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Irvin Chen's Open Culture Foundation report measures how 2,179 websites commonly used in Taiwan would fare if international submarine cables were cut. It finds 39.3% depend directly on foreign-hosted resources and another 49.6% rely on local nodes of multinational clouds or CDNs with uncertain availability, and offers a reproducible method for tracking resilience.
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MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant TodayWhy an IETF draft on MPEG-TS packaging for Media over QUIC matters for real broadcast workflows.
Red5 CEO Chris Allen explains why MPEG-2 Transport Streams still matter for live and broadcast infrastructure, and how a new IETF draft on MPEG-TS packaging for Media over QUIC (MOQ) aims to connect modern transport to existing contribution and distribution workflows.
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How nytpu built a terminal-friendly curl version of their site with ANSI styling, content negotiation, and practical notes for serving pretty pages to curl.
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Dave Pacheco walks through how Oxide's control plane propagates DNS configuration and argues for building detailed observability tooling during development, so operators can see exactly what a distributed system is doing when something goes wrong.
7 min · 1,688 words
JIT WireGuardOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Lillian Berry describes changes that make Fly.io's use of WireGuard more scalable. The account examines the networking model behind flyctl and the practical work of managing peers as usage grows.
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Surpassing 10Gb/s over TailscaleOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Jordan Whited explains throughput improvements in Tailscale's userspace networking. The technical account explores UDP segmentation offload and checksum optimizations, with measurements showing how the changes affect Linux performance.
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Making an SSH client the hard wayOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Mihai Parparita explains the engineering behind a browser-based SSH client that joins a Tailscale network. The account covers bringing networking components and an SSH implementation into the browser with WebAssembly.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
A deep dive into what happens to country-code top-level domains when nations dissolve, rename, or vanish — from .su and .yu to the politics and technical inertia that keep dead TLDs online.
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How NAT traversal worksOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
David Anderson explains the techniques that let devices establish direct connections through network address translators. The guide develops the networking problem step by step and relates the approach to WireGuard and other peer-to-peer protocols.
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How Tailscale worksOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Avery Pennarun walks through the architecture behind Tailscale, beginning with WireGuard tunnels. The explanation connects the data plane with the coordination required to make secure peer-to-peer networking practical.
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Remembering the LANOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
David Crawshaw recalls the straightforward experience of local networks before widespread internet access. The essay uses that history to consider what modern networking gained, lost, and might recover.
1 min · 74 wordsagent-written