frezik
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- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
No they fucking don’t, that’s not what routers do.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 days 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.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 days ago:
. . . nobody at home actually runs VOIP . . .
Plenty of people used Skype and Vonage. Both were subverted because they have to assume NAT is there.
. . . quick game servers don’t need static . . .
But they do work better without NAT. That’s somewhat separate from static addresses.
My old roommate and I had tons of problems back in the day when we tried to host an Internet game of C&C: Generals behind the same NAT. I couldn’t connect to him. He couldn’t connect to me. We could connect to each other but nobody outside could. It’s a real problem that’s only been “solved” because a lot of games have moved to publisher-hosted servers. Which has its own issues with longevity.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 days ago:
You can get IPv6 addresses. What you can’t get, in many cases, is a static IPv6 prefix assignment.
CGNAT is not fine. Its problems are simply hidden from most people. ISPs have to have more equipment that’s less reliable, increases latency, and is potentially a bandwidth bottleneck.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 4 days ago:
The reason they have no use for a static address is because applications haven’t evolved to work that way. Roll back the clock 30 years, do IPv6 seriously so that everyone has static assignments by the time the Y2k problem has come and gone, and you have a very different Internet.
In fact, many applications, like VoIP and game hosting, have to go through all sorts of hoops to work around NAT.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
“Hashed emails”. Besides the fact that they can match up a hash from one source to a hash from another source to link them to the same person, emails often have enough predictability to break the hash. Assuming they all end in “@gmail.com”, “@outlook.com”, or “@yahoo.com” will get you the vast majority of emails out there. Unlike a good password scheme, people don’t shove a lot of random data into their email addresses.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 5 days ago:
It doesn’t apply to safety items at all. Your car will function fine without seat belts.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 6 days ago:
And then they hit the emergency shutdown, which is for when people have a plate in their head and they’re stuck to the side of the machine. That one causes all the liquid helium to be quenched, thus needing to be refilled.
There is a slower shutdown that doesn’t do that, but, you know, cops.
Every detail of that story was worse than the last, and it’s 100% on the cops.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
The US is allergic to it, but needs to get over it.
Aluminum wire was tried in the 1970s due to a spike in copper prices. The problem was that they just tried to swap it right in. Aluminum and copper have different rates of expansion. Over time, that would slowly loosen the connectors, and the wires would pop right out and cause a fire.
You can design connectors to handle both, and you’ll see many electrical things today specify that they’re good for aluminum or copper wire. It still has a bad reputation among electricians; they haven’t unlearned the problem yet.
Now, one place it’s more of a problem is in things like transformer windings. There are kilometers of wiring in any of them, so the higher resistance of aluminum is a problem.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 days ago:
From old electrical connections that weren’t designed for the different rates of expansion of aluminum and copper. Today, most of them are.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
There’s a thread of thought that pops up in pro-AI posters from time to time: technology can’t go backwards. The implication being that the current state of AI can only improve, and is here to stay.
This is wrong. Companies are spending multitudes of piles of cash to make AI work, and they could easily take their ball and go home. Extending copyright over the training data would likely trigger that, by the industry’s own admission.
No, self-hosted models are not going to change this. A bunch of people running around with their own little agents aren’t going to sustain a mass market phenomenon. You’re not going to have integration in Windows or VisualStudio or the top of Google search results. You’re not going to have people posting many pics on Facebook of Godzilla doing silly things.
The tech can go backwards, and we’re likely to see it.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 1 week ago:
It’s also water store. You dehydrate very quickly without constantly drinking Gatorade.
Hard to find now, but I’ve seen pictures of what people look like at extremely low (<4%) body fat. Every little detail in the muscle pops right out. It doesn’t look attractive or healthy in any way.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
To salvage the argument, it’s quite possible this would have been different if they were from GM rather than VW.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
Usually a dish these days rather than waveguide, but yes.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Last part that I need is for SSDs to come down in price to where ~80TB isn’t too ridiculous (that’s 40TB usable space with RAID1). Cut the price per TB in half two more times to make it there. Otherwise, spinning platters are the bottleneck with my 10Gb network.
Which probably would have happened in the next few years if not for tariffs.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
They’re apparently in talks to sell off their network division. Future there is really up in the air.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
A lot of those modules would work fine if the companies didn’t fuck with their drivers.
The Linux ixgbe (for Intel 82598 and 82599 chipsets) was submitted with a whitelist for Intel SFP+ adapters. Linux devs added a module option to shut off the whitelist, and tons of stuff is perfectly compatible.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
If your bank credentials can be intercepted that way, then the bank had poor security. They’re not responsible for that anymore than any other ISP.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
WiFi is a specific protocol, IEEE 802.11 (with a lower case letter at the end for the version). There have long been hobbyist and commercial methods for using it with point-to-point links. There are some other wireless methods for this, like LoRa/Meshtastc, but they tend to be slower and less developed. Everyone prefers using WiFi.
So, yes, they are using WiFi in a point-to-point way. The antenna is directional to give it (potentially) several miles of range.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MIT’s CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasn’t putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didn’t create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.
That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
The issue this time around is infrastructure. The current AI Summer depends on massive datacenters with equally massive electrical needs. If companies can’t monetize that enough, they’ll pull the plug and none of this will be available to general public anymore.
- Comment on [Video] Israeli public television - "Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas... We need to conquer Gaza and colonize it and not leave a single Gazan child there." 2 weeks ago:
Genocide? What genocide? I don’t see no genocide. You’re genocide. Maybe genocide will bake you a cake and sing you happy birthday. You ever think about that? You’d be sitting there, not even on your birthday, and genocide is giving you one, anyway. Do you know how silly you’d look?
I am very smart.
- Comment on It's bad man 2 weeks ago:
TIL Peter Thiel has a Lemmy account.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 2 weeks ago:
Somewhat. Mostly because you have a lot of suburban people in America who like manicured lawns and expect you to do the same. Even without an HOA, you still have people calling the city if your lawn gets too out of sorts.
In the documentary “The Power Of Nightmares”, it’s mentioned that Sayyid Qutb (an Egyptian political theorist who’s ideas directly influenced Osama Bin Laden) saw Americans being overly concerned with lawncare as a decadent and repulsive thing. I can’t say he’s wrong. He wasn’t even around to see what TruGreen does to things. It should be noted, too, that his criticism wasn’t from afar. He spent two years as a student in the US after WWII, and he didn’t come away liking the place.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 2 weeks ago:
Internet censorship has somehow become wider and less thoughtful than TV and movie censorship ever was. Including Hayes Code shit.