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Wondering why I can't query the DNS directly. $ dig posts-2021-08-17-serving-blog-content-over-dns-md.hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net TXT ; > DiG 9.8.3-P1 > posts-2021-08-17-serving-blog-content-over-dns-md.hod.experiments.jacobkiers.net TXT ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER
That's weird, it should work. I'll investigate when I get home.
> You might not be able to see it immediately Or at all since the content is entirely injected via JS with no fallback (and the JS uses class fields in case you thought an old browser might be able to load it).
> You might not be able to see it immediately Or at all since the content is entirely injected via JS with no fallback (and the JS uses class fields in case you thought an old browser might be able to load it).
Been wondering about this, how many people are using old browsers? caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes. The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why? What kind of unusual visitors would I be missing out on?
> You might not be able to see it immediately Or at all since the content is entirely injected via JS with no fallback (and the JS uses class fields in case you thought an old browser might be able to load it).
Been wondering about this, how many people are using old browsers? caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes. The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why? What kind of unusual visitors would I be missing out on?
I guess there are lots of tiny edge cases that look like that.
> You might not be able to see it immediately Or at all since the content is entirely injected via JS with no fallback (and the JS uses class fields in case you thought an old browser might be able to load it).
Also, since this was mostly a DNS-focused proof of concept, I don't particularly care about that. Not in this case, at least.
Anyway, this made me think of iodine [1], an IP over DNS solution, which I still run on my main server even though it has a lot less use now than it had until a few years ago when there were a lot of open wifi with captive portals and way less 4G available.
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Been wondering about this, how many people are using old browsers? caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes. The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why? What kind of unusual visitors would I be missing out on?
You're missing on visitors with disabled (or whitelisted) javascript. On HackerNews that'll be pretty common.
Corollary is, spyware can use DNS to exfiltrate data [0]. Or, send out client-side metrics with cleverly drafted DNS requests [1], or use it as a 3p-cookie replacement [2]. [0] https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/dns-tunneling-how-dns-ca... [1] https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/choir (disclosure: I co-develop hard-forks of two other related Jigsaw-Code projects) [2] http://dnscookie.com/
As someone who has an obsession with base64 encoding (as exemplified by my poorly written shell scripting here: https://miscdotgeek.com/curlytp-every-web-server-is-a-dead-d... ) I love this. It makes me wonder if some CSS and maybe even a highly compressed image or two could be added.
A few years ago I randomly remarked that repeated base64 prefix converge to a fixed point. I tweeted [1] the first characters of that string out of amusement, without any additional details.
Then someone saw the tweet, found it funny, and did a write-up about it [2], and then there was an interesting discussion on Reddit [3]. There may have been one on HN too, I don't remember.
Have fun :).
[1] https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/298900842076045312
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160313123301/https://fmota.eu/...
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/18234a/the_base64_...