It’s possible it could be a local firewall that is reaching out to their cloud for lists of bad IP addresses or domains or a local firewall that is configured from a cloud interface. The other case is it could be web application firewall or WAF which where a company intercepts traffic, drops malicious requests and forwards it to your actual web server

Basically every game without anticheat runs on Linux now

The issue isn’t how it’s built or based on its that Microsoft can use its control of the os to make it extremely difficult to avoid it.

AI is worse than crypto. Most crypto projects use proof of stake which is way more resource efficient than mining. Also the mining that does happen usually happens where there is excess generation instead of azure datacenters

I believe mods tried this and reddit purged the mods when subreddits only allowed John Oliver images.

Usually in the observability space it is primarily based on the volume of data and sometimes seat count. Especially if it’s freemium like elastic where users can get an idea of volume by running a POC of the free version. Companies do this because of small teams who deploy large infra that would make contracts unprofitable

I have been using cheogram but I’m not sure where their servers are hosted https://cheogram.com/

I fail to see how that differs from the current Internet

Devs understand http and json way better than imap and http can support modern security protocols like oidc which standards imap doesn’t support which can make using foss email in a corporate environment

Only proof of work crypto currencies require a ton of energy and the only way it’s profitable is by buying energy that would otherwise be wasted like methane flaring or excess renewable generation.

I have been loving miniflux. It has been pretty set and forget. They have nice android apps and you can pay them to host it for you

Thunderclient for vscodium

For personal or family use the built in Google family tools are good enough for most things but they become more useful the more devices you are responsible for. From a user prospective I’m not putting it on something unless work bought it for me because it’s spyware