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by zinekeller 10mo ago
SGI and DEC, yes, but HP? Itanium was HP's idea all along! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#History
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
> on Windows you need to download support from the Microsoft store. To be really fair, on Windows: - H.264 is the only guaranteed (modern-ish) video codec (HEVC, VP9, AV1 is not built-in unless the device manufacturer bothered to do it)
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
> What's interesting is how YT has gradually shifted from being that neutral hosting service and into the media distributor role. The correct answer here, rather disappointingly, is that they were never neutral . Google Videos (the
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
StatCounter's data is known to be contaminated by bots: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
I really hope that the sole reason that michaelt concluded this is simply due on not having any experience how to manage credit card payments (on merchant's side). For those who does not handle these things: I am not sure on what pro
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
Possibly Twitch, Amazon Prime Video, and another one that escapes my mind (AWS-related?).
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by zinekeller 11mo ago
border-box says hi [1] [1]: https://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/ (Funnily, tables always default to border-box, so the objections in CSS standardization at the time is really silly.)
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Because this is how Normalize.css was written (and I suspect this is Normalize.css-derived).
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by zinekeller 1y ago
If you happen to be an entrepreneur, a foreigner (relative to the country of work), or an American citizen (despite holding the citizenship you're on, thanks FATCA!), then, yeah, I can see why you have never encountered the simpler arr
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Technically, the last Class A space ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classful_network )
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Sinclair Research to be striken off (forced close down by UK gov)(find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
2 points by zinekeller 1y ago|0 comments
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by zinekeller 1y ago
I'm not shocked. ASN blocking is well-known among people who I can easily called experts (veterans which can set up a reasonable-ish firewall from base principles) and ASN control is exposed in major cloud firewalls, but younger people
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Were Americans ever really healthy?(bloomberg.com)
3 points by zinekeller 1y ago|0 comments
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> Some DPIs just flat out block HTTP/3 already. Actually, some DPIs just straight-up reject UDP (and since DNS and NTP are UDP-based*, just straight-up interception-and-redirect). * TCP DNS exists but practically not used for most &
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Meet me here on "Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94" (2020)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by zinekeller 1y ago|0 comments
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Some notes that I have noticed. First, why does it seem that the V8 date parser is heavily inspired by the Windows date parser ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200304-00/?p=10... )? EDIT: Apparently no
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by zinekeller 1y ago
The TLS verifier workaround that you've constructed is reasonably sound (based on how TLS validation works in browsers), but the boring answer to workaround certificate problems is to do what Firefox actually does: skip AIA and only
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Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig cartridge(theverge.com)
6 points by zinekeller 1y ago|3 comments
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Pre-Starlink, no, not really. Some discount due to the bulk payment, yes, but the bandwidth is simply not there to allow for such discounts, especially in high-demand areas like Africa and the Pacific where satellites have a double-duty t
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> With a limit of 10 million different serial numbers, I wonder how China does it. The author has issued a correction, it's 100 million numbers per service indicator. But even then, it's probably not enough. The boring answer i
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> ATC is a safety-critical function that has what amounts to a 100% uptime requirement. Whatever system they're running currently either works or has known flaws that they know how to work around, and air traffic controllers have be
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> How does this prevent a random application from making an HTTPS request to a random hard-coded IP address? Similarly, how does this prevent an application from making an HTTPS request to a generic host (e.g., api.example.com)? I think
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Frankly, the article is doing a lot of disservice (and should be removed in HN because of its grossly outdated information). As josephcsible pointed out, there are many, many options for DoH.
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> A normal middlebox can't even tell the difference between DoH and DoT because they both just look like TLS. You forgot the "let's intercept in a public place (e.g. public Wi-Fi hotspots)" one where blocking port 853
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> My ISP is bound by robust privacy, telecommunications interception and other legislation. It really depends on which jurisdiction are you in, unfortunately. US ISPs are selling everything they can hover (including DNS information) to a
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> Looks like Nissan is trying to create as much savings as possible to handle the 25% tariff on cars imported from Mexico. No, no, no. The US tariffs may have a teeny tiny effect, but Nissan is actually cutting across-the-board due to th
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Canonical links to Google's advice: https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126 and https://support.google.com/a/answer/14229414 (and yes, this was supposed to be enforced last year
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by zinekeller 1y ago
Apparently Chrome does not support secp521r1 EC/DH key exchange. secp521r1... should probably be avoided unless you're targeting FIPS standards (too much security, also designed by NSA) but "higher bits" apparently are s
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by zinekeller 1y ago
(2021) Previous discussion: Beware of fast-math (Nov 12, 2021, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201473 )
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by zinekeller 1y ago
> Why not just use Firefox. The reason why Servo has existed (when it was still in Mozilla's care) was because on how deeply spagettified Gecko's code (sans IonMonkey) was, with the plan of replacing Gecko's components wit

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