walrus01

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811.
by walrus01 3mo ago
It's not, really, it's a basic commodity CPU with some RAM for the purposes of running the OS and management plane, glued to a layer 2 switch chip by a very narrow bandwidth path. A mikrotik switch such as this isn't intended
812.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Reading the title, for a moment I thought this would be something about a LoRA serial data bridge over RF and an actual physical wall clock, possibly some novel new homebuilt piece of hardware to display perfectly accurate NTP synchronized
813.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Re: the moist towelettes, I love that the person who runs this website hasn't seen any need to change the HTML design since probably 1997. See also, matchbook and matchbox museum: https://matchesmuseum.com/en/home&
814.
by walrus01 3mo ago
I've had supposedly credible professional network engineers send me their PRIVATE ssh keys for access to something more than once. As a response to "please send me your ssh key for access to $THING"
815.
by walrus01 3mo ago
> The little print at the end says "Currently only available in India." I think that was made obvious by the big thing on the marketing website scroll about checking cricket scores.
816.
by walrus01 3mo ago
I really would question any "professional" network engineer that can't tell the difference between a switch and a router... https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in Each of the mikrotik switches even
817.
by walrus01 3mo ago
I've always wondered about these when I see bars in tiny towns in rural parts of WA, OR, ID because the only way to get home is to drive drunk (I seriously doubt that the locals are organizing designated drivers for carloads of intox
818.
by walrus01 3mo ago
> My family and I bought an abandoned 8-lane bowling center in the rural mid-west. In our small town there weren't many recreation options for families. You've heard of a food desert? This is an R&R desert. On a topic not e
819.
by walrus01 3mo ago
GLM5.2 being released is also likely a factor
820.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Given the tiny size of this, I wonder about possible future integration with esphome compatible hardware https://esphome.io/
821.
by walrus01 3mo ago
But should it be? Verisign having control over it is a weird historical artifact of the early days of the internet.
822.
by walrus01 3mo ago
The anonymity of people giving aggressive and confrontational "answers" to a question reminds me of: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
823.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Multiple times now in this thread you've parroted "might makes right" as if it's some universal axiom or law of physics (such as gravity, or the speed of light). This is what you actually believe as a moral guiding princ
824.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Take a look at the list of new generic TLDs that are run by Donuts LLC now Identity Digital, a US based company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital
825.
by walrus01 3mo ago
I mean he's probably fine as long as he does absolutely nothing to challenge the status quo or anyone powerful in India. Which doesn't really seem like an optimal situation for a censorship resistant domain. There's a vast qu
826.
by walrus01 3mo ago
I work for an ISP and we host several LGBTQ activist sites and non profits, does the Ugandan government have jurisdiction over the company I work for because the content is illegal in Uganda? I'm sure a creative and bigoted Ugandan gov
827.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Was anyone who broke the law in texas ? It's a euro porn site publishing content on servers outside of Texas. With a domain name whose ultimate root is a company in Virginia. The fact that verisign (and various other registrars of .co
828.
by walrus01 3mo ago
The best possible use I can think of for one is disassembled and with just the screen and motherboard, running something like a full screen browser that auto refreshes a certain web page like the weather. With 1 gig of ram even the most min
829.
by walrus01 3mo ago
So as I said, the matter gets escalated to a federal court. Texas law enforcement doesn't get to just roll into another state and start grabbing servers. Nor is another state likely to obey such an order issued by a Texas State court
830.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Do you actually think that an elected state attorney general in Washington or California or New York would shut down a hosting company that, for example, hosts the website of a medical office that ships abortion medication to Texas? That th
831.
by walrus01 3mo ago
If this was true in factual implementation, then Washington state's assault weapon ban would apply nationwide, which it decidedly does not. Or some particularly red state laws on abortion bans or abortion medication would apply in the
832.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Yes, my point was the dns isn't the "whole" internet. I know network engineers at some major ISPs that would still find a way to communicate with each other if a genie waved a magic wand and all dns infrastructure worldwide w
833.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Verisign is headquartered in Reston, VA
834.
by walrus01 3mo ago
> Even better would be for a trusted non-profit to run this, like the EFF or the ACLU. You're seriously proposing that organizations along the same general lines as the EFF or ACLU would be okay with being the implementing partner o
835.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Correct, I was referring to the websites that have implemented only the most basic fig leaf of legal compliance (ca. 2001 era HTML popup of "are you over 18?") to be able to browse the product selection, even of items that aren&#x
836.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Your .IN domain is probably one of the worst possible choices of all ccTLD to claim that you can publish things on it without fear of reprisals or censorship, be assured that something bad would happen to it or you personally if you happene
837.
by walrus01 3mo ago
It also makes complete and total sense that you can sell your body by joining the Marines as an 0311 MOS rifleman/grunt on your 18th birthday, but you're going straight to hell if you have an alcoholic drink before you're 21.
838.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Interestingly if you browse American-hosted online internet firearms accessories websites (and FFLs who will sell you something online to ship to your local FFL), for the most part, it's just a basic HTML popup of "Are you over 18
839.
by walrus01 3mo ago
ARIN is also a US non-profit corporation, located in Virginia, but the people who run RIPE and APNIC and AFRINIC might disagree that the Internet is entirely "controlled" by Americans.
840.
by walrus01 3mo ago
Personal agency comes first in Texas only as long as you're a white heterosexual christian man with conservative political beliefs.

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