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No, I don't think they are proxying traffic. They are giving the website operators a spoofed EDNS Client Subnet which tricks them into thinking the traffic is coming from a different geolocation.

Parent might also be getting bit by Apple's iCloud Private Relay and/or the "Hide IP Address" feature of Safari.

I’m also puzzled by the Instant On divestiture. In the original filing and press release the DOJ does call out SMB, even though most of the discussion is about enterprise markets:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block...

My guess is that by forcing HPE to spin off Instant On, the DOJ hopes to score a modest PR win by claiming it protected small businesses, by preserving one of the few turnkey, cloud-native wireless solutions for SMBs. Since Instant On represents only a tiny portion of the deal, though, it seems odd that it was singled out.

Acquisitions have been central to Hewlett-Packard’s strategy since the mid-1980s. Just look at this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlet...

HPE consistently struggles to retain talent and foster growth post-acquisition. Integration is hampered by decades of IT cruft, leading to a sluggish tech stack and a deeply bureaucratic culture. Like many public companies, they also suffer from a lack of long-term focus.

Aruba Networks (acquired by HP in 2015, right before HP split into HP/HPE) has approximately 5% of the market for switching outside of the datacenter segment. They aren't a big player in the DC, you're right about that.

Google used to use HP (pre Aruba) switches in the DC in the early days. Not many though. Mostly for OOB access. I doubt they still do.

> Google's non-AI efficiency is not much better than Amazon or anyone else.

I don't think this is true. Google has long been a leader in efficiency. Look at the power usage effectiveness (PUE). A decade ago Google announced average PUEs around 1.12 while the industry average was closer to 2.0. From what I can tell they reported a 1.1 average fleet wide last year. They've been more transparent about this than any of the other big players.

AWS is opaque by comparison, but they report 1.2 on average. So they're close now, but that's after a decade of trying to catch up to Google.

To suggest the rest of the industry is on the same level is not at all accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness

(Amazon isn't even listed in the "Notably efficient companies" section on the Wikipedia page).

I'm using Kagi as my default, falling back to Google (typically via '!g' in Kagi) for some technical queries. I use ChatGPT 4o several times a day, but typically not as a 1:1 replacement for web search.

In the last paragraph you describe the overwhelming majority of humanity, seemingly without any sense of irony. What outcome do you expect here?

My guess after reading the same -- the bot traffic comes in bursts and targets a specific commit hash for a while. Users are unlikely to need that specific commit, and even less likely to need it at the same time a bot is bursting requests for it. There's probably a small risk of denying a real user, but there's a large reduction in traffic from the bots making it to git; a worthwhile trade.

Put simply, most bots just aren't designed to solve such challenges.

Caddy

$200/mo. It's only in the new Pro plan at the moment.

Parent didn't say anything about complete protection? An LLC does offer some level of protection, albeit mostly liability protection (as implied by the name, Limited Liability Company), and in this case I would be more worried about the need to defend against overzealous law enforcement requests. I'm not sure an LLC really helps much in that context. It's more about being able to afford a good legal team.

It was the former, a unique ID per recipient.

iPhones, Pixels, and Samsung phones have been defaulting to HEIC for around five years now, so it’s unlikely that compression alone would prevent tracking dots or other unique noise or patterns from being preserved. Steganography is a well-established technique that can definitely survive through photographs, even under compression. Variations in fonts or typography could be used for tracking too. There are plenty of creative ways this could be achieved.

Holy shit though, who thought this email (or Slack message or whatever) in the middle of an ongoing disaster was a good idea? This is the equivalent of asking you to make sure you file your TPS report. Honestly why do they give a shit about the knobs in the RTO portal? They can see if people are based in LA already. Benefit of the doubt, etc.

Google used to watermark internal emails using non-visible Unicode. It would catch people copy-pasting things to the press. (This was circa 2010; I don't know if they still do it.)

Printers and copiers have hidden "tracking dots" that can ID the specific device used. Introduced by Xerox in the mid 80s and not known to the public until 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Sorry but this wouldn't be "next level" spyware.

I mean, the iPhone 16 is already running LLMs locally. So yeah.

Someone provided the solution in another comment.

After pinning the extension, click on it and deselect the "enabled" option (the line with the purple X). This will kill the floating orb UI but you can still click on the extension in the toolbar to use it.

Wow, that's really not intuitive, but it works. Thanks!

But... don't you want people to use it? You seem passionate about it otherwise.

I'll admit, I almost didn't click past the animation either. I did, and the doc quickly answered "what is it?", but why not just put that sentence on the landing page? I don't get the unnecessary obscurity either.

Given the current political climate, this is incredibly unlikely. Reference the situation with TikTok and the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" which became US law earlier this year.

This says more about the cost of rent than it does the compensation of FAANG.

Probably not news to you, but those are completely different departments within the company with opposing goals.

That still sucks and is prohibitive for indie developers. As the post mentions, in reality this program adds very little value for any of the involved parties.

This modal pops up when you enable Bouncer on iOS 18:

"The developer of 'Bouncer' will receive the text, attachments, and sender information in SMS and MMS messages from senders not in your Contacts. Messages may include personal or sensitive information like bank verification codes."

This doesn't scream "privacy preserving".

Let us know if you're actually using it in a week or so. (I tried it a couple of times in the beta. It is slow. It is clunky. It is an impractical way to interact with your iPhone.)

How do you upload content to R2? Someone else mentioned Dropshare, but it is iOS/macOS only. I need a cross-platform solution.

Unusable in what way? I don't personally find the macOS app to be "unusable" at all.

Also, you may be underestimating how buggy Swift and the rest of Apple's stack are. It's hard to get those bugs resolved unless you happen to work at Apple. Thus, a lot of time is spent working around bugs up the stack. So I don't find it surprising that a company moving fast like OpenAI ships _some_ bugs. The mac app just came out this month? Give it time.