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AWS networking concepts in a diagram
Before March 2023 I couldn’t for the life of me understand what was going on in the AWS VPC dashboard. I mean, look at the length of the scrolling bar on the left-hand panel! So, with the goa…
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 255 posts.
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I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
The time has come to talk about something uncomfortable to a lot of you. You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6. But, of course, there’s a lot more to IPv6 than ‘just’ switching everything over. A lot of systems in the world still haven’t…
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The internet wants to be fragmented
Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.
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Quad9 wins appeal against Sony
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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AWS Customers Cannot Escape IPv4
AWS will charge for IPv4 addresses but its IPv6 support lacks severely
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Mullvad becomes highest level of Tor Member (Shallot)
Mullvad has been a Tor Project Vidalia Onion Member since 2021 and has now become a Shallot Onion Member of Tor.
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Tailscale Funnel now available in beta
Learn how Tailscale Funnel lets users securely share local web servers with the public internet. Learn how to set up Funnel with TLS encryption, DNS management, and improved CLI commands for an easy, secure connection.
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Choose your own IP
Gain full control over IP address allocation in your Tailscale network, enabling efficient management and compatibility with other systems.
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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
Media over QUIC: The long path to use something else for real-time media.
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Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)
Major Hayden made a simple and free tool to check the public-facing IP address of infrastructure. Its popularity nearly killed it.
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The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
Border Gateway Protocol is the de facto protocol that directs routing decisions between different ISP networks, and is generally known as the “glue” that holds the internet together. It’s safe to say that the internet we currently know would not function without working BGP implementations.
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Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer
Reverse engineering the ESP32 Wi-Fi hardware registers
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Removing support for forwarded ports
Today we announce that we no longer support port forwarding. New port forwards will no longer be supported, and existing ports will be removed 2023-07-01.
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Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat...
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Building end-to-end security for Messenger
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …
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SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
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Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
Online privacy isn't just about a VPN. That’s why we have developed the Mullvad Browser.
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Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
Falcon enables an order-of-magnitude improvement over software-only transports. Today at the OCP Global Summit, Google is excited to open Falcon to the ecosystem through the Open Compute Project.
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Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Tuesday 9 May 2023. Additionally, total internet shutdowns have been observed on mobile ...
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Stop trying to make social networks succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
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Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
Why the integration has been removed from Home Assistant in 2023.10.2.
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Tailscale doesn't want your password
Tailscale ditches passwords for passkeys, offering a secure, phishing-resistant, and convenient way to authenticate. Learn how passkeys work, why they’re better than passwords, and how to set them up on your tailnet.
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Gluon, a high-performance IMAP library
Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.
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There’s more than one way to write an IP address (2019)
There's more than one way to write an IP address: decimal, hex, octal, overflowed octets and omitted zeroes all resolve to the same host. A fun trick to mess …
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Increasing QUIC and UDP Throughput over Tailscale
Recent optimizations in Tailscale improve UDP throughput, boosting performance for QUIC, HTTP/3, and other UDP-based applications on Linux.
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Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
The distributed social network Mastodon has grown to 12.8 million user accounts, supporting itself through user