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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
Yeah, I help review security reports for a small FOSS organization, and someone reported a "critical" vulnerability about a publicly-accessible SVN server. Like yes, that is indeed the purpose of hosting open source software. But
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> But what do they do with the waste? The Canadian Shield [0] is uniquely well-suited for this: it's remote, sparsely populated, and geologically stable. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Crucially though, if we change it, we just have to change how addresses are allocated, not change the protocol again. Yup, and only less than an eighth of the total IPv6 address space has been allocated [0] [1], so there's still p
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
A link-local address is required with IPv6, so your devices probably just have that in addition to a globally-routable IPv6 address. This isn't a problem though, since devices have no problem having lots of different addresses on the s
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> If a 1500 byte IPv6 packet arrives on a router with an 1100 byte next hop, does it just drop? Or send back a fragmentation needed icmp? Yup [0]. > How is that different from setting a “don’t fragment” option on a router. It's t
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> 1) my stateful firewall is going to break most of that anyway Stateful firewalls and even regular NAT aren't much of an issue for P2P, but CGNAT is much more problematic [0]. > 2) if cg nat is as popular as people claim then th
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> The only one I don't understand is how NDP is simpler than ARP. ARP is an Ethernet broadcast while NDP is built on IPv6 multicast ARP is a special protocol implemented on the data link layer, while NDP is just another type of ICMP
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> While true, neither of those are relevant in context (and I even explicitly acknowledged your first bullet in my comment above). Yeah, I just mentioned that because P2P networking is used a lot more than most people think these days, s
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> I’ve always found IPv6 to be overengineered and in many ways completely ridiculous. Most software continues to have horrible IPv6 support and documentation making it look more complicated, but the actual protocol is considerably simp
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> There was a time when the designers believed that you'd use your 48 bit MAC address as part of this. Now we know that's a PII nightmare and nobody does it. Nobody includes their MAC address in their public IPv6 addresses anym
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
1. Peer-to-peer networking won't usually work correctly. And quite a bit of software uses P2P networking these days---BitTorrent, Zoom/Teams (via WebRTC), Tailscale, PlayStation/Xbox multiplayer, etc. Most of these services h
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Given the trajectory of the world’s on, it seems pretty obvious to me that diversifying from oil and gas is required for a long-term sustainable economy. I agree that that would be a good idea, but oil and gas are so deeply embedded in
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Same for USG and Presidential alerts. The problem is that Canada ignores all of the different categories, and just sends everything out as a presidential alert. > I disable them anyway - which I can do after rooting Yeah, I used to
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory. The option to disable alerts in not present in settings menu (at least on iPhones). I'm Canadian too, and I'm able to toggle all the options off on my Android phone, it j
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> They'll have a LexisNexis or Westlaw terminal. That gets them all of the rulings and so forth, but annotated. So I'm not familiar with this area at all , but aren't only the major rulings annotated? Based off of this si
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Overwhelmingly, PACER is used by attorneys, who are generally well-compensated professionals with a whole host of protectionist policies insulating them from market forces. Court records can, of course, be made "free". But no
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
Probably not a great idea if you're using btrfs [0]. [0]: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Swapfile.html#:~:text...
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
It's unsurprising from a financial perspective, since both oil and gas (directly) and rat eradication (indirectly) make the province a ton of money.
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
There are tons of coyotes in Alberta, to the point where my very urban university has had to put up "Be Coyote Smart" signs since they keep showing up on campus. Nobody that I'm aware of is trying to eradicate coyotes here ei
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Which one maps to Wolfram Language and which one to Python is probably obviously. I've programmed quite a bit with both Python and Mathematica, and I've read through your comment a few times, but I still can't figure out
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Have conferences that traditionally accepted latex source (and specified latex templates) started accepting typst as well? I wouldn't count on that happening any time soon. LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX have been around since ~2008, are 95
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
It's mostly that I'm quite personally invested in TeX, far more than most people are. I work on it nearly every day, and I'm even hosting an international TeX conference about a month from now [0]. I do have a few minor conce
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> I'd much prefer bad looking unicode characters to just skipping them That is an option that you can enable. If you're only using a few different languages (which is by far the most typical case), it's mostly automatic wi
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> I'm sorry, but I've never seen overloading of such fundamental characters like the comment character or escape character anywhere. I believe that Racket [0], Mathematica [1], Raku [2], and Rust [3] let you assign arbitrary me
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
Yeah, unfortunately lots of the third-party LaTeX packages are fairly poorly written. Which also applies to most other programming languages, but LaTeX is somewhat unique here since (1) approximately nobody makes money off of TeX, so even &
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> so much as the basic architecture which is highly coupled to the limitations of computers in the late 70s/early 80s when even 7-bit ASCII couldn’t be assumed to be consistent between systems¹. As much as I enjoy writing TeX macros
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> except for the endless compile times, useless error messages, lack of unicode, etc. Some of these have been fixed; see my sibling comment [0] for more details. > TeX has no concept of such avant-garde ideas like lists, dictionaries,
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
(Disclaimer: I'm on the TeX Live team) > cryptic error messages These have somewhat improved recently, but I agree that they're still not great. > complex pipeline You can typically just run "latexmk --lualatex <file
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> However, the build process for XeTeX (and all other mainstream TeX engines) is extremely baroque (Disclaimer: I'm on the TeX Live team) Yes, the build process is rather unusual internally, but this is pretty well insulated from th
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
Yup, you're correct that TeX can't really handle arbitrary page sizes; see my reply [0] to a sibling comment. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487199

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