zinekeller
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Comment · 25 days ago
Also, even if we strictly looked at the credit side, 3% take is arguably still too much now, even if the mechanics back then did justify the 3% fees. This is why regulators everywhere are now capping fees because the manual "send the imprinted invoices to then sort and get payment" is no longer there (and why they are eager to make fraud harder, unlike the post-facto system that exists in the US)
Comment · 2 months ago
> B&M is different, Ads are there, but you aren't forced to look at them like Amazon does.
Ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, even your physical Walmart store is also selling a lot of shelf space to manufacturers/advertisers (similar to how Amazon sell the first slot, or at this point first 'page'), especially those checkout lines (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-grocers-wring-extra-cash-ou...). That's why your on-boots retail staff can't change those planograms (which defines how to layout shelf space in a grocery store) willy-nilly, they're designed by the highest bidder. That's why those soda or chips seems placed in too convenient slots that are also 'coincidental' to those currently advertised in other ways, because it's, plain and simply, paid to be there.
Comment · 2 months ago
Even if there's newer equipment, Protected Management Frames (PMF) compatibility with older laptops (for example) would be problematic. This is also the reason why WPA2/WPA3 co-existence mode fails on older equipment that is compatible with "normal" WPA2 (because PMF is mandatory in WPA2/3 coex mode).
Comment · 2 months ago
This probably means that meeting the minimum price does not guarantee that you would be able to buy it due to other (probably opaque) criteria. For example, the seller might not want to sell to you/your company in particular, but is open to other people/companies.
Comment · 2 months ago
Just tested this.
> Your User-Agent says Windows, but your installed fonts are Linux's. One of those is lying, and it isn't the fonts.
But also...
> Voice list = Microsoft David - English (United States) [snip]
> You use Microsoft Office.
Considering that this is tested on Windows 11, I think your Linux detection is wonky.
Comment · 4 months ago
Lots of HN readers located in countries outside of the US would find your answer infeasible (even the bank website requires their app for authentication, and this is the case for every bank).
Comment · 4 months ago
There should be examples under the links I have added to the original comment. Unfortunately, I cannot give examples that I personally encountered (first, NDA, sorry, second, the ISPs would probably be very incensed to me), but browsing BGP collector sites would probably illuminate you, like this one (https://bgp.tools/prefix/41.189.185.0/24#whois, https://bgp.tools/prefix/41.189.185.0/24#dns) for caching Facebook and other Meta stuff, and this one (https://bgp.tools/prefix/2001:918:ffad::/48#whois) is for Akamai.
Comment · 4 months ago
Some CDNs (like Cloudflare) use solely BGP anycast steering for routing to the "nearest" server. Other CDNs (like Akamai, Fastly, Netflix, and YouTube) use a hybrid BGP-DNS steering because some ISPs have extremely questionable routing practices.
Unfortunately, if the CDN only rely on BGP steering (or conversely if you are a user who is stuck on an ISP monopoly), there are cases where this is not necessarily the nearest network-wise (or performant network-wise) if there are peering disputes. If the said ISP is a virtual monopoly or (worse) state-sanctioned to collect network "toll fees" (like in South Korea), non-preferred and international routes are (intentionally) congested.*
If you use a third-party DNS, you basically lose this DNS optimization, and ECS does not fully solve this (because sometimes the DNS override are placed only on the ISP's recursive DNS servers). You're basically in a lose-lose position: either use third-party servers and the IP addresses served to you on popular CDNs are in the congested path, or use the often-unreliable and heavily-logged ISP-provided DNS.
* Usually. There are exceptions, but this comment is just a simplification of the complexities of real-life networking (where RFCs and mutual cooperation die out without fanfare).
Edit for further reading: DNS is the new BGP by Geoff Huston of APNIC (https://ispcol.potaroo.net/2023-09/service-routing.html), How LinkedIn used PoPs and RUM to make dynamic content download 25% faster from the old LinkedIn engineering team (Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20160310065302/https://engineeri...), Wikimedia's mapping of their CDNs (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/dn...)
Comment · 4 months ago
Without disputing the added latency of CGNAT, the v6-only peering fights (not just the infamous Cogent-HE dispute but smaller regional ISPs peering only on v4) means that there are indeed cases where v6 is worse than v4 in practice. Again, nothing inherently wrong with v6 itself, but peering disputes means bad latency on v6, which means that protocols relying on TCP (like plain FTP, SFTP and rsync) really takes a hit in transfer speeds.
Also there are cases where the ISP didn't bother even optimizing their routing in v6. I understand that some ISPs in Asia (and especially in Japan, where it shows up on ordinary customers in terms like MAP-E and VNEs) have separate backplanes for v4 and v6 (some are legacy reasons, some are business reasons). Guess which one is being devoted more in practice (hint: not the one being devoted more by IETF).
Edit: I thought this was just in Asia, but apparently this is also the case in an ISP in UK (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618403)
Comment · 5 months ago
Actually, it depends on the Windows scheduler settings. On Windows Server, the default is to kill the foreground process (on the assumption that it is just a management app rather than a critical server component).
Comment · 5 months ago
This is their last hurrah where Sony is primarily in control (yes, the panels are from LG et al. and the main processor is a Mediatek, sheesh). The TCL JV will formally commence in FY 2027 (April 2027).
Comment · 5 months ago
> does fork–exec copy all the process's memory
NT: Yes? Why not?
(note that this refers to the Windows NT kernel's operation because it had historically a POSIX emulation layer (NT Personalities), not the modern WSL which is just Linux in a Hyper-V)
Comment · 5 months ago
Basically, CT did indeed worked as designed, but there was no monitoring by the domain authors (which to be fair there are a dearth of solutions of the time).
On a related note, Let's Encrypt also issued the presumably-interception certificates. This can be possibly something that requires interception at the VPS level (otherwise we already detected the BGP leaks). Presumably, Hetzner was forced to do a raw interception and then redirecting all relevant ports to a middlebox for inspection and CA issuance (and since that the ACME spec is well-defined, they can simply check if the handshake contains the TLS ALPN challenge and then redirect them to special code that will reply with the correct things).