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I’m confused about for this assertion, for two reasons: - My understanding is that OCSP stapling stops leaks, because the browser can get OCSP data from the server instead of needi…

Yes, the modifications you need to support it are trivially obvious (literally just replace “4 bytes” with “8 bytes” everywhere in the spec) and have been implemented by a number o…

CDB is an interesting format, optimized for read-heavy write-rarely[1] random lookups on slow media. This isn’t a very common requirement these days, but it’s convenient for very s…

We have no idea whether the signal had a pattern because the only recording we have of it consists of averages over 10-second samples, so any modulation <10s (or patterns larger th…

From the article: > there are about 230 billion* links that need visiting > * Thanks to arkiver on the Archive Team IRC for correcting this number. Also when running the Warrior pr…

No they really are trying to enumerate all 230 billion possible shortlinks; that’s why they need so many people to help crawl everything.

I know puns are considered the lowest form of humor, but I still appreciate the occasional bit of levity to lighten the mood in serious discussions.

I think what you want is to just make a function and pass it the values: const template = ({name}) => `hello ${name}`; const n1 = template({ name: 'joe' }); (Tagged templates won’t…

The judge’s report[1] lists twenty-eight different classes of failure, including: - Confusing and buggy UI causing clerks to duplicate or mis-enter transactions - Inventory getting…

Expecting Friends Journal to explain quakers is like wanting the IETF to tell you what a computer is; the target audience for this article are people who are way beyond needing an …

You might be thinking of Mormons? I’ve never heard of the CIA recruiting Quakers and I don’t think it would go particularly well if they did.

For whatever it’s worth, zeekstd seems to come with a CLI tool: https://github.com/rorosen/zeekstd/tree/main/cli

Recently I showed somebody https://search.feep.dev and they opened the browser network tools and went “Where’s the XHR? Where’s the JavaScript?? How did you change the URL?” They h…

A working domain needs one validation every ~60 days, but these zombie domains sound like they’re making multiple requests per hour (per the article, twice daily would still take 1…

> there is nothing preventing the development of software to overwrite data before unlink(2) is called. It’s not that simple: this command already exists, it’s called `shred`, and …

The client only needs to get indexes for the specific search; if the index is just a list of TF-IDF term scores per document (which gets you a very reasonable start on search relev…

> [Tim Berners-Lee is] famous for helping create the initial version of JavaScript You may be thinking of Brendan Eich? Berners-Lee is famous for HTML, HTTP, the first web browser,…

Hence the (relative), yes. Did “dedicated hobbyist” not tip you off that I wasn’t thinking about how to maximize market share?

Yeah, the (relative) rise of Kagi and Marginalia show that from a technical perspective, this is within the grasp of a dedicated hobbyist.[1] If Google continues their current traj…

> Mini vMac is better suited for this, but it checks the ROM’s checksum, so I couldn’t boot with mine—it’s not in the recognized list. You can compile Mini vMac without checksum ve…

I assume a big reason is cookies, which are specced to be shared across the two versions: an attacker could relatively trivially trigger a request to http://example.com . which wou…

I did a whole writeup of this situation a few months ago: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2025-02-20-state-of-stacke... TLDR: it seems like they don’t want to, but there was enou…