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How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink
The Renew Europe Group welcomes today’s plenary backing of the EU secure connectivity programme , renamed IRIS² , an ambitious plan to deploy an EU-owned…
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Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors.
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Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine
DNS over HTTPS (DOH) is a feature where a client shortcuts the standard native resolver and instead asks a dedicated DOH server to resolve names. Compared to regular unprotected DNS lookups done over UDP or TCP, DOH increases privacy, security and sometimes even performance. It also makes it easy to use a name server…
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Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi
Learn how to monitor airplane traffic with a Raspberry Pi. Track real-time flight data using PiAware and an ADS-B dongle. Simple setup for aviation enthusiasts!
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How IMAP works under the hood
Learning how the IMAP protocol actually works
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Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”
I'm a software and network engineer living on the west coast. I currently work at Qumulo writing a petabyte-scale CDN with linearizable reads and writes at every edge. Previously, I worked at Arista Networks doing network automation, large scale digital-twin network validation, and routing for SMPTE2110 networks.
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Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification
I was asked to debug another weird issue on our network. Apparently every now and then a connection going through CloudFlare would time out with 522 HTTP error.
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The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person
There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state in which it can be merged. A previous … Continue reading The Gemini…
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A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet
Building an underwater sensor node with SPE and PoDL
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Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
Nextcloud, Waffle Computer and NEC Platforms to bring federated file exchange and collaboration to millions of new users in Japan We are excited to announce that through a partnership with NEC Platforms, Ltd. and Waffle Computer, Ltd., millions of routers will be equipped with Nextcloud, bringing secure, federated and…
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IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
Afnic, the association in charge of the .fr top-level domain and several other French overseas and generic TLDs, announced today the release as free software of its tool named IBDNS, standing for Intentionally Broken DNS.
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You can't trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
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Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.
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Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked
TL;DR: Fritz!Box devices using custom DNS resolution services like Pihole or Adguard might have been compromised by DNS hijacking and using those Fritz!Box devices might be unsafe, especially for Windows users. Update: I updated the article to downscale the severity of the situation. After posting the article on HN, I…
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Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
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Twitter suspended our Open Data project's account and wiped all our followers
On Saturday evening, I was disturbed to discover that our OpenBenches Twitter Account had been suspended! To be clear, OpenBenches posts photos of benches. That’s it. No porn, no spam, no enc…
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Gmail is killing independent email
Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...
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Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed
10stripe is a collection of computer and technology information, providing answers to common questions and concerns.
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Tailnet Lock
Use this article learn how to decide who to trust when it comes to your tailnet’s coordination server and how nodes are added to your tailnet.
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Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software defined radio
FM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed station. Visitors were then invited to walk around the room, contemplating the artifacts of the exhibit.
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase
On Sept. 1, .COM and .XYZ domain prices will increase. Learn why this is happening and what you can do to lock in current pricing.
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The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients
Regular readers will know that I'm very active in the CA / PKI space and even deliver a 2-day advanced training course [https://www.feistyduck.com/training/the-best-ssl-and-tls-training-in-the-world] on the topic. Over the last year or so I've been watching
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usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
usbredir is the name of a network protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection. It is also the name of the software package offering a parsing library, a usbredirhost library and several utilities implementing this protocol.
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Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
New generational approach enables users to easily differentiate between Wi-Fi® technologies
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Modeling Starlink Capacity
Prior attempts to calculate Starlink’s potential for service have been theoretical. We simulate based on the actual constellation.