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by topranks 1y ago
PoS is sort of hard to bootstrap. ETH moved to it which was quite an achievement, but it’s difficult to see how it might have started that way. If Bitcoin fails then it seems to me the bottom will fall out of all of crypto So all of it st
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by topranks 1y ago
Sure but you skip across borders, use mixers, over the counter trades and dodgy offshore exchanges. It’s not that hard to cover your tracks. And sometimes it doesn’t matter if your beyond the reach of the authorities in the country the cri
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by topranks 1y ago
Yeah but “being your own bank”, keeping all your savings under the mattress, makes your house a lot more inviting target. Likewise being able to ransom people half way across the world and knowing there is an irreversible way you can get th
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by topranks 1y ago
Yeah. It reveals the basic truth that if we have no government, laws or regulation we ultimately end up with the rich and powerful controlling things and doing what they want.
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by topranks 1y ago
It’s the natural result of the technology’s original goal to be “unstoppable” and beyond regulation or laws. Makes it a perfect place to run investment frauds, scams, Ponzi schemes and other activities that would be illegal in the regular f
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by topranks 1y ago
Further crypto is slower, less efficient and a way less convenient to use than centralised systems powered by traditional databases. So while the regular internet might be host to Wikipedia as well as social media, the ONLY people switching
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by topranks 2y ago
What is Wikipedia by that measure? The Wikimedia Foundation host Wikipedia. The servers, power, connectivity, bandwidth and engineers who maintain it are all paid from donations on the site.
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by topranks 2y ago
High praise indeed. RIP Dave, he will be sorely missed.
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by topranks 2y ago
Sorry to hijack this but your role has me curious. What - if any - are the barriers to implementing FQ-Codel or a similar scheme in forwarding ASICs? To my mind with limited knowledge managing all those separate queues sounds like it could
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by topranks 2y ago
Yeah kind of. The u-law sampling of audio to produce the 64kbit audio channels in ISDN isn’t good for encoding a signal created by a modem. But if it was a direct copper pair end-to-end then attenuation and electrical other characteristics
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by topranks 2y ago
The difference is now Google will pass on user-identifying information to the advertisers who use its services. Google always has this info. Now they are going to share it with their customers.
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by topranks 2y ago
True. It’s kind of the reverse of IPv4. In v4 you could have a million people behind one address. In v6 you at maximum have one person behind an address, but that one person may actually be using a million addresses.
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by topranks 2y ago
Putin prefers stablecoins denoted in US dollars.
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by topranks 2y ago
Crypto adherents seem to have given up on any other narrative this time yeah. Scammers gonna scam. Suckers gonna lose (including the suckers who fancy themselves as scammers but don’t realise it’s a rigged game).
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by topranks 2y ago
They say they are outsourcing the second-hop proxy to a third party.
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by topranks 2y ago
It failed independently of this, nobody over there was using it for transactions, many businesses already didn’t accept it.
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by topranks 2y ago
I think it more likely they’re just repackaging XTLS/VMess with domain fronting, or one of those other heavily obfuscated techniques. But yeah who knows, zero detail.
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by topranks 2y ago
We’re not really talking SMB here I think, more home / prosumer level. I’d not expect Cisco or Juniper to go into that market segment. Maybe Netgear/Mikrotik/Ubiquity/Thompson/D-Link/Frtizbox or someone else w
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by topranks 2y ago
Good piece. Possibly should have gone into Linux VRF while they were at it, much neater abstraction for ip rules and tables in many cases.
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by topranks 3y ago
A reasonable approach imo would be to let the RIRs assign it, but only to networks that can demonstrate they are running v6. As regards to the zeroth address on multipoint L2 networks would it really help that much? I’m not sure many peopl
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by topranks 3y ago
The most likely thing to happen is nothing. Next most likely is they are re-classed for private usage. If they are re-assigned for use on the internet they will be assigned to the RIRs and distributed under their policies. No no way AWS ar
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by topranks 3y ago
Carriers dynamically handing out v6 allocations that change is a major major problem for v6 adoption. They need to change to static assignments for users and be done with it.
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by topranks 3y ago
That’s just the natural consequence of running two protocols simultaneously. People get issues with v4. But “just switch off v4” is never suggested as a solution cos it’s either all people have or they need it for the sites that only have
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by topranks 3y ago
The point is it’s not terribly difficult for them to offer it if they chose. That said I don’t feel there is any meaningful technical barrier to using 240/4.
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by topranks 3y ago
The average user is not capable of running that themselves. Your ISP can potentially see queries if you do this also, so if you don't trust your ISP, or worry about what they may be forced to do by your government, it may not suit. Fur
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by topranks 3y ago
That really depends. While that could very well be the case, I find it funny people tend to assume their ISP does this, and also assume that trusting large corporates (often outside the jurisdiction they are in and subject to foreign law
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by topranks 3y ago
Auth dns is a different beast. There are efforts in the IETF to work on it: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-unilatera...
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by topranks 3y ago
There is a key difference with Bitcoin though, which in attempts to be completely flat and under no single entity’s control. In contrast, Federated systems like lenmy/mastodon are connected islands, each under some person or organisati
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by topranks 3y ago
Yeah. The centralized enforcers of the system may as well maintain the ledger themselves. Using a normal database at a fraction of the cost. If they want to be dishonest about things there is no decentralized magic tech that can prevent t
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by topranks 3y ago
Vitalik is not motivated by money. He decided to create a supra-national computer system no government can touch when “Blizzard removed the damage component from his beloved warlock’s Siphon Life spell.” https://www.polygon.com&

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