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- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 4 hours ago:
I feel like this about every rebrand. And yet, the media usually goes along with it, and everyone follows.
X is a letter and that’s it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Hmm, odd. I just posted to .ml with no issues.
This isn’t the chemical polishing post so nobody else gets confused - dullard just posted twice.
- Comment on Is pixelfed.sdf.org fully working? I'm not receiving my confirmation email to sign up. 5 days ago:
Just our instance, or all of it?
Images are heavier, unfortunately, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me what is happening in /c/humanrights 1 month ago:
Ah. The slash usually means “not”, sorry about that.
- Comment on Can someone explain to me what is happening in /c/humanrights 2 months ago:
No, serious.
If SDF definitely knew this instance existed I’d bug them about maybe looking into this. Someone might need some medical help.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 months ago:
I went to my backup instance. Now I’ll be on two for a bit I guess - I wouldn’t want to leave anyone hanging.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 2 months ago:
.ml is kind of Hexbear or Lemmygrad-lite. They’ll ban you for criticising places like North Korea. I got it once for saying Dengism isn’t socialist.
I still use it, because it’s mostly normal, and “we’re secretly the bad guys” isn’t a very dangerous conspiracy theory.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 2 months ago:
No. I self-censor a bit there, and prefer other instances so I don’t have to, though.
- Comment on I wish Japan was easier to immigrate to. 3 months ago:
They don’t want you, basically, and the laws reflect that.
- Comment on What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering? 3 months ago:
Yikes!
Yeah, I don’t think I can help too much with that. I hear there was quite an art to annotating hand-written assembly (to the point where you’re basically play-acting an interpreter or compiler), but I wasn’t there to learn.
- Comment on What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering? 3 months ago:
Do you have any idea what the high-level language in question might be? There has to be some logic to it (or alternatively it was spaghetti code as written). Even just the era and platform would narrow it down a bit.
- Comment on What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering? 3 months ago:
Hmm. Isn’t there a theorem that every combination of GOTOs is equivalent to some structured programming equivalent?
- Comment on USB Floppy Drive 3 months ago:
Yes, was about to post Greaseweazle. That and whatever scavenged drive sounds like the way to go in general. I don’t have one yet just because it costs the right amount to go on my gift wishlist, lol.
- Comment on I don't see Threads when I try to block it as an instance. Why? 4 months ago:
Does it federate with Lemmy? I thought it was more of a Mastodon-like service.
- Comment on I don't see Threads when I try to block it as an instance. Why? 4 months ago:
I would be shocked. They don’t even notice when we’re defederated.
- Comment on Ancient Rome Expert Answers Roman Empire Questions From Twitter 5 months ago:
Wait, where was the G*rmanic simping?
I also regret that she didn’t go into the sexual norms they did have, or put the guy who was concerned about being black at ease that they wouldn’t have noticed or cared, and would be more concerned about his lack of a “civilised” language. Both sexual free-for-all Rome and racist Rome are common misconceptions that basically come from recent history.
- Comment on Ancient Rome Expert Answers Roman Empire Questions From Twitter 5 months ago:
Geez, that one isn’t even a grill, it’s literally a small wood-fired stove.
- Comment on Ancient Rome Expert Answers Roman Empire Questions From Twitter 5 months ago:
That’s really cool!
How often do you deal with barbarian invasions? /s
- Comment on Ancient Rome Expert Answers Roman Empire Questions From Twitter 5 months ago:
I literally reposted here at their advice, lol.
(!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world is for, well, memes and there’s no Roman history sub)
- Submitted 5 months ago to history@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Study finds health risks in switching ships from diesel to ammonia fuel 5 months ago:
Sounds like someone needs to start making catalytic converters for nitrogen oxides.
- Comment on Federation issues recently? 5 months ago:
Still nothing, and my comment just went through right away. It’s broken in the inbound direction.
- Comment on Federation issues recently? 5 months ago:
It’s just too big for you, I guess?
- Comment on Federation issues recently? 5 months ago:
Neat. The data doesn’t go back very far yet, though.
Two immediate observations: Hexbear is surprisingly huge in terms of activity, and lemm.ee had a crazy spike happen at 14:00 UTC on Tuesday (probably spam or similar).
- Comment on Federation issues recently? 5 months ago:
Local link, so we can see stuff coming back, if it does.
- Comment on IWTL - I Want To Learn 5 months ago:
I’m nothing it not… inciteful.
(It’s insightful, OP)
- Submitted 5 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 12 comments
- Comment on A new Would You Rather Community 5 months ago:
Chicken. I’m a vegetarian.
- Comment on Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic) 6 months ago:
Will have to get back to you sometime this week - family took more time than anticipated. But, I can layout a few things:
No worries. I had just spent a bunch of time replying to another guy about this, and then had to pop into surgery and recover for days, which is why I felt bad and specifically mentioned it.
Yeah. This is why I recommend avoiding it altogether. Regulatory agencies are too on top of the licensed spectrum when just worrying about keeping HAMs and others in line. The tools to catch unlicensed operators are just too well-developed and proven to consider it practical for a transport layer, outside of things like natural disaster and the like where transmission in the clear isn’t usually a concern.
Like I mentioned, this is inspired by an existing thing, so I know it’s possible to not get caught if transmissions are kept very short, and done in a busy area. Definitely not recommending it, though; it’s also just rude to fill up spectrum with massive cyphertexts if you don’t have a good reason. Industry Canada (in my case) is one thing, but basic human decency comes first.
I hadn’t actually thought of natural disasters. I suppose that could be a niche just because low-power transmitters are so much more common now. Above the physical layer it makes little difference as far as I can tell, so we can talk about that and not worry about the philosophy or practice of law-breaking.
I really think it can pretty well. Using IP would give a native way to route on traditional networks and make traffic more likely to blend in with existing traffic. Building a protocol on Layer 4 reduces the implementation overhead by taking advantage of existing abstractions. Layer 3 doesn’t need to know anything about the layers above it or below it, it just needs to know which server is sending, which server is receiving, and the payload.
So would the hub just function as a local network, then? I can see what you mean by that. So basically, each container would get an IPv6 address, and could communicate with the outside world normally when a low-latency connection - like maybe via satellite constellation - is up.
and having the final “hop” as part of the encrypted packet header.
Hah, is there an official term for the move from one node to another? I’m pretty sure I’ve heard a complete mix of things IRL.
You could do full-blown onion encryption if you wanted, assuming you know in advance the path your traffic will take (or at least the very end of it). If you don’t, you pretty much just have to trust everyone to see what route your traffic took. Given that nodes are mobile, can change identities, and optimally only share encrypted traffic, does that sound like a huge risk?
I suppose in a disaster situation, you could just openly publish the GPS coordinates of the hub, and make a transmission strategy by as-the-crow-flies distance.
Might look into PGP/GPG. It could be a useful approach. Essentially, the idea being to be able to not take someone’s word for who they are but rely on a consensus of trusted parties. Like PKI but not as centralized.
I’m familiar as a user, but I’m not sure how few packets you could fit that into. You could definitely set your container to do a web of trust check over the normal internet, and just ask the other party to sign something with their published key.
Also, a bit off topic, has PGP/GPG already been adapted for post-quantum algorithms? You’d think it would be one of the first things to get set up.
- Comment on Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic) 6 months ago:
That’s funny. I’m on a really old laptop right now, and I’m running oldstable. Even going up from oldold broke it a bit.