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ungleich blog
Company blog · ungleich.ch/u/blogsystemsweb
ungleich blog is the company blog at ungleich.ch, writing about systems and web. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “Turn off DoH, Firefox”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the ungleich blog for IPv6 and ULA address notes, DNS-over-HTTPS, and self-hosting how-tos such as the Emacs server and remote browser posts. It also promotes the company's hosting products.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Datacenter run by 100% renewable energy. Secure VM hosting in Switzerland. IPv6 VPS. We support UNIX, IPv6, Devuan, FOSS, Digital Glarus, and Hack4Glarus.
Most-linked posts?
- Turn off DoH, Firefox3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
- A DNS name for every IPv6 address out there3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-12
- How to Distinguish IPv6 and IPv4 Traffic with Nginx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-27
- Running the Browser in the Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-18
- Enabling IPv6 in Docker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-13
- Managing IPv4 Islands with Jool and OpenWrt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-15
- Which IPv6 only services do you know?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-07
- Emacs Server the Fun Way2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-23
- Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-23
What Hacker News says?
IPv6 VPN is available for free from https://ungleich.ch/ipv6/vpn/ if you buy a VM from them. Haven't tested it, just rembered datacenterlight from a HN thread about buying a mainframe.
Comment linking /ipv6/vpn/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Turn off DoH, Firefox as a story · 408 points
HN discussionthere's some list of ULA ranges allocated to organizations, no? edit: ah, unfortunately it's not really standard, just a grassroots effort https://ungleich.ch/u/projects/ipv6ula/
Comment linking /u/projects/ipv6ula/
on “.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications”Submitted Linux distros without systemd as a story · 318 points
HN discussion>Windows will try to auto configure with a 169.254 link local if DHCP is unavailable. Not sure if anyone is actually using them for LAN. They come up sometimes in point to point or for other shenanigans (commonly on cloud or virtualized networks for special services) I've seen it done few times for niche devices and I've done it a few times when I needed a really quick network operational and didn't want to bother s…
Comment linking /u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
on “Czech republic sets IPv4 end date”Submitted The importance of decentralisation as a story · 300 points
HN discussionThat link redirects me to https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-f... , which, what the hell? It also seems to be conflating me using CloudFlare's DNS with me using DoH. Also, they're ironically removing my choice, because I chose CloudFlare's DNS yet I can't see the content because of that.
Comment linking /en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/
on “Kerbal Space Program 2 release disrupted by corporate strife”Submitted OpenVPN vs. WireGuard – A Short Comparison as a story · 52 points
HN discussionThat was a really bad miscommunication - especially as we are running out of IPv4 in Europe this month . - see https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/when-does-ripe-run-out-of-ipv4-ad...
Comment linking /u/blog/when-does-ripe-run-out-of-ipv4-addresses/
on “The importance of decentralisation”Submitted A love letter to ISC bind as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThere are btw. IPv6 only hosters out there, e.g. https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/ but other are offering IPv6-only as a cheaper option. Yes, it is not totally mainstream yet.
Comment linking /en-us/cms/
on “India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption”Submitted An Introduction to NAT64 as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSome what relevant https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/how-to-run-your-browser-in-the-cl... (which will ultimately lead you to https://guacamole.apache.org/ )
Comment linking /u/blog/how-to-run-your-browser-in-the-cloud/
on “Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced”Submitted [matrix] Conduit Beta at Ungleich as a story · 36 points
HN discussionBut that does not make his solution any less valid. Or does it? In fact, keeping something preloaded and ready to go is quite common, these two examples are off the top of my head: - The Emacs server way - https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/emacs-server-the-smart-way/ - SSH connection reuse.
Comment linking /u/blog/emacs-server-the-smart-way/
on “Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag”Submitted Linux distros without systemd (2019) as a story · 35 points
HN discussion* https://ungleich.ch/ * https://sourcehut.org/ * https://codeberg.org/ * https://www.ccc.de/ * https://new.paralelnipolis.cz/ * your local hackerspace or makerspace
Comment linking /
on “Tornado Cash and collateral damage”Submitted 100% automated, official certificates for Docker containers as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI don't see a benefit of the built in DoH in firefox since it is shifting the trust from my existing DNS provider to cloudflare[1] (based in the US). Today I discovered that I couldn't just kill the disqus.com requests with my usual method by sink-holing them in /etc/hosts because for some reason firefox ignored the /etc/hosts file. While Chrome seemed to work fine and local dig requests also returned disqus.com. 0…
Comment linking /en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/11/turn-off-doh-firefox/
on “DoH Privacy Enhancement: Do Not Set the User-Agent Header for DoH Requests”Submitted Enabling Hackerspaces with IPv6 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionungleich, a hosting company in Switzerland, is a big supporter of Devuan, a systemd-free fork of Debian: https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2017/12/10/the-importance...
Comment linking /en-us/cms/blog/2017/12/10/the-importance-of-devuan/
on “OpenBSD for Linux Users”Submitted Running the Browser in the Cloud as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThere are a bunch of people providing turnkey Matrix hosting - e.g. https://element.io/matrix-services from Element, or https://etke.cc/ and https://ungleich.ch/u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/ .
Comment linking /u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/
on “$120k a year for Slack with 1k users”Submitted Enabling IPv6 in Docker as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYup, "bitter" sounds about right. I'd be first to agree that Matrix hasn't evolved as rapidly as it should, and we (specifically me) could and should have been more focused. Building out future-looking projects like P2P Matrix or Low Bandwidth or Third Room has helped inspire folks to build on Matrix, but it's come at the expense of focus on the core spec & implementations. And that's one of the main reasons (beside…
Comment linking /u/products/hosted-matrix-chat/
on “Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix”Submitted New EU draft endagers everyone's security as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere's virtually nothing on this, I guess nobody cares enough about IPv6 to spend time to actively remove IPv4 on their home. I did it, mostly for fun and because I hate managing a dual stack: I have been running a 100% IPv6-only network at home for a couple of years, now. It works by having several IPv6-only subnets and a dual stack router (running openwrt) that performs stateful NAT64 [1] using Jool. This allows…
Comment linking /u/blog/managing-ipv4-islands-with-jool-and-openwrt/
on “Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux”Submitted Via-ipv6.com: enabling IPv4 sites for IPv6 only networks as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The IPv6 ULA registry is back as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to store your data without CO2 emission as a story · 6 points
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