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by phicoh 5y ago
Based on container port statistics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_port... ) LA and Long Beach are not very big compared to Rotterdam and Antwerp. And Hamburg is roughly in the middle between LA
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by phicoh 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. If you look at it from an EU perspective, if you download a book that still falls under copyright in the EU (without permisison) and the server is in the EU, then obviously this is a copyright violation an
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by phicoh 5y ago
It is not as simple as that. Unlike roads which are mostly deadlock free (of course with some exceptions), going around in Amsterdam canals can be extrmely tricky. There are big tourist boats that are way too big for the canals, so you have
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by phicoh 5y ago
The advantage of having your servers at home is that when the police shows up with a search warrent you know you can't trust that server anymore. If you use a 3rd party, it can be compromised and you only find out when it is too late.
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by phicoh 5y ago
In theory, signal could work with matrix people to support bridging with e2e encryption. But as far as I know, signal wants to be walled garden. So then it is expected that people create work arounds.
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by phicoh 5y ago
That makes sense. For company that has a few potential customers in a region with complex legislation it may make sense to get avoid those customers because of cost of complying with the legislation may be higher than what the customers are
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by phicoh 5y ago
Larger and larger corporations are needed to violate EU privacy rules and get away with it. After the initial scare of the GDPR, most organisations found a way to live with them. But obviously, it will become very tricky, and potentially co
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by phicoh 5y ago
I don't know if this an otter thing, but many groups of people that know each other online for a long time get interested in off-topic discussions. Just like most people talk to colleagues also about other things than just work. In sma
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by phicoh 5y ago
I wonder if this is recreating groups without labeling them as such. To a newcomer, such a big group looks like it is composed of many smaller groups. The newcomer then first has to reduce the signal of uninteresting group before finding re
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by phicoh 5y ago
Relatively speaking, Amsterdam doesn't make that much money from tourists. In a city center that is completely overcrowded, there is no net gain of having even more people. Tourists are good for certain local business. Mostly low quali
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by phicoh 5y ago
For multi-homing, you can also look at it another way: the only thing you have to do to move downstream hosts from one prefix and router to another is different router advertisements. In theory, you could actually disable router advertiseme
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by phicoh 5y ago
If you feel a whole wind mill like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Gekroonde_Poelenburg shake when it is in operation, then that is very far from a slow and steady operation. In fact, most wind turbines feel
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by phicoh 5y ago
Ah, it seems that most many wind turbines have a design lifetime of 20 years. I guess that living in a country with many wind mills that are hundreds of years old, made me assume that a wind turbine would also have a technical life of more
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by phicoh 5y ago
I'm confused. I thought wind turbines are relatively cheap to operate. You have an initial investment to build them and then some amount of maintainance, but certainly on land that's not very expensive. With subsidies, it can make
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by phicoh 5y ago
It gets expensive when drivers game the system. What happens when a driver just stops driving? You have to fire them. Which can take quite a bit of effort. What if a driver calls in sick? You have to check that. If a driver is an employee,
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by phicoh 5y ago
It would be interesting to have statistics on the number of cars driving through a city center compared to the number of people living and working there. My guess is that even if people living there use a car once a year, you end up with a
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by phicoh 5y ago
At the moment it is very far for clear that fusion will be cost effective. The article says this about the fuel of fusion: "The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimit
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by phicoh 5y ago
The problem with green hydrogen, is that producing hydrogen from electricity and then putting the hydrogen in a gas turbine to produce electricity is extremely inefficient. So a windfarm backed up by hydrogen may need a significant fraction
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by phicoh 5y ago
Solar can be switched off at a moments notice. Power from windturbines can also be controlled. So an excess amount of renewables is not a big issue for the grid. Owners of renewable sources may be less happy to switch them off. (In the EU)
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by phicoh 5y ago
Without storage, you want a gas turbine to complement renewables. Having a large capacity in the form of gas turbines that is only use occasionally costs money, but has to advantage that all extra renewable energy results in less use of gas
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by phicoh 5y ago
The problem seems to be that 'we' don't know how to build nuclear reactors anymore. France has to replace their aging nuclear powerplants in the next few decades. But building a new one proves to be very difficult. It is not
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by phicoh 5y ago
Depends on where in the world you are looking. For example, the EU has a price on CO2 which is going up to reach the EU goals with respect to CO2 emissions. In that case, even if storage of electricity is expensive. At some it will be cheap
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by phicoh 5y ago
On POSIX systems (including MacOS), just 'fe80::1' doesn't work. You need something like fe80::1%eth0. The 'eth0' is in general unknown, because it is the name of the outgoing interface, which varies from OS to OS a
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by phicoh 5y ago
That's two separate issues. The default (maximum) IPv4 reassembly buffer is 576. This issue is solved in DNS with the EDNS udp buffer size option. For IPv4, you can just send a 1500 octet DNS reply and it will be fragmented as needed.
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by phicoh 5y ago
Realistically, such a new protocol will only make it worse. No doubt that new problem will lack some features that IPv6 has and that are in active use. So some group will refuse to move to the new protocol. Some group will not move at all.
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by phicoh 5y ago
When the web was young, millions of people have learned how to type www.example.com. People would often spell out the ' http:// ' on the radio. No doubt, browsers could let people type fe80::1 and make it work. It will t
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by phicoh 5y ago
In my experience, IPv6 is often more complex. The main exception is that by and large IPv6 doesn't have NAT, so that saves a few headaches in that area. No more on-path fragmentation is not a benefit. IPv6 and large DNS replies is an e
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by phicoh 5y ago
It make sense that internet facing clients and servers only support HTTP/2 over TLS. But that is different for internal connections or debug tools.
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by phicoh 5y ago
So how is a collection of broken translators the fault of HTTP/2? The title says 'The Sequel is Always Worse'. It is not HTTP/2 that is bad. It is translation to the, from a security point of view, problematic HTTP/
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by phicoh 5y ago
Why does HTTP/2 force encryption? The HTTP/2 RFC (RFC 7540) also defines how to run HTTP/2 over plaintext. Terminating HTTP/2 over TLS on a web frontend and then HTTP/2 over plaintext to the application servers soun

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