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smw··on French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
It's less common now, but for many years one of the more popular ways to DDOS someone was to trick a third party into sending them lots of data.
smw··on Passkeys are not a trap
What are you talking about, I use the bitwarden extension in chrome and chrome never asks me to store a passkey, bitwarden does.
smw··on Passkeys are not a trap
The overwhelming evidence is that this isn't true for the majority of users.
smw··on Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free
Just want to say thank you!! Screenhero was invaluable. Pop is pretty good, but open source is a game changer!
smw··on Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
Russia has a permanent seat and an absolute veto on all UN Security Council actions.
smw··on Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
I'm not sure I understand why? If you hosted plex on a vps, you'd still call it self-hosted. I don't see why using (a) fargate or (b) lambda or (c) cf workers changes the calculus here?
smw··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
1984 is a tiny paperback that's very accessible and probably takes a couple hours to read?
smw··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
What's rabl?
smw··on The Tao of Backup
use cloudflare's r2, no egress fees
smw··on Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes
I guess the real question here is what happens if my service _does_ get attacked by a volumetric DDoS? Do you immediately stop advertising?
smw··on Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
He runs a systemd-nspawnd container in a "small vm", so neither really?
smw··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Are there any competitive fabs in the US now? My understanding was no.
smw··on Go Concurrency Distilled
I feel like you can't describe something as m:n when it the m uses async/await and doesn't actually have a green thread?
smw··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Can you explain how you think Java does it more elegantly? That's a very surprising statement. Java didn't even do m:n threading until "Project Loom".
smw··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
This guy is obviously long SpaceX
smw··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
Are you sure you have that right? Chrome and curl have probably been used in a _lot_ of crimes?
smw··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
What are ancient usb connections? Type A? B?
smw··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
There are lots of companies that provide low end services for free to attract people who may now or in the future be decision makers at large companies.
smw··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
Repo suggests that they're running their own (rate-limited) DERP servers.

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Which are probably tailscale's, as it's under tailscale/ github org?

smw··on What Is a Syslog Server?
Database?
smw··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
I think maybe the right answer is to have a standardized, curated group of libraries pegged at some sort of LTS release that only backports security fixes. However, someone would need to pay for creating and maintaining this -- and then you wonder where the money would come from?
smw··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
2GB is so tiny it's almost irrelevant when talking about analytics?
smw··on The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
Here's the entirety of the Caddy config to reverse proxy something with managed tls certs. I feel like it's not that big a deal?

  photos.example.com {
          reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080 {
                  header_up X-Real-IP {remote_host}
          }
  }
smw··on The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
I don't know what you're on about. Just run Caddy and it does it all for you.
smw··on Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
I don't think there really _is_ an equivalent at Walmart?
smw··on On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
You can install Linux on modern macs? That doesn't mean that driver info is available, but there's nothing stopping you from installing another os.
smw··on Citizen of the Galaxy (full text) by Robert Heinlein
This is a copyrighted work, why are you publishing it on your website?
smw··on Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It
Because bandwidth between those sticks and the GPU isn't fast enough for fast inference.
smw··on Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
Many thanks!
smw··on Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase
Any license for it? I think technically we can't even run it legally at the moment?
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