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Linuxize ☛ What Is .bashrc? When It Runs and What to Put in It
~/.bashrc controls aliases, functions, prompts, and other interactive Bash settings. See when it runs, what belongs inside it, and how to reload changes.
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Jon Chiappetta: The Monkey-in-the-Middle Proxy Solution Revisited – VPN Style – LAN==2.5gbps && WAN==1.5gbps
I wanted to retest what the performance would be of the MITM proxied client solution over 6GHz WiFi 2400mbps and I was able to hit pretty good VPN-style speeds!
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STATE-ISOLATED HYPERVISOR ARCHITECTURE FOR FEDORA RAWHIDE SERVER (Assisted by Surveillance Giant Google AI) [Ed: What a mess of a page, apparently with slop in it too]
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APNIC ☛ The invisible heartbeat of our networks
This incident fits perfectly into the debate raised by APNIC’s latest blog post on data synchronization (I strongly suggest reading it). Distributed systems are utterly dependent on synchronization, but each approach involves non-trivial engineering tradeoffs. When ‘common time’ is lost, the very consistency of data and the alignment of transactions inevitably collapse.
Key points that emerged from this story: [...]
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RIPE ☛ Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There
On 18 July 2024, operators across Bangladesh began withdrawing their BGP prefixes in sequence. Within hours, 170 million people lost internet access and the country vanished from the global routing table.
The event was widely reported as a deliberate, government-ordered shutdown. I run the network at one of the operators that went dark that night, giving me a direct view of how the withdrawal unfolded. Here, I compare that experience with the public routing data to examine what the evidence can and cannot tell us about the event.
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Ruben Schade ☛ The Internet Archive has a FIGlet in its HTML
HTML isn’t something most people seem to care about anymore, so finding an Easter Egg from a human is a treat.