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ishanjain28··on Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
Yes. Genocide.live is under clientHold status by namecheap and they are trying to transfer it out.
ishanjain28··on From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey
See

1. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9181

2. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9071

802.11k/v works well enough but the problem is when you are roaming the device is likely to see 2.4ghz network before it sees 5ghz network. Unless the manufacturers considered this scenario, the device will connect to 2.4ghz and remain connected to that instead of upgrading to higher bands. You need usteer in these situations.

You can also kind of patch this problem by setting beacon interval for 5/6ghz networks shorter than beacon interval for 2.4ghz network.

Also the problem with usteer is, they took the easy way out and do broadcast for syncing with other usteer instances instead of multicast so it's a lot of wasted bandwidth and it'll hit all the devices in that l2 segment.

ishanjain28··on From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey
This looks like a good project! Nice work.

802.11k/v/r on its own is not always sufficient for roaming specially if you have old clients on the network(5 years or older).

Almost every wifi solution like Omada or UI comes with additional heuristics based mechanisms to trigger roaming.

There are also bugs/missing features in 802.11r in openwrt. For example, it does not work if you are using 802.11w or Wifi 6

Also, during roaming it's supposed to do a shortened version of handshake for auth but right now it does a full 4 way handshake afaik or atleast that's what I see in the logs when a client switches to a different ap

ishanjain28··on From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey
Good band steering and roaming. I would not use openwrt if I had to use multiple APs to cover the area.
ishanjain28··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
No, the one from play store.
ishanjain28··on Firefox is the best mobile browser
My experience with fenix has been complete opposite.

1. For the last 6 months, there is a bug which causes ff to read incorrect display resolution information on Samsung devices. This breaks all elements positioned with absolute property and you can't see them or access them. The only fix is to restart firefox. Over time, it has literally gotten so much worse that now I have to do it atleast 10 times in a 30 minute session.

2. Have a site open, click on the nav bar to do a search or open another site and it just reloads the same site again! Redo the action and then it loads.

3. The networking stack is so so so bad I don't even know where to begin with that. It gets stuck randomly, slow loading pages, infinite loading animations just so many problems. There are also similar problems with graphics performance where sometimes, it literally runs at less than 60fps(you can feel it), consumes a lot more battery and heats up the processor. All these issues along side some of the design decisions they have made that they refuse to revert.

I do not feel good about Firefox fenix anymore

ishanjain28··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
Are you people seriously suggesting webrtc crap in response to a native app built for much much high speed transfers? Unbelievable
ishanjain28··on Announcing the Clippy feature freeze
Unrelated, Is there a clippy lint to detect when you fill up and array/collection and immediately call clear on it ?
ishanjain28··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
I was a premium user of pocket for almost a decade before mozilla bought it and I remained a user for another few years after the acquisition. Mozilla turned it into garbage that didn't even do it's job properly and it is a bit sad to see it shut down.
ishanjain28··on Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful
In India, The NCMC cards for transit use the same technology. They considered allowing people to use their normal bank issued cards like the public transit in Singapore and decided against it because of potential fraud issues.

Right now, some ncmc card issuers allow validating the card using your phone so you don't have to go to the kiosk after topping up and they are working on letting people use their phones.

ishanjain28··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
I wish more artists would sell their music on Bandcamp. I use jellyfin for music but acquiring music is difficult.
ishanjain28··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
This is an excellent advice! I did that on a few of my machines few months back to reduce heat, power consumption.
ishanjain28··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Hi, I really like the company but I am in +05:30. Will you still consider my application or is +03:00 a strict limit?
ishanjain28··on Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are...
ishanjain28··on Firefox Sync actually works
is it a good idea to use password managers built into web browsers? (vs using a password manager from some third party? bw/1p)
ishanjain28··on You don't need analytics on your blog
The worst offender for this I ever saw was a analytics company using their SDK on their blog. It was generating 1 request a second logging absolutely completely stupid metrics(for a blog) and my local DNS resolver was filled with >100k requests from a tab that was not even in the foreground!

Took a little bit of effort tracking down the tab generating this traffic and now they are banned from my local network forever.

ishanjain28··on Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
perhaps you should be a little shocked to hear if they are using s3(they are not). s3 is awesome but it's not supposed to be used absolutely everywhere.
ishanjain28··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
https://git.ishanjain.me/ishan/multicaster

This is a mdns repeater for (primarily home) networks. The "recommended" way is to use use PIM/IGMP but you can not control the specific mdns names that'll be repeated over the vlan boundary. There are a few other repeaters but nothing that would've worked for me so I wrote this. It still needs a few improvements around caching responses. mdns enabled devices do known prefix suppression which some times causes problems.

ishanjain28··on Problems on the Galaxy Store
Yes, they have refused it a few times.
ishanjain28··on Problems on the Galaxy Store
Play store still has this and the return window is 15 minutes. A refund button will appear on the application page in play store if you uninstall the app within the 15 minute period after purchasing.

Apple on the other hand unfortunately has nothing like that. If you want refund, You have to go through the hassle of creating a ticket and they may refuse to refund for whatever reason.

ishanjain28··on YouTube is cracking down on consumers' favorite loophole
What are you on about? A cut of that 16 francs is going to creators just as a cut of the ads you see goes to the creators. Platform cost is not the only cost and creators need to be compensated and it comes out from the subscription fees.
ishanjain28··on In-kernel QUIC implementation with Userspace handshake
How much faster is this compared to a fully userspace implementation?
ishanjain28··on HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
I looked at netflow data for the last 10 days from my router. 75% of the HTTP traffic is HTTP3, 23% HTTP1.1/HTTP2(over TLS) and 2% is plain HTTP.
ishanjain28··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
Okay and those users can easily use a much cheaper NAT instance instead of managed NAT Gateways.
ishanjain28··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
Where?
ishanjain28··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
So for this, Run your apps in public subnets that are attached to IGW.
ishanjain28··on Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)
I am in India, using 1.1.1.1 over DoT and it appears to be working okay.

I am served IP addresses with relatively short TTLs (1-5minutes) that are in Moscow and North Holland.

ishanjain28··on So, you don't like a web platform proposal
I love your response!
ishanjain28··on FedNow Is Live
well yes but the addressing scheme we use here is so much simpler. I hope they incorporate it at some point
ishanjain28··on FedNow Is Live
Do they have a simpler use id like india's upi?(userHandle@bankHandle)

In the demos I watched, There is account number and routing number

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