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gslin··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
The latest deployment seems using Service Worker API, which causes broken on "old" browsers because the API is not supported on these browsers.

Some people like me who block Service Worker API all the time are also affected, like https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/no-service-worker/m... this.

gslin··on 'The Brutalist' Director Speaks Out After AI Controversy Erupts
https://archive.ph/tnrJN
gslin··on Taiwan asks South Korea for help over Chinese ship after subsea cable damaged
https://archive.ph/EVxOp
gslin··on Jimmy Carter has died
https://archive.ph/677UB
gslin··on Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
It seems also answer https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14903/why... this.
gslin··on Is AWS S3 having an outage?
Something related/non-related, it's still painful to read specific timezone not UTC.
gslin··on The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
https://archive.ph/UNebH
gslin··on US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements
https://archive.ph/6lUHO
gslin··on From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only
This reminds me some other interesting things (but from Linux to FreeBSD) around 15-20 years ago:

* https://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/

gslin··on “Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier, and nearly as accurate
This makes me watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11001001 again.
gslin··on TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development
https://xkcd.com/927/
gslin··on How Microchips Work
https://archive.is/hYvUp for most contents.
gslin··on Vultr CDN
$10/mo + usage fee:

    Amsterdam $0.01 / GB
    Atlanta $0.01 / GB
    Bangalore $0.05 / GB
    Chicago $0.01 / GB
    Dallas $0.01 / GB
    Delhi NCR $0.05 / GB
    Frankfurt $0.01 / GB
    Honolulu $0.01 / GB
    Johannesburg $0.05 / GB
    London $0.01 / GB
    Los Angeles $0.01 / GB
    Madrid $0.01 / GB
    Manchester $0.01 / GB
    Melbourne $0.05 / GB
    Mexico City $0.05 / GB
    Miami $0.01 / GB
    Mumbai $0.05 / GB
    New Jersey $0.01 / GB
    Osaka $0.03 / GB
    Paris $0.01 / GB
    Santiago $0.05 / GB
    São Paulo $0.05 / GB
    Seattle $0.01 / GB
    Seoul $0.05 / GB
    Silicon Valley $0.01 / GB
    Singapore $0.03 / GB
    Stockholm $0.01 / GB
    Sydney $0.05 / GB
    Tel Aviv $0.05 / GB
    Tokyo $0.03 / GB
    Toronto $0.01 / GB
    Warsaw $0.01 / GB
gslin··on South Korea's birth rate has become a national emergency
https://archive.is/JwmHJ
gslin··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
Their topology page has information about PHL/AMS and FRE (seems like Fremont datacenter):

https://web.archive.org/web/20240111132224/https://man.sr.ht...

gslin··on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Near Deal to Buy Juniper Networks
Also https://archive.is/C7fu0
gslin··on Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince
https://archive.is/XEoTR
gslin··on The Pay Raise People Say They Need to Be Happy
https://archive.is/xBGX4
gslin··on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
https://archive.ph/GyzOF
gslin··on Linux ate my RAM (2009)
https://archive.ph/WmJHf
gslin··on HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page
Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo
gslin··on DALL·E 3
This page is somehow quite interesting, returning 404:

    $ http https://openai.com/dall-e-3
    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Encoding: gzip
But others seem returning normal 200.
gslin··on Neopets is still around
https://web.archive.org/web/20230911235150/https://www.duals...
gslin··on FreeBSD pf bypass when using IPv6
> We reported the vulnerability at 2023-07-12 20:15:43 UTC and received the ACK at 2023-07-12 01:34:54 UTC.

I am not sure the timeline...

gslin··on MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (2014)
More discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097661 (2018).
gslin··on Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/files/2013/11/nytimes-firefox...
gslin··on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
The author is a SRE of HashiCorp (from LinkedIn), so I guess (yeah just guess) what he mentioned in the article is Terraform Cloud, based on the growing business.
gslin··on As of May 31, 2023, we have updated our Code of Conduct
The old one: https://web.archive.org/web/20230530172255/https://stackover...
gslin··on Breaking SHA256: length extension attacks in practice
concatenate strings.
gslin··on Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals
For general solution you can check https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3072828/why-didnt-t..., which is related to Lambert W function.
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