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Re:An Update on Twitch in Korea on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:59AM (#38542407)
> Jio also has its own streaming service, which doesn’t count against your data caps.

How does this work? AFAIK JioCinema uses Akamai for content delivery... do they not count data for traffic from their own hosted edge caches or is it something else?

Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it on Friday November 10, 2023 @11:24AM (#38220783)
Yep, I faced this same issue when I bought an M2 Air early March. The 16GB BTO upgrade was roughly 40% more expensive compared to the discounted base 8GB model.
Replace Pihole and Unbound with AdGuard and this stack will instantly be more efficient, fast and significantly more powerful.
Re:USB-C teardown with CT scans: Thunderbolt and more on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:12PM (#37932482)
Can someone please explain why the site downloads 600MB+ assets every time the page is reloaded?
Re:Giving up the iPad-only travel dream on Saturday August 26, 2023 @07:29AM (#37271789)
I agree with this summarization but I don't see an issue with carrying three separate devices (three separate batteries!).
Re:Duck DNS on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:50AM (#37023199)
I use DuckDNS for letting Alexa and Google Assistant access my Home Assistant devices.

Not needing to click on a link to “renew” my host name every month is a huge plus.

The biggest issue however is that it doesn’t support CNAMEs so I can’t migrate to a Tailscale Funnel address without redoing the entire setup, since I have a VPS configured to reverse proxy Home Assistant from home, through Tailscale of course.

Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @07:17AM (#36585139)
As long as it is via domains I am able to block, it is fine.
Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:03AM (#36518852)
In India, internet providers already provide a portal to the police and other agencies with no accountability.

https://entrackr.com/2022/11/exclusive-indian-isps-we-alread...

Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:59AM (#36518820)
In my experience, ISPs DNS servers are slower compared to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, especially for "complex" lookups where there are as many as 6 CNAMEs in the DNS chain.

Also, they often run a single instance of bind, with little to no load-balancing.

Re:Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:51AM (#36518772)
Yep, this is the reason why I'm hesitant to switch ISPs despite crappy service during peak hours. They have PNIs/local CDN hostings/prominent IX peering and good international peering.
Re:A secret macOS tool – networkQuality on Sunday May 14, 2023 @09:56AM (#35938022)
This is a little weird for me:

Using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1:

  ~> curl -s --doh-url https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query https://mensura.cdn-apple.com/api/v1/gm/config | jq -r .test_endpoint
  sgsin3-edge-bx-008.aaplimg.com
  PING sgsin3-edge-bx-008.b.aaplimg.com (17.253.61.15) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from sgsin3-edge-bx-008.b.aaplimg.com (17.253.61.15): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=74.2 ms
If I use 8.8.8.8:

  ~> curl -s --doh-url https://dns.google/dns-query https://mensura.cdn-apple.com/api/v1/gm/config | jq -r .test_endpoint
  hkhkg1-edge-bx-007.aaplimg.com
  ~> ping hkhkg1-edge-bx-007.aaplimg.com
  PING hkhkg1-edge-bx-007.aaplimg.com (17.253.85.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from hkhkg1-edge-bx-007.aaplimg.com (17.253.85.13): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=107 ms
Seems like I'm two different PoPs depending on which DNS I'm using.
> quick .json representations of Reddit pages

Had no idea this existed... replacing the slash at the end of the URL and appending .json will output the post in JSON. Quite nice!

Re:Closing a Stale SSH Connection on Monday April 10, 2023 @04:46AM (#35510377)
On a desktop machine, sure... but on a laptop, I'd want it to enter sleep and subsequently deep sleep when I close the lid or lock it.
Re:Yunohost: Get Off of My Cloud on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:34AM (#35303681)
www.casaos.io mentions:

> X-NODE Space, 4F, 800 NaXian Road, Shanghai, P.R.C

Definitely something I'd trust.

Re:Spotify's redesign isn't going down well on Sunday March 12, 2023 @01:57PM (#35123620)
This is why I quit using Spotify. I couldn’t tune my recommendations after Alexa played music for someone else in a different language.
I was using Quad9 until they had infra issues where latency skyrocketed from ~40ms to an unstable ~250ms... soon after I noticed that the routing was changed to another country with a latency of stable ~70ms.

A DNS resolver in another country breaks several things for me such as Wi-Fi Calling and certain CDNs that do not support EDNS Client Subnet, so I'm using Cloudflare Gateway DNS (DoH) for the time being.

Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:57PM (#34777365)
> it allowed the Bharat Jodo Yatra (Join India Campaign) and understands that a robust opposition is in national interest.

Last time I checked India was still a democracy.

Re:India’s Government Wants Total Control of the Internet on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:53PM (#34777288)
> I think this government does not have problem with criticism

> but internal and external forces who doesn't much on Modi in politics plays same card again and again.

Is the BJP's "IT cell" spreading propaganda on HN now too?

EDIT: totally wrote that without checking out parent's profile

> user: relavir212

> created: 16 minutes ago

Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:15PM (#34559365)
TIL that four spaces indents it into code blocks... thanks!
Re:BBC Modi Documentary Removal on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:46AM (#34559078)
This contains both parts:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B96B9C1CD9A0332E82023FA934DDD4ACF94377DE&tr=http://tracker.trackerfix.com:80/announce&tr=udp://9.rarbg.m...

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:27PM (#34234591)
Can you explain in detail how this is supposed to work? Am I supposed to run this (Docker here) on my local server or on a remote server that the block is not affecting??
> unable to stream HD Content to my iPhone

Yeah this has been the case since forever. It prioritizes instant playback vs forcing 1080p or similar.

Can't speak for iPhone, but on iPad, I've moved to using the website which goes goes to 1080p immediately.

> still have to download it, to see it an acceptable quality

Downloaded content do contain a whole lot more compression than streaming at max phone supported quality, so just a tiny FYI.

AdGuard Home is more lightweight, no doubt; it's a single binary executable.

Whereas Pihole... where do I start

It can, as a matter of fact.

Source: have AdGuard Home running in my network for many years.

Yeah no doubt it's gonna be China in a few years time if the current government remains in power.
Thanks for this.
Yup, glad there's no SwiftUI here.
I'm using NNW with FreshRSS on my home server. Great experience across operating systems. Miss the app on Windows and Android.
Re:Software I’m thankful for (2021) on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:53PM (#32955088)
One thing that has stood out to me is that when I have two Edge windows open, for example and I switch to the last used window from Safari, both windows overlap instead of just the one window I was working with.

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