How NAT traversal works · Tailscale

(tags: networking firewall nat udp quic)

Microphone plug-in-power

How it works, with circuit diagrams.
(tags: music microphone techie)

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Liz Truss and the rise of the libertarian right – New Statesman

The free-market thinkers and ideas behind the most radical economic experiment in Britain for 40 years.
(tags: Politics UK libertarianism libdems conservatives)

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Security and the Cost of Living Crisis | Thin Pinstriped Line

“a workforce literally on the edge of poverty, disengaged from delivery and struggling to retain people runs a real risk of becoming a security challenge which is a foreign hostile intelligence services dream”
(tags: security civil-service espionage)

OSF | The Racial Imagination of the Lindy Hop from the Historical Standpoint – Comments and Corrections

Free review of the non-free book
(tags: lindyhop dance history race)

May We Have This Dance?: Cultural Ownership of the Lindy Hop from the Swing Era to Today | Kendra Unruh – Academia.edu

“By examining film and print media, along with influences of the Great Depression and WWII on public culture, this essay explores the evolution and appropriation of the Lindy Hop as it transformed from a black, working-class dance in the early twentieth century to a white, middle-class dance by the swing revival in the 1990s.”
(tags: lindyhop dance history race)

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The Complex History Of British Swing Dancing – The Syncopated Times

(tags: lindy lindy-hop dancing history)

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macos – Missing Wifi interface after upgrade to Catalina – Ask Different

I fixed my ancient (2015) Macbook Pro’s wifi using this trick, after suddenly finding it wouldn’t turn on and reported weird “from localizable strings” text in the Network area on System Preferences. As I’m on Big Sur, I had to copy the files into /Library/ instead, but that worked fine. The Macbook lives to fight another day.
(tags: macos wifi)

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Learning Containers From The Bottom Up

The article that made me get what a container is and the difference between that and a VM.
(tags: docker container)

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Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne WHN on Twitter: “I have been asked about which FFP2 or FFP3 masks I’d recommend. I’ve tried lots and wanted some that fit me and other family members too. The best by far that we’ve found are 3M Aura masks. I have 4 reasons why

Better masks are now readily available.
(tags: ppe covid19 pandemic)

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How to exploit a double free vulnerability in 2021. ‘Use After Free for Dummies’

An application of that “volatile doesn’t fix your problems” blog, in part: ARM CPUs with out of order execution were a big part of this exploit.
(tags: programming exploit volatile)

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KimberStormer comments on September 2021 Site update, includes membership graphs

Best comment on Metafilter’s slow death I’ve seen so far (not on the site itself, of course): “But what this doesn’t take into account is why governments and countries and elite clubs should be integrated. It’s because of jobs and money and power. But there is no economic benefit to joining metafilter. This doesn’t mean it’s pointless or bad to stop people from using ethnic slurs or whatever. But it means that there isn’t anyone clamoring to get in. There aren’t a bunch of trans Indonesian zoomers longing to join metafilter if only it wasn’t so hostile. All the BIPOC committees and moderation in the world can’t create them out of thin air.”
(tags: metafilter internet politics identity-politics)

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GitHub – libnet/nemesis: A command-line network packet crafting and injection utility

Handy CLI for packet injection. Remember to use your powers for good.
(tags: networking packet tcp arp)

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) – Practical Networking .net

Everything I ever wanted to know, mainly for work.
(tags: arp networking internet ip ethernet)

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