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by topranks 5y ago
With all due respect, having also run auth DNS servers in the 90s, and seen the inside of Akamai’s CDN/DNS setup more recently, it isn’t remotely at the same level of scale or sophistication.
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by topranks 5y ago
Yep
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by topranks 5y ago
What’s hard to believe? Downdetectors well known for being almost, but not quite, useless. Probably reported Google as “down” because a whole bunch of people use the word “Google” when they mean “internet”.
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by topranks 5y ago
Records have to be kept in sync. If one dept deletes a record and the other doesn’t, how do you decide who’s right? You could add a third dept that gives them both orders, but now that third dept is a single point of failure.
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by topranks 5y ago
Problem is, if your on Akamai’s CDN, only Akamai know where the local caches are. You need to be on their DNS only.
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by topranks 5y ago
Meh. Without DNS, or something similar, there really is no internet. Obviously you are technically correct.
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by topranks 5y ago
Agreed. Blockchain is a convoluted solution, but it’s a solution for distributed consensus, if one feels that’s required. But in general I would argue the current root system has served us well and is open and free. The world you describe
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by topranks 5y ago
More accurately there are distributed caches, which expire on a simple timer basis, as opposed to updates being pushed immediately. Relatively short TTLs are ubiquitous these days though.
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by topranks 5y ago
It’s one of the most successful, global, distributed databases of all time. What’s the single point of failure?
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by topranks 5y ago
It’s insane to keep a massive portion of spectrum on this old technology to support a very small amount of people with outdated hardware.
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by topranks 5y ago
He tends to temper himself a lot more though. Doesn’t seem quite as aggressive even for instance in that message. Which is good, although I wouldn’t have minded a bit of old school Linus for the anti vaxers.
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by topranks 5y ago
Fibre direct to the home, and not "shared segments" with other buildings (i.e. PON technology,) but direct full-duplex (two strand or WDM) fibre links from you to the ISP equipment. If and when that is widely available then we&#x2
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by topranks 5y ago
No it's about technology, spectrum usage on the wire to be precise.
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by topranks 5y ago
Heh that's interesting. I speculated about just such a possibility earlier in the thread - interesting to see someone doing it. What access technology is being used by that provider that you can change the up/down allocation?
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by topranks 5y ago
We live in the world of terabit DDoS. Self-hosting is, unfortunately, not viable any longer. Even for mid-sized hosting providers.
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by topranks 5y ago
60fps looks disgusting though.
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by topranks 5y ago
On a technical level most of the asymmetric techniques just carve up the spectrum/bandwidth (in Mhz) to give more of it to downstream. Or timeslots or whatever. I fully agree with the EFF that you need a decent upload, to support the
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by topranks 5y ago
> especially on any kind of remotely high-entropy scene Unfortunately my job is pretty boring. Most of my video chats are low entropy.
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by topranks 5y ago
The family that can equip their kids with production-grade 4k video kit can probably afford 100Gbit business internet service to their house tbh. 4k UHD Netflix stream is ~20Mbps. 1080p is usually about 5-6Mbps, and 99% of people say that
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by topranks 5y ago
Where you go wrong here is that a webcam image is pretty stable. Same background, person moving a little. Sure it can't be as optimal as a non real-time compressor can, and should therefore need more bandwidth, but high compression ra
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by topranks 5y ago
Nah. Mostly that comes down to thinks like optics, large sensors etc. The bandwidth needed for a high quality 1080p stream isn’t gonna be much more than one from a shitty 1080p camera. The better image would benefit from less compression
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by topranks 5y ago
This is a relatively niche use. It’s unrealistic to expect mass-market household products to be engineered to support a small number of users with bespoke requirements.
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by topranks 5y ago
While I don’t really quibble with the overall argument, spectrum is a limited resource. If I had xMhz of bandwidth on a communications channel, and the applications I use mean my requirements are skewed in favour of either upload or downloa
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by topranks 5y ago
Indeed, but reading this I definitely get the sense this would all be easier if that was left to displays at the end of the chain, rather than be present in how the information is encoded on disk. Can obviously understand how we ended up he
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by topranks 5y ago
Indeed... although I'd point the blame more squarely at management deciding that "number of patches" is the right way to measure someone's performance. Not that I have any idea if that's the case here, but I've
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by topranks 5y ago
Apparently you can put it back in the bottom left corner via an option.
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by topranks 5y ago
Most of them are US based, where the concept isn’t unheard of: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
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by topranks 5y ago
Indeed but what should we do? Nothing??? We have to make the best decision for ourselves and the society around us based on the best knowledge we have. Yes science always allows for things to be disproven, but if we follow your logic we’d
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by topranks 5y ago
No they were wrong about the virus’ ability to stay airborne. They didn’t lie, they made a mistake. And when it became apparent they changed the advice. https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
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by topranks 5y ago
100% agree. I think the inability to accept uncertainty in the world is, unfortunately, a big reason conspiracies thrive. Too frightening to grok that a random virus can emerge and maybe kill us all or at least turn society upside down? Th

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