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BitPirate··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
With this line of reasoning, you will have to block TCP as well.
BitPirate··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
Isn't the syscall overhead solved by GSO and GRO?
BitPirate··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
I'm pretty sure that Netflix operates a decent amount of servers in South America which would result in low latency connections.

HTTP/3 really starts to shine once high latency and/or packetloss are involved.

BitPirate··on Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
Just toss it onto https://attic.apache.org/, link to LibreOffice and be done with it.
BitPirate··on Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default
Have you used caddy with HTTP/3? The quic-go version shipped with v2.6.0 wasn't tuned for optimal performance.
BitPirate··on Linux network performance parameters
The typical painpoint is the low maximum buffer sizes.

net.core.rmem_max net.core.wmem_max

e.g. wireguard-go will hit those limits of not executed with CAP_NET_ADMIN.

BitPirate··on British Court: Patient Can Be Denied Life-Sustaining Treatment Against Her Will
And with privately funded healthcare, there may be no treatment at all. That's even more fucked up.
BitPirate··on Larne Craigyhill bonfire: 17000 pallets (2021)
If they are broken, why not? You can't use them to transport goods safely and they contain nails so people will hesitate to put them in a wood burner.
BitPirate··on Godot 4.1
Godot has support for both of them?
BitPirate··on Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild
If a webserver requires additional tools for the user to avoid all these pitfalls, maybe just maybe it should re-evaluate its defaults.
BitPirate··on Btreefs generates executable code at runtime to unpack btree nodes
I have had a lot of "fun" with this feature in the past. It has earned a permanent place in my setup script:

ALTER SYSTEM SET jit=off;

Basically a performance blackhole for more complex queries. Most OSM related projects disable it straight away as it only creates headaches.

https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/pull/2559 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/blob/mas...

BitPirate··on The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
Quite a few devices implement Zero-wait DFS.

https://docs.engenius.ai/cloud-white-papers/zero-wait-dfs#wh...

BitPirate··on Waze Founder Noam Bardin is starting up a Twitter alternative
If you post the correct link which is joinmastodon.org there's no problem.
BitPirate··on Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus
I would rather encourage migration and let the admin provide links to similar instances.
BitPirate··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
You don't need to host a Mastodon instance yourself. Plenty of them are open for registration :)

e.g https://masto.ai/ or https://fosstodon.org

BitPirate··on DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters?
It's obvious why the content industry is cracking down on DNS providers. If they succeed, the most likely outcome is overblocking with platforms like Netflix, Disney & Co on a curated whitelist.
BitPirate··on StemRoller – Isolate vocals, drums, bass, and other stems from any song
Makes sense. MP3 tries to compress without loosing information in the hearable spectrum of a human but that information can still be processed by algorithms.
BitPirate··on FairEmail removed from Google Play store again becaues of Gmail rate limiting
The developer regularly publishes updates on the topic: https://email.faircode.eu/status/

I would like to see the EU put a stop to Google's anti-competitive behavior. This is a textbook example of why more regulation is needed.

BitPirate··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/589
BitPirate··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
Controlling a wayland client on Linux is still work in progress: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/56

Partial support has already been added: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/pull/932

BitPirate··on Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
I think they missed one of the biggest changes: ICU collations can finally be set as default for clusters and databases.
BitPirate··on Reasons for servers to support IPv6
If you don't have a static subnet, you can still use ULAs.
BitPirate··on Launch HN: Gravitl (YC W22) – VPN Platform Based on WireGuard
Very cool. I remember recommending you to switch from nginx+certbot to caddy for an easier deployment :)
BitPirate··on How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Are there any plans to add VP9 support?
BitPirate··on Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
Syncthing uses the same logic that OP criticized. There is no rendezvous server from a NAT traversal perspective and also no port prediction.

All peers simply lookup their external port via STUN and publish this information.

BitPirate··on PostgreSQL 14 RC 1 Released
Has something been done in Postgres 14 regarding the jit compiler leaking memory?

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/16707-f5df308978a...

BitPirate··on WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation
Are you still battling with Apples NetworkExtension framework or are most pain points fixed nowadays?

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/00...

BitPirate··on Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability
While i agree that Java 8 added a lot of nice things, the big disruption happened with Java 9.
BitPirate··on Working around a case where the Postgres planner is “not very smart”
The other thing i'm currently struggling with is the slow parameter sniffing in SQL server. We would really like to switch to the official mssql-jdbc driver but the performance is abysmal:

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-jdbc/issues/1196#issuecom...

BitPirate··on Leaky Abstractions
Hussein Nasser just recently created a video on the topic of leaky abstractions in our everday tech stack.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4a3bI7AYsy4

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