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Comment · 6 days ago
Sounds like a skill issue.
Comment · 14 days ago
> This is yet another reason people in the US needs to get out and vote. People need to come out in mass to take back their country.

Like what happened in 2024?

Comment · 14 days ago
Reddit astroturfing seems to have spread here

Oh well. I've heard this on Reddit for years: "̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ Meta can ban whoever they want, they are a private company". Just a hint of schadenfreude.

Comment · 7 months ago
I rarely leave movies midway through, but this one was too much for whatever the payoff was supposed to be. I'd rather sit through Cats (2020).
Comment · 10 months ago
Had to scroll way too much for the truth.
Comment · 10 months ago
Bitwarden's web vaults has a reports feature which allows you to check this in bulk.
Comment · 10 months ago
Where are all the Europeans gloating about privacy and their "regulations" while their governments are basically erasing actual privacy and free speech?
Comment · 1 year ago
As far as I'm aware, they are only required to allow you to use your own router.

DSL tech is far simpler and it's always a combo unit so I could see a case where you would be allowed to bring your own DSL modem.

But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or ONTs these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc. even if they don't do Wi-Fi (so ISPs don't call them "routers" - except SingTel, which uses "ONR" to distinguish these units because they are in fact routers for IPTV and SIP).

For all of those modems/ONTs, the firmware updates and the configuration for telephony/SIP and PPPoE are controlled by the ISP and also tested to work with their OLT or CMTS so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.

And to support the advanced configuration required these days for VoIP, IPTV, etc. on the "modem" or "ONT", ISPs basically have a backdoor called TR-069 which is really not too dissimilar to what Starlink has access to with their SSH keys.

Even if you get "true" dumb modems or ONTs which do not do any routing whatsoever, the device on the other side still has full control over your dumb device via the DOCSIS provisioning process or GPON's OMCI. Starlink seems to be using SSH instead of building a whole protocol - because satellite tech is proprietary and doesn't need to work on other hardware.

So, I find that it's highly unlikely that the ISP is officially required to support a user supplied modem, although I haven't consulted the EU laws on this.

At most, I think using your own router would require the EU ISPs to provide bridge mode support, but that's not special to EU. However, the TR-069 backdoor is still active even with bridge mode.

It can be fairly easy to stop TR-069 with a "dumb" ONT (usually SFP) but ISPs can and will notice that. Whether they allow it is up to them.

Comment · 2 years ago
Tip: Almost none of the scrapers and bots run WebAssembly :)
Comment · 5 years ago
I hope AMP is also killed off like ActiveX, Silverlight and Flash.
Comment · 8 years ago
TomTom is a member of the OIN, and it probably will not be required to pay the FAT32 IP licensing fees now that Microsoft has joined them.

It seems like Microsoft can do nothing to please you. But this is huge for the OIN and its members.

Comment · 8 years ago
$5 a month is not cheap for static sites like hers.

I have been hosting my minimal static website on GH Pages for a long time (and I've used it for testing many static websites) for free.

And I've been browsing blogs/websites hosted on it with no issues.

It's probably her host using a wonky server.

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