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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Remember when google was beloved by everyone back then when they’re still have “don’t be evil” motto? Cloudflare right now is like google back then: super useful, provides a lot of free services that would be expensive on other providers. But unlike google, if cloudflare go full evil in the future, the impact will be much larger because they’re an mitm proxy capable of seeing unencrypted traffics across all websites under their wing. Right now they’re serving ~30% of top 10,000 websites and growing.


  • The Philippines and Vietnam, which are on the front lines of territorial disputes with China, maintained strong support for the US. In 2023, the US and the Philippines updated their mutual defense treaty and expanded defense cooperation agreements. Vietnam upgraded its bilateral relations with the US and entered into a maritime cooperation agreement with the Philippines in January 2024. ​

    I think it’s wild that Vietnam, a communist country, aligns more to US instead of China.













  • It’s kinda make sense that the military would want to use homegrown product (in this case, samsung) so they can fully control what’s running. They seem to want a fully locked down device, with wifi, usb, tethering, mic and camera disabled while in premise.

    The reason is purportedly because iPhones do not fully comply with the restrictions outlined by the National Defence Mobile Security, a mobile device management application operated by the military authorities.

    For instance, when activating the security app, it begins to restrict several smartphone functions, including the camera, Wi-Fi, tethering, USB functions and the microphone.

    However, Apple does not allow third-party apps to control iPhones’ inherent features, except for the camera.