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Re:Residential Proxies Detected on White House Network on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:26PM (#50371798)
Did a residential proxy provider write this
Just because something is/was widely deployed does not mean it was good
Re:The DNS Museum on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:37AM (#50149878)
iodine automatically detects this and switches to boring IP encapsulation if this is the case
Petrobras?
Re:Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:06AM (#49737399)
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH on my phone it seems?
Re:Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:36AM (#49346251)
As with many things, "It's complicated" but effectively, yes

Such system firmware is generally provided by AMI / Insyde / Phoenix and similar.

There are a few vendors who decide to go their own way (notably google using a fork of Coreboot for their chromebooks), but it's generally list of vendors that you can count on a single hand.

If it means anything I'm pretty sure AMI provides A/B updates on most products i've used with their stuff.

Re:Google Hits 50% IPv6 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:08AM (#48617047)
As someone on the fighting end of scrapers, this is absolutely not true. If anything I should bais towards v6 as the traffic is on par better than v4
In a cloud provider situation there is no pure software solution to this, the hypervisor can always dump your memory pages / register states
Re:PCI Express over Fiber [video] on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:35PM (#47798388)
I mean yes, but you could also just place the entire computer out there as well
Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:08AM (#47601117)
Because SCION is mostly said as a joke in the more serious carrier world.

SCION is practically speaking proprietary, and has 1 and maybe a half implementations. I have a laundry list of real problems with SCION but SCION feels like one of those entities that would get quite legal-ey if discussed publicly.

Re:How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:33AM (#47396824)
Post author here

For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer

Re:Rack-mount hydroponics on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:33AM (#47385719)
I can't speak for the OPs case, but it's worth keeping in mind that not all languages that people are coming from have capital letters as a concept.

I actually didn't notice the lack of caps until I read this comment

Re:IPv6 Adoption in 2026 on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:06AM (#47088906)
About 58% of all of the email my company sends out of it's outbound relays is to IPv6 MXs. I've never really had to deal with discoverability issues related to v6
Re:Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:32AM (#46990845)
It is surprisingly common to find routers with " export firmware " installed out of the box, that do not have ssh support to avoid the interactions with US Cryptographic export licencing complications
For those wondering if ejabberd Debian systems will be impacted, it seems like for now there no fix, the issue is being tracked here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127369
Re:Email experiments: filtering out external images on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:36PM (#46830920)
We must live in very different universes because most of my business is conducted over email!
No, he gave two different examples of websites that is typically blocked in the United Kingdom
Re:Consent-O-Matic on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:33AM (#46666930)
I think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled, I don't have to even disable the entire list. You just disable u-block for that specific site
the ip address the this comes from is a OpenAI search bot range:

> "ipv4Prefix": "74.7.175.128/25"

from https://openai.com/searchbot.json

Re:So you want to speak at software conferences? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @05:23PM (#46211555)
I feel like if you don't want videos (and I assume photos) of you online then speaking at a conference is probably not the aligned action to pursue that goal
Re:Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets on Monday November 24, 2025 @06:40AM (#46032999)
I believe it heavily depends on what kind of infrastructure you are using with them.

If you are on their old legacy network (aka, you have a RJ45 Ethernet jack into your house) you will likely going to have more issues than if you are on their (X)GPON network.

I had IPv6 working for a while on mine, but realize that for some insane reason that there was basically only one v6 prefix across my entire distribution switch (basically the switch shared with a few 100 other properties). so anytime that i was going to get a v6 i was effectively stealing it from another flat/house.

unfortunately trying to get in touch with anyone from Hyper-optic is really tricky, so I just gave up

they have since upgraded some of the infrastructure in the path, mostly moving away from Huawei to Nokia, but I am not entirely sure that has improved the situation.

Re:A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:49AM (#46021615)
100Mbit seems fine? I obviously don't have the full picture for what the OP is doing with their line on a day-to-day basis, but, saying that you're entirely out of options when there is an option that is just slower is a little odd

(I do get that Starlink is also quite expensive if it is not your only serious choice)

The problem is that it is not entirely clear that the hyperscalers are buying DDR5, instead it seems that supplies are being diverted so that more HBM/GDDR wafers can be produced.

HBM/GDDR is not necessarily as useful to the average person as DDR4/DDR5

Sure but to my knowledge you can call someone an asshole in the UK without being at risk of libel but calling someone a [pedophile/drug addict/similar] is (and IMO should) come with consequences if unsubstantiated
> but ended up not being convincing enough not to cost them 70k pounds

It might end up being more than 70k£ for them, given MG's legal fees may not be included in that price (I can't see any indication either way)

Is it though?

If someone posts a huge amount of articles about how you are various non-good things, then a employer might do a simple Google of your name on and think "Oh, actually, I don't think I want to hire that guy" that's worth quite a lot of money if that's a job that you actually wanted to get (and that results in a loss of income/opportunities)

Typically speaking, you should probably only be saying things on the internet or otherwise that you have serious evidence for. One, to avoid looking like a complete idiot in case you're wrong or in a more serious case to stop you from being sued for libel

It blows my mind how various parts of the wider world are seemingly quite happy to ("joking" or not) call each other pedophiles or various other things in a age where things are aggressively indexed by search engines or (worse) LLMs

Re:Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:34PM (#45907823)
Yes but also the drives in the OP have 4~ TB lifetime writes, basically nothing compared to the total capability of the drive, Given these drives can do 2TB+ a day for the entire warranty period a day, I don't think these drives are that bad, the amazon seller shouldn't have claimed they were new, but in terms of the flash wear, these drives look almost as good as new
Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:47AM (#45237983)
Reykjavik lives all year round in UTC

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