selfhoster69's comments

On: An update on Twitch in Korea

[selfhoster69]

> Jio also has its own streaming service, which doesn’t count against your data caps.

How does this work? AFAIK JioCinema uses Akamai for content delivery... do they not count data for traffic from their own hosted edge caches or is it something else?

[rsingel → selfhoster69]

Can you point me to where Jio says it zero rates this? This is new to me and very interested

On: Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it

[selfhoster69]

Yep, I faced this same issue when I bought an M2 Air early March. The 16GB BTO upgrade was roughly 40% more expensive compared to the discounted base 8GB model.

On: Show HN: WireHole combines WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound with an easy UI

[selfhoster69]

Replace Pihole and Unbound with AdGuard and this stack will instantly be more efficient, fast and significantly more powerful.

On: USB-C head-to-head comparison

[selfhoster69]

Can someone please explain why the site downloads 600MB+ assets every time the page is reloaded?

[miyuru → selfhoster69]

its the 3D models

On: Giving up the iPad-only travel dream

[selfhoster69]

I agree with this summarization but I don't see an issue with carrying three separate devices (three separate batteries!).

On: Duck DNS

[selfhoster69]

I use DuckDNS for letting Alexa and Google Assistant access my Home Assistant devices.

Not needing to click on a link to “renew” my host name every month is a huge plus.

The biggest issue however is that it doesn’t support CNAMEs so I can’t migrate to a Tailscale Funnel address without redoing the entire setup, since I have a VPS configured to reverse proxy Home Assistant from home, through Tailscale of course.

On: Companies must stop using Google Analytics

[selfhoster69]

As long as it is via domains I am able to block, it is fine.

On: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1

[selfhoster69]

In India, internet providers already provide a portal to the police and other agencies with no accountability.

https://entrackr.com/2022/11/exclusive-indian-isps-we-alread...

On: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1

[selfhoster69]

In my experience, ISPs DNS servers are slower compared to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, especially for "complex" lookups where there are as many as 6 CNAMEs in the DNS chain.

Also, they often run a single instance of bind, with little to no load-balancing.

On: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1

[selfhoster69]

Yep, this is the reason why I'm hesitant to switch ISPs despite crappy service during peak hours. They have PNIs/local CDN hostings/prominent IX peering and good international peering.