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dndvron How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

-------------------------- John-Tony12 27 minutes ago | parent | context | on: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

Fascinating deep dive — shows how Quake.exe integrated its own TCP/IP stack, highlighting clever engineering and early game networking innovations.

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This is AI right? the em dash and the inane sycophantic reiteration

dndvron Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

Can't have the populace heating the voice of the guy who was never proven to be a member of the ra, better they listen to the sexy husband of convicted provo bomber Dolours Price instead.

Dolours being the sister of Marian Price who is currently suiting Disney over being depicted shooting Jean McConville in the back of the head in Say Nothing.

dndvron Introduction to Indian English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be#Hypothesized_sourc...

yes, the aave usage does potentially be having its origins in he

dndvron Is Northern Ireland a failed state?

Your use of the phrase 'to use the British term' implying you think that's clever and relevant (and not at all contentious) is the first indicator you don't know what you are talking about.

dndvron The X220 ThinkPad

I use an x250 which has dual batteries

An internal 3 cell battery and a removable 3 cell battery (a 6 cell one is also available)

I don't have a spare but the main point of this set up is to allow hot swapping of batteries wit no shutdowns when AC is unavailable

dndvron Some Gov.uk URLs blocked by deceptive site warning

- To reduce the attack surface In the event of site with a *.gov.uk subdomain getting compromised at least it won't now be able to steal auth cookies for internal services

- to keep test/stage as faithful a copy of prod as possible they will have a totally separate but the same DNS set up/CDN set up/ load balancing etc. Theoretically the only difference would need to be one routing rule rather than stuff that might start creating edge case bugs with certs/cookies etc where there are different numbers of segments in domains. Also allows for more certainty/confidence when something is tested in a lower environment that it will work when promoted to prod

dndvron Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs

Laughs in Brabus

dndvron Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

- not that common a scenario

- this uses localStorage which is similar to cookies but not the same thing

- for a site that extolls 'all the data is saved in your browser', how should it cope with a browser with storage disabled?

- How do you log in to HN with cookies disabled?

dndvron Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

is pulling via ACH basically a direct debit in UK terms?

dndvron Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

This network/system is called Faster Payments https://www.wearepay.uk/what-we-do/payment-systems/faster-pa...

You may also be interested in Paym which uses mobile numbers https://paym.co.uk/

dndvron Distribyted: Torrent client with on-demand file downloading as a filesystem

Sounds a bit like PiperNet

dndvron Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries

Even if Google used a separate highly optimised webserver for google.com/static/jquery.js, users who are logged in would be sending their auth cookies when requesting the library.

Given that generally people have slower upload than download, shaving off a few bytes from requests is worth it.

I also recall that browsers [used to (?)] limit concurrent requests per domain which this helps work around

dndvron Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries

Will this cause performance issues for sites that use static cookieless domains for js, images etc

Google themselves do this with gstatic.net and ytimg.com etc

dndvron Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive

"_Many streets in the Paris city center are one way_ "

dndvron Mailgo, a new concept of mailto and tel links

Is this issue not somewhat solved by a the navigator.share API with a fallback to a mailto: link (with no to address)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...

NB support is somewhat limited:

https://caniuse.com/web-share

dndvron I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

Tell us why we should..

Is that a referral link?

dndvron How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?

What VW did is similar to uber's greyball system in that they give a different experience to the regulator rather than giving everyone an experience that is tuned to what a regulator might hope to see

dndvron The Return of the 90s Web

You must use old.reddit.com

dndvron The Return of the 90s Web

I did get a chuckle out of a page extolling the virtues of 'html over the wire' asking me if I was

'interested in things like front-end dev and the JAMStack'

dndvron Developers are your users too – a defence of 'View Source'

So source maps for html?

dndvron eBay is port scanning visitors to their website

So does using websockets allow you to scan local IP ranges and find other devices on the LAN?

dndvron eBay is port scanning visitors to their website

Surely the websockets angle is a bit of a red herring?

Ebay will have your IP from your request so they can run nmap against your machine from their server without your browser ever knowing about it.

I also know of a bank that does similar via an old school sort of way, their online banking login page tries to load images from urls made up of your IP and various ports.

Presumably these are targeting known ports for online banking malware C&C http traffic rather than remote desktop services though.

And this is a bank that still uses frames 'for security', so it must be an old technique!