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Cloudflare crawl endpoint
Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
init7 recently announced that with their FTTH fiber offering Fiber7, they will now sell and connect you with 25 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X2) or 10 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X) fiber optics, if you want more than 1 Gbit/s. While this offer will only become available at my location late this year (or possibly later due to the supply chain…
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The End of Gmane?
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists thos…
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Learning DNS in 10 Years
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
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TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds
A design flaw in TP-Link Wi-Fi repeater firmware causes it to waste an excessive amount of bandwidth on NTP timekeeping. DDoS’ed public NTP servers in the process.
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JIT WireGuard
Our fancy WireGuard setup was accumulating stale peers. Here's what we did about it.
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You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list
My home IP ended up on Cloudflare’s naughty list for six days. Most websites and many apps loaded slowly, partially, or not at all. Just had to wait it out.
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BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon
So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...
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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN's internal DNS handles all queries.
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Reversing UK mobile rail tickets
The UK has used small credit-card sized tickets to pay for train travel for years and years, since long before I was born — originally theAPTIS ticket1,which...
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.
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100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
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Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error: cloudflare.webp Most of these sites are n...
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Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
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Secure Secure Shell
No ads, no tracking. Ever.<br/> <strong>blog.stribik.technology</strong> is completely static, without cookies or javascript.<br/> <strong>comments.stribik.technology</strong> uses javascript and local storage, it's loaded when you click
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Apple TV, now with more Tailscale
Learn how Apple TV now supports Tailscale with tvOS 17, enabling secure remote networking, media streaming, and exit node functionality. Transform your Apple TV into a powerful networking tool today!
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eBay is port scanning visitors to their website
Websites are scanning for open ports on your PC to help fight fraud, but this data also flows into a massive, global tracking database.
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Rocketlab acquires Iridium
Unites Rocket Lab's leading launch and satellite manufacturing capabilities with Iridium's global network, spectrum, and experience to unlock critical space applications. Adds material revenue scale and is significantly accretive to Rocket Lab's cash flow generation and profitability.
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More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…
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Unifi Travel Router
Take your UniFi network anywhere. The UniFi Travel Router recreates your full network environment on power up, with flexible uplinks, instant policies, and seamless device connectivity.