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by topranks 4y ago
They already do with DoT. You can always block UDP 443 to stop this, given it’s over QUIC.
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by topranks 4y ago
Some of the IPv6 changes are good, many of them are not so amazing. I think one can say in general that if we had of stuck to only increasing the address field size, and not changed a bunch of other things between IPv4 and IPv6 we could hav
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by topranks 4y ago
Separating IP and the transport layer (initially TCP but now also UDP, SCTP, QUIC etc) was a really smart move that’s enabled lots of innovation. Any version of IP is better without a “guaranteed delivery option”. Your point about IPv6 is r
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by topranks 4y ago
The two situations are completely different. The websockets library has not had anything malicious added to it. Only the lead dev says he won’t help certain users.
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by topranks 4y ago
Kudos for working so hard on this and keeping Wikipedia great!
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by topranks 4y ago
Depends on the infra and how it’s set up. If you can afford to have something down for an extended period then fine. But even with a small team some services are built such that certain device outages cannot be tolerated, at least for an e
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by topranks 4y ago
Still common on network devices (Cisco, Juniper, Arista etc.). No IPMI or similar on those. Console servers from the likes of OpenGear and Lantronix still heavily used for those.
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by topranks 4y ago
This guy is responsible for a relatively significant proportion of the entire planets carbon footprint! His air travel is the least of our worries. https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption
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by topranks 4y ago
Yeah and it’s not a “killer app” like Lotus 123 was an improvement on paper accounts. It’s a shitty way to do it. No criminal would ever use crypto if <insert legal payment frameworks> were accessible to them.
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by topranks 4y ago
It’s been 13 years already. Give it a rest.
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by topranks 4y ago
Nah. The whole Eth blockchain has as much compute power as 1/5,000th of a raspberry pi. It’s an insanely inefficient non-scalable tech. To sacrifice many orders of magnitude of performance, while pumping a whole countries worth of C02
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by topranks 4y ago
This is from the EFF, Brave is just iffy.
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by topranks 4y ago
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters https://edri.org/our-work/member-spotlight-wikimedia-deutsch...
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by topranks 4y ago
“Jamming” normally means interfering with a radio signal by broadcasting on that same frequency at a higher power. As opposed to something passive like a faraday cage to stop signal getting in to a given area.
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by topranks 4y ago
I emphasise to some extent definitely. It’s a shame micro payments never really took off. But crypto is not the answer for micropayments, if that’s the goal we can do it without all the blockchain nonsense.
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by topranks 4y ago
Sorry, “foundation” https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-basics/ethereum-foundation/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethereum-foundation/
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by topranks 4y ago
People only use Metamask to engage in speculative crypto schemes. Blockchain doesn’t really solve the whole “who is giving me this key” issue with PGP.
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by topranks 4y ago
Problem with crypto is pointing to all these problems of centralised systems (be they web giants, banking system etc). But not having a practical, working alternative. It’s always “in development”, “around the corner” etc. Blockchain is hu
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by topranks 4y ago
The history of all this has shown us people will choose convenience over those other concerns 9 times out of 10.
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by topranks 4y ago
Crypto is funny in this regard. It has decentralised nodes but the protocol and software development is often very centralised to a small team. Bitcoin’s been upgraded many times. There’s no meaningful attempt at an open, IETF style approa
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by topranks 4y ago
I’m familiar with some of these, and yes they are the less scammy and more serious projects. Bitcoin itself was a genuine attempt at peer to peer cash too. Problem is the technology sucks and can’t scale. The trade offs are immense. DNS w
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by topranks 4y ago
Same reason crypto won’t take over for payments (even if it could scale). We already have payment networks that work well. People aren’t going to switch to a less convenient solution to what they already have for <insert political reason
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by topranks 4y ago
Nor DOCSIS nor VDSL. But upload speeds have risen a lot, despite many of them still being lower than downlink.
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by topranks 4y ago
v6 usage continues to grow on cellular and broadband networks. So lots of consumers now have it. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html I would argue many aspects of the protocol’s design made it
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by topranks 5y ago
For some of us the web is more than the million dollar home page.
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by topranks 5y ago
Bitcoin is no different than the other “cryptos”. Most of them are literally forks of it.
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by topranks 5y ago
It would be very expensive for ISPs to implement this kind of thing. So Occam’s Razor makes me doubt it. ISPs do all kinds of tricks to make speed tests work well, co-locating, prioritising that path etc. But I don’t think they’ve compl
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by topranks 5y ago
It's reasonable for Wikimedia to adopt a "wait and see" approach. If in a few years the whole world adopts crypto for payments, then perhaps they should review that. Until then I'm not sure it's in Wikimedia's
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by topranks 5y ago
Your confusing the Wikipedia community of users, which anyone is free to participate in, and have passed this RFC, with the Wikimedia Foundation, which accepts donations and runs the systems and networks that Wikipedia runs on. https:&#x2F
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by topranks 5y ago
Doesn’t make sense really though. How do these people buy groceries or pay regular bills? Most places don’t accept crypto for payments. If and when the whole world has moved to crypto payments I’m sure they’ll review it again. Until then

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