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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks. This is pushing the limits of my current understanding, but unless I'm mistaken, this reads like 'anyone who chooses may hijack part of your domain at any time if you both use cloudflare'. Sounds crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, there's alternatives: Aws, Google cloud and Azure all have their own cdns if you want to use those

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's not that you're wrong. It's more that I don't understand what you're proposing as an alternative. To add to the comments here pointing out that that's how CDNs work: for many designs of website, the CDN essentially is the website, being served from a cache by the provider. Even when this isn't the case, you would normally have a load balancer in front of whatever was serving your website so that if you need to swap out the server for maintenance upgrade, etc. you don't need to tell who your visitors to go to a different address. In that case, your certificate would be attached to load balancer rather than the server behind it.

If this was a 1990s and I were trying to run my own server on my own hardware in my bedroom, you might have a point, but please explain how you would implement an alternative in any meaningful way today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If you follow the links, you'll see that it's essentially a new name for/ release of CBL-Mariner. from the GitHub readme:

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

On checking: You're correct that the royal mail and the post office are separate organisations. They split in 2012. At the time of the majority of the active development of the horizon scandal, they were the same organisation however.

I would still want to apply the same test - not just demonstrating a notional or paper loss, but that something has actually been stolen and acquired by some other party. This was one of the signal failures with the horizon scandal: that it was simply a bookkeeping error and they were unable to show beyond that any theft or loss on their part or gain by another party.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry but at this point my money is on the Post Office being incompetent and dishonest. They have form given the ongoing Horizon scandal.

  • This is a newly introduced system
  • There's no evidence it has ever worked correctly
  • I'm not seeing any corroborating evidence, e.g. people being prosecuted for making or selling forged stamps
  • I'm not seeing an explanation offered as to why such forgery is only happening now as opposed to before barcodes were introduced
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For carrying the unauthorized number porting, Katz received $1,000 in Bitcoin per SIM swap (total of $5,000), plus an (unspecified) percentage of the profits earned from the illicit access to the victims' devices.

For his actions, Katz faces a statutory maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the financial gain or loss from the crime

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The article is from the guardian ( a reputable UK newspaper) reporting on an article by 'Which?' a UK consumer magazine with some very specific standards. The Which? Press release has citations.

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Thanks for all the hard work etc.

Like many other users I am now unable to use my SDF account with my Lemmy apps. As some commenters here have pointed out this seems to be due to SDF upgrading server to version 0.19 which isn’t ready and breaks app support- see

Please could we rollback to the previous working version for general/production use pending a working upgraded version

Thanks!

Edit: For everyone recommending to use Voyager, thanks, but I thought Lemmy was meant to be about federation. Perhaps others will switch but personally I am not interested in jumping through hoops moving my settings across because of an inappropriate version change.

 

Hi I am hoping for recommendations for desktop monitors to use with a modeler, thanks in advance!

Use case

Solo electric guitar practice, not gigging or recording, needs to be at a moderate volume- think not louder than a loudly strummed acoustic guitar.

Equipment I already have

  • HeadRush Gigboard (can be considered the same as the Headrush MX5 here)
  • Blackstar HT-5R MKII

Problem(s)

Unfortunately, even on the 0.5 Watt setting, the Blackstar is just too loud. It sounds terrible at a (for me) usable volume. Not made easier when I am trying for bluesy breakup sounds. I have tried using the Headrush with headphones and it just doesn't really work for me - I feel completely disconnected. Trying to use the Headrush with the Blackstar isn't ideal either - doesn't sound great, no matter trying to turn the various cab simulations on/off on both.

Proposal

Sell the Blackstar and get (a) desktop monitor(s). I had initially thought of getting the Headrush FRFR-108 - a nominally 'matching' Full-range, flat response speaker in a floor wedge format- but discussion online suggests desktop monitors would be more appropriate for home use and after doing some testing with a little bluetooth portable speaker (using the aux input) I am alarmed at the prospect that the Headrush floor wedge is 2000 Watts. It seems that it could be very easy to accidentally trigger a massive increase in volume. So Desktop monitor(s) it is then.

Question

I have been suggested the Yamaha HS-8 which is available singly. Is this my best option for a monitor? Are there other well-known brands I should consider? I realise that some effects are stereo but that's not a primary concern/focus for me.

Thanks in advance!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)