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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant

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  • The hostname will be encrypted eventually (ESNI) but you're right that the IP address is visible.

    Destination IP is starting to mean less and less these days, given there's a large amount of sites that use shared IPs rather than dedicated ones (for example, if they use Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, AWS CloudFront, etc.)

  • How VPNs really work: Protocols, safety and myth - Sentient Rant

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    1. It encrypts your internet traffic in transit

    Note that most sites use TLS these days, so your data is already encrypted in transit.

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • Yeah this doesn't make sense. Docked bars have worked fine since Windows 95. You could have the task bar on any side, and apps would handle it. You could have multiple docked bars too, as some third-party apps used to be dockable. For example, Winamp had a view that was a short bar stretching the entire width of the screen, stuck to the top of the screen. The windowing system handled it with no issues.

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • Yes! I'm not sure about it changing when you connect monitors (since I'm usually using desktop PCs), but you can have a different setup per monitor.

    I have three monitors at work. My main monitor is configured to show all open apps in the taskbar, while the secondary monitors only show the apps opened on those monitors. You can totally change any of the configuration though... the layout, the position, the settings, or even just not have a taskbar on some monitors.

  • North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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  • It's what I've experienced at FAANG companies. MitM isn't used and would break certificate pinning on sites (including internal tools) that use both certificate pinning and HSTS. The Chromium source code has a list of domains that are hard-coded to only accept particular root certificates.

  • North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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  • Larger companies that monitor for corporate passwords being entered on third-party sites usually use a browser extension that's force-installed using Chrome Enterprise. That's especially the case if they mandate the usage of Chrome.

  • North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location

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  • Hong Kong to Los Angeles is around 70ms latency (140ms round trip) so I'm not too surprised.

  • Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost

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  • It's not uncommon on sites where a high proportion of the userbase uses an adblocker, as making ads look like and render using the same code as organic content (same CSS classes, etc) makes them harder to block.

  • My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025

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  • Wow, this is very useful!!

  • My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025

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  • a program that runs as root

    Does it have to run as root? It's common to run Docker in rootless mode in production environments.

  • My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025

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  • You might be interested in StirlingPDF too.

  • Docker security

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  • you can override this by setting an IP on the port exposed so thet a local only server is only accessable on 127.0.0.1

    Also, if the Docker container only has to be accessed from another Docker container, you don't need to expose a port at all. Docker containers can reach other Docker containers in the same compose stack by hostname.

  • Docker security

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  • If you are good at manipulating iptables there is a way around this

    Modern systems shouldn't be using iptables any more.

  • Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted”

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  • It is encrypted at their end - they say the data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.

    However, it's not end-to-end encrypted, in the usual meaning of the term. E2EE usually means that only the sender and intended recipients of the data can decrypt the it, not the company running the service, their affiliates, or any intermediaries.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • Just because something's written in the terms of service, doesn't mean it's legal.

  • iPhone keyboard

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  • Get a better keyboard app.

  • Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works.

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  • and Chinese EVs.

    But of course they won't do that, because they need to prop up the US car industry and its outdated technology.

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    Curated list of selfhosted apps for your homelab

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  • why is a tower defense game listed under Automation?

    and two of the most popular automation programs are missing (n8n and Node-RED).

    who on earth needs customer live chat and a lot of business-scale website analytics, webshop systems and CRM and ERP in their homelab??

    Maybe not in a homelab, but plenty of people self-host these. I'm setting up customer live chat (Chatwoot) and invoicing and account (Bigcapital) for my wife for example. I self-host website analytics (Plausible) and bug tracking (used to be Sentry but it got too complex to host, so now I'm trying Bugsink and Glitchtip) for my personal sites/projects, too.

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • Oh... Oops. Hahaha