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by doubleorseven 324 days ago
I once accidentally blocked TCP on my laptop and found out "google.com" runs on UDP, it was a nice surprise.

baba is fast.

I sometimes get calls like "You used to manage a server 6 years ago and we have an issue now" so I always tell the other person "type 'alias' and read me the output", this is how I can tell if this is really a server I used to work on.

fast is my copilot.
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Jtsummers 324 days ago
Specifically HTTP/3 and QUIC (which came out of Google):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3

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

They don't require you to use QUIC to access Google, but it is one of the options. If you use a non-supporting browser (Safari prior to 2023, unless you enabled it), you'd access it with a standard TCP-based HTTP connection.

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quesera 324 days ago
> this is how I can tell if this is really a server I used to work on

Hm, shell environment is fairly high on the list of things I'd expect the next person to change, even assuming no operational or functional changes to a server.

And of course they'd be using a different user account anyway.

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