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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • As with all things email, they probably really wanted to make sure that the mails were delivered and thus were using a commercial MTA to ensure that.

    I’d wager, even at 20 or 30 or 40k a year, that’s way less than it’d cost to host infra and have at least two if not three engineers available 24/7 to maintain critical infra.

    Looking at my mail, over the years I’ve gotten a couple hundred email from them around certificates and expirations (and other things), and if you assume there’s a couple million sites using these certs, I could easily see how you’d end up in a situation where this could scale in cost very very slowly, until it’s suddenly a major drain.



  • I’d argue perhaps the opposite: if you want full moderation and admin freedom, running it on your own instance is the only way to do it.

    If you run it on someone else’s server, you’re subject to someone else’s rules and whims.

    Granted, I have zero reason to think the admins of any of those listed instances would do anything objectionable, but that’s today: who knows what happens six months or a year or two years from now.

    Though, as soon as you start adding stuff to your personal instance, you’re biting off more maintenance and babysitting since you assumably want your stuff to be up 100% of the time to serve your communities, so that’s certainly something to consider.



  • Fennec being a delayed build has been a thing for years at this point: it’s a pain in the ass to get built and in f-droid. I mean, just google ‘fennec f-droid out of date’ and you’ll see people talking about this going back to 2020.

    I didn’t exactly find a stunning shocking unknown thing: Fennec is slow on builds, it got outdated, there was a zero-day in older Firefox versions, and so bam: there’s a security issue in Fennec.

    Might be worth adding the Firefox security RSS feed for anyone using Firefox or a derivative browser so that you’ve got the best information about issues like this.