Mastodon Feed: Posts

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I should add -- the way this issue makes itself known is that every DNS query takes 5 seconds, because glibc is waiting for the response to the 2nd request it made on the same port. (While your NAT or firewall have dropped it.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, for anyone who finds this when searching, if you don't want to serialize all of your DNS requests (especially if you're on a hi-latency link like me), you can instead configure your system with a local DNS cache (ex: dnsmasq). or check if your router already supports that for you. It probably isn't making the same mistake glibc is.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

In fact, that is what Firefox's DNS lookup algorithm seems to do. My network dump caught it doing lookups for dns.google (to bootstrap its DNS-over-HTTP) and it used a separate source port for requesting A, AAAA, HTTPS, etc.

This feels like a big footgun to anyone who's stuck behind consumer NAT. I wonder -- did they consider using separate ports instead of adding the unnecessary serialization? Or did that not fix the test case that prompted the initial workaround? 🤔

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#TIL: #glibc's resolv.conf has an option, single-request, which disables parallel DNS requests for IPv4/6 and makes them sequential. This is a fix for "DNS servers [that] cannot handle these queries properly".

But, after a bit of digging w/ #wireshark, the issue seems to be that by default glibc makes those parallel requests USING THE SAME UDP SOURCE PORT. 🤦‍♂️ So buggy or overzealous NAT/firewall rules are likely causing the 2nd response to get dropped.

+1 port >> +1 network round trip latency.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Vespasquigliero@universeodon.com ("VespaSquigliero") wrote:

@fromjason as a 74-year old boomer and socialist, i want to be alive long enough to cast a vote for aoc to be president.

so back off, sonny.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Probably worth mentioning again. If you want to attend a #NoKings march, you absolutely should. Go network, talk to your neighbors, grab a few flyers. There's nothing wrong with that.

It's not a purity test to say there's no king in No Kings. It's not a virtue thing. It's a practical thing. We've been doing the same things for a decade. All while ignoring our history of activism. Maybe we need some critical thought on this side of the aisle.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/there-s-no-king-in-no-kings/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Is your neighborhood a prospective concentration camp location? You could be the next Bergen-Belsen or Auschwitz, if you let it happen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/is-your-community-on-this-map/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The patriarchy will be fixed when boomers die you guys. Just six more years you guys. I'm not projecting my own feelings I'm doing a smart political punditry you guys. Even AOC knows it you guys.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Not many young people know this but every 3 months or so your computer mouse would lay an egg which you put in warm water to hatch a new mouse.

https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116080854075412423

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[END TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Nylon patented, 1937

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I just heard Lee Brice for the first time. My opinion of country-western music has reached a nadir.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/how-bad-can-country-western-music-be/

Boosted by jwz:
theorangetheme@en.osm.town ("The Orange Theme") wrote:

@jwz Mozilla's new CEO.

jwz wrote:

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i

jwz wrote:

Cocaine Kill Switch

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Found a TUI for exploring Rust codebases really fast! ⚡

🔮 **Oracle** — A terminal Rust code inspector

💯 Browse functions, structs, traits & deps w/ fuzzy search!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/yashksaini-coder/oracle

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #programming #devtools #terminal #opensource #tips

Attachments:

• gifv: f233c5968a6a7e07.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@otaviocc/116076383907156741

I have no words to thank everyone for helping yesterday.

Great news: Yesterday on the omg.lol IRC server, folks investigated and discovered the GitHub account was part of a network of bots. These bots republish open source projects, modifying their READMEs with malicious links, and distribute Windows malware through fake builds.

After documenting the findings, we reported everything to GitHub. Within hours, they took down the repositories and an account for violating their Terms and Code of Conduct.

Thank you for investigating, reporting, and sending coffee. You're all amazing!

I planned to write a blog post today, but @brennan already wrote something better than I could. You should read it:

https://brennan.day/the-curious-case-of-the-triton-malware-fork/

Many thanks to @brennan, @chilli, @adam, mattl, @cygnoir, @annika, @jarunmb, and everyone else who helped!

#OpenSource #macOSDev #omglol #GitHub

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

The narrative that #CSS was initially designed to be static, and only later became responsive with things like media, supports, container queries, and now if()… is maybe how things turned out?

But MQs were part of the original proposal – including document age queries, & user "relevance" queries.

This wasn't a big pivot in the vision of the language, but a more continuous project of realizing that vision in relation to changing author needs & browser capabilities over time.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Do I think she can get elected? Sure. Do I think she could make it out of a *Democratic* primary? Nope.

Do I still want to see her ritually humiliate Newsom on a dozen stages all over the country? 100%.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As a Warrenite to the core, this is hugely appealing, if only for what it will do to the primary:

https://newrepublic.com/article/206593/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-presidential-bid

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The *ceteris* ain't *paribus*in, y'all.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

"Oh, that's just the cottage industry's Luddite lament", say folks gleefully spinning up towns full of gas to build systems in their own names which they do not understand enough to minimally manage, let alone maintain.

"This is the future!", they say. I fear they're right.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm pretty sure copy/paste is still easier than feeding things to the slop machines.

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

I respect that the author is taking responsibility (although with quite an emphasis on Covid), but... being a gen AI teetotaler myself, it's difficult for me to relate to whatever the decision making process was here. It's like you told me you got out your nail hammer to install a new window pane... as an experiment.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

They kept saying that Gen X was destined to be the last that understood computer, but it's shocking to me how many folks my age are auto-deskilling once their bosses offered to let them stop knowing computer.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
moonpotato ("MoonPotato") wrote:

Use protocols, not services: https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/

Interesting read. Makes me want to set up an #xmpp server just to feel some level of #privacy against #surveillance. It feels like privacy and control of our own data is dead.

Boosted by jwz:
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Shark Tank reboot but it's just throwing rich people into a tank full of sharks.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: Microsoft's plagiarism
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-02-16T19:35Z/
cc @davidgerard did you see this? unbelievable!