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by dlenski 2y ago
Usually I can grok the significance of almost any item on HN that catches my eye, but here I'm at a loss. Can someone explain why this matters? As far as I can tell, someone has figured out how to send Ethernet packets at a relatively
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by dlenski 2y ago
> IPv6 can get rid of NAT which is one of the most annoying hurdles. Right. > It unlocks the type of use case where technical people can host something from home for fun, although many can’t access it because both parties need ipv6. A
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by dlenski 2y ago
> The refusal to use C++ in Linux isn't entirely rational. Whether or not the decision not to use C++ is good or bad, rational or irrational, what is the relevance? The point is that the Linux kernel is technologically interesting a
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by dlenski 2y ago
I suppose the persistence of IPv4 has broken all of our brains, but with IPv6 you can just Not Have NAT, and just have normal end-to-end connectivity to any random box in your home from outside. (And yes, I do this. Works great.)
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by dlenski 2y ago
Man, I want to upvote this but… > most interesting code is written in C++ anyway. Really?! The Linux kernel is a _pretty enormous_ counterexample, as are many of the userland tools of most desktop Linux distros. I am also a key developer
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by dlenski 3y ago
> how does libxml2 know to decompress something? > > does it require you, as the caller, to explicitly tell it to? In the entry point/function that we use, `xmlReadMemory` ( https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/
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by dlenski 3y ago
A lot of software (including https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect of which I'm a maintainer) uses libxml2, which in turn transitively links to libzma, using it to load and store compressed XML. I'm no
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by dlenski 3y ago
BS patents are bad, and patents lasting 20+ years are bad, but if someone's gonna get maimed by them… I can hardly think of a more deserving victim than Apple.
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by dlenski 3y ago
From the article: > Ubiquitous presence of HTTPS allows you to pass your data through very restrictive middle boxes! This is, in fact, why all — or nearly all — proprietary VPN protocols (so-called "SSL VPNs") implement a mode
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by dlenski 3y ago
> > Someone who valued it more than us got to use the vehicle. Was that greed? > > You sold it because you could get more money for it. That’s what greed is - you chose more money. If "following market price signals to dec