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Later this year, on November 21, 2017, D-Bus will see its 15th birthday. An impressive age, only shy of the KDE and GNOME projects, whose collaboration inspired the creation of this independent IPC system. While still relied upon by the most recent KDE and GNOME releases, D-Bus is not free of criticism. Despite its…
The distributed social network Mastodon has grown to 12.8 million user accounts, supporting itself through user
AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion
Mastodon won't be the next Twitter, and it's not because of Bluesky. The ideals and execution won't scale.
It wasn't my intent to have this next post be about locating a source of a transmitter - but the temptation proved irresistible. Over the pa...
We're so excited to announce that Video Rooms is entering beta in Element, just as a new Room Search is exiting beta!
New data from ITU suggest a ‘COVID connectivity boost’ – but the world’s poorest are still being left far behind, with 2.9 billion people still offline.
UCSB researchers’ new method enables high-quality imaging of still objects with WiFi by using the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the corresponding Keller cones to trace edges of the objects.
It's normal for post-quantum cryptography to be rolled out as an extra layer of security on top of traditional pre-quantum cryptography, rather than as a replacement .
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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As was mentioned in the original 1.1.1.1 blog post, our policy is to never write client IP addresses to disk and wipe all logs within 24 hours. Still some folks might not want to reveal their IP address to the resolver at all. This is why we are launching a Tor hidden service for our resolver.
IP addresses & routing
The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.
This post is part of a series about the wonderful world of clusters. Check out the first post for an overview of what clusters are all about. In this post we will take a peek under the hood of our hosting infrastructure and walk through how we made hosting work in a multi-cluster world. Hosting overview If you didn't…
Google has recently fixed a bug in Chrome with a big implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC / H.265 video content.
There are a bunch of reasons to launch an onion site, and a bunch of benefits, all of which have provided value to platforms such as Facebook, the BBC or NYT Onions. The first benefits are authenti…
Tailscale performance updates reduce memory use, increase throughput, and speed startup with multi-queue, writev, and netmap caching.
It's the first of the new year, which means we ought to do something momentous to mark the occasion, like a short piece about telephones. Why so much on telephones lately? I think I'm just a little burned out on software at the moment and I need a vacation before I'm excited to write about failed Microsoft ventures…
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
OpenSSH release notes
μWWVB is a watch stand that automatically sets the time on atomic wristwatches where regular WWVB signal isn't available.
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
That’s the title of RFC 7258 , also known as BCP 188 (where BCP stands for “Best Current Practice”); it represents Internet Engineering Task Force consensus on the fact that many powerful well-funded entities feel it is appropriate to monitor people’s use of the Net, without telling those people. The consensus is…
Using latency measurements to infer when a globally used application is served only from us-east-1.
