mobilio's comments

On: Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end

[mobilio]

Huge list of providers in that price range

https://lowendbox.com/

On: Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

[mobilio]

Here is GTA JSON bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339

On: RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015)

[mobilio]

And me too!

On: A look back: WordPerfect on DOS (2023)

[mobilio]

It's even worse than you expect!

Around 2000 i found that if you have document with header/footer with auto page numbers and merge it with few pages from other document also with page numbers you get huge mess in numbering.

Some weird happens like: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (here is doc N:2) 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, (continues doc N:1) 7, 8, 9

And you can't just reset page numbers, because you need to be on inserted page and there to do reset.

On: Canoeing on the Danube

[mobilio]

I live in Bulgaria to Danube river.

Every year there was TID: https://www.tour-international-danubien.org/index_E.php

On: Ask HN: What do you use for analytics for a statically generated website?

[mobilio]

Cloudflare Analytics: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/web-analytics/

[tombert → mobilio]

Oh! I didn't know Cloudflare had a free analytics service.

That's probably the easiest thing while not adding Google to my stack.

On: Bitly injecting ads into shortened links

[mobilio]

ALL links.

But you can turn this off for links if you are using paid account. This setting is unavailable for free accounts.

On: Trader Who Made $1B in Single Bet Sues Deutsche Bank

[mobilio]

Link:

https://archive.md/eH1YZ#selection-1361.0-1361.59

On: Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost

[mobilio]

It looks as a job for Cloudflare: https://cloudflaremirrors.com/

But i don't know who is responsible for that.

[rollcat → mobilio]

While I have mixed feelings about Cloudflare, I don't see why you have been downvoted. This is on topic for the discussion, already implemented for a couple distros, etc.

The question of "who is responsible": anyone is free to run their own mirror, after all this software is freely redistributable.

As for "why not", if I were to lead a project like Alpine, I would insist that the org stays in control of its own infrastructure. Mirrors are also only one chunk of the problem; you also need builder machines.

[bananapub → rollcat]

> I don't see why you have been downvoted.

presumably because it's a silly idea, given Cloudflare isn't a colo or dedicated server company and they won't let you just rack machines in their DCs for the same reason Google won't.

On: Old Games Magazines

[mobilio]

Благодаря!

In English: Thank you!