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DanAtC··on AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
fast.com was created by Netflix to show if your ISP was throttling Netflix traffic.

A lot of mobile services (at least in the US) offer "unlimited streaming" which is really just bandwidth-limited to offer SD-quality streams and offer "HD" (read: less-limited) streaming as a paid add-on.

DanAtC··on Is there an issue with Cloudflare DNS IP resolution?
archive.today has beef with Cloudflare stripping EDNS https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
DanAtC··on Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network
And so does Apple's Find My, but I never see anyone complaining about that.
DanAtC··on Tilde.news – A Link Aggregator for the Tildeverse
Not as funny as a nut in an egg cup
DanAtC··on Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result
No plugins allowed on the default Android browser Chrome.
DanAtC··on ‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
Planes don't land like that. And 75 ft is a lot closer than shown.
DanAtC··on Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S
Not Cisco! https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/13/cisco_smb_critical_ro...
DanAtC··on The 88x31 GIF Collection
Here's a search of 88x31 gifs from CDs, disks, and FTP sites on archive.org as indexed by discmaster.textfiles.com: http://discmaster.textfiles.com/search?widthMin=88&heightMin...
DanAtC··on Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230
Reddit is afraid they'll be held responsible for the actions of moderators they have no control over. Their business model is at risk so they're spinning it as something that threatens their users.
DanAtC··on HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2606A5830780074B089FAB96904009DA412C1C3D&dn=Complete%20Looney%20Tunes%20Golden%20Collection%20%5BDVDrip%5D
DanAtC··on DNS4EU
dnsmasq is not a recursive resolver.
DanAtC··on Why I still have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
certbot also now insists on using snapd, even on Debian. There's still certbot packages in the distros' repos, but who knows how long they'll continue to work.
DanAtC··on Realization: A web without brackets is the better web – folding all brackets
I don't see a checkbox
DanAtC··on The great Covid and smoking cover-up?
This publication is bordering on garbage https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/spiked-magazine/
DanAtC··on Google to start forcing new Gmail interface this month
A product manager's promotion.
DanAtC··on Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase
For anyone interested in how the graphs were made: https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

Happy to see people still using RRD after all these years.

DanAtC··on Ask HN: How have you been tracking your work each week?
https://timewarrior.net/
DanAtC··on Telegram CEO accuses Apple of crushing entrepreneurs
iOS is basically a super app these days.
DanAtC··on Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
Prepaid phones are readily available in the US, no ID or SSN required.
DanAtC··on Ask HN: Take time off on these uncertain times
I'll just wait to get laid off and collect funemployment
DanAtC··on Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3
MV3 sucks and all, but why do you need an extension to set up proxy settings? Is this in lieu of a whole-device VPN?
DanAtC··on Gen Z never learned to read cursive
Zaner-Bloser is disproportionate and ugly and should have never been taught to anyone.

Had recent generations been taught something practical like D'Nealian or something beautiful like Spencerian then maybe cursive wouldn't have gotten such a bad wrap.

DanAtC··on 5th Circuit Rules Internet Companies Have No Right to Moderate
@dang can we get this merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32874551 ?
DanAtC··on Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (2016)
iOS' Lockdown Mode blocks web fonts. Sad to see how many sites still use icon fonts instead of SVGs.
DanAtC··on Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers
Banks don't eat reversed charges, the retailer does.
DanAtC··on The search for dirt on Mudge
What's stopping someone from taking the money and giving them nothing of value in return? Missed opportunity.
DanAtC··on What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
Do you live on Christmas Island? A certain infamous .cx domain was revoked when a resident complained that the owner didn't have ties to the island (though the content probably had more to do it than anything)
DanAtC··on Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
A good engineer knows which tools are right for the job.
DanAtC··on Ask HN: What happened to theregister.com?
Fark still feels about the same
DanAtC··on Ask HN: 2FA for Credit Cards?
> they send a request to the bank’s app on my phone

I'm glad US banks don't require me to install proprietary apps on my phone.

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