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Cake day: September 2nd, 2024

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  • I’m curious what the purpose is here, since I don’t see it explained on the linked page. Are they essentially trying to bait the state into issuing fines so they can challenge these laws in court? Or just demonstrate how dumb the laws are?

    Civil disobedience in this way (buying or owning an “illegal” product) doesn’t seem like it would have the same impact as a sit-in against segregation or something like marching on a highway. There’s nothing really visible for media to show off, and no real inconvenience to anyone. The state could just ignore these entirely, right?

    Edit: answered my own question by reading the main Ageless Linux page. Seems like the point is to bait the state AG into fining them, or if not, explain why they aren’t enforcing the law? Dunno if this will do anything but good luck to the project anyway! They certainly have the right spirit.






  • Sure, you’re providing some code for free. Obviously you don’t owe anyone anything. But conversely, nobody owes you their time or attention just because you wrote something.

    If you want people to actually use your code, you probably need to take some responsibility. And listen to the criticisms others have shared here.





  • I switched to a paid domain in the last few months and regret not doing it sooner - it just works, and it’s nice knowing that I won’t have to reconfigure all my stuff to point at a different domain name again in the future. Price was maybe $15/year on porkbun - very much worth it imo.

    I’ve also used freedns in the past and had no complaints about them, except that I think wildcard subdomains are limited to paid supporters (very cheap though) and at the time my SWAG docker image maybe didn’t support them? It’s been a while. The service was great though. Never had problems like I did with duckdns.



  • Yes, it’s why I stopped using DuckDNS and decided to buy my own domain. I used Porkbun and got a cheap one (~$15/year?). It was super easy, and DNS results are lightning fast now; no timeouts/errors/etc. like when I was using DuckDNS.

    My router supports Porkbun for DDNS; it handles updating the A/AAAA records for my domain when my IP changes, but if your router doesn’t have that option, I’m sure there’s a script you could run on a PC or Raspberry Pi, etc. to handle that for you.

    I honestly don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner! I’ve changed DDNS providers a few times over the years and it’s always a pain to update everything that references the old names. It’s great having peace of mind knowing that I own the domain now and won’t have to change again (even if I wanted to leave Porkbun, I could just transfer the domain registration to any number of good alternatives and not have to change my domain name).