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There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives
If you are going to work remotely anywhere in Australia from a van, you need damn good internet. Here's how I put together a vehicle with the best internet connectivity in Australia.
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The networkQuality tool on macOS
Getting Started with networkQuality The networkQuality tool is a built-in tool released in macOS Monterey that can help diagnose network issues and measure network performance. In this post, we'll go over how to use the networkQuality tool and some of its key features. Running the Default Tests To
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UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
With "Passive Wi-Fi," UW computer scientists and electrical engineers have generated Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods
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Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace,
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Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st
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Matter – Protocol to connect compatible devices and systems with one another
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol Tuesday and I couldn’t be happier. This means that member companies can now put their devices through the certification protocol and get a badge showing that their products are Matter…
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Internet Vulnerability Takes Down Google
BGP route leak interrupts access to Google’s services throughout the world. Traffic rerouted via Russia and China and slammed into the great firewall.
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Understanding Round Robin DNS
In which I try to understand how browsers and Cloudflare choose which server to use
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The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Services
A few weeks ago, a small group of Tor developers got together in Montreal and worked on onion...
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Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
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Moving our Encrypted DNS servers to run in RAM
We recently announced the completion of our migration to remove all traces of disks in use on our VPN infrastructure.
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
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SSH Agent Explained
The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.
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How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
How to use SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to improve your domain's email security and limit spoofing - but written for humans.
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JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
After four years of development, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone in the evolution of Stalwart — the full implementation of JMAP for Calendars, Contacts, File Storage, and Sharing. With...
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My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission
The Terramaster NAS decided to expose itself to the public internet without asking. Let's see what we can do about it.
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I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
Almost every year a joke RFC is made on April 1st (these have caught on so well, that it’s now common to see more than one of these every year), or April Fool’s Day, and some of them are pretty great. Here are some of my favourites:
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HAProxy 2.0
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments.
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Spam blacklisting is out of control
If you got shuned by the society not because of what you did but what your neighbor did, you will cry bloody injustice. This is exactly what is happening in SPAM blacklisting.
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.
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Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support
We are excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 11, which introduces full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. We’re also bringing in a ton of DNS improvements that we’ll cover in this blog post.
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Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
Back in November we wrote a blog post about one latency spike. Today I'd like to share a continuation of that story. As it turns out, the misconfigured rmem setting wasn't the only source of added latency. It looked like Mr Wolf hadn't finished his job.
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Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
Yesterday Forbes broke the news that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains…
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Opus 1.5 released: Opus gets a machine learning upgrade
This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience. That is achieved through machine learning. Although Opus has included machine learning — and even deep learning — before (e.g. for speech/music detection ), this is the first time…
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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging…