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From time to time I need to expose a development web site or web service to the world. In the past, I’ve used ngrok for that, and of course long ago I built ReverseHTTP which is somewhere in the same ballpark, but I recently got fed up with the state of affairs and decided to see whether there was something simple I…
RSS autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed, whether it's in RSS 1.0 or RSS 2.0 format.
an addendum has been posted, read it here 2023/12/02 - Hello, Hacker News! Check out these pictures of my cat: https://emma.pet Back in February, Mikrotik announced the CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, a peculiar 25gbps NIC. They’ve thrown an entire router into a PCIe NIC. But why? Wait, why? Mikrotik’s product listing has…
While eSIM adoption in the mobile market has been arriving for some time, Apple’s move to make
If your household uses Xfinity for cable, you have almost definitely heard of Xfinity Stream at some point. If you haven’t, Xfinity Stream is a service that allows you to access Xfinity’s on-demand TV over the internet. This can be useful if you want to watch something on Xfinity’s on-demand TV but do not want to go…
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.
T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for up to $1.35 billion TWO EXCITED GUYS, ONE VIDEO MOMINTS IN TIME Here’s how we took what was wrong with wireless and made it right AUGUST 2016 Mint Mobile Launched JANUARY 2019 We increased our monthly data amounts, but kept plans starting at just $15/mo NOVEMBER…
Twitter user opdroid1234 remarked that they are getting more performance out of the ARM nodes than out of the Intel nodes on Amazon's cloud (AWS). I found previously that the Graviton 3 processors had less bandwidth than comparable Intel systems. However, I have not done much in terms of raw compute power. The Intel…
I was always curious about all that bad guys (criminals, drug dealers, hitman’s, thief’s etc.) using not very good and secure communication channels. Forgetting about whole OPSEC stuff. There is a lo
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
At 7:30 PM PST on January 12th, access to Twitter from Tweetbot and many other 3rd party apps have stopped working. We've reached out to Twitter for more details, but as of yet have not heard anything back.
This is the first post of a many planned to shed light on the various networking techniques eBPF makes available to a Linux network developer.
A comment on a Hacker News thread inspired me to contemplate why Mastodon is everything we loved about social media before…
A new underwater communication and networking technique can achieve kilometer-scale ranges while consuming about one-millionth the power required by current communication methods.
This is a brief mini-howto on how to build a linux based wireless router out of what amounts to spare parts, using the linux router project's single disk router software. The total cost of each end of the router, including antennas and cabling, is less than 1300 US dollars, which is a considerable cost savings over…
Our exploration begins with an honest appraisal of traditional fuzzing methodologies that have been applied to TCP/IP stacks before, like ISIC, revealing their inherent limitations, e.g., they can't reach beyond the TCP initial state. Recognizing the need for a more evolved approach, we take a different approach…
Published: 15-04-2023 22:30 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
How much do you know about how the PSTN (that is, the public telephone network) works? At some point long long ago, it was signalled using in-band frequencies, which facilitated the infamous phreaking using so-called “blue boxes”. This led to a switch to out of band signalling, ultimately culminating in something…
I was lucky enough to attend to EuroBSDCon 2023 and offered the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite OpenBSD stock daemon: relayd(8). The talk was recorded and made available on the EuroBSDCon YouTube channel. . One may check the EuroBSDCon 2023 program for more material. This post attempts a reboot of the…
First part of a story on how I’ve built 25 Gbps router for home use.
How to run your own VPN in the cloud for less than a penny per hour ( $0.007 / hr )
After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet... but we're getting there, Author: Jan Kopriva
