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by mmcnl 2y ago
(I am the author) The fact is that currently DNS requests are forwarded to an unknown entity. The matter is not resolved yet and there is no guarantuee it will be resolved. Imo there's no FUD here. I will happily correct any factual er
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by mmcnl 2y ago
The domain is still not owned by AVM so it's still hijacked.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
This is mentioned in the article, and the article also states why only purchasing the domain is not an adequate solution.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
It's how the mechanism of DNS suffices works. Especially on Windows, because Windows rewrites all DNS requests with the suffix (even simple requests like google.com). To me it's surprising that somehow not everyone is affected. I
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by mmcnl 2y ago
I can't find any specifics, but to my understanding it had been known for years that .box was a candidate TLD.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
That's interesting.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
I guess if the resolution fails Windows will fallback to a resolution without the DNS suffix, but I'm not entirely sure how it works, and what other operating systems do.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
This is not true for Windows unfortunately. Even a lookup for google.com will have fritz.box appended. I added a screenshot to the article for clarity.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
Yes, on Windows at least. As far as I know, Linux and macOS only use the DNS suffix for domains without a dot in the domain.
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by mmcnl 2y ago
Imo if DNS requests resolve to an unknown entity and you cannot change that behavior, your DNS resolution has effectively been hijacked, even if no harm is being done yet. (PS. I am the author.)
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by mmcnl 2y ago
As far as I know, this changes the hostname of the modem, but it doesn't change the DNS suffix in the DHCP server. (PS. I am the author. The article is my understanding of the situation but if I'm wrong on some parts please correc
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Some Fritz!Box modems might have been hijacked(crapts.org)
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by mmcnl 3y ago
I'm talking about the Nokia 3310.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
I have used all distributions. They all have their own pain points. Debian-based distributions are actually the most painless in my experience.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
This is absolutely false. I run dual-boot Windows and Linux on hardware that has 100% Linux support. Windows just works, the same cannot be said for Linux unless all you do is use a browser and listen to Spotify.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
My experience is completely the opposite. Nokia phones weren't as durable as you remember. A Nokia phone would hardy last 2 years with limited use, either the battery or power connector would die quickly. iPhones get way more usage tha
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by mmcnl 3y ago
You're absolutely right. But if you don't measure churn, time-to-market, incidents, brand reputation, etc., then you will never see the benefits of investing in quality. So it becomes easy not to do it.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Everything is a trade-off. You can't publish native apps without Apple's 30% tax for example.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
That is because Apple is abusing the power they have as a gatekeeper. That's the problem with centralized power: shift all power to one central place and suddenly the power gets abused.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Would you say this applies to macOS too? And why or why not?
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by mmcnl 3y ago
True, but it's not end users who should be caring about this at all, it's the developers. Developers can leverage the freedom of the web with PWAs: no gatekeepers, no 30% tax, no approvals. So it threatens the App Store model of A
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Dynamic class names can work if you use a configuration approach. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/content-configuration#dynamic-c...
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Because PWAs are not capable enough. But as I repeatedly said and will repeat again: it's not about today. What's true today doesn't need to be true in 5 or 10 years.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
No, I don't think so, for the end user it doesn't matter a lot (though increased competition will be of benefit for the end user obviously). But what matters is that Apple can't be a gatekeeper for PWAs and so they can't
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by mmcnl 3y ago
No idea, but as I said it's about the next decade, not today.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Nitpicking, but Tauri is still in beta for mobile, Capacitor is the incumbent. But these frameworks solely exist because the mobile OS doesn't provide sufficient access to native APIs. If PWAs would be supported properly, and the stand
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by mmcnl 3y ago
90% _today_. Strategic chess moves like this are about the next decade. The web is becoming more and more powerful and who says Fortnite can't run in a browser in 5 years? Especially if EU forces Apple to allow alternative browser engi
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Exactly. It's a loophole in their alternative App Store model so they closed it. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by mmcnl 3y ago
> HOWEVER, and I hope this is a transient situation, there is a problem: in GNOME, applications that aren’t native Wayland apps don’t scale nicely. Transient situations are almost permanent in Linux land. This has been a problem for a lo
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by mmcnl 3y ago
Yeah it's very entitled. Like only software developers do actual meaningful complex work and everyone else just sits in meetings and does nothing.

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