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by topranks 5mo ago
Usenet is a distributed policy from the ground up. It’s centralised in the way you describe now that it’s only used for large files / piracy, but it used to me much more diverse.
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by topranks 6mo ago
Every major browser except Firefox is Chrome
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by topranks 6mo ago
VP9, AV1
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by topranks 7mo ago
C’mon it was worth a shot. Remember how amazing the original NFTs were?
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by topranks 7mo ago
You can opt-in to encrypting those backups so Apple have no access.
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by topranks 9mo ago
So funny to think about this now. Our email systems are mostly mediated by giant hyper-scale companies (Microsoft, Google etc). The location of mail servers being where the recipient is seems quaint (and wonderfully decentralised). And eve
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by topranks 9mo ago
Thing is there is no reason Microsoft’s Linux distro wouldn’t be just as horrible to use “out of the box”.
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by topranks 9mo ago
Just like with browser rendering engines it’s much better if there is variety out there in the ecosystem. That’s not to say you’re wrong.
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by topranks 9mo ago
I wonder if the eradication of the heroin supply from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover has had an effect? Possibly re-directed some of the fentanyl to other markets where addicts could no longer get heroin? Thus reducing supply el
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by topranks 9mo ago
iPhones regularly do these queries before / in addition to to A/AAAA. They’re used for more than ECH.
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by topranks 9mo ago
Agreed the author here just dumps data but nothing that seems to be designed to disrupt comms in Venezuela is really mentioned.
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by topranks 9mo ago
Joseph Fourier enters the chat…
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by topranks 9mo ago
You need to take care of them though. Scratched CDs don’t play good.
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by topranks 9mo ago
Love me some old school goat ball
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by topranks 9mo ago
For me there is no point storing digital music on optical discs. Easier to steam it or listen from a hard drive. On the other hand the larger format of vinyl and rather peculiar way it works scratches the “tactile” part of what makes physi
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by topranks 10mo ago
Nah. There are lots of things you’ll need to know. Does it use SLAAC on the WAN side or DHCPv6? How do I get a range for my lan then, DHCPv6 prefix-delegation? Or maybe it’s statically assigned somehow. Some carrier’s just use link-local
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by topranks 10mo ago
Probably the largest barrier to IPv6 adoption is the myriad ways IP allocation to clients can be done and the various options that exist. It’s fine for mobile providers, where the client activation defines what’s needed and the carrier esse
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by topranks 10mo ago
No, because unfortunately the need for v4 hasn’t changed. In other words many sites and parts of the internet remain only on v4. Until nearly everything is on v6 too it won’t be realistic to ditch the mechanisms that provide v4 access.
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by topranks 10mo ago
Dual-stack with a public IPv4 address is by far a preferable way to access the v4 internet than being stuck behind a provider NAT64 box. Totally understand why carriers may want IPv6 mostly and a v4-free core. But as an end user dual stack
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by topranks 11mo ago
Dial-up suggests he knows that many orders of magnitude of performance increase will happen, like with internet connectivity. I’m not sure that’s a certainty.
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by topranks 1y ago
The computer from Star Trek is always correct though. We created something close, and yes that is amazing, but it’s highly fallible.
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by topranks 1y ago
I think the issue is more there is a cloud over their future. There is much more scrutiny on them and who they are selling to, whether they will be able to continue as they have been doesn’t seem so certain.
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by topranks 1y ago
By asking random people on the internet what to do?
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by topranks 1y ago
Perhaps it’d go that way. But the chat control proposal specifically involves forcing the makers of messaging apps to scan the contents of messages. PGP remains very relevant under those current proposals.
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by topranks 1y ago
I’m amazed to see this. I’d have assumed the way to spam SMS is having some sort of dodgy SS7 connection somewhere? Wild that the radio interface is the way to connect to the network for this. And spoofing caller id is easy you shouldn’t ne
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by topranks 1y ago
I mean it’s not hard to predict. Inevitably they will as their parent companies won’t give up such a big market. How well a ban on signal would be enforced if they don’t comply would be interesting. I still feel like this will fail to come
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by topranks 1y ago
It won’t. It makes no attempt to outlaw encryption. We can still legally use PGP and completely avoid eavesdropping. What it does mandate is that messaging providers who they will name (think WhatsApp, Signal), will be obliged to have peop
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by topranks 1y ago
If you read it closely they are not mandating backdoors in encryption. WhatsApp could still have messages end-to-end encrypted. What they would be mandated to do is for the app to send copies of the messages to WhatsApp for their staff to
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by topranks 1y ago
postgres
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by topranks 1y ago
Thank you for this explanation! I had tried to describe this effect recently when Trump lowered bank reserve requirements, urging traditional banks to buy stablecoins with the extra funds this gives them. My comment was that it increased ri

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