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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.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 282 posts.
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YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech
NetBlocks metrics confirm the disruption of YouTube on multiple internet providers in Pakistan on Sunday 21 August 2022. The disruption comes as former Prime Minister Imran Khan makes a live ...
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SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica
Issues pertaining to SMS (for multifactor auth) in Antarctica.
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Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses
A discussion about IP blocking: why we see it, what it is, what it does, who it affects, and why it’s such a problematic way to address content online.
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Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale
WebVM, our virtual Linux environment running fully client-side in the browser, now supports networking via Tailscale.
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Ghost in the ethernet optic
A few months ago I stumbled on a tweet pointing out a kind of SFP optic that claimed to be smart, made by a Russian company Plumspace . After going through their Smart SFP product listings I was on-board and decided I needed to have some of them.
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Going IPv6 Only
How would the current internet function when you're on a native IPv6 host without any IPv4 instead of using any of the IPv4 workarounds? Find out with a few firewall rules!
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How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
Implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta allows us to synchronize the systems that drive our products and services down to nanosecond precision. PTP’s predecessor, Network Time Protocol (…
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Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-generation web protocol
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string
Erotic web browser fan fiction.
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An Introduction to PipeWire
This blog post is the first part of a series of 3 articles related to the PipeWire project and its usage in embedded Linux systems.
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Delayed Messages on iOS
When I got my first iPhone in March I was surprised to find that iMessage didn’t support scheduling messages to be sent at a later time. This feature is pretty common on some other messaging platforms, and it’s especially useful when I remember I need to text my mom (who always has her ringer turned on) about…
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I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
Today's video is about Starlink—I've had an active subscription since last February, and as it's been a year, I figured I should post an update. The tl;dr: when I had a new roof put on late last summer, I took down 'Dishy McFlatface', but I haven't put the dish back up. I have been holding out hope I could transfer my…
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Cloudflare Calls
We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps
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The Unexpected Importance of the Trailing Slash
For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. Most shells will even add a trailing slash for you when you press the Tab key after the name of a directory or a symbolic link to one.
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Who's Attacking My Server?
One of the unexpected 1 outcomes of the Russian invasion in Ukraine is a large increase in nefarious access attempts to servers under my control, not necessarily appearing to arise from Russian IP addresses. There are the usual attempts at brute-forcing SSH access, for instance, but also a flurry of malevolent HTTP(S)…
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RIPE meetings: IP addresses as spoils of war
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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Mitmproxy 8
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 8, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings major improvements to mitmweb, our web interface, and new functionality for addon developers.
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The next big Wi-Fi standard is for sensing, not communication (2021)
Sometime in 2024, the IEEE will unveil a new 802.11 standard that will bring new capabilities to everyone’s favorite wireless communication standard. But the upcoming 802.11bf standard isn’t for communication — it’s for sensing. The newest version of Wi-Fi layers on the ability to sense people or objects by using math…
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Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
HTTP/2 Server Push will be disabled by default in Chrome 106
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Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
2022-04-27 Update: While the git.io url redirection service is read-only and use of the service is limited, we have received feedback from developers and academic researchers who have published git.io…