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bratch··on OVH is down along with its status page
It looks like only IPv4 is affected. IPv6 is working fine to a couple of test endpoints.

   3  2a02:c28:1:6506::106  2.131 ms  2.124 ms  2.117 ms
   4  2a02:c28:11:6::100  15.695 ms  15.689 ms  15.682 ms
   5  2a02:c28:1:1900::19  15.998 ms  15.991 ms  15.985 ms
   6  2a02:c28:0:1819::18  15.259 ms  15.051 ms  16.975 ms
   7  2a02:c28:0:1718::17  16.968 ms  16.403 ms  15.619 ms
   8  2a02:c28:0:1731::31  15.406 ms  18.620 ms  18.554 ms
   9  2001:7f8:4::3f94:2  12.025 ms * *
  10  * * *
  11  2001:41d0:aaaa:100::5  21.622 ms  38.813 ms 2001:41d0:aaaa:100::3  37.231 ms
  12  * * *
  13  * 2001:41d0::25f1  19.507 ms 2001:41d0::c68  20.892 ms
  14  2001:41d0::513  19.685 ms  19.674 ms 2001:41d0::50d  18.248 ms
  15  2001:41d0:0:50::5:10a1  19.092 ms  19.917 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::5:10a5  20.126 ms
  16  2001:41d0:0:50::1:143f  19.375 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::1:143b  24.609 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::1:143d  18.933 ms
bratch··on Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
All day every day since 2009 :)

I've kept an eye on other phones throughout the years, but nothing quite ticks the same boxes (and by far most things aren't even remotely close).

There are some other interesting phones on the horizon (Librem, PinePhone), but then again things like Maemo Leste are ready to breathe new life into the N900, so I might be using it for very long time yet!

bratch··on Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
It still works great on the Nokia N900!

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/UsingPidgin/N900

bratch··on Coming soon: Google Fiber 2 Gig
This was my first thought too. I have done this successfully to get Cat5e everywhere in a house that used to have coax everywhere. If you do it, I recommend attaching multiple pull strings to the coax, then pulling the coax out, then using one of the new pull strings for the Cat5e - otherwise you risk the Cat5e and the coax becoming detached from one another in the wall.
bratch··on Submarine Cable Map
https://kis-orca.eu/map/ is a very accurate map, but doesn't cover the whole world. You can compare the cables in and leaving Europe to decide whether you think https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ is particularly accurate or not.
bratch··on New in Thunderbird 78
For Office 365 I use DavMail [0] for calendar, and Office 365's own SMTP/IMAP servers for mail.

Both seem to work well. It would be nice to have DavMail built in to Thunderbird, but it happily lives in a Screen session with no issues.

[0] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

bratch··on Auto-cpufreq – Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
Intel's own distribution defaults to the peformance governor [1] in order to race to idle. This has been Intel's recommendation for some years.

[1] https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/maintenance/cpu...

bratch··on How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)
I'm surprised to hear of problems with Firefox and ALSA. On all my Gentoo machines I simple compile Firefox with USE="-pulseaudio" which sets --enable-alsa within Firefox's build. Still working fine up to and including Firefox 66 directly to ALSA.
bratch··on How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (2018)
To name some big ones: Alpine, Gentoo, Slackware.
bratch··on I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon
GLiv [1]. Firefox and GLiv both take ~5 seconds to load the image for me, although whilst Firefox takes another ~5 seconds to re-render after zooming in to 100 %, GLiv is instant.

[1] http://guichaz.free.fr/gliv/

bratch··on Rot8000
I was delighted that a fun toy didn't need JS for once. If the concern is one of privacy, the author could just be sending the text to the server in the background with JS too.
bratch··on Processor Microcode for Linux
The package contains microcode for old CPUs but it isn't necessarily still updated or recent.

Here for example is what's available for my router's CPU, from the latest package:

  # grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo
  model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4500  @ 2.20GHz

  # iucode_tool -S -l /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/* | tail -n1
  iucode_tool: system has processor(s) with signature 0x000006fd
    030/003: sig 0x000006fd, pf_mask 0x01, 2010-10-02, rev 0x00a4, size 4096
Last updated almost eight years ago, so doesn't contain any Spectre/Meltdown fixes.
bratch··on Interesting commands for the Linux shell
It is useful in the case that you want a predictable and expected delay immediately, rather than unpredictable delays for an unknown length of time to come.
bratch··on Linux utils that you might not know
`cal` does try to use the expected first day of the week based on the locale. It seems to at least use LC_TIME from some quick local testing:

  bratch@serenity ~ $ LC_TIME=en_GB cal | head -n2
        May 2017      
  Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  
  bratch@serenity ~ $ LC_TIME=en_US cal | head -n2
        May 2017      
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
bratch··on A faster BBC News front page
I find the opposite - without JS permitted for at least a couple of domains, one only sees the mobile site and extremely low resolution images.

Edit: And even with JS, images remain low resolution (or invisible) until you stop middle-button scrolling which makes for scanning through articles very painful.

bratch··on Ask HN: What are the OSS alternatives to iOS/Android?
This is what I'm waiting for, but in the meantime I'm still running Maemo 5 on an N900.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900

There's still a relatively active community going:

https://talk.maemo.org/

bratch··on St – A simple terminal implementation for X
Gentoo's package manager (Portage) deals with this quite nicely for packages like st [1].

Both custom patches and config.h changes can be saved in the package manager, which will then apply them automatically to new versions.

[1] https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-terms/st

bratch··on WoSign and StartCom: Mozilla’s proposed conclusion
Being hosted where it is is particularly annoying because you can't view it unless you accept cookies from google.com.

A JavaScript redirect takes you straight to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050.

bratch··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
You can also fix this with "browser.showQuitWarning = true" in about:config. It still instantly quits with only one tab open, but so would Ctrl-W.
bratch··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
BetterStop [1] restores the old behaviour well.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/betterstop/

bratch··on Pine64 (64-bit quad core for $15) Quick Start Guide
And you can also kill -USR1 $(pidof dd) to get the current progress and transfer rate.
bratch··on Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
The host (assuming the same host) is responding with a different website when accessed via IPv4 vs IPv6.

  $ curl -4s http://kairos.xyz/ | grep title
      <title>Kairos</title>

  $ curl -6s http://kairos.xyz/ | grep title
  <title>Welcome to nginx on Debian!</title>

  $ host kairos.xyz
  kairos.xyz has address 107.161.29.121
  kairos.xyz has IPv6 address 2604:180:0:a54::24d9
bratch··on Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode
Note that if Firefox is already running, you'll need to use --no-remote --ProfileManager. Details in WONTFIXed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99828.
bratch··on Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer
Indeed, I just purchased one from https://shop.pimoroni.com/ for £3.33. Alas, it was £3.00 for shipping.
bratch··on “I have [bash] history back to ~2003”
The leading space behaviour is true only if HISTCONTROL="ignorespace" is set.
bratch··on Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
Correct - by using two separate devices you can cheaply get around the issue today. This gets you a setup that I could agree to be trustworthy and privacy respecting.

The convenience of one device is a big sell though, plus I think a device with a built in cellular modem is more fairly called a "phone".

bratch··on Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
The biggest problem with mobile phone privacy (assuming you seek it) is that no matter how trustworthy and privacy respecting the operating system and its software is, the baseband modem is usually at the behest of the network provider and also generally has full access to the main CPU and memory. There is one project I am aware of that is looking to address this problem - the Neo900 [1].

The platform should hopefully be 100 % trustworthy (from an "it's free software so I can inspect it" point of view), as long as you do not choose to use a non-free graphics driver.

[1] https://neo900.org/

bratch··on Show HN: Compare LGBT Rights Between Any Country, State, or Province
Jersey.
bratch··on Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak
Swap the "www" in the URL for "m" on a video page and you'll get a low resolution HTML5 video!
bratch··on Show HN: Compare LGBT Rights Between Any Country, State, or Province
I can't even find my own home, although people do like to debate whether it is a country, state or province.
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