tuomasb

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by tuomasb 5y ago
>they refuse to conduct proper studies on it out of sheer stupidity and stubbornness Not stupidity and stubbornness. There is exactly zero money to be made from fasting. Much better to try to make some miracle compound and sell it for $5
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by tuomasb 14y ago
Now it seems they have also added fake lag to TCP port 80. hlds@machine:~$ tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se 80 Selected device venet0, address 5.9.249.8, port 41774 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to thepiratebay.se (194.71
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by tuomasb 14y ago
It's fake but his analysis is wrong. TPB is still somewhere in Europe. Otherwise you couldn't have 50ms RTT to thepiratebay.se TCP port 80 from within Europe. I explained here how they do it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720
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by tuomasb 14y ago
Exactly. Here is a collection of route-servers and looking glasses which tell you what path a route from ISP x to IP y will take. http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses You will see that every single route to 194.71.107.0/24 will travel throu
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by tuomasb 14y ago
First type traceroute thepiratebay.se Then tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720 for explanation how they did it.
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by tuomasb 14y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319720 AS Paths can be modified pretty easily http://blog.ioshints.info/2008/02/bgp-essentials-as-path-pre...
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by tuomasb 14y ago
fale@machine:~$ tcptraceroute -f 128 -m 128 thepiratebay.se Selected device venet0, address 5.9.249.8, port 40771 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to thepiratebay.se (194.71.107.15) on TCP port 80 (www), 128 hops max 128 thepiratebay.
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by tuomasb 15y ago
Hetzner's Xeon offerings with ECC aren't that expensive either: http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6 I would expect Softlayer to be more reliable than Hetzner as a service provider but that being said, the price differenc
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by tuomasb 15y ago
They're about to get some competition soon from Google. GDrive ( http://www.geekwire.com/2012/google-drive-wild-screenshot-lo... ) CSS sprites are already on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/static/document/client/css/128155302...
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by tuomasb 15y ago
I think it's a bit ironic given the nature of the talk that the link on the video page to seomoz.org has rel="nofollow" while comments down below don't have. No link juice for those who provide content(talk) and all the link juice for comm
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by tuomasb 15y ago
Earlier comment I wrote on another HN discussion: Assuming DNS resolvers work as they should, most bitflips on the wire shouldn't result to anything else than a failed DNS query since DNS packets include the original requested FQDN in the r
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by tuomasb 15y ago
It's already possible for amateurs to use an RC plane/drone without a line of sight, it's called FPV(first person view) piloting. They have a videocamera onboard and transmit the video signal into their VR googles. Then they control their p
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by tuomasb 15y ago
I think the decision by Google to not buy Skype is great. Skype uses supernodes/decentralized address book and other trickery to keep the most of the load off their servers/NAT proxies. Whatever advantage Skype got from decentralization whe
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by tuomasb 15y ago
No one mentioned Mixrank in the comments, I like the idea. Maybe someday it will be one of those essential marketing tools like SEOmoz. I for one, am lazy and would prefer just mimic my competitors ads instead of making 10 different ads and
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by tuomasb 15y ago
Linux has tsocks and proxychains which override the connect() method with a LD_PRELOAD library and force traffic to go through a socks proxy. Easier than iptables since at least proxychains can be installed with apt-get on Ubuntu(don't know
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by tuomasb 15y ago
Just a quick note. Make sure your VPS is Xen/KVM/Vmware and not OpenVZ or some other container based virtualization if you want to use OpenVPN since it needs access to tun/tap devices. On OpenVZ based virtual machines, the administrator has
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by tuomasb 15y ago
Assuming DNS resolvers work as they should, most bitflips on the wire shouldn't result to anything else than a failed DNS query since DNS packets include the original requested FQDN in the result. Scenario 1) Lets say we have normal Windows