Isomer

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by Isomer 2y ago
I have allergies. I remember walking home from work one day thinking "Ah, my sinuses have cleared, the pollen must have finally gone." only to wake up the next morning all stuffed up again. Then it dawned upon me that work has H
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by Isomer 3y ago
> If you’re getting a new phone or are worried about losing your existing one, you can always choose to back up your data to the cloud so it doesn’t get lost. We’ll automatically encrypt your backed-up data so no one can read it, includi
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by Isomer 6y ago
Close. AIUI, Google was annoyed at people meddling with DNS results, and with ISPs providing terrible DNS performance for their customers. Google wins when the Internet is fast. Google's goals here are that you can use Websearch quic
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by Isomer 6y ago
The janitor is trying to help make packaging less toilsome: - The janitor is trying to automatically migrate people to newer versions of debhelper, reducing the number of different build system variants. - The janitor attempts to perform va
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by Isomer 6y ago
This is an excellent point. One change the Janitor can try to make automatically is upgrading debhelper version. Newer debhelper versions include support for compiling code with additional security measures. So we end up with more secure
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by Isomer 6y ago
Hi, I've been working with Jelmer on the janitor and related infrastructure for over a year now and worked with him writing this blog post. As others have pointed out, this is used for Debian metadata, so upstreaming doesn't reall
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C++ iostreams: Unexpected but legal multithreaded behaviour(ds9a.nl)
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by Isomer 8y ago
There's lots of "privacy" improving DNS servers, but none of them mention trying to remove unintentional DNS queries. It turns out lots of things will resolve anything that looks vaguely like a hostname to see if, in fact, th
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by Isomer 8y ago
This is outside my area of expertise. My uninformed assumption is that chrome generally uses whatever is configured in the system resolver, otherwise things like captive portals, and split horizon DNS wouldn't work properly, but I don&
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by Isomer 8y ago
See my other reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16733619 tl;dr: These companies are successful when more people use the Internet. DNS is a major contributor to poor perceived internet performance. Thus provi
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by Isomer 8y ago
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16733619 tl;dr: Google succeeds when people use websearch. Cloudfare succeeds when people use the Internet in general. People use websearch more when the Internet is
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by Isomer 8y ago
You'd have to change your nameserver manually unfortunately. But you could build a good webpage that actually measures how well your current nameserver performs over a wide variety of different types of lookups, both warm and cold cach
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by Isomer 8y ago
Using the Resource Timing API: https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-timing/#dom-performanceresour... This allows you to get accurate timings for every resource the page loaded, including the timeline of DNS request&#x2F
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by Isomer 8y ago
With QNAME minimalisation, RFC7129 (Authenticated denial of existence) and RFC8020 (NXDOMAIN: There really is nothing underneath), you should be sending almost nothing to the root servers of use. QNAME minimalisation will only send <rand
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by Isomer 8y ago
Things to look for in comparing recursive DNS servers performance: The 95%ile DNS response time for cached/uncached names. The 95%ile DNS response when one/some of the authoritative nameservers is "lame" or not respondin
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by Isomer 8y ago
Google has a separate, stricter, privacy policy for Google Public DNS: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy Basically there are two log files kept: - One for up to 48 hours which contains IP addr
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by Isomer 17y ago
* The network is the computer. I want processes that migrate with me. When I login at work, I should be able to grab my webbrowser from home and continue it executing on my work machine. Or perhaps on my cellphone (although the UI probabl
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by Isomer 17y ago
And then ^o to execute that command, and put the next command from your history onto the command line ready for another ^o...