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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • Stupid Question:

    How do I find out if a website I use is hosted over cloudflare? The noscipt javascript blocker extension shows in some cases I blocked some cloudflare javascript. For example on the lemmy.world instance it shows a script labeled cloudflareinsights.com that I block. That apparently provides visitor analytics

    According to them on insights:

    Our edge sees all requests made to a website, regardless of whether it’s cached or uncached, the user has adblock, or they turned off JavaScript. This enables us to […]

    On other sites it shows a “confirm you are human” check-box labeled with the cloudflare brand (if I activate javascript for that site) – according to cloudflare wikipedia that service is known as Cloudflare Turnstile. This is how I currently see if cloudflare is involved.

    Another interesting thing I noticed on stackoverflow is email protected which confirms to me stackexchange also uses cloudflare somehow.

    I guess you could detect a Reverse Proxy by cloudflare based on its IP-Adress ~ but I do not really know how to look that up perhaps the following stack overflow answer might help using the tools nslookup and whois… Any other hints on this?

    nslookup www.monero.town whois -h whois.arin.net n <IP-Adress from prev command> | egrep 'Organization'






  • Why do I prefer the Odysee Video Platform over YouTube? Some technical reasons:

    • native, user friendly RSS support: you can subscribe to channels using an RSS Button on their channel home page, you get a link like this that you can paste in your RSS reader. RSS feed items contain a playable Video on my feed reader, which means I do not need to visit the odysee.com website to watch my subscriptions, and I do not even need an account.
      • upload dates, and watchable Video are very well displayed in my RSS feed reader compared to YouTube feed items, which are a mess of header image and description
      • here is a tutorial how to get rss feeds from Odysee, yt, etc.
    • native, user friendly support for downloading video with a download button under the video (an elipsis button)
    • it is not the youtube monopoly
    • until now: no ads. Peer-tube is also a cool alternative… Some popular youtubers like Distrotube and others tech-youtubers have already an Odysee account.