Hacker News: jdavid

HTTP Web Server Bug Mystery with Dnalounge.com, Blocking Sonic.net IP Addresses

jdavid — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:12:57 +0000

I am having a lot of problems trying to diagnose what the issue is. I don't work for DNALounge or know anyone that directly works there, I do love to visit their events regularly, but that has gotten more difficult over the past 6 months or so.

On my windows PC I've noticed that my external IP address can become blocked, and then I can only access the website from my Verizon Wireless IP address, either on the phone, or by hotspot connecting to my phone to access the site.

I have tried to get my Verizon Wireless IP address blocked, but it won't block it.

With my Sonic.net IP addresses, it will only block from my windows 11 PC, but not from my M1 Macbook Pro, running MacOS.

I get an IP block on my Windows 11 PC the most reliably when I click a number of DNALounge.com links in multiple tabs.

- It doesn't seem to be a cookie issue. - It doesn't seem to be a plugin issue, although I suspect grammarly might be involved. DNALounge.com does have a robots.txt file set up to block AIs, so I don't know if grammarly is triggering some sort of firewall behavior, or something else.

I am both annoyed at this, and puzzled by it, and most of all I worry that either I have malware running on my system, unauthorized code, or that somehow sonic.net home ip addresses are getting poor score with some sort of firewall service for servers trying to prevent bot nets or DDoS attacks, and honestly i might consider switching ISPs at this point as sonic does not seem worried every time i show that it's their network affected and not Verizons.

Does this affect anyone else using Sonic.net on a Windows 11 PC connected either via ethernet or WiFi? Either Directly, or through a router?

Again, for some odd reason, my mac does not trigger this.

the only 'provisional' request header that looks different is Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform: "Windows"

Has anyone ever seen such a strange intermittent or localized HTTP bug? The harder it is to track this down the more interesting the problem is to me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864828

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New comment by jdavid in "HP G2 Omnicept: Enterprise-grade VR whose sensors can read “cognitive load”"

jdavid — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:27:26 +0000

This is going to be a premier headset for research or enterprise:

* Eye Tracking

* Pupillometry ( eye dilation )

* Lower Face ( mouth tracking )

* Heart Rate Tracking

How do we know that distant galaxies are not composed of anti-matter?

jdavid — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:52:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-we-know-that-dista/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566397

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New comment by jdavid in "New Game: Minecraft Earth"

jdavid — Fri, 17 May 2019 15:21:54 +0000

The ad for Minecraft Earth, reminds me of a cyberpunk novel, Spook Country, by William Gibson.

In the novel, there are layers of augmented reality where people have put their mark on the world with AR Dioramas scattered through-out the world. In the book, AR scenes might depict historical events, art, or information.

If your planing on Playing Minecraft:Earth, you might want to check it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spook_Country

https://www.amazon.com/Spook-Country-Blue-Ant-Book-ebook/dp/...

The Intergalactic Halo Network, for Interstellar Travel

jdavid — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 12:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZevUW__aMZE&t=4s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590450

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New comment by jdavid in "Snap falls to IPO price"

jdavid — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:29:15 +0000

Based on revenue and flat growth, the company is worth about $4 a share. If it get's to that price I'll think about buying in, if and only if i think the company is going to turn it around.

I've made good money waiting for the time to be right before buying in. This stock is worthless above $8 a share.

Hans Rosling: The Swedish physician who made statistics come alive has died

jdavid — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 23:36:35 +0000

Article URL: https://qz.com/904942/hans-rosling-the-swedish-physician-and-popular-ted-speaker-who-made-statistics-come-alive-has-died-of-pancreatic-cancer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594119

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Neural Assisted Painting ~( Deepdream and Photoshop )

jdavid — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5QzguAolrE&feature=youtu.be

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12685973

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New comment by jdavid in "Twitter Stock Jumps After Co-Founder Says It Should Consider Selling"

jdavid — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:32:03 +0000

I wonder if this is related to Apple joining Twitter

https://twitter.com/apple

Twitter Stock Jumps After Co-Founder Says It Should Consider Selling

jdavid — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:30:53 +0000

Article URL: http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/twitter-stock-jumps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12412877

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New comment by jdavid in "[dead]"

jdavid — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:30:20 +0000

I wonder if these two things are related

"Twitter Stock Jumps After Co-Founder Says It Should Consider Selling" "http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/twitter-stock-jumps/"

New comment by jdavid in "Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal"

jdavid — Sun, 08 May 2016 20:25:46 +0000

Yeah, I basically want both the CPU and the GPU to be FinFET for a mobile laptop, that is VR ready/ Skylake + nvidia 970 or better.

New comment by jdavid in "Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal"

jdavid — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:29:17 +0000

Anyone know when the Mobile Fiji, Polaris, Zen, Pascal hardware is coming out?

New comment by jdavid in "Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal"

jdavid — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:27:26 +0000

I love AMD and I'm rooting for them, but I'm not sure we are going to have another Athlon run here.

AMD is still having trouble beating out nVidia, and Intel. The Zen architecture could in theory have HBM for the system CPU/APU, but I'm guessing they won't.

Finally A lot of Intel performance comes from compiler optimization and design, and last time with Athlon it took years for that to roll out. Unless Zen is years ahead of Intel, I don't know if they will be able to edge that far ahead. Intel has been doing CPU-GPU pairs now for more than 5 years, and they are getting better.

I think for AMD to win this round, they would need to have a power ratio that allowed them to dominate the laptop space, with APUs and eliminate the GPU as a component, and right now AMD and Intel are both on 14nm, so I think it would be hard to win there, but we will see.

nVidia is on the 16nm process, so if AMDs chips are equal in performance, they might draw less power. However, for VR, nVidia has been working very closely on the software with the various companies and I think they will have a strong software advantage for a while.