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The ZedRipper(chrisfenton.com)
1 points by mdb31 5y ago|1 comments
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by mdb31 5y ago
Yeah, well, no. You can't really function in society these days without following 'The News' to at least some extent. That doesn't mean you should buy into the '24h News Cycle' or the 'Extremism-inducing-f
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by mdb31 5y ago
This seems to be a minor bug, in that it is only triggered using unusual (and rather unlikely) deflate parameters. But, looking into this bug, I was sort-of interested to see how it was handled. The change log for 1.2.12 (2022-03-27) indica
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by mdb31 5y ago
Chromium-based versions of Microsoft Edge are also vulnerable: updating to 99.0.1150.55 fixes this CVE
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by mdb31 5y ago
Well, it is related to LTE, in the sense that VoLTE calls are treated as 'data' (and thus backhauled to your 'home' provider, as per your (e)SIM), whereas 'voice' calls are handled by whichever provider you hap
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by mdb31 5y ago
If anyone wonders what it was like to operate 'an ISP' in the 1900s, this is pretty accurate for most small-time operations. Extremely limited bandwidth (because T1s and E1s were just too expensive: I remember paying 25,000 Dutc
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Dragonfire Internet Services: A Retrospective(dragonfire.net)
11 points by mdb31 5y ago|1 comments
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by mdb31 5y ago
Yes, when roaming, VoWiFi or VoLTE can have quite unexpected results due to your 'data' being backhauled to your 'home' provider, for both billing and dialing. Former you can't do much about, except complain when th
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by mdb31 5y ago
Same here, failed with Firefox 98 and uBlock. But, worked OK with Edge 99 and no plugins, so...
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by mdb31 5y ago
EU perspective here: no, a PhD indicates that you're interested in research, and are capable of jumping through organizational hoops to make such happen. I've hired PhDs as (very) successful product managers twice. In both cases,
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by mdb31 5y ago
Nah, Portmasters were actually pretty cool. The brand that caught fire, was a briefly-very-popular one that had ISDN-2 routers that had the charming feature of having proxy-ARP turned on by default (so that all traffic on your LAN would egr
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by mdb31 5y ago
The journey from "whatever works" to "this needs to scale" described here is very, very recognizable. In the early days of the internet, this is what pretty much every ISP looked like. The author doesn't seem to lik
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More stories about stacks of modems(rachelbythebay.com)
6 points by mdb31 5y ago|4 comments
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by mdb31 5y ago
Yeah, this is why I don't miss living in the US, like, at all. Sure, you can make mad cash and all, but the overall infrastructure is just way-below-third-world. My particular moment of truth was when I noticed that my Pacific Bell cel
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by mdb31 5y ago
Although not every new C# feature is as... pragmatic... as I would perhaps like, the language is continuing to evolve quite nicely. And the .NET framework doubly so. One thing I would really like to see, is JSON literals on par with the X
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by mdb31 5y ago
"Quit the news" is not the answer. Quit the 24-hour news cycle? Sure. Quit doomscrolling on Facebook or Twitter? Yeah, most definitely quite good for you. But, "quit the news" as in "remain uninformed"? No
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by mdb31 5y ago
Via news.ycombinator.com: Actual title of the post is "A replay of life: What happens in our brain when we die?" -- please respect the submission rules... Via reddit.com: How vile of the liberulz to mis-characterize Trump's n
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by mdb31 5y ago
Thanks for the passive-aggressive accusation there! So, what more is there, exactly, to my story? My name is pretty simple, but, like many European names, has 3 parts, as well as some 'unexpected' letter combinations. As far as I
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by mdb31 5y ago
Sorry, I'm not blurring my ITIN with immigration status or whatever. I have not visited the US since 2004, I have no desire to return, and I have not done any business there since 2002. I just want an ITIN that is, like, actually in my
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by mdb31 5y ago
OK, I understand that some/many Americans dislike paying taxes. I do not exactly like it either. But, it seem like a particular US infliction to make paying taxes as hard as possible? Plus, they sanction you in extreme ways if you don&
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by mdb31 5y ago
Yes, but WHY? I mean, I'm happy to pay my US taxes. Heck, I'm even happy to pay someone to pay my US taxes. But... neither of those options seem to work? I mean, just to back to Rwanda: it's an east-African country that is pr
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by mdb31 5y ago
I'm a foreigner (yes, I know, sorry, sorry) who is a "US Person" and thus needs to (and, to be perfectly clear, is happy to, I'm sorry, I'm not-sorry, I'm sorry about being not-sorry?) pay US income tax. The IR
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by mdb31 5y ago
Oh, this definitely seems very useful. But, the immediate reflex on HN is to downvote such tools into oblivion. When I 'vouched' for this submission, it was flagged, I assume for immediate deletion. It's quite interesting tha
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by mdb31 5y ago
So, yes, political, but on the other hand a cool piece of tech? I've not seen this kind of visualization of a developing situation publicly available before, and a cursory glance shows that the data sources are at least one level beyon
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by mdb31 5y ago
[deleted, it's quite obvious HN is not interested in actual discussion]
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by mdb31 5y ago
I sort-of get what you're saying here, I think, but I'm not sure you're right. As an inquisitive young person, you are, quite likely, at some point confronted with something that seems like magic. If you're truly (or per
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by mdb31 5y ago
Yeah, that seems to have been a pretty popular book, but I've literally never seen it. At the time, no library near me had it available, and ordering it from the UK was just too expensive for 13-year-old-me. I did have my own ROM disas
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by mdb31 5y ago
I have very fond memories of the ZX Spectrum. By modern, or even contemporary, standards, it's a weirdly under-powered machine, yet it introduced a (mostly "continental") generation to gaming, programming and much more. The
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by mdb31 5y ago
The days when every new Windows feature came with a snazzy UI to configure it are long gone. Realistically, Server 2012R2 was the last release that had full parity between features and matching configuration 'screens'. Since that
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by mdb31 5y ago
It's quite likely that CP852 came from IBM, since they were the source of most localization/internationalization (L8N/I8N) data at the time. Microsoft, basically, had no clue: they relied on local partners to request L8N-rela

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