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I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog… Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals. This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as s…
NOTE : This data is generated by using the ISO 3166 economy code information provided in the allocation and assignment statistics reports as generated by the Regional Internet Registries. This code reflects the economy in which the entity to whom the allocation or assignment was made is located, but does not…
This section is an introduction to TCP/IP programming using a sockets API. (Sockets can also be used to work with other network protocols, such as IPX/SPX and Appletalk, but that is beyond the scope of this document.) The standard socket API was originally developed in the Unix world, but has been ported to OS/400 as…
A field guide to VPNs, proxies, and traffic relaying
Elon Musk laid off about half of Twitter this morning. There are many terrible stories emerging about how this went down, but one that particularly struck me was that he …
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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…
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…
The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
Prior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.
Issues pertaining to SMS (for multifactor auth) in Antarctica.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
A few months ago I stumbled on a tweet pointing out a kind of SFP optic that claimed to be smart, made by a Russian company Plumspace . After going through their Smart SFP product listings I was on-board and decided I needed to have some of them.
How would the current internet function when you're on a native IPv6 host without any IPv4 instead of using any of the IPv4 workarounds? Find out with a few firewall rules!
Erotic web browser fan fiction.
When I got my first iPhone in March I was surprised to find that iMessage didn’t support scheduling messages to be sent at a later time. This feature is pretty common on some other messaging platforms, and it’s especially useful when I remember I need to text my mom (who always has her ringer turned on) about…
Today's video is about Starlink—I've had an active subscription since last February, and as it's been a year, I figured I should post an update. The tl;dr: when I had a new roof put on late last summer, I took down 'Dishy McFlatface', but I haven't put the dish back up. I have been holding out hope I could transfer my…
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
One of the unexpected 1 outcomes of the Russian invasion in Ukraine is a large increase in nefarious access attempts to servers under my control, not necessarily appearing to arise from Russian IP addresses. There are the usual attempts at brute-forcing SSH access, for instance, but also a flurry of malevolent HTTP(S)…
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Sometime in 2024, the IEEE will unveil a new 802.11 standard that will bring new capabilities to everyone’s favorite wireless communication standard. But the upcoming 802.11bf standard isn’t for communication — it’s for sensing. The newest version of Wi-Fi layers on the ability to sense people or objects by using math…
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Floodgap has had a T1 line since I moved into this house in 2011. I'm one of those weirdos who runs my own hardware and prefers to avoid ...
