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I hate it when I can't get in touch with the right engineers at a large company. This (especially the highly targeted ad mentioned on the page) is a very creative way to try to sol…

I'm only familiar with this as a user and not a developer, but I've had multiple Android phone where not all camera features available in the Camera app were available to other app…

BunnyCDN don't run their own network, most of their servers are hosted at DataPacket(.com), but they use some other hosting companies too. DataPacket has a very large network thoug…

> Worryingly, VNPT and Bunny Communications are home/mobile ISPs VNPT is a residential / mobile ISP, but they also run datacentres (e.g. [1]) and offer VPS, dedicated server rental…

These days RFC8805[0] is pretty widely supported. But as far as I understand, it's not entirely trusted and geolocation providers will still override that data if it doesn't match …

If you're buying transit, you'll have a hard time getting away with less than 10% commit, i.e. you'll have to pay for 10 Gbps of transit to have a 100 Gbps port, which will typical…

From having worked on DDoS mitigation, there's pretty much no difference between CGNAT and IPv6. Block or rate limit an IPv4 address and you might block some legitimate traffic if …

This is very challenging, in about one year the biggest recorded DDoS attack has increased from 5 Tbps to almost 30. Almost all of the DDoS mitigation providers have been strugglin…

It was taught in a first year software ethics class on my Computer Science programme. Back in 2010. I'm wondering if they still do

Update: it's finally up again after around 25.5 hrs of downtime

Over 22 hours of downtime for the one VPS I have in that region. My infrastructure is redundant and spread out among hosting providers and DCs so there's no real impact, but I'm pr…

On Firefox on Android on my pretty old phone, a blurry preview rendered in about 10 seconds, and it was fully rendered in 20 something seconds. Smooth panning and zooming the entir…

> One crawler downloaded 73 TB of zipped HTML files in May 2024 [...] This cost us over $5,000 in bandwidth charges I had to do a double take here. I run (mostly using dedicated se…

Now that's a name I haven't heard in many years! I remember running Dillo on my HP Jornada 720 back in 2006 or 2007.

Anecdata, but I've been in Romania for a couple of weeks recently and Uber was cheaper than Bolt for all rides except one. I think I only used Bolt while I had 40% off voucher acti…

It doesn't need to be a phone running iOS and Android, you just need an email client and a PDF viewer for UK train etickets

You can change the root parameter in extlinux.conf to point to whatever block storage you want it to Or reconfigure U-Boot to load extlinux.conf (and the kernel image, initrd, etc)…

> It's dawning on me that what China and South Korea are achieving, although impressive, leads to a lengthy stalemate that makes life impossible for millions of people. It's not a …

> In case you mean the .fw file used in that driver, that's a misnomer. There is no CPU inside the EPDC. That .fw file is a plain voltage waveform file that defines voltage vs time…

FYI, the OEM (ODM?) for Kobo devices is Netronix ( http://www.netronixinc.com/index.aspx ). On their platforms, the most challenging bits to liberate will be the EPDC firmware (whi…

They use Google Analytics to monitor your usage for one thing.

Funny coincidence, I'm developing okreader ( https://github.com/lgeek/okreader ), which is a package of u-boot, deblobbified downstream kernel images, Debian and KOReader ( https:/…

Her only opponent quit, she was the only one running.