Zikeji
@Zikeji@programming.dev
Nice. Software developer, gamer, occasionally 3d printing, coffee lover.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 1 day ago:
You’re describing a sense of nostalgia. And no, I don’t consider it immature.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 days ago:
Here’s an archive link in case anyone else refuses to give Substack views due to their affinity for Nazis: archive.is/ns4Yq
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 6 days ago:
Well, I wouldn’t call it’s premium. Unlocked is closer to MSRP, whereas carrier locked is being subsidized by the carrier and whatever requirements they have in place. You’ll usually end up paying more in the long run then if you went with unlocked and a MVNO.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 1 week ago:
Like usual with us humans and our fickle minds, YMMV.
There are many factors that can impact this, though I would clarify - you aren’t losing memories, they’re there, just harder to access. You aren’t losing your sense of self, it’s evolving - who you are as a person is constantly changing.
For me personally, as someone with aphantasia I’ve never really been in touch with my memories in the first place. I’ve been very much a “in the moment” person - despite that my past experiences do define me, even if I don’t know why.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 2 weeks ago:
The US government does not force us to use a KYC (ID verification / know your customer) provider, at least - not a basic web hosting provider. That could change whenever though, and I’m not sure if Racknerd has any special circumstances.
As for why would a company do this - to prevent fraud and abuse. If a customer signs up and uses a stolen credit card, who do you think is on the hook for that loss? Not the victim, not the bank - us.
Why would they use a stolen card if they’ll just end up getting their services cancelled one might ask - abuse. They’ll setup servers, create phishing pages, and immediately start sending out spam emails. Or distribute malware, or host illegal content, etc.
This creates more work for us and negatively impacts the reputation of our network, and harms our legitimate customers.
So yeah, if something so much as looks out of place on their order / information (such as using a VPN to place the order) we will usually start a ID verification. We’ll usually suspend them to lock them out while we wait on their response, or in extreme cases - immediately cancel and refund.
- Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data? 2 weeks ago:
This is what I do - well, I back up there entire container. But functionally the same.
There’s only a few pieces of media that I have backed up manually due to their rarity, but even those I don’t really care about.
- Comment on Warning: Stripe Asks For ID Verification 2 weeks ago:
I work for a hosting provider, not Racknerd though so I can’t speak to their processes. Main difference is that while we use Stripe, we don’t use their ID verification service (and no customers have reported that Stripe has forced them to do so).
The post title is misleading. Yes, Stripe has an ID verification service, but Stripe isn’t what is requiring your ID. Racknerd is using Stripe’s ID verification feature against your payment because of some flag or policy on their end.
Why take my money, charge for a year of service, and then send me a link to verify myself?
This is standard operating procedure and happens in pretty much every industry that accepts online payments. Some flag, policy, etc. was indicated they need to take addition steps to verify you.
The biggest issue here is with Stripe asking me to verify my identity, even though I’m not using their service. Yes, they might be legal, but their intrusive behavior in collecting people’s information is unreasonable and should not be tolerated.
I’ll reiterate that Stripe did not arbitrarily force that on you, Racknerd did.
In the future, I recommend avoiding services that require Stripe for payment verification. Though it seems impossible to distinguish between the transactions that requires it and those don’t.
This isn’t useful advice. Racknerd forced the verification on you, not Stripe. I would recommend reviewing the terms of service and going from there. The hosting provider I work for explicitly mentions in the ToS that we may require ID verification. You can use nomenclature like that to a avoid a service, though Racknerd doesn’t mention it in theirs so YMMV. Research and accounts from other customers can be used as well.
If the intent is to avoid ID verification, I would recommend ensuring the data you provide is accurate and up to date but there really isn’t much you can do outside of that. You can thank fraudsters and abusers for ruining that for you.
- Comment on Why does my ISP sometimes give one IPv6 and another with a different subnet? 2 weeks ago:
Ah - yeah the /128 is what the ISP used to route traffic to your router. I believe that’s IPv6 PD (prefix delegation) - the router uses DHCPv6, gets given that /128 it’ll use for the ISP, then the ISP delegates the /64 (or other sizes) to the router.
- Comment on Why does my ISP sometimes give one IPv6 and another with a different subnet? 2 weeks ago:
If your ISP is doing to right IPv6 should be setup for SLAAC, in which case they would give you an entire /64. I don’t use OpenWRT, but I assume it’s showing you the IPv6 /64 for reference, and the /128 of the router in case you need to hit the router using it? If it’s SLAAC your client devices should be getting two IPv6 addresses as well. One is for privacy, that’s the one websites will see when you connect but can’t be hit, and the other is the one you would use to reach your computer from another device.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 3 weeks ago:
An AIO or air cooler aren’t as impactful as the environment in my experience. Throw your computer in the corner of a room and that AIO ain’t gonna help.
If you do go AIO, make sure you do it right.
Either case, good airflow design does wonders - air cooled or AIO.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I was wondering why it was extra cold today. Makes sense now, thanks!
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 1 month ago:
It’s also more distinct. CP has many potential definitions. CSAM only has the one I’m aware if.
- Comment on A secret cord 1 month ago:
I know if I were to setup the V2L feature on my car to power my home it would look like this (the manual way). But there would be a physical interlock that prevents mains power from being on while this is plugged in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Streaming like movies and TV, or like Twitch?
And free as in the legal free ones, or illegal free ones?
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 2 months ago:
Your connection being fine during downtime is a new detail not in your original post that changes the dynamics. That being said I believe my other response should be helpful.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 2 months ago:
Well, it can’t hurt to cross it off. You don’t need to get a domain from a registrar that offers dynamic DNS, you just need to register a domain (or try another dynamic DNS like the other user suggested) and use a DNS provider that is free and offers an API. I personally use Cloudflare, there are plenty of guides for setting up a dynamic record on CF.
For registering a domain you can use an affordable registrar, I’m a Porkbun customer - for a
.comdomain it’s like $11 for a year. No need to spend monthly. - Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 2 months ago:
Ha, if he said duckDNS I was going to recommend something more reliable like freedns.afraid.org.
That being said, the description in his post doesn’t make it seem that way.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 2 months ago:
Let’s back up some - a free dynDNS provider would not cause connection issues, unless DNS resolution itself stopped working - which is unlikely. It sounds more like the Internet you’re running off of itself has issues. What in particular is making you blame the dynDNS? Who is it?
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 2 months ago:
There’s no legal precedent for this, but I definitely would follow that journey if someone did try to do something like this through proper channels lol.
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted option for webcomics? 2 months ago:
I’m unsure, but I’m an avid user of Mihon (formerly Tachiyomi). Basically God’s gift to Android. Would recommend giving it a look!
- Comment on PRUSA releases the OpenPrintTag, open source standard for filament spool identification and data tracking 2 months ago:
For an open source system I think it’s mainly just a matter of when. Granted there are currently complaints with the licensing for the system, so that might hurt/kill traction.
- Comment on Should I replace NPM? 2 months ago:
Even back then caddy was being talked about. I don’t use caddy because, at least back then, it was only free for non commercial use (unless you compile it yourself).
I’ve been using Traefik for even longer though and haven’t ran into any major issues. Definitely recommend it.
- Comment on This is a GREAT idea 2 months ago:
This is “OCDA”. This guy actually did this to a company we were considering partnering with, which is how I found out about him.
Turns out, no surprise, he does no fact checking and can harass companies who did nothing wrong. He’s been sued and is in the process of being sued again.
There are a whole slew of other issues with his approach as well… Shitty all around.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t look at it that way. Even companies not leveraging AWS directly will be impacted.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 3 months ago:
The drama here isn’t solely over the use of AI. In fact, your last comment any brainlessly using AI is closer to the cause of this drama. The project lead is pushing untested code straight to main, and the fact it was AI generated was an addendum/insult to injury.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 4 months ago:
I switched to Docker ages ago and don’t regret it. The other benefit aside from the “works on my machine” is that usually it’s very easy to back up with minimal bloat, especially for projects that don’t document what you should be backing up.
I can, and have, switch hosts on a moments notice and only have to mess with DNS updates.
Although I’ve been procrastinating switching to rootless Docker.
The only thing I run on a VM right now is Home Assistant. But I do that with Cockpit and KVM/virsh.
- Comment on Choosing my first printer is driving me mad. 4 months ago:
As much as I’m worried about Bambu doing a rug pull (and they already have to a certain extent), my P1S is my 5th 3d printer, but my first casual one. I can leave it unused for 6 months, then just print something with no warning and first print success.
- Comment on How to prepare for future home server upgrade? 4 months ago:
All my backups are tested, so upgrades (or recovering from a failure) are usually straightforward. The only thing I don’t back up is my collection of Linux ISOs, but that I can easily reacquire.
- Comment on Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files 5 months ago:
I’m going to wait on the outcome of these lawsuits and the discovery process before I lean one way or the other.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 6 months ago:
I acknowledge that, this is the result of unbridled capitalism.
When a person uses social engineering and manipulation to extract money from an individual or company it’s called fraud, when a large enough company does it it’s just business.
If only our government could give us some handy dandy consumer protection laws.