Arnt

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721.
by Arnt 2y ago
I saw a tweet the other day that said that solar and batteries are growing so cheap that the combination will shortly be a good way to supply night-time power. I wouldn't have dreamed of it a few years ago.
722.
by Arnt 2y ago
And to do that, you mentioned a condition that's either ① satisfied by current IPv6 or ② impossible to satisfy, and for which that's clear on even a moment's reflection. Not sure which of those two you had in mind, but in eit
723.
by Arnt 2y ago
To spend time on thinking about performance, and then not write the code.
724.
by Arnt 2y ago
One past employer of a friend has an internal network using IPv4 only. Every night a database query runs on one database and updates a second database based on the results (a DSS updated from a data warehouse, I think). One of the TCP conne
725.
by Arnt 2y ago
I've spoken to one of the people who might be tasked with doing that, a very capable person in my estimation. His family uses only Signal as messenger, BTW.
726.
by Arnt 2y ago
I… think that at the end of the day, Google wants you to run v6. Google competes with Facebook. Facebook wants sites to host Facebook Pages and such, which needs no IP addresses. Google wants lots of websites and other services on an open w
727.
by Arnt 2y ago
Well, we have that. What GP refers to is a missed opportunity, so NAT64 can't be what GP has in mind.
728.
by Arnt 2y ago
How would v6 connect to v4? Specifically, how would the return packets back from v4 to v6 be routed?
729.
by Arnt 2y ago
They want you to run IPv4 too.
730.
by Arnt 2y ago
All this makes sense, but Rolls Royce surely has heard all of it and yet decided to invest. I do wonder what arguments made RR decide to invest.
731.
by Arnt 2y ago
Software is a collective. A billion or so people get the same software. The time for self-signed certs has passed because supporting that in software for a billion people opens up some of that billion to attack. The few people who understan
732.
by Arnt 2y ago
An employer installed one on my then-phone, so it should be within reach of the kind of tech who deals with self-signed certs.
733.
by Arnt 2y ago
Self-signed certs were a defect — people were used to just click OK and blackhats exploited that. OP wants support for the special case where only the cert issuer trusts the cert (he has his own self-signed cert). Apple and others do suppor
734.
by Arnt 2y ago
LE doesn't need any A or AAAA record. The domain must exist in the DNS and you must be able to create records in the domain. If you're using internet mail you have a domain, so you can do this. The time for self-signed certificate
735.
by Arnt 2y ago
LE will issue you a wildcard certificate and it's usable for mail.
736.
by Arnt 2y ago
I switched to letsencrypt certs for my imap server. Works well, IMO better than the self-signed ones I used before.
737.
by Arnt 2y ago
That's still off. I take these things a bit personally, because for many years, I sort of owned my job, and the valuations of my home and my job added up to more than 100% of my wealth. Fair enough, having a well-paying job is valuable
738.
by Arnt 2y ago
Right — this only works because someone else wants to buy fossil power. If no one wanted to buy fossil power this would stop working. But if/when we get that far, there shouldn't any need for hacks like this.
739.
by Arnt 2y ago
It also does not hurt. The Guardian blames companies who use regenerative power, and who pay to have regenerative power generation expanded faster than would otherwise be possible. IMO that blaming hurts.
740.
by Arnt 2y ago
And sell elsewhere. The CO₂ doesn't stay in place very long, so it doesn't really make a difference when you move emissions from one place to another. If we had a world without wind it would be different, but we do have wind on th
741.
by Arnt 2y ago
That argument applies to my personal electricity bill too. I buy my power from a company that supplies 100% regenerative power and gets most of its power from new generation facilities, 350 of them so far. Those 350 deliver power to about a
742.
by Arnt 2y ago
Sorry about the terseness. I think it's a really clever hack. An admirable way to drive forward installation of regenerative power plants, faster than the infrastructure/contracts would otherwise allow.
743.
by Arnt 2y ago
What are "the emissions" in your sentence? When a new server boots in such a DC, the increased power usage is matched by increased regenerative power generation, so what are "the emissions" that "still happen&quot
744.
by Arnt 2y ago
Well… the emissions happen so long as someone else wants to buy fossil power, but you can hardly blame the DC company for some other company wanting to buy fossil power. In the case where I came across it, the problem was contractual. Only
745.
by Arnt 2y ago
Close. The office in Kansas City wouldn't use it, if that office existed. Suppose you can get solar power in Kansas City, but can't transport it to Seattle, maybe due to lacking interconnect capacity, maybe lack of contracts among
746.
by Arnt 2y ago
Your passport, which contains stamps that form a record. And there is a European database too.
747.
by Arnt 2y ago
Repeat offense. I wonder how many of them were aware of what the repetition did to the punishment.
748.
by Arnt 2y ago
This "loophole" is likely to be motivated be the cost of processing small transactions. If customs officers spend two minutes per parcel, then it makes sense to exempt parcels for which the expected revenue doesn't even cover
749.
by Arnt 2y ago
Reminds me of when I read the book. It was very nicely written and persuasive until the point where it got to my ancestors, whom it described as living near rich fishing grounds and developing really good boats — and hungering rather than e
750.
by Arnt 2y ago
Duh. You're right, my bad.

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