frezik
@frezik@midwest.social
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 3 days ago:
Well, a plucked bird does look pretty different. Then again, fossilized feathers for dinosaurs have been found, so it’s not like we’re completely blind to that, either.
- Comment on Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍 4 days ago:
But we wouldn’t see sunrise/sunset.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
The Estes Corporation makes rockets that will do 600 meters.
It’s great that Honda is doing this. We really need other companies in this area, because SpaceX is dominating it. Even if Elon weren’t a walking disaster, we don’t want one company so badly outclassing everyone else.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 5 days ago:
Eh, it’s just a start of development. It only goes 300 meters. Blue Origin goes higher, but even they aren’t in orbit.
Japan also has some odd limitations on their rockets as part of their self defense only constitution. They don’t build a rocket that could potentially be used to strike mainland Asia.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 days ago:
They’re destroying humanity both physically and mentally, so I certainly hope so.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 6 days ago:
I’m unimpressed by the people who use it.
- Comment on YouTube "search results" 1 week ago:
It’s not like they’re part of a company whose core product is search.
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
Honestly, they’d be horrified at a bunch of things, some of which are on MAGA, and some on progressives. Maybe we shouldn’t be taking the ideas of slaveowners from over 200 years ago as seriously as we do.
- Comment on Basically 1 week ago:
“You guys cured smallpox, and there’s people who are working against the cure?” - Also Ben Franklin, who lost one of his sons to smallpox
- Comment on Brain-computer interfaces: Brain implants are letting people move, speak, and interact with machines using only their thoughts. The first FDA approvals may arrive within five years. 1 week ago:
Big Tech has done everything they can to convince people that they absolutely cannot be trusted with this.
- Comment on Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things 1 week ago:
In 1992, LA had riots sparked by police brutality. Since then, the LAPD has striven to uphold the utmost standards in police work . . . lol, no, they made sure ACAB applies double to them.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 1 week ago:
Even before Zuckerberg, these groups often have a religious coating. US law enforcement lets religious groups do whatever they want until the problem becomes undeniable. Even then, they drag their feet.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
Just so we’re all aware, GPS jammers will invite the interest of the FCC. Now, protests aren’t about being well-behaved, but just know that there’s an entirely different federal agency being brought in.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
Pixel 6 is the minimum that can load up GrapheneOS. Those are like $130 on eBay.
Pixel 8/9 does have some CPU features that help separate memory, which can be useful for keeping apps from creeping on memory they shouldn’t.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
This is the sort of nuts and bolts of protesting that Americans are learning the hard and fast way.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
Since you’re posting this all over the thread, I’ll also have to repeat the information that gyro/accelerometers are not capable of doing that. Small measurement errors stack up and throw it completely off.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
Gyro/accelerometer data isn’t accurate enough to do that. Small errors in the data add up and will quickly drift away from the actual location. You can use it for video game controllers, but not tracking over large distances.
But most phones have GPS and that’s where the real problem is.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
Best I can do is 3 day suspension with pay.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 2 weeks ago:
Side note: if you say you’re 6.5" long, it sounds like you really care about that extra half inch. If you say you’re 17cm, that’s just how long you are.
You’re welcome, penis owners.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 2 weeks ago:
Maybe not on mobile keyboards? Giving the benefit of a doubt here.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 weeks ago:
And the thread is wrong about one of those. I rarely touch them for tech news.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
How the fuck is that supposed to fix anything? It’s easily cheaper for the state to pay for their lunch.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
It’s very satisfying when someone who thinks they have all the power suddenly realizes they don’t.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 weeks ago:
Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it’s crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 3 weeks ago:
Every one of these only makes me say “wouldn’t it be great if we did everything with RPN”?
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
Takes me back to the early post-9/11 days. Not back to anyplace I wanted to be, but it does take me back.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
I choose to believe every single word of it. The universe is more interesting if it’s true.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever chained three Cisco 2600 routers together and then successfully ping’d clients on each end? Do you know what BGP is? OSPF? Do you know the difference between routing and routed protocols?
I know you don’t, because people who do don’t make the claims you’re making.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
No they fucking don’t, that’s not what routers do.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 3 weeks ago:
Skype won’t be supporting anything at all very soon.
What happened with Vonage is something that could happen with any kind of instant messaging, including things like Discord.
With everything directly addressable (not just static addresses, but directly addressable), an IM/VoIP service can simply connect to the recipient. No servers are necessary in between, only routers. That doesn’t work with NAT (CG or otherwise), so what you have to do is create a server that everyone connects into, and then that forwards messages to the endpoint. This is:
- More expensive to operate
- Less reliable
- Slower
- A point for NSA eavesdropping (which almost certainly happened)
This is largely invisible to end users until free services get enshittified or something goes wrong.
Yes, it’s only tangentially related to static addresses, but it’s all part of the package. This is not the Internet we should have had.
And at least in the US (in single family homes) its crazy unlikely that your router is behind any NAT
Your router has NAT. That’s the problem. CGNAT is another problem. My C&C: Generals issues did not have CGNAT.