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Ring, officially a GNU package
Ring is officially a GNU package, following its integration into the GNU project. Distributed under the GPLv3+ license, Ring is a free software.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 3,019 posts.
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Long range WiFi antenna from Illy coffee can
I have a stack of half finished projects that I'm trying to complete. Happily, the first one was finished late last night: a long range Wi...
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IP Over QR Code
**UPDATE** Some have ask the throughput I am getting, its just about 100 Bytes per second, but hopefully I can improve it :) **UPDATE 2** Removing my custom seq/ack header and it still works and is…
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EFF: Help Us Protect Mesh Networking From Overbroad Patents
Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was...
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Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
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Sony's Legal Attack on Quad9, Censorship, and Freedom of Speech
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
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How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux
Bluetooth Audio on Linux is a bit of a mess. There's a fair bit you can do to significantly improve the quality though.
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Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup
Since I work a lot with clustered VMs , I’ve ended up spending a lot of time trying to figure out how DNS lookups work. I applied ‘fixes’ to my problems from StackOverflow without really understanding why they work (or don’t work) for some time.
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The Drunken Bishop Algorithm
There’s a tradition in my family that everyone takes a turn stirring a secret wish into the yearly christmas pudding . It’s important that the wishes remain secret to the wisher or the pudding magics wont work so since moving to America I’ve implemented a new way of hashing my wish so it can be stirred in via text…
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A Call to Arms: Supporting Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Role-based access control like it was meant to be
Learn about role-based access control, its use cases and benefits.
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The network is reliable
I’ve been discussing Jepsen and partition tolerance with Peter Bailis over the past few weeks, and I’m honored to present this post as a collaboration between the two of us. We’d also like to extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed their research and experience to this piece.
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Librem Tunnel Is Leaving iOS
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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My Mac contacted 63 different Apple owned domains in an hour, while not is use
During a one hour period today, my computer contacted 63 different Apple domains while i was not logged on and using it. I have been trying to minimize to the extent possible the reach of big tech into my life. A full 25% of the DNS queries from one of my computers (M2 MBA with macOS 15.4) are to Apple owned domains …
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So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations
On 17 April 2018, we allocated the last available block of 1,024 addresses in 185/8 - the last /8 we received from IANA back in 2011. This article looks at how this address space was allocated and how it is used today. It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have aroun…
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The Sisyphean Task of DNS Client Config on Linux
The covers a brief history of DNS on Linux systems and what steps Tailscale is taking to ensure it is configured consistently.
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Welcome Lemmy.world
Extending the .world As some may know, I run several other Fediverse instances next to mastodon.world. When I decided it was time to a...
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Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?
Learn how WSPR (weak signal propagation reporter) technology is a fascinating facet of the Ham radio hobby in this easy-to-follow article.
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How to send DMs on Twitter without permission
I just recalled " SMS commands " feature and tried to send a DM (private, direct message) with "Share on Twitter"-button. It works! Twitt...
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Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic
Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic.