I've tested just about every DNS provider I could find. Self-hosting and Bunny aside, my needs are especially well met by CloudDNS and LuaDNS.

https://www.cloudns.net/premium/

https://www.luadns.com/pricing.html

I've found every other offering to be lacking. Some examples: Cloudflare is alright but has settings footguns if you're not used to Their Way of Doing It™ (e.g., before using DNSControl, I had to manually flip switches to turn off proxying every time I updated my zones). deSEC is free and okay, but sometimes quite slow to propagate and its UI+API are unwieldy. DNS Made Easy is often pushed on social media, but it's ridiculously pricey for what you get if you don't need a SLA. DNSimple seemed nice but IIRC I couldn't get a different API token per zone (?).

I'm currently relying mainly on LuaDNS. For me, it functions as a "dumb" DNS host (i.e., not using their Lua configuration-as-code system). Their API is oddly designed, but it's been passable since a recent-ish update, which has allowed me to safely port my zone files to DNSControl.

https://dnscontrol.org

> DNSimple seemed nice but IIRC I couldn't get a different API token per zone (?).

We overhauled our account tokens a few years back: https://blog.dnsimple.com/2023/11/scoped-access-tokens/ . With account tokens you can specify fine-grained scoped access control, including specifying only one or more zones that a token has read or read/write access to.

I think you're right about dnsimple tokens unless they've changed recently. I ended up writing a proxy that held the powerful token and then issued its own tokens to get around that... A bit convoluted

Annoying for dynamic DNS and DNS ACME challenges where you want a server to manage its own records and nothing else

I've put a comment on the parent thread, but unless I've misunderstood what the poster said, we addressed the limitation back in 2023 with scoped access tokens.

Military-style ARPANET designed primarily for nuclear warfare?

Oh, come on people. You don't need a cloud service for this. Just use the is-seven NPM package.

$ du -sh node_modules/

371M node_modules/

>One upside of this looming economic and intellectual depression is that the media is beginning to recognise gate keepers are no longer the hand that feeds them.

In what world is "the media" not an integral, tightly-bound part of the ratchet mechanism that seeks to suppress all distinction?

>Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights issues

Huh?

I've received many compliments for my Rolexes, and only ever a question about my Pebble. Nobody has ever expressed any interest in my Apple Watch.

A rolex is jewelry, meant to be flashy and catch the eye. Pebbles and apple watches are some of the least interesting things you could put in your wrist lol

And think about it. EVERY SINGLE person that died before 2015 never wore an apple watch. Coincidence? I dont think so.

Strangely: "Searches are, unexpectedly, more expensive for us to serve than AI. A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search."

https://kagifeedback.org/d/1338-provide-a-plan-without-ai-fu...

> A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search.

Unless I am missing something, that appears to be a mathematically impossible claim. They are saying A > A+B, where both A and B are positive values. I suppose it could be that non-AI users do more total searches, and the extras add up. Hmm.

I think their point is that an AI user makes fewer searches on average because AI helps ttem find what they’re looking for faster.

They're likely saying that at equal usage, the user with mixed usage will cost less because the cost of B is lower than A.

how do you quantify equal usage?

How can this be true? Should I not worry about margin compression at Google due to heavy cap-ex requirements anymore? Is this temporary because Kagi got a good deal for tokens? Are they paying through their noses for the Google search API calls? I don't get it.

Because they pay API costs to send the search to SerpApi. I forget exactly what the cost was for them per-search and I'm having little luck finding it, but I know they've published that cost before and I know it's more than a whole cent. By comparison, running a good but not top-tier model to answer the same question might run a small fraction of a cent. Cheaper than a follow up query by the user.

Yeah, that reply is a mildly infuriating, in view of what they're planning.

Golang is also "unmaintained" so you're in good company.

I had to go check. You're right: https://gitclassic.com/golang/go Made me chuckle. Then when I click it it doesn't explain why it is declaring it unmaintained. Pretty insulting. Not a good user experience at all.

Your bank's insurer trusts Google's security more than yours, and they must surely (and rightfully) believe that while Google would spy on you, they wouldn't steal your bank account.

That's a much more precise and accurate way to describe the situation.

Oh no, Iran, please don't destroy our giant public-private surveillance apparatus!

I've seen another headline today suggesting the UK might drop to a 3-day workweek to conserve fuel.

Like damn, between reduced work-weeks and the prospect of wrecking our government-entwined spyvertising parasites, maybe the war was a good idea...