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Xfinity Stream on Linux: A Tale of Widevine, ChromeOS, and a patched Glibc
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…
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IPvlan overlay-free Kubernetes Networking in AWS
Lyft is pleased to announce the initial open source release of our IPvlan-based CNI networking stack for running Kubernetes at scale in…
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Building a Space-Based ISP
There are requirements that make software engineers sweat. Massive distribution to thousands of nodes. High reliability and availability. Multiple distinct platforms. Rapid network growth. This is the world SpaceX’s Starlink program, which has set a goal to provide high-speed broadband internet to locations where…
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Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?
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The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
This post guides you through monitoring and tuning the Linux network stack with the focus on receiving data.
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Pleroma 2.0: a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols
Long-awaited and finally ready, just in time for FOSDEM International Women’s Day, Pleroma 2.0.0 is here! There have been a lot of changes, including breaking ones, so let me give you a quick tour of this release.
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DNS LOC Record (2014)
One little used type of DNS record is the LOC (or location). It allows you to specify a physical location. CloudFlare handles millions of DNS records; of those just 743 are LOCs. Nevertheless, it's possible to set up a LOC record in the CloudFlare DNS editor.
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Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview
Soon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.
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Xz sshd backdoor collecting usernames from logs
The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor, Author: Bojan Zdrnja
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T-Mobile Reaches Agreement to Acquire Mint Mobile for Up to $1.35B
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…
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“We're Shutting Down Our 3G Network”
This is a tale of first world problems, culminating in me being pissed off about getting a free phone--so I'll say up front: Yes, I know this is petty and silly, but also, I'm furious with how AT&T has handled their transition off 3G and I'm here to complain about it.
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IAB Statement on IPv6
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), following discussions in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), advises its partner Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and organizations that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses has been exhausted, and as a result we are seeing an increase in both dual-stack (that…
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Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol
The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones, but one crucial protocol is still missing.
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ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark
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…
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Introducing Pseudo IPv4
Today is June 6. For the last two years, the date has been celebrated as World IPv6 Day. CloudFlare has offered full IPv6 support as well as our IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway since 2012.
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Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
In this release: New profile directory, new tutorial, new public hashtag pages and more moderation tools
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