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The Librem 5: A Matrix-Native FLOSS Smartphone
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux
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Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland
Uninterrupted, good quality mobile phone reception is extremely important to rail passengers.
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Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails
The Tor Project is a non-profit organization in the United States that created Tor, The Onion Router, a free software that creates an open network of volunteers which helps people anonymize their traffic by routing it through three or more other computers before it reaches its final destination.
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Tor is a great sysadmin tool (2020)
Using Tor to aid various system administration tasks, including checking firewall rules, bypassing internal network restrictions and connecting to remote systems that are behind NAT/CGNAT.
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MarkMonitor left 60k domains for the taking
Thanks to Nagli and d0xing for helping figure out what was happening with this issue.
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The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
Bots have taken over
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You might not need WebSockets
Websockets are powerful tools that have become a fan-favorite for building realtime applications, but you might be using them for all the wrong reasons. Let's explore the pitfalls of websockets and how we can use plain old HTTP to get the same job done.
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ADSL works over wet string (2017)
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (us...
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FTP is 50 years old
FTP was first published the 16th of April 1971
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Bye CUPS: Printing with Netcat
Turns out printing doesn't have to be hard
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
I switched to ProtonMail a few years back after getting fed up with Google. It’s been mostly acceptable, but a few months ago the Android client started mangling emails – if I hit “send” too soon, it would send out only part of what I’d typed; I had to wait 10 seconds or so after I finished typing before hitting send…
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Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
📢Update: My message has been heard and our domain has been unblocked. We never received an explanation - HN might have done it. Thank you everyone for sharing. In my spare time, I maintain an open-source SAAS tool for non-profits that allows you to build an online shop, sell
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1.1.1.1 for Families
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content.
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
We are replacing the de facto protocol the internet has used for decades with QUIC, the latest and most radical step we’ve taken to optimize our network protocols to create a better experience for …
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SSH Handshake Explained
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used Transport Layer Protocol to secure connections between clients and servers. In this post we explain how SSH handshake works.
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Android 14 introduces cellular connectivity security features
Posted by Roger Piqueras Jover, Yomna Nasser, and Sudhi Herle Android is the first mobile operating system to introduce advanced cellular...
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The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!
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JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you
Using the Jitsi iFrame API and mobile SDK, you can embed meetings in any web or mobile app. Learn how to build a custom video experience using our services.
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MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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Turn off DoH, Firefox
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