Posts by Dan 55

Re: We live in a society

He'd tell you to check it out, and in this case you'd find out he was right.

Actually Germany, Italy, and Spain (taken over from the UK from the 1st of March).

It's nice to know that they were "notified within a matter of seconds" when something went wrong.

Re: "This measure is expected to impact 170,000 individuals" . . .

Deal or no deal, contractor or permie, employment outside of the EU country where you're resident after exit day is not going to be easy which will make living in Benelux a little painful.

Re: Back to the... past

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/60.8.0esr/win32/en-GB/

Re: How will DoH affect ad blockers?

If your anti malware scanner is defenceless against DoH it's also defenceless against malware which connects to the C&C server with a fixed IP.

Ad flingers can't tell the browser how to resolve.

Re: Mozilla

Don't like the idea of spamming Cloudflare with internal LAN addresses then falling back to LAN DNS, it's the wrong order. Firefox's DoH configuration should accept two servers and try the first one before the second, like normal DNS configuration.

Also I don't think router software like OpenWRT can be configured to accept DoH and DoT on the LAN and use DoH or DoT for upstream DNS yet, which would also be helpful.

They're required by the government to hand over Internet Connection Records but they're not told what technology to use to create those records, so if everyone starts using private DNS resolution they're obliged to use DPI to create them. They can't just shrug and say "dunno, plain old DNS doesn't work".

Re: Mozilla not the only one doing it

Out of the box Android 9 is set up to try DoT then fall back to plain old slurpable DNS if that fails, so the ISP can just block DoT and most people are probably none the wiser.

Re: Dear Police

There's no need to get a warrant thanks to IPA 2016. 50-odd government depts including a the Welsh Ambulance Service can bring up your browsing history at domain name level via unencrypted DNS snooping.

This is why Mozilla got the "light-hearted" award, because the ISPA don't want any trouble snooping as they're legally obliged to.

The main thing wrong with DoH (apart from DNS over the https port) is it's more difficult than it should be setting up LAN resolution.

Re: Y2K

It was Theresa May that asked for two extensions, take it up with her.

Re: trying to tell the British public

As i said, if it becomes a big enough issue and the EU wont come to some agreement we effectively lie.

So the Brexit buccaneers cite WTO rules until they're inconvenient and then just ignore them and bluster their way through it, as if that's something to be proud of.

I guess the EU takes its legal obligations more seriously than the UK with Brexiters at the wheel. It agreed to the backstop as a way to uphold the GFA, which the current clique poised to take over the Brexit process don't want to agree to even though it was requested by the British government in the first place, and said that in a no deal situation without a backstop it will have to try and uphold its WTO obligations. To do otherwise would leave 27 countries open to being sued and the EU is, if nothing else, a legal entity between countries so it is adverse to this.

Why are you linking to the gibberings on Worst-all's blog as if they actually meant something?

Re: trying to tell the British public

There wasn't supposed to be a customs border while in the EU, that was the whole points of it. Same when both countries were in the EFTA previous to 1973.

Re: trying to tell the British public

The UK having no border checks with Ireland but not being in a customs union with them means any other country in the world, without a bilateral agreement with the UK that states that they agree that the UK can have no border checks with Ireland, can legally challenge the UK and their complaint will be that the UK is discriminating against them in favour of Ireland.

What's so difficult to understand about that? Come on, use the power of logic. Or are your programs subcontracted out to cats walking across keyboards?

Re: Y2K

I'm surprised you recycled the Y2K argument considering the audience... this ain't the Daily Mail.

You could actually plan and do something about Y2K, and people did. What can you do against Brexit when the date is not fixed and what's going to happen depends on the whims of a bunch of narcisists and 100,000 Conservative Party members who might as well live on a different planet?

Your corporation has decided the UK's cheap enough (thanks to the battering the pound has taken) and it'll be alright on the night. That might even be true, but all the same it's no way to run a country.

Re: Sort of open source

Mozilla's own proposals. It goes something like this:

1. We're going to make these changes/remove these features.

2. A load of non-contradictory feedback saying it would be a disaster.

3. We're going to do it anyway because metrics.

4. Metrics are not useful because you're changing/removing a power user feature used by a relatively small number of people.

5. We're going to do it anyway because it'd be too difficult for us to do otherwise.

Re: Glitches

I'm not sure if that quote is real, if MS really did make DOS incompatible with 1 2 3 then people would have not upgraded or switched to PC-DOS or DR-DOS (or whatever DR-DOS was called before being called DR-DOS).