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Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
Using the Blurhash algorithm in Mastodon 2.8.1 to generate prettier previews for sensitive media
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Networking & Internet
The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 201 posts.
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Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network
“What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?” If you want our answer, it’s Nebula, but I recommend that you read the rest of this short post before clicking that shiny link. At Slack, we asked ourselves…
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New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.
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DNS Wars
NANOG is now quite an institution in the Internet, particularly in the North American Internet community. It was an offshoot of the Regional Techs meetings, which were part of the NSFNET framework of the late 80s and early 90s. NANOG has thrived since then and is certainly one of the major network operational forums…
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Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3
We're thrilled to be so invested in QUIC, a new transport protocol that is more responsive, secure, and flexible than what the internet uses today. Learn why, straight from our very own Jana Iyengar, one of the editors of the core document.
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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience.
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Network Transparency with Wayland
M. Stoeckl's website
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Is there hope for IPv6?
Last year Georgia Tech’s Internet Governance Project teamed up with ICANN’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer to research the economic factors affecting the decisions of network operators to deploy Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The study was commissioned because we both believe that the Internet community…
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It is unlikely that built-in email encryption will ever be available in Gmail
Gmail's end-to-end encryption project seemed dead in 2017. Now it's back, but only for key account customers.
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What would a EvE online Internet look like?
EvE online is a fascinating game. It’s one of the few MMO’s that only have a single “server” to log into, meaning everyone is playing on the same logical world. It’s also had a fascinating set of events that have happened inside it, and also remains a very visually appealing game for what it is:
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The Maturing of QUIC
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.
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Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
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Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Let's experiment with controlling Bluetooth Low Energy devices from a web browser with this LED project and balenaCloud.
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The July Galileo Outage: What happened and why
By bert hubert / bert@hubertnet.nl This post is an excerpt of a far longer post on Galileo, its structures and the cause of the outage. Here we’ll only focus on the outage - the potential underlying reasons behind it are described in the full article. Since the week-long outage in July I’ve been fascinated by Galileo…
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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
These candidates were assessed on a variety of axes, most importantly Community Participation Guideline enforcement and accessibility, but also including team requirements from engineering, organizational-values alignment, usability, utility and cost. To close out, I’ll talk about the options we haven’t chosen and…
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DKIM Demystified
DKIM is a way to secure your email, increasing deliverability and avoiding fraud. A 20i Senior Systems Administrator explains DKIM in depth.
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Apple’s Low Latency HLS differs from the community-developed solution
One bite and all your dreams will come true - Apple. Last week at WWDC, Apple announced their usual cascade of software updates, and as has been tradition for the last 4 years, Roger Pantos took the s...
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Protest against the EU radio lockdown
We are facing a EU regulation which may make it impossible to install a custom piece of software on most radio decives like WiFi routers, smartphones and embedded devices. You can now give feedback on …
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Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will…
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Fixing the Internet for Games
What we're doing at my new startup [Network Next](https://networknext.com) :rocket:
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LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power
After almost 2 years, the world record of 702 km (436 miles) has been broken. Not once but twice. For a long time this record which was set on 26th of August 20
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Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard
Posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud and Nicolas Kardas, Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud We’re...
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