them: there is no grassroots innovation.
Most of what are now technology companies with finances comparable to some EU countries started out as students in garages in the 2000s. What seems to be missing in the EU is the joy and ability for outsiders to pursue unconventional ideas.
The EU's concept of "innovation" often involves extensive bureaucracy and subsidies for programs like Horizon 2020. An in-group of industry representatives receives subsidies that were developed by their own lobbyists. While this might be effective if the goal is to reduce vehicle breaking particles by 9.23%, it does not foster novel technology or innovative ideas.
If a committee of bureaucrats can understand it, then it is unlikely to lead to significant technological advancements or innovative concepts.
You can tell by their pricing. They're probably hoping that some regulation will force customers to use european providers? Or they have better, non-public, pricing on demand?
Some might want to, but as it's an illegal market they can't rely on police. So the most ruthless organizations claim the territory.