Mastodon is pretty cool and proof that we can make federation work.
A lot of people here don't just run trivial hobby sites. They work for companies that actually have a real need for DDOS and WAF protection. Maybe you have no experience with that, but it is extremely common and even required for sites that require compliance certifications like SOC2.
The main advantage Cloudflare has is that it is free and a big brand.
Yes, all the damned time.
Some people must have experienced a completely different internet from the one I've had to run servers on over the years. I've had tiny, local sites for customers randomly get gigabytes of traffic per second for days. No rhyme or reason why. Try to run anything with a forum on it where people have strongly held beliefs, yea eventually you'll get a DDOS. Have a site where some global competitor can influence your sales by slowing traffic on important holidays... you can see where this is going. Heck, I've even worked at ISPs where we had to take particular IPs out of the DHCP pool and null route them because for some reason they were getting traffic blasted for weeks at a time.
While they do sale fear, it's not really an irrational one for those that have worked in the industry.
I had to set up CF for a small local business in a very small country that has ecommerce presence targeted mainly at local population. It just gets non-stop ongoing traffic a hosting provider cannot handle.
Next to the timestamp of the comment there is an "undown" link that reverts the vote. Or an "unvote" link if you upvoted
European HN could focus on its favorite topics of privacy paranoia, "what regulation can we make next?" and tech safetyism, while maybe real HN could go back to Bay Area tech esotericism and fun historical anecdotes.
Obviously this simple check only concerns the technical aspects of the website and doesn't analyse the business itself but I wonder if all .com domains should be marked down?
Expanding "Details", the URL that is hosted on GitHub Pages is... a different website? There's merely a hyperlink to it on my website.
It also says I'm using "self-hosted" fonts - but I don't think I'm doing that at all? I'm just using the browser's fonts. Using non-standard fonts is a bad idea because it causes the content to either be invisible until the font is loaded, or else it initially shows in a fallback font and then the text all jumps when the font is loaded.
EDIT: on further inspection: I get both a red cross AND a green check mark for hosting. So it’s somehow indicating both GitHub and hetzner. Maybe it’s because I merely link to GitHub?
So the tool's a good idea, but currently very inaccurate.
On the other hand my registrar is Namecheap which is in the US and your tool didn't checked for that. I think thats a lot more important in terms of dependance than a link to a social network so you could run a whois lookup to check what registrar is hosting that domain.
There is quite a large issue with sites posting things like current events on social sites like Facebook, or other rapid news events on X. Doing this has the potential to diminish your sovereignty. For example if you tell your users to follow X on the site and you're posting some event that Musk doesn't like, maybe you're posts will disappear.
Is something to think about.
This website is also foreign to Europeans, so what are you then doing here contributing with your comments?
It is probably time for Europeans to start dealing with their problems in different ways than having internal "purity purges". It has never worked, and will never work. It makes people weak and easily defeated in every endeavor.
"Hey France, I know all of a sudden Germany is suddenly running around with black white and red flag, but it's completely cool if we have them manage all of our critical infrastructure". --carlosjobim 1937
I'm in the US. I'm watching what's going on here. If you want to talk about any group doing purity purges, they have ICE printed in big letters on their jackets.
Of course feel free to pull an IBM in the 40's and stick with the regime, it evidently has no long term business repercussions.
If I may, and not trying to be annoying, on my screen the navigation bar (.navigation-wrapper) covers 90% of the top left buttons (aria-label=breadcrumbs).
Happens with both Chrome and Firefox, macOS, 15" macbook pro.
The UI has a few errors on desktop, I cannot see all the issues. The leaderboard... doesn't work ? and the topbar hides some elements
browser: firefox
take my website for example mrtno.com - it's hosted in europe, ok. but under what legislation the domain register is based? and where is the dns server?
those a crucial information. and they are missing.
Is this a parody?
my blog which is hosted on namecheap.com, server whois is Los Angeles, got 100%
I guess this is another vibe coding AI slop service which doesn't even render its own top buttons properly (they're covered by some white div).
Have mercy, web devs!
It has nsa.gov on the leaderboard as having no US dependencies.
It wrongly says one of my sites is using Cloudflare.
It says that one of my sites that is hosted in the US (no CDN, US IP address) has no US dependencies.
it treats social media links the same way was embeds.
it gives gov.uk a perfect score. Maybe by design because it is hosted in Europe, but if so it should not say its EU sovereignty.
I do not think that is the case because it also gives a perfect score to https://english.www.gov.cn/
I do not know how it got to the HN front page - people presumably vote it up without checking it actually works.
Its just not anywhere near accurate.
IMHO: Just scrap the politics and show what regional deps a site has - that'd actually increase value quite a bit.
I'm sure you can define "EU sovereignty" in a way that's consistent with that, but that's not very useful.
I doubt datacenter location matters for anything beyond latency
It remaining alive on the frontpage here only serves to underline how politically irrational the userbase of HN has gotten.
cmkr•1h ago