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by lxgr 7mo ago
Wow, that’s very cool! Do you know how that works? Do they just connect you to a NAT64 gateway of your choice?
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Why would we keep around a whole separate Internet? Dual stack was always only intended for the transition period.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
The problematic low-level libraries are standard, and effectively impossible to fully deprecate since they're decades old and part of the socket API. I think currently Apple still helps you with these via "bump in the stack"
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by lxgr 7mo ago
The same principle applies, though. I'm absolutely not defending Google here, to be clear: Retroactively expanding the scope of an API "key" explicitly designated as "public/non-sensitive" is very bad. But the
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by lxgr 7mo ago
A failure to pay does not extinguish the underlying debt owed. While the US seems pretty dysfunctional (or customer friendly, depending on how you see it) when it comes to collecting on debts, this is not the case globally. And even in the
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I doubt most cloud providers are even technically ready for true prepaid billing (which requires things such as estimating and reserving funds prior to paid operations, corresponding real-time two-way interfaces instead of just eventually c
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by lxgr 7mo ago
This is presumably by design: How can it be the vendor's fault if your custom billing protection implementation failed you at a critical time? Much harder to defend against a switch on their dashboard allowing billing overshoot.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
API keys for Firebase . While Google really messed up here, I doubt they ever published anything claiming that no Google API keys at all are secrets.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Public API keys are a thing. Arguably they are poorly named (it's really more of a client identifier), and modeling them as primarily a key instead of primarily as a non-secret identifier can go very wrong, as evidenced here.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
There are plenty of services offering AI inference at a discount. Some of these will be using your data for future distillation; others might be making use of bulk discounts and passing these through to a number of individual users (while t
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by lxgr 7mo ago
The requirement is to support IPv6 only networks with IPv4 transition mechanisms. It does not preclude contacting v4-only servers.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I suspect that part of the problem is that Apple does monitor for at least trivial app duplicates, but only between apps submitted to the app store. Ledger only offers theirs via direct download, so to Apple, I supposed it just doesn't
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I've been playing around with it. The only two real use cases I have for it for now are entertaining me on long flights where I have messaging-only Wi-Fi and sending me a personalized "morning brief". I suppose it could be a
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by lxgr 7mo ago
In the US, I belive there are three number categories in the NANP porting database (wireline, cellular, and VoIP), and SMS senders can definitely tell, even though it might take a while (presumably there's a lot of caching going on). I
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'm not surprised, but I think it's fair to find it upsetting. It's a twofold loss: A loss of competition in all markets that Apple monopolizes, and a loss of everybody working towards protecting that golden goose instead of
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by lxgr 7mo ago
As I see it, the moat for terrestrial (and in particular wire-based) last-mile comms infrastructure is that each additional customer connected is often expensive, and if they switch to your competition, that wire is basically a sunk investm
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Complete transaction finality by default is probably indeed not great for retail use, but what does this have to do with this particular incident? I think people would be equally furious if Apple were to admit an impostor phishing app posin
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Iran has a space program capable of launching LEO satellites.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Intercontinental latency in air/vacuum is lower than in fiber (even in total, i.e. after accounting for the extra distance from ground and the legs up and down from/space), so there’s also a market for high frequency trading.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Fixed Starlink is competing with fiber/DOCSIS/DSL, though. That's orders of magnitude more bandwidth than people in areas remote enough to not warrant a terrestrial cell base station (which could itself also be backhauled ove
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by lxgr 7mo ago
With small enough spot beams, the difference between a large rural cell and a very narrow direct-to-device spot beam footprint is really not that big anymore. Starlink apparently already offers video calling over direct to cell in the US v
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'd say there's plenty of room for competitors along multiple dimensions: Geopolitical security (this alone will probably preclude a single monopoly), price and lack of a moat (once a monopolist starts jacking up prices, there&#x2
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by lxgr 7mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770323 My comment from there: Interesting, I was expecting Apple to eventually buy them. Still, makes sense to me: The aging Globalstar satellite constellation itself is prob
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Yeah, that's a good workaround. Google Voice can work too. Unfortunately, more and more services are declining to send to VoIP numbers because of seCurItY, so it's a game of cat and mouse. Fortunately SMS is so expensive in parts
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by lxgr 7mo ago
No, I think you need it to be online once every 30 days or so. That's a much weaker requirement than what you were disputing, though.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Nobody gives a damn. What matters is that it works even on a potato. It doesn't work on my computer, nor does it work on my phone when I'm traveling (different SIM), so I give a damn. WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal etc. do both.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Yes, and it works, as it has for the past few years.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Officially interoperating with them is extremely onerous, to the point where their mechanism borders malicious compliance, as far as I remember. In any case, official interoperability is only for third-party messengers communicating with Wh
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by lxgr 7mo ago
It's not true for Signal either. Why don't you try it for yourself instead of spreading outdated (at best) information? Signal supports native multi-device capabilities without relaying everything through the "primary" d
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Please stop spreading misinformation that can trivially be disproved with five minutes of effort.

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