Backup
Your web browsers are slowing down your Time Machine backups
Third-party web browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome slows down your Mac’s Time Machine backups by dumping their files in all the wrong places.
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HTML
PHP HTML Tidy ironically doesn’t tidy up after itself
The ob_tidyhandler handler from the PHP libtidy extension mistakenly enables the tidy.clean_output option persistently.
Censorship
The distributed web isn’t ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia to test disconnecting from the global Internet. Peer-to-peer distributed internet alternatives won’t survive after the Runet cutoff.
Censorship
Well-Known URI vs DNS-SD for distributed web service-discovery
I compare the resilience of DNS Service-Discovery vs HTTPS Well-Known URIs when routing distributed internet traffic around censorship.
Networking
Enable both .onion and .i2p routing with Proxy Auto-Configuration
Two competing proxy-anonymity proxy services — e.g. Tor Onion and I2P — can be used at the same time when set up with a PAC file.
Android
Android apps time out connections after setting up a PAC proxy
An over-aggressive power-savings system causes Android devices configured with a PAC proxy configuration file to lose networking.
Browser Extensions
Chrome is right to remove the webRequest extension API
As an extension developer, I support Google’s controversial decision to remove of a slow and over-powered extension API favored by ad-blocking extensions.
Tranco: An improved free top websites ranking list
Alexa Top 1 Million Websites has been the go-to option for researchers. The new Tranco list pulls data from many sources for a better and more stable top list.
DNS
Secondary authoritative DNS service providers compared
A comparison of the security features and other features offerings (AXFR, DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6) at 14 different secondary/slave DNS providers.
Report spam emails to their hosting providers with SpamCop
SpamCop is a service that auto-generates spam reports to ISPs and hosting providers from spam messages. Reporting with SpamCop really does stop the spammers!
Distributed web
IPFS pinning services overcharge for duplicated objects
IPFS is a globally deduplicated file system. However, hosted pinning services bill you for the original file size rather than deduplicated size.
Distributed web
When does IPFS’ garbage collector clear the cache
Garbage collection in ipfs-go isn’t enabled by default. The cache can grow to fill all your storage. However, you won’t want to turn it on either.