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At 01:02 GMT on September 2 a cross band FM amateur radio repeater with a downlink on 437.800 MHz was activated on the International Space Statio. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Stati…
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet.
John Villasenor warns about the vulnerabilities of businesses and schools using one videoconferencing platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published RFC8890, The Internet is for End Users, arguing that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) should ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet, and that it should take positive steps to achieve that.
Comparing SSH keys: RSA, DSA, ECDSA, and Ed25519 explained, with a straight algorithm recommendation and the move from keys to certificates. Read on.
I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind.
A Akamai é a empresa de cibersegurança e computação em nuvem que potencializa e protege negócios online.
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
The evolution of systems monitoring technology decisions and practices for multi-machine Hyperfeed and predictive technology.
I recently watched Build an enterprise-grade service mesh with Traffic Director , featuring Stewart Reichling and Kelsey Hightower of GCP, and of course Google Cloud’s Traffic Director . Coming at this with a brain steeped in 5½ years of AWS technology and culture was surprising in ways that seem worth sharing.
Motivation Despite using a FTTH internet connection since 2014, aside from the one fiber uplink, I had always used network gear with 1 Gbit/s links over regular old rj45 cat5(e) cables. I liked the simplicity and uniformity of that setup, but decided it’s time to add at least one fiber connection, to get rid of a…
The new Mastodon release brings you a much better audio player and improved support for different audio and video formats, as well as some additional security mechanisms. The audio player has been completely reworked to have a more eye-catching design. It will extract album art from the uploaded audio file…
(This post was originally written as a reply on the mailop mailing-list, but a friend asked me to turn it into a blog post. I’ve edited it, mostly adding more links to elsewhere, but there are some additions here.)
A few years ago I wrote [_The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design_](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810). I'm still proud of that article, bu...
On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly. This affected their DNS service, and of course, as everybody knows, when your DNS is gone,…
EAs of the 5th July 2020, there are 1357 Tor bridges available for users in countries who censor the Tor network to use. Having just over 1,000 IP addresses is not a lot for such a big privacy network as Tor is, especially considering that the number of Tor Bridges peaked at 4,227 on the 4th January 2015. That means…
hi! Yes, it's been a while since I posted here and yes, it's been a while since I was actively working on FreeBSD's wireless stack. Life's...
Hi everyone, We are incredibly excited to announce that Riot is now Element! In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services. For those discovering us for
Globally, more than 3.5 billion people are still not connected to the internet. With average data usage per person growing 20 to 30 percent annually, legacy bandwidth-limited technologies have been…
Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
