Comment Summary could use additional info (Score 1) 2
RFC 1149 "Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers", the packet was sent by carrier pigeon. Estimated auction price $2k-$3k; 14 bids currently at $2.6k.
Submission + - Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN. The Paris Judicial Court has now accepted that stance, rejecting [French pay-TV provider] Canal+'s request for penalties of 50,000 euros per site, per day. Interestingly, the court's conclusion relies on statistics provided by Canal+ itself. [...] As a result, Cloudflare will not be penalized under these orders, even though its public DNS resolver is not blocking the sites in question. That is in line with the company’s long-standing claim that it doesn’t interfere with its DNS.
In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn’t blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. “To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver,” the company’s latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.
Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.
In its recent transparency reports, Cloudflare repeatedly stated that it hasn’t blocked any content through 1.1.1.1, despite orders from French and Italian courts. “To date, Cloudflare has not blocked content through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver,” the company’s latest report reads. [...] Blocking through the CDN is another matter. According to the same report, Cloudflare geoblocked 1,238 domains in France in the second half of 2025, all under a single court order. In the first half of the year, it geoblocked 662 domains under seven orders. Cloudflare recently explained its position to the European Commission, in a submission (PDF) to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List consultation, stressing that global public DNS resolvers should not be used to block or restrict access.
Instead, it highlights its real-time pirate stream blocking program, which allows vetted rightsholders to flag pirate streams that run through its network. These streams are disrupted "within seconds," Cloudflare says, without any DNS or IP address blocking. "For live content, where speed is crucial, Cloudflare has built real-time mitigation mechanisms that allow vetted rightsholder partners to flag infringing streams. When those streams are running through our network, we act on them in seconds," Cloudflare informed the Commission. For now, Cloudflare can continue to block pirate sites through its CDN only, while its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver remains untouched. Canal+ can still appeal the rulings, so it may not be the last we hear of it.
Submission + - Original RFC1149 packet up for auction at Christies (blogspot.com)
badger.foo writes: As some of you may remember, in 2001 RFC1149 (TCP/IP over carrier pigeon) was implemented.
Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.
This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!
Now one of the packets preserved from that event is up for auction at Christies. Direct link to the auction (current bid: USD 2600) is here.
This is a unique chance to own a piece of Internet history!
Submission + - Auctioning IP packet sent via RFC1149 in 2001 2
An anonymous reader writes: There is an actual RFC-1149 IP packet being auctioned off via Christie's auction house now until October 13, 2026. This is an IP packet you can actually touch, versus just being an abstraction in the ether.
It is one of the four that was sent and eventually received by the team in Norway that implemented the RFC in 2001 (https://blug.linux.no/rfc1149/)
https://onlineonly.christies.c...
It is one of the four that was sent and eventually received by the team in Norway that implemented the RFC in 2001 (https://blug.linux.no/rfc1149/)
https://onlineonly.christies.c...
Comment Re:Why is XL smaller? (Score 5, Informative) 111
Doesn't XL usually mean "eXtra Large"? Who can cure my ignorance of this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
jonsneyers on Feb 7, 2020 | root | parent | next [–]
It may not be the best name, but it sure is better than the names of the projects it was based on: PIK and FUIF. At least if you speak Dutch. A "pik" is a penis and a "fuif" is a party, so the combination would be the "penis party" image codec. I prefer "JPEG XL".
The etymology of the name "XL" is as follows: JPEG has called all its new standards since j2k something that starts with an X: XR, XT, XS (S for speed, since it is very fast and ultra-low-latency), and now XL. The L is supposed to mean Long term, since the goal is to make something that can replace the legacy JPEG and last as long as it did.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2) 281
Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time?
$5000 doge dividend https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/2...
$2000 tariff dividend https://truthsocial.com/@realD...
Then there was the 1400% - 1500% savings on drugs https://www.presidency.ucsb.ed...
Now there's also: $500 obamacare rebate checks https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol...
Submission + - Scientists find a way to slash computer memory energy use by orders of magnitude (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Scientists have devised a new way to switch magnetic computer memory while using far less energy than today's leading technologies. By mathematically optimizing the pulses used to flip digital bits, the method could reduce energy consumption by several orders of magnitude. Simulations suggest it may bring future memory devices surprisingly close to the fundamental physical limit for processing information. The same idea could eventually work with electrical currents or ultrafast lasers.
Comment Re:Did they get a key fact wrong? (Score 1) 208
"well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C"
That didn't jibe with my recollection, so I just checked. The Paris agreement was for 2 degrees C. The IPOCC said it should be 1.5.
The Guardian - We abandoned Journalism and don't care about facts.
Link to Paris Agreement https://unfccc.int/resource/do... ctrl f 1,5
Emphasizing with serious concern the urgent need to address the significant gap
between the aggregate effect of Parties’ mitigation pledges in terms of global annual
emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 and aggregate emission pathways consistent with
holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-
industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above pre-
industrial levels,
Submission + - We might have detected Dark Matter in the lab (brown.edu)
greytree writes: We might have detected in an experiment a single particle of something that might be Dark Matter.
Submission + - Coral bleaching occurring too frequently for reefs to recover (reuters.com)
walterbyrd writes: Coral reefs are experiencing bleaching events so frequently that they no longer have time to recover before the next one strikes, with global coral cover now well below normal levels and at risk of irreversible decline, scientists said on Monday.
The world's coral reefs sustain a quarter of all marine life, make coastlines more resilient and provide food and livelihoods for millions of people, but their survival has been threatened by pollution and increasingly frequent mass bleaching caused by soaring ocean heat.
The world's coral reefs sustain a quarter of all marine life, make coastlines more resilient and provide food and livelihoods for millions of people, but their survival has been threatened by pollution and increasingly frequent mass bleaching caused by soaring ocean heat.
Comment Re:Cookies made from waste? (Score 2) 78
Shut up and take my money!
Unless my math is wrong, per capita cost of $241/month we get 132g (4.66oz) cookies/day and eat all the plastic waste. Piece of cake!
Comment This has been tried (Score 1) 41
Article from 1996 about a 10 year University of Arizona project https://ers.usda.gov/sites/def...
I also found a 2015 patent application from Kimberly-Clark that ceased in 2017 that mentions hesperaloe for making paper (the wfaa article is geo blocked so I don't know what patent that article refers to).
I'm highly sceptical of old ideas that didn't pan out being suddenly sold as new ideas. Tell me why the old idea didn't work out and what has changed and I'll listen.
Comment Re:The high cost of training police (Score 3, Insightful) 100
Afaik the US has very short training period to become a police compared to other countries. If length of training correlates with cost (which I believe is a reasonable assumption) then I don't see how this makes sense?
What sets the US police apart in my mind is the _lack_ of training in combination with the concept of "qualified immunity".
Comment Re:But (Score 2) 22
No lawsuit in almost 30 years of internet was able to use robots.txt as evidence.
Afaik this is not correct. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/p... Summary from memory (been a while since I read it, the judgment is from 2006): Field sues google for copyright infringement and in reply to the complaint google notes that Field did not block them in robots.txt. Field admits to being is aware of of robots.txt and the judge dismisses the case.
Comment Re:Who would have thought (Score 4, Informative) 229
Reading anything from tabloid news like the Daily Telegraph is a slippery slope. Spreading bullshit and misinformation is their whole thing.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com... ("Overall, we rate The Telegraph Right Biased based on story selection that strongly favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to poor sourcing of information and some failed fact checks.")
