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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,021 posts.
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On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
Safari 11 was the first Safari version to support WebRTC.
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Protest against the EU radio lockdown
We are facing a EU regulation which may make it impossible to install a custom piece of software on most radio decives like WiFi routers, smartphones and embedded devices. You can now give feedback on …
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ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It
The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called ETS (or...
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ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts
Announcement that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) believes there is an ongoing and significant risk to key parts of the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure and is calling for the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across all unsecured domain names.
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Tracking my phone's silent connections
FOSS and life. Kushal Das talks here.
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SOCKMAP – TCP splicing of the future
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I scanned Austria
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
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The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
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The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...
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DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering
If you’re a programmer, a systems administrator, or really any type of IT worker, you probably have your favorite go-to IP addresses for troubleshooting.
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What would a EvE online Internet look like?
EvE online is a fascinating game. It’s one of the few MMO’s that only have a single “server” to log into, meaning everyone is playing on the same logical world. It’s also had a fascinating set of events that have happened inside it, and also remains a very visually appealing game for what it is:
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Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data
This image shows the far side of the Moon, as well as our own planet Earth. It was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2 satellite (call sign BJ1SN), currently in orbit around the Moon, and transmitted back to Earth where it was received with the…
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Matrix at FOSDEM 2019
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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HTTP/3: from root to tip
Explore HTTP/3 from root to tip and discover the backstory of this new HTTP syntax that works on top of the IETF QUIC transport.
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JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really
With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…
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TLS Termination for Network Load Balancers
When you access a web site using the HTTPS protocol, a whole lot of interesting work (formally known as an SSL/TLS handshake) happens to create and maintain a secure communication channel. Your client (browser) and the web server work together to negotiate a mutually agreeable cipher, exchange keys, and set up a…
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Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
The network stack does several seemingly-impossible things. It does reliable transmission over our unreliable networks, usually without any detectable hiccups. It adapts smoothly to network congestion. It provides addressing to billions of active nodes. It routes packets around damaged network infrastructure…
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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5G: if you build it, we will fill it
What is 5G? Why do we care? How much faster does the pipe get? What can we do with a fatter pipe? How does this relate to VR? Cars? Broadband? What’s the killer app? Really, unless you work in a few very narrow niches, you shouldn’t spend much time thinking about it.
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Networking on AWS (2018)
Disclaimer: I’m not a network engineer and never have been - a tame network engineer has been consulted to ensure factual and terminological accuracy. The following is an in-exhaustive run down of everything I’ve learnt from building and using network infrastructure on Amazon Web Services. If you find you have no…
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