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by db48x 9mo ago
It’s still nonsense. Everyone doing FTTH is using passive optical networking (PON, or NGPON or XGPON or XGSPON or …) which actually has a line rate of 10Gbps. It then uses TDMA to give each subscriber enough time slots to send and receive a
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by db48x 9mo ago
Certain brands of g.fast and g.hn devices are apparently so buggy as to be essentially defective, yes.
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by db48x 9mo ago
Which is a shame, because it puts a huge support burden on ISPs. Every time some WiFi interference slows someone’s internet down they’ll end up blaming the ISP and calling support.
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by db48x 9mo ago
No, use your eyes to look at _all_ the evidence. Yes, there was more leg room in the sixties, but the prices were a lot higher too. If you ignore the prices then you are ignoring evidence. If you fail to notice that most people could not af
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by db48x 9mo ago
It was more pleasant back then because people who flew were paying 10× more for the privilege. If you want that level of service today then simply buy a first–class ticket. You too can pay 10× as much for a marginal increase in quality.
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by db48x 9mo ago
Sure, people have been putting different sprites on their projectiles for a long time. But whether it flies in a straight line, drops from the top of the screen, or follows a ballistic arc, a bullet is a bullet. It doesn’t matter what sprit
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by db48x 9mo ago
It’s from 1986, so of course it uses bullets.
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by db48x 9mo ago
It’s so painful that I can’t even watch.
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by db48x 9mo ago
Seems pretty obvious to me just from “four-player, four-monitor arena battle with full eight-way scrolling and AI drones for players not present”. And it’s clarified with “As a social experience had it been released in 1986, this would have
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by db48x 9mo ago
I haven’t defended Palantir the company at all. I don’t know anything about them. I was merely correcting misstatements about the fictional devices called palantiri. Frankly the name is amazingly great branding. It makes the customers think
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by db48x 9mo ago
And yet even Feanor was a “good guy” at one point in time. It wasn’t until many years after the invention of the palantiri that he went off the rails, and that was only after talking to Sauron for a while. But I think that Feanor’s characte
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by db48x 9mo ago
No, that’s normal. See also newspapers, radio news, television news, cable news, Facebook, Twitter, The Algorithm, etc, etc. It’s not like Tolkien invented a new thing here; the wicked Vizier who tells the King selective truths is a trope p
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by db48x 9mo ago
It’s not the palantir’s fault that Sauron exists. You might notice that there are several other psychic tools lying around that nobody is using because Sauron will enslave anyone who does. The Throne of Amon Hen, certain magic rings, etc, e
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by db48x 9mo ago
This hypothetical knife that you've invented still doesn't make any choices. A person still makes the choice of how and when to use it. That's all that matters. Only things that can choose to act can be judged as ethical or u
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by db48x 9mo ago
Telescope, not television.
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by db48x 9mo ago
That's a common misunderstanding. The Palantir never corrupted anyone. They only became dangerous to use once Sauron got his hands on one. You know, that immortal demon god who always uses mind control to get what he wants? If you use
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by db48x 9mo ago
Tools are always neutral. The hammer doesn't become evil merely because you used it to bash someone's brains in. Tools do not make choices; humans do.
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by db48x 9mo ago
Only an idiot would think that “the envionment” is more important than their own health.
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by db48x 9mo ago
To blame the phone in your pocket is also to miss the point. There are whole industries out there aiming to manipulate your attention. Television, news, advertising, etc, etc. They’ve been manipulating people for centuries, and don’t need p
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by db48x 9mo ago
> once used for Evil, are incredibly difficult to use in any other way. That’s not true. They were only dangerous to use as long as an insanely powerful immortal demon god had one. If you used a Palantir he would notice and draw your eye
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by db48x 9mo ago
That is simultaneously hilarious and sad. They really must be incompetent. First to make the control for a bridge portable, second to make only one of them, third to have nobody in charge of the thing, fourth to lose it, fifth to not be abl
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by db48x 9mo ago
Working backups are important regardless, but if you use a TPM then you’d better have your recovery keys somewhere convenient. I’m sure you can print them out and keep them in your wallet or something.
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by db48x 9mo ago
I suspect that they do not actually contain the encryption key. It is more convenient if the disk encryption key is stored on the disk, but separately encrypted. You actually want to store the key multiple times, one for each unlock method.
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by db48x 9mo ago
You are correct. Updating the firmware or the OS does not actually erase the TPM. What is really going on is that the TPM register holds a value that is like a hash. Each time you measure the system state you update the register with a hash
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by db48x 9mo ago
The TPM devices themselves are reliable, but using them comes with a lot of caveats. 99% of users have never heard of the TPM, and 99% of the ones who have won’t have realized that upgrading the BIOS clears¹ the TPM. Add in the fact that Ta
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by db48x 9mo ago
That’s the wrong way to look at it. Improving the performance of a complex piece of software is not something you do in one fell swoop, or even in a dozen smaller steps. It’s a job of compounding many tiny single–digit percentages over year
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by db48x 9mo ago
Also the filters for adblocking have extended the CSS selector syntax to add extra features, and you might not want those to leak into your parser for stylesheets.
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by db48x 10mo ago
Yes, it’s true that any change they made would be incompatible with the existing software and routers and such. But nowadays everything can handle IPv6 just fine. All the upgrades and new software came out between 20 and 30 years ago, and i
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by db48x 10mo ago
Many ISPs do rotate the prefixes that they assign to customers. There’s plenty of people on here complaining about it as a reason not to use IPv6.
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by db48x 10mo ago
That’s Apple’s fault. Why are you blaming it on IPv6? Oh, because Apple can do no wrong.

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