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HN loves cloudflare. The majority here aren’t of the ethos of the distributed internet of days of old, it’s the “how can I monetise this hustle” ethos. Sad really.

They key would be hashed with the user’s details (ip address, value in a session cookie etc) so someone else can’t reuse it. Hell there are things like elliptic curves and DH which still seem magic to me.

Now sure if the identity provider and the site work together they could negate the anonymity, but given that for the identity provider anonymisation would be the key selling feature they wouldn’t want to risk that. Mullvad I’m sure would be trustworthy enough.

Almost all content I consume is not funded by adverts, it’s funded by passion or subscription or donation.

Adverts have no positive effects for anyone other than the advertising firm. They cost the viewer more than the provide the advertiser

“Long tweets” could be anything from changing a config variable to rewriting massive tomes of code.

Unless you have knowledge of x’s internal code?

People think a trillion dollar brainwashing industry is absolutely fine because of “democracy”, completely ignoring that all you have to do is use a century of experience convincing people to act against their own interests can deliver whatever you want.

Often the same people who think America is fine and safe are the ones who whine about the “main stream media” and “sheeple”.

I host 1200 vhosts off apache as an authenticating proxy, and run Al sorts of random scripts.

This is all internal use though, I don’t need to scale to hundreds of concurrent users let alone thousands. Apache and cgi bin is fine.