While some of the things that Cloudflare do are only possible through their massive scale, they also do a lot of things that are perfectly fine to do successfully also on a smaller scale.

For one example of one such thing, see:

https://dev.to/carrie_luo1/how-i-replaced-cloudflare-waf-with-an-open-source-self-hosted-alternative-2k1h

Don’t be so quick to assume that its’ a mistake!!!

It’s never really about the price, it’s about the convenience.

My questions is because im not deleting the disk im actually wiping the disk, where is it storing the code for the wipe disk operation to run from?

Without knowing anything about any of the software you’re asking about, I can still say that RAM would be a very good guess, anything that was read from disk would normally store itself in RAM before modifying the disk it was read from.

I have to imagine it’s some big unique thing that puts you in mind of half naked navy sailors swabbing the deck to show tunes or something with how often I’ve seen it refrenced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQi0FkPYT8U

Now I feel a need to know: does Grindr really have a custom notification noise, one that sounds different from any other app!?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-UoERHaSQg

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P45E0uGVyeg

I don’t have any such keys.

Would it not be easy for them to block access to VPNs if they outlaw them?

Not necessarily. It’s reasonably easy to keep long lists of known IP address ranges of known VPN providers and block access to these, but VPN traffic to a not well known IP address is generally impossible to distinguish from perfectly legal encrypted traffic such as a VPN connection to a corporate intranet. (There are also VPN protocols that are made deliberately hard to identify at all.)

Don’t forget the Celtic influence that gave English the meaningless do.

Just in case there’s someone here who’d like to know: that “cold cupboard” technology that preceded the refrigerator in people’s homes is called Eisschrank in German.

Is there any reason to do full disk encryption, vs encrypting a single partiton or a folder with eCryptfs?

One obvious reason is that it just is very simple to encrypt the entire disk and be done with it.

ELI5: Why would a VPN provider ever need to have their own app? They don’t have their own VPN technology, do they?

TIL: Steam has 32-bit support.