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@daniel@gultsch.social

#QUIC (and #HTTP3) exists to serve the interests and needs of #Google.

In particular 0-RTT is basically a low-level cookie that allows deterministic user tracking below and before #http: if it will ever spread, disabling or deleting cookies, even out-lawing them, won't be a issue for #SurveillanceCapitalism.

So these days what happens at #IETF is much more lobbying than engineering. Overpaid engineers lobby against the users to further cement the power of their corporations.

I wouldn't call these as "improvements".

These days, sadly, IETF is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being ^^enshittified**.

@lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

Daniel Gultsch

@daniel@gultsch.social · 7 days ago

I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.

With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.

Giacomo Tesio

@giacomo@snac.tesio.it replied · 7 days ago

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Linux User Space

@linuxuserspace@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Today in User Space
🥾We'll need to resize the /boot
🤖Stuff an #LLM into #Fedora
🦊Handle our profiles in #Firefox
🕸️Let go of our #HTTP sites
⚙️Inject malice into prompts
☄️And recap the Cosmic Desktop

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
https://youtu.be/RWGO3ZkBMQc

Linux User Space

@linuxuserspace@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
https://youtu.be/RWGO3ZkBMQc

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Chrome to warn on unencrypted HTTP by default

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/10/https-by-default.html

#HackerNews #Chrome #HTTP #Warning #Security #Browser #Update

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Write Node.js code in Rust to achieve massive HTTP throughput

https://www.npmjs.com/package/brahma-firelight

#HackerNews #Nodejs #Rust #HTTP #Throughput #Performance #Optimization

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brahma-firelight

A blazing-fast, fire-and-forget orchestrator built with Rust and JavaScript, designed for ultra-low-latency task routing, message triggering, and heavyweight logic execution — all without blocking. A native Rust AddOn for NodeJS, BunJS and DenoJS.. Latest version: 1.5.16, last published: a month ago. Start using brahma-firelight in your project by running `npm i brahma-firelight`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using brahma-firelight.

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

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@reiver@mastodon.social · 4 weeks ago

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@reiver@mastodon.social · last month

The HTTP-protocol is (also) a de facto layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.

It might have been intended to be a layer-7 application-layer-protocol, but — look at how people are using it.

Applications are built on top of the HTTP-protocol somewhat similarly to how people decades ago would have built applications on top of the TCP-protocol.

Even the Fediverse uses the HTTP-protocol in this way — as a layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.

#HTTP #WorldWideWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver@mastodon.social · last month

The HTTP-protocol is (also) a de facto layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.

It might have been intended to be a layer-7 application-layer-protocol, but — look at how people are using it.

Applications are built on top of the HTTP-protocol somewhat similarly to how people decades ago would have built applications on top of the TCP-protocol.

Even the Fediverse uses the HTTP-protocol in this way — as a layer-4 transport-layer-protocol.

#HTTP #WorldWideWeb

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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver@mastodon.social · last month

Google more-or-less created 2 new versions of the HTTP protocol — HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 —

But didn't bother make either of them (officially) support UTF-8 in the HTTP request.

#HTTP #Unicode #UTF8 #WorldWideWeb

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

@reiver@mastodon.social · last month

Google more-or-less created 2 new versions of the HTTP protocol — HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 —

But didn't bother make either of them (officially) support UTF-8 in the HTTP request.

#HTTP #Unicode #UTF8 #WorldWideWeb

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r1w1s1

@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

I’ve been using static-web-server to host a local mirror for my machines, and the experience has been excellent.

It’s incredibly fast, lightweight, and easy to run and perfect for those times when you just want to serve files without the overhead of a full web server like Apache.

To make it even simpler for Slackware users, I wrote the https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/network/static-web-server/?search=static-web-server

#slackware #rust #staticwebserver #http

r1w1s1

@r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

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Luke Miller

@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

I have a little computer that would be perfect for self hosting a website. I can get a permanent IP address for it. In the past I would have used aws or similar to register a domain name and direct traffic to it and just serve up http from a linux stack.

I'm interested in what's "best practice" for self hosting today if people have suggestions?

I'm thinking I should put it behind a service like cloudflare and also make it https but I want to remain non-corporate as possible.

#selfhost #http

Luke Miller

@upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months ago

I'm interested in what's "best practice" for self hosting today if people have suggestions?

I'm thinking I should put it behind a service like cloudflare and also make it https but I want to remain non-corporate as possible.

#selfhost #http

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Bradley Taunt

@bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

Updated my httpd.rocks guide with a small section about implementing Basic HTTP Authentication:

https://httpd.rocks/#http-basic-authentication

#httpd #openbsd #http

Bradley Taunt

@bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 2 months ago

Updated my httpd.rocks guide with a small section about implementing Basic HTTP Authentication:

https://httpd.rocks/#http-basic-authentication

#httpd #openbsd #http

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nessita

@nessita@fosstodon.org · 2 months ago

A bit disheartened to see Django take a measurable perf hit moving from cgi.parse_header to email.message.Message.get_params, following cgi deprecation and removal.

I shared details on Python Discourse, didn't get much traction so far, would really appreciate more eyes:

https://discuss.python.org/t/performance-regression-from-using-email-message-message-get-params-as-replacement-of-cgi-parse-header-following-pep-594/99963

#Python #django #performance #http #ContentType

nessita

@nessita@fosstodon.org · 2 months ago

A bit disheartened to see Django take a measurable perf hit moving from cgi.parse_header to email.message.Message.get_params, following cgi deprecation and removal.

I shared details on Python Discourse, didn't get much traction so far, would really appreciate more eyes:

https://discuss.python.org/t/performance-regression-from-using-email-message-message-get-params-as-replacement-of-cgi-parse-header-following-pep-594/99963

#Python #django #performance #http #ContentType