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by neilalexander 2y ago
Half-serious question: what real use is there for 32GB RAM in this form factor with a low-power SoC?
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by neilalexander 2y ago
It opens anything — the "Open" dialog will allow you to select any filetype and you can also drop any kind of file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock to open it. As for plain-text, you can go into the Settings and switch it into p
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by neilalexander 2y ago
I've often wondered whether people would be less confused if they replaced the word "Input" on the remote with the word "Switch". For people who don't really understand what a set-top box is or how it works or
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by neilalexander 2y ago
If software engineers were responsible for user experience, they'd be trying to teach emacs to grandma.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Your comment is a bit pointless on a post that has nothing to do with charging, but regardless, the iPhone 15 and 16 models both have USB-C.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
The UniFi E7 also has a 10GE port. Seeing as the majority of Wi-Fi devices will get absolutely nowhere near the theoretical maximum though, even 2.5GE is unlikely to be saturated.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Further to that, there are plenty of people who can't really articulate what a web browser actually is or how a website differs from an app. It's not clear to me whether these users would be more accepting of a PWA or if they woul
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by neilalexander 2y ago
To reduce condensation and mould.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
> because you can actually use your computer as a computer This is such a vague and pointless argument that somehow manages to mean absolutely nothing at all. What defines "to use a computer as a computer"? Do you mean to say t
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by neilalexander 2y ago
If you aren't on an iPhone already, switching carriers might be easier.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
It doesn't have a polished export UI yet but it is absolutely possible: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds/blob/main/ACCOUNT_MIGR...
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Yggdrasil was actually inspired in part by cjdns but the design is very different. We care deeply about scale and we want an Yggdrasil network to be able to grow organically without requiring a strict hierarchy, huge amounts of state etc. W
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Truncating the public key to fit in an IPv6 address isn’t totally ideal, agreed, but for now it means that just about any existing IPv6-capable application will work over Yggdrasil without modification, which is a nice property for a testne
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by neilalexander 2y ago
One or two others have also asked for a project update on the blog so I’ll be sure to draft something up soon! :-) Thanks for your interest!
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by neilalexander 2y ago
The name wouldn’t necessarily stay if we succeed in our goals and formally specify a protocol, but for now it hasn’t really been much of a barrier in terms of interest or experimental deployments.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Anonymity isn’t a goal for Yggdrasil anymore than it is a goal for for BGP, OSPF, BATMAN etc. Anonymous networks also generally have very high costs/overheads as they often engineer long and indirect paths for obscurity. See the genera
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by neilalexander 2y ago
We did spend a little bit of time documenting the earlier v0.3 protocol, as you have linked, but the protocol has changed significantly in design twice since then. v0.4 changed the DHT quite a bit and v0.5 removed the DHT altogether. As a r
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Definitely not abandoned, but it’s a free-time project for myself and another developer. At the end of last year we released version 0.5 with a new protocol design, and roughly a month ago released 0.5.9 with link cost changes to dramatical
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Better yet, route all calls for all disconnected/unassigned numbers in their part of the numbering plan to it. It would probably kill robocalling overnight.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
You can hit a RAM limit on some lower-end motherboards quite quickly depending on the memory controller and you might only get so far with GPUs as well depending on the type of PCIe slots.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Even within Volvo's own lineup, my C40, built in China, has had far fewer quality issues than my previous S60 had, which was built in the USA.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Not everyone lives in cities, not everyone can afford to live in cities, not everyone lives in areas well connected by public transportation and not everyone can afford to live in areas well connected by public transportation.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
What isn't clear is how you believe this manages complexity. What does it actually do that my browser and desktop aren't already doing for me? As with all of these "desktop in a browser" demos, it looks and feels fun
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Believe it or not, blocking ping at your router would have done absolutely nothing to prevent this, as those packets would likely have still been delivered to the router and possibly saturated the link anyway, regardless of whether the reci
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Disabling IPv6 in 2024 is bad advice. IPv6 adoption is undeniably on the rise. Better advice would be to ensure that the IPv6 firewall is configured to sane defaults, i.e. allow established/related, drop invalid, reject unexpected, jus
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by neilalexander 2y ago
> you kind of deserve to get owned, right? The people who have no idea what services are listening on their machine due to some default that someone else decided upon absolutely deserve to get owned, yes, because that's a totally re
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Presumably this means one day it will just stop working when Microsoft decide to shut down the cloud backend.
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Stage Manager is disappointingly over-engineered. Managing the workspaces is much more mentally taxing than having windows just fade into the background, every new app somehow always seems to open up at the wrong size and then annoyingly ta
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by neilalexander 2y ago
If you think IPv6 is too complicated, you are either overestimating IPv6’s complexity or underestimating IPv4’s complexity. IPv6 is undeniably simpler. It has a cleaner header format that is simpler to parse, it has no need for on-path rout
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by neilalexander 2y ago
Docker's runtime overheads on Linux are tiny. It's pretty much all implemented using namespaces, cgroups and mounts which are native kernel constructs.

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