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First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
A year after Bluesky pledged an independent PLC directory operator, the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization formally exists and takes its first administrative steps.
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August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem
The Cutting Room Floor’s postmortem on a sustained August 2026 DDoS: what broke, how mitigation unfolded, and the infrastructure changes made to keep a volunteer game-preservation wiki online.
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Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Radicle discloses two critical peer-to-peer network-protocol flaws: unencrypted node traffic and related issues affecting all prior releases, with remediation guidance for operators.
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We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
Cloudflare Cache Rules now support HTTP Vary on every plan—normalize negotiation headers, pass exact values to origin, or bypass cache when variance is too wild.
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Tailscale performance updates cut memory use, raise throughput, and speed startup via multi-queue, writev, and netmap caching—how the team measured and shipped the gains.
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Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network
In August 2026, a large DDoS attack hit a customer and our own network directly. What happened, where our defences fell short, and what changed since then.
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Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper
Lari Huttunen continues a Smart TV reclaim project: after isolating an LG WebOS OLED behind OpenBSD, blocking ACR/ad DNS breaks the App Store—how WebOS couples apps to telemetry endpoints, and how to work around the gatekeeper.
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Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Cloudflare explains how math-heavy redesigns and Rust in Pingora cut another ~100TB of RAM across their global network by shrinking hot in-memory structures without sacrificing correctness.
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How Uber Protects Against Retry StormsError ownership so retries know when they help—and when they make outages worse
Uber Engineering explains retry storms in deep service graphs and how context-aware error ownership, claim headers, and middleware stop retries from amplifying a single downstream failure across the stack.
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Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006
The opposite is actually the case. If we do not have a common understanding of what “now” is, a lot of things we take for granted will stop working.
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Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Starting October 19, GitLab.com rate limits will align with your subscription. Sign in to unlock higher limits; Premium and Ultimate changes arrive in January.
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Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing
Chris Jones explains how he got Apple iChat AV audio and video calls working again on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard: with old network captures and LLM help he reverse engineered the dead SNATMAP NAT-discovery service, wrote a small UDP replacement server, and now one /etc/hosts line points old Macs at his public instance or a self-hosted one.
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Your built-in router VPN might be more trouble than it's worthOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Andrew Cunningham examines practical limitations of the VPN services built into routers and network storage devices. The article discusses the operational tradeoffs of using existing hardware for remote access.
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Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch
The Tor Project shares lessons from building Tor VPN Beta for Android from scratch: giving each app its own Tor circuit, rethinking VPN features like exit selection for censorship circumvention, prioritising stability and reliability, and what comes next, including F-Droid distribution.
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Sam Rose's interactive ngrok blog post really shows how Kubernetes liveness, readiness, and startup probes work—using webernetes browser demos to explain restart loops, rollout drops, and how probes make apps more resilient.
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Android NAT-T Keepalive Offload Bypasses VPN Lockdown: Device-Class Exposure Across Most Android 12+ DevicesTechnical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Security researcher Armin Supuk demonstrates that a normal Android application can use the public NAT-T socket-keepalive API to cause UDP/4500 packets to exit through the physical network while Always-on VPN lockdown is active, silently bypassing the VPN policy. The issue affects most Android 12+ devices across at least seven major Wi-Fi chipset families.
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Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for freeOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Kevin Purdy provides a text guide to accessing Home Assistant remotely through Tailscale, with a contribution from Alex Kretzschmar. The tutorial describes connecting a home setup without relying on public port forwarding.
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by Rüdiger Klaehn It is done. After four years of work and various pivots we have released iroh 1.0. We have an expanding web site describing how iroh works under the hood, but we think it is important to also understand why we made the decisions that led to the current iroh. So here is a trip down memory lane / our commit history which highlights major turning points and design decisions.
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RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
For the last few days I have been playing with RFC8950 setup, which allows routing of IPv4 on top of IPv6. While logically it’s quite simple, it has a very powerful application towards making “IPv4 an optional” feature riding on top of an IPv6 network (but without any tunnels!)
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Bringing this site to Tor as a hidden service. This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a `.onion` address that resolves only inside the Tor network.<sup>1</sup> <sup>1</sup> Open it in the Tor Browser. There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself. Tor rela
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