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becauseiam

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    Comment #28146664

    Mobile basebands already get the local time and UTC offset when connecting to a tower, there's no need to power up the GPS antenna and receiver separately.

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    Comment #27314122

    Although Google did come up with the original specification their influence over the IETF specifications is not overarching nor absolute; gQUIC is substantially different from IETF…

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    Comment #25146769

    Earthquakes, nuclear explosions, tectonic plate activity, the moon slowly moving away from us amongst other causes.

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    Comment #24710859

    There are multiple implementations and their interoperability is tested [1], with some implementations already having bindings to higher level languages (aioquic) or into existing …

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    Comment #24193941

    ntpd is now looked after by the Network Time Foundation, but more importantly many distributions use other implementations of the protocol like chronyd.

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    Comment #23748362

    iPhone 7 onwards[1], Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 onwards[2], and Intel Skylake and later CPUs[3] can all encode and decode H.265 in hardware to varying profile levels. 1: https://suppo…

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    Comment #23587638

    QUIC is already getting those optimisations as the existing large deployments are incentivised to do so, as one example Kazuho Oku from Fastly made changes to their TLS implementat…

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    Comment #23522570

    It's possible we _could_ - a combination of DNSSEC used to sign records, and TLSA records to provide the linking. In reality, however...

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    Comment #22951218

    This is incredibly useful, thanks! Whist it has some region information and endpoints, boto's lacking other useful information - availability zone count, hosted zones IDs for servi…

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    Comment #22946050

    To extend what I'm trying to say is that customers shouldn't have to do this and that updating of this data (which ideally should be in a machine readable format, much like ip-rang…

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    Comment #22945028

    Every time a new AWS region is made public, it continues to highlight the disparity in services availability across the regions, as well as making information about services availa…

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    Comment #22252532

    The real question is how the rest of the market will respond to EVC, not necessarily VVC.

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    Comment #21909164

    My non-European partner gives money to their parents despite being fairly middle-class and fiscally stable. You're right, it's cultural - theirs expects grown children to contribut…

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    Comment #21901932

    I think you're overlooking the quality measure of the proprietary garbage as it evolves over time. Slack, in comparison to say Lync, or Skype has made huge moves towards better usa…

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    Comment #21901624

    I disagree - in a lot of corporate environments, it once snuck in as shadow IT to work around the then incumbent, infosec certified approved solution of less usable. Slack has beco…

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    Comment #20733683

    Property Lists already do tick some of those boxes.

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    Comment #19871297

    The ace working group within the IETF has a fairly recent draft[1] standard on this. [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ace-mqtt-tls-pro...

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    Comment #19774072

    Adam Langley's Roughtime protocol[1] largely solves some (but not all types) of time malfeasance, and a variant of it is already an IETF draft specification[2]. There is also NTS, …

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    Comment #19633484

    He is a dual national now, which only complicates any attempt, Australia's connection with Five-eyes and other military and political arrangements aside.

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    Comment #19172392

    Good behaviour really is honoring the resolvers provided in a DHCP answer.

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    Comment #19094888

    4.2.2.2 is supposedly for Level3 customers only.

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    Comment #18925972

    There's quite a few things you've missed that are significant and should have been included, maybe one for part two: * Network ACLs, which describe the ruleset (consider it like a …

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    Comment #18812133

    Maybe I am biased, but live TV is not going to die completely. News, sport, concerts, lotto results, and other timely things will continue to have demand. IP is a terribly broken a…

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    Comment #18788730

    Graphviz for simple diagrams that can represented with basic shapes. PlantUML for sequence diagrams, state machines and the likes. Powerpoint/Keynote for things that are presentati…