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        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:06:01 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>DDoS: WTF</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Maybe some online stuff you&#039;re using has been down, or performing poorly, and you&#039;re hearing it is, or might be, DDoS. What does that mean, and why is it hard for them to solve this problem? DoS stands for Denial of Service - straightforward, an attacker is trying to deny (prevent) someone the ability to use a service. Why? We&#039;ll get to this at the end of the article when we talk about how to make it stop - it&#039;ll make sense then.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for about a year now. I&#039;m by no means an expert, but I&#039;ve read a lot of documentation and discussion, looked at various versions of the architectural diagrams, and spent a lot of time thinking about the implications for scaling, decentralization, and other aspects of design and operation. I run my own PDS. I wrote some clients that consume fireh...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Calgary ... Texas?</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[How IP Geolocation Works, and How It Goes Wrong]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Datacenters in Utah: A Photo Essay</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a lot of stuff going around about datacenters, so I&#039;ve spent some time in the last week visiting some of the ones in northern Utah. I started with a quick tour or some of the datacenters in the Salt Lake Valley. Some are indeed quite large, but there are a bunch of smaller ones too - and they are not always where you think! All of these are publicly known, and you can find them (and ones in your own area) at https://www.datacentermap.com/.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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