some_bird

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   by some_bird 9mo ago

   Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites! It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space. On one hand, nice that we prevent rich guys from running away to ot
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   by some_bird 11mo ago

   But you don't need the transparency! The whole transparency thing was added because we have hundreds of Certificate Authorities all over the world who would otherwise have the power to secretly sign a cert for your website without a
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   by some_bird 11mo ago

   We could also just get rid of webPKI entirely? But you still need a public key for TLS? Well, just put it in DNS! And assuming your DNS responses are validated by DNSSEC, it would be even more secure too. You'd be closing a whole lot o
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   by some_bird 11mo ago

   We already knew that the poorer countries are impacted worse by the IPv4 shortages. CG-NAT didn't solve anything but only delayed long enough to do even more damage. Now these already poor countries also have to do CG-NAT, which is ver
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   by some_bird 1y ago

   Almost 50% according to google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/ (But other measurement statistics project a lower value.)
6. 6.▲
   by some_bird 1y ago

   Yes, it makes a difference: about 8 milliseconds. Properly implemented IPv6 has a lower latency. (and is more efficient, though i believe the energy savings are negligible) See this map: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/v6perf