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by topranks 4y ago
We use it in production. Much of our traffic comes in to us on it. We dual stack, though, as we know we won’t be able to access all external resources we need over it. If you are expecting everything else to work over v6 before you deploy
152.
by topranks 4y ago
“Crypto” has incentives that have caused this to happen over and over again.
153.
by topranks 4y ago
FTX, or Coinbase or any of them, are not regulated. Not as exchanges, not as brokerages, or anything else resembling their supposed business model. They’re registered business but that’s about it.
154.
by topranks 4y ago
This is a really good doc on it https://www.theemojistory.com/
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by topranks 4y ago
That’s the 10 billion dollar question.
156.
by topranks 4y ago
Yep. One can argue whether or not the whole point of creating it was to enable such schemes, but they certainly are an inevitable result.
157.
by topranks 4y ago
People are selling their ftx.com logins the same way today.
158.
by topranks 4y ago
The big risk with that system is a bug in the smart contract that lets me take all the ETH and USDC.
159.
by topranks 4y ago
> Basically the foundation of your very own TCP with hookers and blackjack. That’s exactly how the early drafts of the QUIC RFC described it /s
160.
by topranks 4y ago
“Lossy” is not the word. Reliable/unreliable are the words. Packets can and do get dropped, TCP, UDP or otherwise. It’s just a question of how the protocol behaves when that happens.
161.
by topranks 4y ago
Hmm I didn’t really read about it. The proposal here is to replace IP as well as TCP? Good luck pulling that off.
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by topranks 4y ago
“Elephant” flows are a definitely a thing. It all depends on the application and overall use in of the network. With sufficient flows and a mix of sizes it’ll still tend to even out. But if you’ve significant high-throughout, long lived fl
163.
by topranks 4y ago
The congestion control algorithms have been significantly improved since then. But yes it’s a testament to how good the original design is that it’s still what we use today. Protocols like SCTP and QUIC work similarly but can avoid head-of
164.
by topranks 4y ago
Well they say that they really want to use blockchain, just that doesn’t work very well (no surprise): https://atproto.com/guides/identity#did-methods
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by topranks 4y ago
Only decent explanation I read is here: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html What it’s really about though: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by topranks 4y ago
Well they’ve already hit the “blockchain isn’t fit for service issue” so left it out: https://atproto.com/guides/identity#did-methods That said, and while I have serious doubts about it, they are seemingly approaching
167.
by topranks 4y ago
It’s literally the dumbest idea ever. Why use a merkle tree if you need to give users the ability to remove stuff? Just store it in some other struct and have each message signed by the user. Let them add and remove messages at will.
168.
by topranks 4y ago
Is this a typo then? This is to be used in adversarial situations in which a user's signingKey leaks or is being held by some custodian who turns out to be a bad actor. In a situation such as this, the signingKey may be used to rota
169.
by topranks 4y ago
Just register a new domain and serve it off that instead. If this browser is not maintained then it won’t update what it requests, but everyone else can. Obviously this becomes very whack-a-mole but in this instance it might be an easy win.
170.
by topranks 4y ago
Yeah. Racists (thankfully) are a small group, as are Tolkien die-hards. Amazon was probably right not to pitch the show at either group.
171.
by topranks 4y ago
The “woke messaging” narrative is just racists mouthing off. Ignore them. The Tolkien fans angry about deviations from books maybe have a point. But not being one I’m really enjoying it, praying it doesn’t go down hill but so far so good.
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by topranks 4y ago
I actually really liked it. Only a casual LOTR fan. But yeah it’s 5-star from me so far, amazed to see it at 39% on Amazon. People vexed they divert from the books I guess. Understandable but it’s a good show if that’s not your main conce
173.
by topranks 4y ago
The question is really what applications require such low latency? AR? Gaming? Perhaps. But most applications are fine with 10-50ms RTT. I think edge compute will happen but it won’t be as ubiquitous as the telcos would like.
174.
by topranks 4y ago
It’s 100% not true that all ISPs monitor DNS packets. I’ve worked for several who didn’t. Of course all have the ability to do just that so as a user you can’t tell. If you’re in the EU they can’t sell that data at least.
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by topranks 4y ago
As with all of these things it’s about confidence. If there is another wobble, and significant redemptions, any hint that they aren’t going to be fulfilled will cause a run. At which point the whole house of cards will fall, if as seems li
176.
by topranks 4y ago
Why would a government bail them out? I’m not quite sure they pose that much risk to the wider financial markets.
177.
by topranks 4y ago
No. It’s not realistic to believe they got 70 billion dollars cash. Nobody knows exactly when it’ll fall apart but it’s almost inconceivable that it won’t.
178.
by topranks 4y ago
I’ve done this myself many times (network engineer). But tbh I see it as something of a “hack”. My gut tells me it’s not the right way for something like OpenVPN to do by default. A metric would be better on 0/0, but I can see how the
179.
by topranks 4y ago
Would you know where to cut in your metro to ensure maximum impact to the target? Is that the type of thing they teach in the scouts these days?
180.
by topranks 4y ago
Reading between the lines of the previous reports the particular locations chosen to cut seem to suggest some inherent knowledge about major transport networks. In the sense they knew where to go to take down primary and backup paths etc.

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