Do HN readers not know what a Captive Portal is? Confused why this is front page news..

They probably know what it is but are just not familiar with the term.

I find the OS' captive portal detection to sometimes be flaky, so I often just directly visit www.neverssl.com to reliably trigger the captive portal redirect.

The basic workflow at Gateway side is inspecting all HTTP port 80 traffic (with iptables or others), If the URL is about internet detection, reply a 301 redirect to the captive portal URL.

But the URL is too complex among different vendor:

https://captivebehavior.wballiance.com/

I don't know why, even I tracked the URLs, sometimes it still fails (OS refuse connecting to the URL?).

DHCP option 114 (RFC8908) can advertise the URL to client directly, but it is not widely supported:

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=q78sq5rv

also http://captive.apple.com and sometimes I'll do http://lobste.rs.

I used to use neverssl, but it's very different for .org and .com and I kept forgetting which was which.

This post reminded me to make a siri shortcut that just opens safari to http://captive.apple.com to trigger the captive portal.

I just like reading random Wikipedia articles. You could farm HN karma off me by posting random ones each day.

Here's a favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort

Had to do that to my furnace with a paper clip one winter when a sensor went out and I couldn't replace it for a couple days

I bet RFC 8910 is not well known.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8910

The world of software is absolutely enormous. Don't make assumptions about what the "everybody knows" subset is.

I've interacted with these as an end user dozens of times, but in 20 years I never heard the term "captive portal". I tend to use the Apple URL to trigger them, and I never understood why the word "captive" was in that URL. Now I know!

And I still don't really know how they work (I guess I should read this article...).

I think it was 5+ years after first having an ipod touch (i.e. connecting to wifi while out and about) before I encountered the term, and never heard it widely used outside of text on the internet. Doesn't feel like it was commonly used, a la, "Complete your connection to our wifi via the Captive Portal after doing XYZ!"

Was wondering the same, most (even non-tech) people come across captive portals all the time.

Obscura is WireGuard-over-QUIC, not a new protocol.

https://obscura.net/#faq-technical

Very cool! Thanks for supporting open source (unlike a half-hearted attempt, like ExpressVPN's Lightway). Quick question: the website animated gif has no arrows from the website to the VPN server. Am I missing something?

Update: just followed the quickstart and worked great; speed is virtually line speed - impressive!

Verizon will probably retroactively blame their outage on it.

> you could order from a good seller but get counterfeit products sent in by a shady one, and Amazon wouldn't even tell you

Why does the word 'monopoly' come to mind?

So interesting this is right next to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673809 on the HN homepage. Really demonstrates how polarizing AI is.

Thanks for pointing that out, because I hadn't see it getting flagged and I don't think that's fair. Fixed now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674621 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673930 are the top comments and that's about as good as HN gets.

Article adjacency on HN typically lasts less than 10 minutes ... you did include an actual link though, so thanks for that.

> it will be able to open difficult-to-lick locks

Those darn electrocutor locks! Best laugh this week :D

YouTube music is awash in AI too

Thanks for including so many examples! Perhaps include one example output. Other than mention of the optional '--tree' parameter, it's unclear if the default result would be a list, table, JSON, etc.

> Create a 15 minute timed goal that you have to start as soon as you wake up.

Could this be automated to trigger on first device unlock after midnight?

At the moment pretty much everything automatically resets at midnight, including any timers. It's not an issue for me since I rarely stay up past midnight, but I did notice one problem where my step goal reset on New Years eve and I wasn't able to watch my sleep videos on youtube because of it, so I'd like to find a way to make this more configurable.