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Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location
Hillsboro, Oregon's network connections have a lot of advantages. It's worthwhile checking it out here: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ --Katie
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What is the internet?
Now you can say that you've 'seen' the internet. You can see the map here
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Fiber carriers to Bermuda
Looking at this site there are 3 companies that own/operate undersea cables to the US
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Sudden ping increase playing from South America, anyone else?
This unfortunately won't get you the whole picture, but using some tools you can determine how your traffic is routed in one direction, and possibly the geographic path it takes as well. For example, in mine, I can see based on the names that I know my traffic is going through Equinix San Jose (equinix-sj), then likely to Palo Alto (pao1, palo), then to Los Angeles (lax). By looking up who owns what IP addresses, I can also see that my traffic goes from my local ISP (Sonic) to Telia, then to Amazon. While concerning, you can effectively ignore all of the hops that say "Request timed out." as those just mean the hop wasn't responding to pings (or in the case of the very end, the game server itself likely doesn't respond to pings). Unfortunately though, this is only half of the picture, as this doesn't let me see the path from anets servers to me. For that, I would need an AWS instance with similar routing rules to anet's servers. Still, this may be useful, as I'm guessing your traffic is using a submarine cable to get to anet's servers in the US. These unfortunately often have issues or maintenance that can cause measurable connectivity impacts - I'm in the US and we have a node on the NLNOG Ring, and we get alerts of connectivity issues with Europe on a regular basis.
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- Why American Power Endures
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Zero Point Leet Seconds
Well. Significantly more than that due to latency from switches etc and also because of the fact that there's so little land along the equator, meaning there's only one cable that travels roughly equatorially. It's from Fortaleza, Brazil to Kribi, Cameroon: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
If you set up a bunch of good first-surface mirrors, I'm pretty sure you could get to pretty much the speed of light. You'd have to put them pretty high up in the air to avoid hitting things (a problem for cables as well, obviously) but putting the beam 2km in the air would still only lengthen the path by 4pi km, or .03%.
I have always found it very neat that the propagation speed of a light wave in glass is roughly the same as electrical waves in a coaxial cable. Both are shockingly slow compared to air/vacuum, but for completely different reasons. In both cases the advantages in signal integrity are immense.
- Casual Friday - Rave edition
- Could the internet literally be broken?
user.js
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It's getting hard to use and recommend Firefox, I'm afraid for the free web
Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.
[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
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Most secure and privacy oriented alternative to mail.app
For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
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Which Firefox user.js file do you recommend for piracy?
only arkenfox
- What privacy-related preferences keep breaking my Twitter?
- Anonimlik Rehberi
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Lock Down Firefox - Network Hardening - FOSS - git clone
This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.
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Waterfox G6.0.2 had whitelisted search deal partner www.bing.com against user extensions in extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains
If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.
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Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime
Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...
[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
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I don't understand what's so good about Firefox
Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.
What are some alternatives?
rayrender - A pathtracer for R. Build and render complex scenes and 3D data visualizations directly from R
Better-Fox - An up-to-date user.js to speed up and secure Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox]
mapgen4 - Mapgen4 procedural wilderness map generator
privacytools.io - 🛡🛠You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
globe.gl - UI component for Globe Data Visualization using ThreeJS/WebGL
Librefox - Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements
Fantasy-Map-Generator - Web application generating interactive and highly customizable maps
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what-happens-when - An attempt to answer the age old interview question "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?"
idm-trial-reset - Use IDM forever without cracking
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet