Tech dependence is nothing compared to the world's dependence on US financial infrastructure.
Readit Newsris commented on Escaping the trap of US tech dependence disconnect.blog/escaping-... · Posted by u/laurex
ris commented on Ultra-Wide Band: A Transformational Technology for the Internet of Things eetimes.com/ultra-wide-ba... · Posted by u/fzliu
Infineon sales piece.
> The constraint that ruined everything: It has to work on enterprise networks.
> You know what enterprise networks love? HTTP. HTTPS. Port 443. That’s it. That’s the list.
That's not enough.
Corporate networks also love to MITM their own workstations and reinterpret http traffic. So, no WebSockets and no Server-Side Events either, because their corporate firewall is a piece of software no one in the world wants and everyone in the world hates, including its own developers. Thus it only supports a subset of HTTP/1.1 and sometimes it likes to change the content while keeping Content-Length intact.
And you have to work around that, because IT dept of the corporation will never lift restrictions.
I wish I was kidding.
Corporate IT needs to die.
ris commented on Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers ariadne.space/2025/12/16/... · Posted by u/signa11
This rules out some extremely useful sparse memory tricks you can pull with massive mmaps that only ever get partially accessed (in unpredictable patterns).
ris commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
Yeah happens to other “vpn” solutions like zero trust solutions like zscalar. Logs says the user in Buffalo, IP is in Toronto. Same for users on the southern border, us location and Mexican ip.
Zscaler enrages me with their use of the term "zero trust" in marketing, because due to their MitM-ing of TLS, they become a single-point-of-interception for all your organisation's traffic. "100%-trust" would better describe it for me, as you have to have 100% trust of Zscaler and anyone who has admin access to your organisation's Zscaler account.
ris commented on Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler jonathan.protzenko.fr/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
For a while I've been saying it's a pity we hadn't been regularly trusted-timestamping everything before that point as a matter of course.
ris commented on Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it apnews.com/article/auto-c... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
The only company that appear to be taking a different tack on this are https://www.slate.auto
Anyone know of any others?
Malware scanners are such trash.
ris commented on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) evanhahn.com/stopping-bad... · Posted by u/emschwartz
There are very few pieces of free software that don't lean very heavily on top of a mountain of other free software that make it possible, and I think the author would be surprised how much of that was written by people who strongly disagreed with his worldview and considered him a "bad guy".