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The biggest internet tumors

After the omnipresent cookie notice, the next internet tumor is the Cloudflare captcha or Turnstile or whatever it is called. It does not stop scraping, but it does block three times in a row legitimate browsing and the automatic check fails to validate in 9 out of 10 cases.

Censorship and control start with DNS

Recently two “independent” DNS services have been disseminated and promoted for European Union users across X, Reddit and some other social media networks. They are DNS4EU and DNS0 and they both seem to advertise pretty much the very same thing. Safe DNS. They are both apparently non-profit, which means pretty much government funded, and, they

Node is pure garbage

I have always considered Node to be pure garbage, for its dependencies, for the fact that for specific software versions you need specific Node versions etc. But there is more to it than meets the eye. Node’s supply chain is insecure and prone to attacks. A bunch of very widely used web building blocks (npm