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The next SOPA
Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 42 posts.
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What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
Remember when Twitter said that client-app developers would need to “work with us directly” and “need our permission” to exceed 100,000 user-login tokens?
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Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
I've been seeing a lot of posts on the webz lately about how we can fix email. I have to say, I think it's a bit short-sighted.People are saying it has outgr...
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Living with HTTPS
( These are my notes from the first half of my talk at HOPE9 last weekend. I write notes like these not as a script, but so that I have at least some words ready in my head when I'm speaking. They are more conversational and less organised than a usual blog post, so please forgive me the rough edges. )
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A Tor of the Dark Web
Tell me if you’ve been in this situation: you’re chatting about online anonymity with your wife and the other Knight-Mozilla Fellows over a pizza in Florence. A quiet-spoken stranger who had been sitting across the room walks up to your table and says “are you all here for the Tor hackathon?” You respond “why yes, yes…
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Fountain Codes
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under bittorrent , lt-codes , damn-cool-algorithms , fountain-codes
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Websockets 101
Quick introduction into the final specification of websockets (:rfc:6455).
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Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
London's Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page s...
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Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
As with Instagram, the change does not seem to have affected sharing outwards, but will impede users’ ability to follow friends that they may know from Twitter. This is part of Twitter turning the screws on sharing information about the users of its network out to other services like Instagram (and by extension…
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The UK has an entire IPv4 /8 that it isn't using
IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW If you take a look at the list of IPv4 allocated /8 blocks there's one interesting block in there: 51.0.0.0/8 ...
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Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can
I have a stack of half finished projects that I'm trying to complete. Happily, the first one was finished late last night: a long range Wi...
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Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes
Twitter has posted some of their upcoming API-policy lockdowns and restrictions in this post from Michael Sippey , euphemistically titled “Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API”.
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The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You
The argument over the nano-SIM is a distraction. It's a sleight of hand designed to catch the industry off guard and fool it into doing something really stupid. The SIM is designed to do a number of things; encryption, address storage, hold SMS, etc. Most importantly, it's designed to be swappable. With GSM, you can…
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This is the mail system
This is how we tell hundreds of millions of computer users that something has gone wrong: