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It's interesting to see someone trying to decide the invention clock in the real world...

gslinon World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back

https://archive.is/2cmyP

gslinon Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21

Google Docs Viewer link if you don't want to download and look at it:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fletsencrypt...

gslinon Oblivious HTTP

btw, https://ietf-wg-ohai.github.io/oblivious-http/draft-ietf-oha... is the latest version of this draft.

gslinon Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems

I would say the author just tried to redefined "distributed", and ignored those real distributed systems, e.g. Paxos/Raft-based ones.

gslinon Removing characters from strings faster with AVX-512

A problem is slowing down the CPU frequency significantly when AVX-512 is involved, e.g. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_gold/6262v this, which usually cancels out the benefit in the Real World (tm).

gslinon Akamai claims Multicloud and Multi-CDNs architecture are deceptive

The original content has been deleted, check https://web.archive.org/web/20220430224148/https://webcache.... as well.

gslinon Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?

Now the domain is gone:

  ; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> marketingreportoptout.visa.com
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23155
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;marketingreportoptout.visa.com.        IN      A

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  visa.com.               284     IN      SOA     ns1.dnsvisa.com. premiumdns.support.neustar. 2019108493 600 300 1209600 300

gslinon Pluging USB 3.0 disk slowly causes PS4 recognize as an USB 2.0 device

In https://twitter.com/bourne_goal/status/1388367850750939142 people complained about slow USB 2.0 speed for the external disk. Sony replied "Please plugin faster" to make it recognize as an USB 3.0 disk:

CE-41902-6: If your HDD is definitely USB 3.0, connecting it too slowly might cause this error message. Connect the USB External Storage Device quickly and firmly, but carefully.

gslinon Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller

It's 5V micro-USB mode according to "3.1.1 Popcorn" section in https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/pico/pico_datasheet.pdf this datasheet.

gslinon Continuing our journey to bring instant experiences to the whole web

So, with https://threatpost.com/netflixs-https-update-cant-combat-pas... this technique, Google can analyze all Netflix traffic as well.

gslinon Show HN: Which DNS servers are you pointing to?

Akamai also provides something similar:

* https://developer.akamai.com/blog/2018/05/10/introducing-new...

gslinon Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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