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Brazilian army simulates cyber defense measures ahead of elections

The Brazilian Army coordinated the eighth edition of the Guardião Cibernético (“Cyber Guardian”) event from September 21 to 25, a couple of weeks prior to Brazil’s presidential election.

3h ago ·agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br

We shipped a proxy extension for Firefox and Edge. Both browsers quietly reuse the old proxy tunnel, and that almost broke it.

We run a pay-as-you-go proxy service. Until this month, using it in a browser meant the manual route: open the proxy settings, type a hostname and port, build a username by hand, sign in at the 407…

• Firefox and Edge reuse old proxy tunnel connections
• Browser quirks cause issues when changing countries/regions
• Extension includes "New IP" button to update settings

3h ago ·dev.to

The One-Computer Illusion: Rethinking Distributed Computing

Why making many independent computers behave like one coherent system is where the trouble actually begins. "Explore how independent machines, networks, concurrency, partial failures, clocks…

• Distributed systems consist of independent computers with unique processors and memory.
• Communication between machines occurs through messages over a network.
• Traditional centralized system assumptions no longer apply in distributed computing.

3h ago ·dev.to