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by dlenski 10mo ago
> Not really. You can have 100,000 IPs from proxies or use VPNs and have only 5 egress IPs. Why…? If I can run a proxy exit node on 100k residential IPs, why can't I run a VPN server on 100k residential IPs? There is no additional t
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by dlenski 10mo ago
This is a 21st-century equivalent of leaving short words ("of", "the", "in") out of telegrams because telegraph operators charged by the word. That caused plenty of problems in comprehension… this is probably
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by dlenski 10mo ago
Can't/won't these scrapers just switch to using VPNs or sshuttle or basically anything else that doesn't leak timing info about termination of TCP vs HTTP?
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by dlenski 10mo ago
> I expect it won't be long until someone deploys the first proxy service that handles the initial CONNECT payload in the kernel before offloading packet forwarding to an eBPF script that will proxy packets between hosts at layer 3,
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by dlenski 10mo ago
Came here to ask the same thing. Why do I _care_ if connections to my server come from a TCP proxy? Particularly when a VPN is _not_ observable in a similar way? Is there some class of bad actors who extensively use TCP proxies and not only
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by dlenski 11mo ago
Dare I ask how much bandwidth it is consuming?
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by dlenski 11mo ago
Today I learned that Matt Godbolt is British!
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by dlenski 11mo ago
“AI agents: They're just like us”
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by dlenski 11mo ago
> Are these major issues with cloud/SaaS tools becoming more common, or is it just that they get a lot more coverage now? I think that "more coverage" is part of it, but also "more centralization." More and more
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by dlenski 1y ago
Got one for my wife here in Canada recently, where it's on a similarly good sale. It's a nicely put together piece of _hardware_ and firmware, way way better than the garbage Dell laptops I have to use for work, which are heavy an
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by dlenski 1y ago
It's fun indeed! The theme seems to be something like "college students at house parties"… reminds me very much of my friends and the photos we took at around this age.
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by dlenski 1y ago
> He has some kind of byzantine but ideologically-pure protocol for reading his emails in batches, This caught my eye as well. I'm not sure what his objection to accessing email in a normal-ish way might be. Any ideas? My best guess
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by dlenski 1y ago
Great writeup. I have done similar things on several long flights. Very often, there is at least one large cloud provider or CDN (e.g. Microsoft/Azure or Amazon/AWS or Google/GCP) that is whitelisted by the in-flight Internet
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by dlenski 1y ago
> All 33 of the batteries with the [negative anode overhang] defects came from the 424 sold by low-cost brands or brands selling counterfeits. > > … > > None of the name brand OEM batteries were found to have any problems, a
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by dlenski 1y ago
> The way they used to handle that at a FAANG I worked for was they had this app installed on each machine issued by IT, that would ask you a question daily about some aspect of your workplace. I presume you're referring to "Am
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by dlenski 1y ago
This is indeed a sophisticated and alarming attack, but… > the attacker shuffled my staked ETH and other tokens through multiple transactions, then drained the account. Live by the decentralized, irreversible, climate-destroying, scam-an
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by dlenski 1y ago
> The underlying dynamics of any change to the Web ecosystem is that it has to be incrementally deployable, in the sense that when element A changes it doesn't experience breakage with the existing ecosystem. Absolutely, this is imp
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by dlenski 1y ago
> I still don't think CRLs are remotely a perfect solution (nor do I think OCSP was unfixable) > The privacy concerns could have been solved through adoption of Must-Staple Agreed. I haven't followed every bit of the play-b
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by dlenski 1y ago
> I assume you mean astrology (prophecy), not astronomy (science)? I took "astronomy" as an allusion to the fact that @atomicnumber3's team was metaphorically peering at their scaling needs through a telescope, an instrume
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by dlenski 1y ago
> Unfortunately the way we actually needed to scale was almost completely untouched by any of this architecture astronomy "Architecture astronomy" 100%, I love this phrase. Did you come up with it? > But god the hubris and a
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by dlenski 1y ago
> A lot of engineers design by trying to think of the “ideal” system: something well-factored, near-infinitely scalable, elegantly distributed, and so on. Was it Donald Knuth who said "premature optimization is that root of all evil
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by dlenski 1y ago
Just read this article. It was fun.
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by dlenski 1y ago
> Crawlers can still start an arbitrary number of parallel crawls, but each one costs to start and needs to stay below some rate limit. This is a nice explanation. It's much clearer than anything I've seen offered by Anubis’s a
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by dlenski 1y ago
During the early age of scientific inquiry in Europe, very few human travelers were following the white stork's migration route (Europe→Anatolia→Levant→Nile→East Africa), and I'd guess that most of those who did were from the Musl
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by dlenski 1y ago
Plot twist: sometimes both.
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by dlenski 1y ago
Yeah, the article completely lost me at this point. A somewhat-interesting, though simplistic, discussion of congestion control in TCP. And then… "but don't worry, QUIC is magic, and it doesn't need any of this.” No. No it&#x
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by dlenski 1y ago
Does Wikipedia/Wikimedia have any facilities in the UK? I assume it does have some paid employees based there. How would/could the UK enforce this law against WP/WM if they simply didn't obey it?
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by dlenski 1y ago
If you read the paper, you'll find there are many improbable occurrences, rather than just this one. > > We show that 3I/ATLAS approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with a probability of ≲ 0.005% > &gt
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by dlenski 1y ago
You're saying that Rogers personnel now have non-Rogers SIM cards?
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by dlenski 1y ago
The '22 Rogers outage, hah. As I recall it didn't affect me at all since I was at home and work in Vancouver all day… but it was a great excuse for not responding to workplace on-call messages which I got in the evening > Well,

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