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sebbuon Windows 11 Cumulative Update 2025-10 breaks localhost applications

It seems like it only concerns IIS (and/or SChannel), and only for HTTP/2 (and maybe 3?). I use apache and openssl and doesn't have any issue.

sebbuon Should more of us be moving to live near friends?

For me it's mostly a money issue. Then I'ld lose contact with my family and friends, so I'ld have nobody guaranteed to help if i have issues. Also, moving (far) requires a lot of money, then finding a new job, maybe even a better one than you had since the cost of living might be higher in the new place.

sebbuon Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

I don't think I saw OpenStreetMaps in the lists provided by various people in this thread. I rely on GPS a lot, and having a local one would help greatly (preferably on phone, but still).

Also, OpenLibrary, AniDB / Anilist / Anime-Planet / GoodReads / IMDB / jeuxvideo.com / Last.fm / LibraryThing / MangaUpdates / MyAnimeList / MyDramaList / NovelUpdates / Shikimori / TheTVDB / WLNUpdates (databases of various entertainment stuff).

Then I can look in the GPS where to find them.

sebbuon Digital signatures and how to avoid them

I already successfully used EU digital signatures through lex [1], but neither openpassport [2] not withpersona / linkedin [3] supports EU's new (2019+) identity cards, only passports. [1] https://lex.community/ [2] https://github.com/zk-passport/openpassport/issues/126 [3] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1631613

sebbuon American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Open Textbooks

DMCA requests and getting your whole account/email banned.

sebbuon Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF

Reminds me that all browsers (except opera presto) conserves all images from the current page in raw pixel (or BMP) format in memory, whether they're currently shown on screen or not. There has been a few bug reports (OOM) in firefox 4 (and the chrome version of the time) that got never fixed.

I had a page that was showing a few thousands DVD covers (in jpg, around full hd resolution), it crashed all browsers except opera presto.

sebbuon Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip

even .webp isn't natively supported (i mean, by microsoft photos and windows photo viewer)

sebbuon As TikTok grows, so does suspicion

CCP has always been extremely racist and aggressive, at least according to all the web novels i've been reading (translated into english, as i don't speak chinese).