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Cool, but, the thing is… even though CF is genuinely very good at what they do, I do not think that they have real moat. Nor does any other CDN provider have it.

The top 5 CDNs in terms of popularity are all US-based companies. However, Bunny and other providers are growing and becoming real market competitors.

Switching from Microsoft, Amazon, or heavy Google-based infra to on-prem or other vendors is much more complicated than switching the CDN.

CDNs are a very replaceable component. Basically a DNS record update away, and a bit of config.

That’s not true and uninformed. What even makes you believe this?

Europe has tons of top research universities. Both EU and China are competing with the US [0].

And this news is not an isolated event. The majority of Americans rank US higher education research and innovation as: poor [1]. US top universities are shrinking PhD programs [2.

The thing that makes the US unique is that they are really dropping the ball in a lot of areas, because of bad leadership of the financial and political “elite”.

[0] https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-researc... [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-s... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-...

So, where are we moving? Proton? Need some good recommendations!

most people will continue supporting Israel

Your perspective is divorced from reality.

Across the 36 countries, a median of 67% of adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, while 25% have a favorable view [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/04/most-peop...

Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were killed, around 30% of the overall death toll.

A rebuttal shared by Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel "consistently strives to minimize harm to children even in situations of conflict".

Well, it is certainly no question that Israel is killing children en masse.

Israeli officials are saying “but we are trying to minimize”. Well, these attempts clearly failed given 20,179 fatal cases, and let’s also consider all physically injured and traumatized children.

Still, as of today, Israel is killing a child per day in Gaza [1].

So either it is complete incompetence of Israels warfare methods, or it is done on purpose. No matter how you try to frame it, package it: this is not right and Israel should be sanctioned internationally.

Fundamentalists rule this nation. Sanction them, no weapon exports and their actions are not aligned with their official rhetoric.

Also, October 7, October 7, October 7. Yes, horrible, but at what point does the consensus become that October 7 starts to look like a small event in light of the death toll on the other side?

Spoiler: we should be way beyond that. Over 97% of all total casualties are on the Palestinian side [2].

Sanction Israel.

[1] https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/geneva-palais-briefing... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

Yes, the Outlook sender font is such a joke. They preach about 365 security but don’t practice basics.

The link [1] reads:

On July 4, 2025, in a historic and unexpected move, Congress expanded RECA legislation, finally awarding overdue compensation to New Mexico families. Our newly revised film captures this emotional victory.

Were the families (at the very least) compensated to some extent at last?

Damn.

Eh, if you can pollute page caches this won’t safe you.

Think modifying shared libraries, ld preload, cron, I guess on some systems /etc/passwd even.

There are a lot of files readable that should definitely not be writable.

Well said.

Hm, ok, but you suspect that Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol Group I suppose) is using it?

Amsterdam Airport? Source?

If there’s something that screams late-stage capitalism any louder, I don’t want it…

What if they can’t protect your privacy, if they do not create a successful and sustainable business?

Why does STUN impact your QoS? I thought STUN was just for discovering your own external IP/port.

Makes me wonder.

Say 5% of the free tier users converts to a paying customer within 5 years. And user growth is constant. Then over time, you will get a much larger free tier user base, compared to your paying customers (in absolute numbers). At some point, it must become tempting to charge all free tier users a little bit to continue, because the group got so big, so there is a lot that can be earned there.

Is this wrong, or should we expect this?

Agree but also getting tired from all these blogs that state more or less the same thing about LLMs. I’ve read this before.

Ok, but how does that relate to what I stated exactly?

I, and I believe many others, do hold him responsible for it.

However, I do not think starting there is a good idea: your progress in other areas would stall until that crook has been dealt with.

I fully agree that Chrome is spyware.

However, they do contribute to security: Chrome was first to implement Site Isolation, sandboxing too. These are essential security features for modern browsers. They are also not doing too bad with patching and security testing.

There are some errors in what you write, and despite that, it is not clear to me what the supposed ‘realization’ would be.

1. The famous 2016 San Bernardino case predates Advanced Data Protection technology of iCloud backups. It was never about encryption keys, it was about signing a ‘bad’ iOS update.

2. Details are limited, but it involved a third-party exploit to gain access to the device, not to break the encryption (directly). These are different things and should both be addressed for security, but separately.

Evidently, after this case ended, Apple continued its efforts. It rolled out protecting backups from Apple, and the requirement of successful user authentication before installing iOS updates (which is also protecting against Apple or stolen signing keys).

There is a market here.

That’s just a wrapper around quarks for the most part…

Apple approaches it different with iCloud. You have a clear option to not hand these keys over.

It shows that your idea of how the market works clearly is not representative of the actual market.

As strong as ever…

The US has a strong military but its dominance position is declining rapidly. It’s going around threatening the whole world.

It’s failing to effectively address their problem with China and Russia.

Domestically, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, you have ICE running around and Medicaid being slashed to afford that.

All the leaves are brown…

Thanks to the kleptrocrats and oligarchs… sold ya sold ya sold ya.

That’s your interpretation. There’s a non-zero chance that I do not think that they are a sweet naive airhead that needs informing.

It’s a pretty common meme template. It shouldn’t prime a reader for impolite conversation, especially given the HN guidelines.

Honey, wake up, we’re living in the finance capitalism era. Also in this part of history, the majority of the goods you consume are NOT produced by your overlords. The goods are produced by labour. Not by speculation or by private ownership of the means of production.

We love you Anna!