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@DuckForTheDuck Juh, maar ik ben begonnen bij de reverse search van Yandex, en die kan prima met dat soort dingen omgaan :)

@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie (And ironically their DDoS mitigation has always been pretty shit compared to the established providers, at least on the free plan, where they'd easily kick you off for getting targeted)

@IceWolf @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social @thufie That's the thing though, Cloudflare has been consistently a) overexaggerating the likelihood of getting hit by a DDoS (it's not actually that likely, even today), and b) failing to mention that there are plenty of non-MITM high-capacity DDoS mitigation providers that existed long before Cloudflare did.

Basically, they used fear marketing to convince people you can't live on the web without their services.

@evelyn
I think about this _a lot_.
We need to imagine a better future if we want to achieve it, and probably it is not much about technology, yet technology tends to be the first thought.

#OpenStreetMap has one tile rendering server for all of USA, and that server can no longer keep up with peak US traffic.

If you, or your company,are interested in hosting a rendering node in the US (or elsewhere), please contact us.
github.com/openstreetmap/opera

the entire concept of a credit score is one of the world's most fucked up and horrific things and the only reason it exists is because people wanted to implement a rigid caste system and this was just the easiest way

@IceWolf @thufie Oh yeah and it probably helped that they literally just hired most of the people who might've been publicly critics of them, at one point a truly staggering amount of activist-y people I knew were employed by Cloudflare, and of course didn't want to hear anything about the sketchiness of the company

@IceWolf @thufie A combination of marketing, convenience, and free shit, basically - Cloudflare is very good at presenting themselves as "keeping the internet safe", even convincing a lot of techies, and so warning people of the MITM mostly resulted in "ehhh I'm sure they have no ill intentions" responses

@DuckForTheDuck Een rondje reverse-image-searchen lijkt een zwik aan Thaise dingen op te leveren, maar niet echt iets waar ik wat uit kan halen

@DuckForTheDuck M'n eerste associatie is "BNNVARA logo", maar dat zal het vast niet zijn

re: baffling food branding 

@prehensile@tech.lgbt @ben De Vegetarische Slager (in NL) used some, uh, creative archaic-sounding naming to get around that:
Kipstukjes -> Kipstuckjes
Rookworst -> Roockworst

And I've spotted a couple of supermarkets converting "kipstukjes" (chicken pieces) into "stukjes als van kip" (pieces like of chicken)

Turns out the Dutch equivalent of the DMV uses on their website a CC-licensed 'license plate font'... that was originally created by someone as an unofficial font because they couldn't find any official font files for it :D

wouldn't it be great if people could phrase feedback constructively like what could be better, instead of this is bad this is wrong, fix it

@donkeyblam@tech.lgbt @rezzish In my experience, the venn diagram between "projects that are designed to be easy to fork" and "projects that are run badly enough that you would want to fork them" is two circles

"if you don't like it, fork it" is the software equivalent of "if you hate it here, just move"

"The 1st of July a new squatting law will go into effect, making squatting harder and harder for those in need of housing or wanting to express their political opinion on housing.

The law will make it so squats can be evicted and possibly criminally prosecuted within 3 days. WE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS!

It is even against European Housing Law, and even the police have said this is not viable.

That's why we will be protesting against this law to stop it or make sure it wont be used. We hope to see you 17:00 on the 1st of July at the Malieveld, The Hague!"

(source: tweets.todon.eu/kraakprotest/s)

#kraken #kraakwet #wooncrisis #anarchisme #squatting #anarchism #DenHaag #TheHague #Malieveld

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