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-------------------------- John-Tony12 27 minutes ago | parent | context | on: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

Fascinating deep dive — shows how Quake.exe integrated its own TCP/IP stack, highlighting clever engineering and early game networking innovations.

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This is AI right? the em dash and the inane sycophantic reiteration

Can't have the populace heating the voice of the guy who was never proven to be a member of the ra, better they listen to the sexy husband of convicted provo bomber Dolours Price instead.

Dolours being the sister of Marian Price who is currently suiting Disney over being depicted shooting Jean McConville in the back of the head in Say Nothing.

Your use of the phrase 'to use the British term' implying you think that's clever and relevant (and not at all contentious) is the first indicator you don't know what you are talking about.

The X220 ThinkPad 3 years ago

I use an x250 which has dual batteries

An internal 3 cell battery and a removable 3 cell battery (a 6 cell one is also available)

I don't have a spare but the main point of this set up is to allow hot swapping of batteries wit no shutdowns when AC is unavailable

- To reduce the attack surface In the event of site with a *.gov.uk subdomain getting compromised at least it won't now be able to steal auth cookies for internal services

- to keep test/stage as faithful a copy of prod as possible they will have a totally separate but the same DNS set up/CDN set up/ load balancing etc. Theoretically the only difference would need to be one routing rule rather than stuff that might start creating edge case bugs with certs/cookies etc where there are different numbers of segments in domains. Also allows for more certainty/confidence when something is tested in a lower environment that it will work when promoted to prod

- not that common a scenario

- this uses localStorage which is similar to cookies but not the same thing

- for a site that extolls 'all the data is saved in your browser', how should it cope with a browser with storage disabled?

- How do you log in to HN with cookies disabled?

Even if Google used a separate highly optimised webserver for google.com/static/jquery.js, users who are logged in would be sending their auth cookies when requesting the library.

Given that generally people have slower upload than download, shaving off a few bytes from requests is worth it.

I also recall that browsers [used to (?)] limit concurrent requests per domain which this helps work around

I did get a chuckle out of a page extolling the virtues of 'html over the wire' asking me if I was

'interested in things like front-end dev and the JAMStack'

Surely the websockets angle is a bit of a red herring?

Ebay will have your IP from your request so they can run nmap against your machine from their server without your browser ever knowing about it.

I also know of a bank that does similar via an old school sort of way, their online banking login page tries to load images from urls made up of your IP and various ports.

Presumably these are targeting known ports for online banking malware C&C http traffic rather than remote desktop services though.

And this is a bank that still uses frames 'for security', so it must be an old technique!