matt - Network

Reminded me of a fun story. We’re pretty sure the CEO of T-Mobile called out our (startup) corporate cell plan explicitly when they...

Reminded me of a fun story. We’re pretty sure the CEO of T-Mobile called out our (startup) corporate cell plan explicitly when they announced (a decade+ ago) that they were killing the unlimited plan. At the time several people at the company were using the service as their primary home internet and I’d blown through 200GB on single nights.

So, yea, you can blame us for that.

From: @GossiTheDog
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DNSSEC is embarrassingly underutilized, under-appreciated, and misunderstood. With everything online rooted in the DNS, you’d think people...

DNSSEC is embarrassingly underutilized, under-appreciated, and misunderstood. With everything online rooted in the DNS, you’d think people would care enough to secure it.

The crypto is also incredibly simple, you can build and validate proofs in 1k lines of rust!

http://http-dns-prover.as397444.net/

Man I hate WISPs that listen to the recommended Ubiquiti fixed-time frame duration recommended settings. It makes for super high latency for...

Man I hate WISPs that listen to the recommended Ubiquiti fixed-time frame duration recommended settings. It makes for super high latency for customers that drives down browsing experience substantially. The variable-width framing (on sectors that aren't overloaded) is orders of magnitude better in terms of how fast pages load, and is well worth the tradeoff of slightly reduced total throughput.

Also the stupid fixed framing creates a comical smokeping pattern - fixed jumps of (in this case 8ms) the frame duration.

Fully agree with the EFF here. Neutral infrastructure must remain neutral. Kiwifarms was already having trouble staying online, why have T1s...

Fully agree with the EFF here. Neutral infrastructure must remain neutral. Kiwifarms was already having trouble staying online, why have T1s intervene?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

Hey @beasts looking to move some domains, but given other large providers have had issues…. Do your support techs have access to transfer...

Hey @beasts looking to move some domains, but given other large providers have had issues…. Do your support techs have access to transfer out or change name servers on domains? What about reset passwords for users that would allow for that?

@njalla Any plan on re-adding support for Bitcoin-lightning as a payment method now that its gone from barely-used to broadly supported...

@njalla Any plan on re-adding support for Bitcoin-lightning as a payment method now that its gone from barely-used to broadly supported across the Bitcoin ecosystem? Has much better privacy than regular Bitcoin and over time competitive privacy with even the most private cryptocurrencies!

It’s incredibly frightening how much all modern software expects you to download an entire toolchain to run it. If it want anything...

It’s incredibly frightening how much all modern software expects you to download an entire toolchain to run it.

If it want anything resembling a secure toolchain you end up stuck with ancient software or C projects only.

Java? Here’s a grade *binary* included in the git “source” repo. Rust? Please go download rust via rustup, if you don’t have the version from this week gfy. Go? Basically the same, with tons of dependencies fetched from random git repos. JavaScript? lol, you’re screwed.

I always think America is filled with anti-democratic processes in government, but then I remember the EU trilogues and realize it could be...

I always think America is filled with anti-democratic processes in government, but then I remember the EU trilogues and realize it could be so much worse. And for the core function of legislation-writing, too!

I will henceforth refer to the TLS threat model as "its not your Certificate Authority, its someone else's DNS...

I will henceforth refer to the TLS threat model as "its not your Certificate Authority, its someone else's DNS resolver!"

(yeayea, something something CT logs, okay, alright, its someone else's DNS resolver with a public log, if you remember to check it on the nonexistent site that lets you get notifications without paying...except facebook, I think? Assuming you want pages to go through facebook messenger)

I’m not convinced any single platform will eclipse Twitter at its peak (for intellectual/issues discussions), but I think that’s a good...

I’m not convinced any single platform will eclipse Twitter at its peak (for intellectual/issues discussions), but I think that’s a good thing.

Forums were always topic focused - you could get together with other folks interested in the same thing as you and chat.

Communities should be communities, not one huge pot where everyone’s shoved together - that’s just a recipe for people to dunk on each other instead of actually sharing ideas. Short posts in social-media-byte-sized takes don’t convince anyone of anything, you need a primed audience and long form posts.

Not having An Algorithm helps - you follow who you want to see and create your own community, but that leaves something lacking - missing a broader narrative.

Reddit tried it with subreddits, but the format wasn’t conducive to great discussion either. Mastodon has tried it with servers, but the interaction portability hasn’t entirely created it.

With Telegram (and discord) we’ve seen a return to small communities (via Group Chats, which I’m told are especially popular with The Youths).

nostr/mastodon have strongly self-selected for certain communities, and to some extent those still active on Twitter have as well.

I dunno the future or what to do with it, but there seems to be a real trend towards smaller communities, it means more groupthink but also much more relaxed environment where ideas can be shared with less friction.

While law enforcement oversteps more often than not, the solution (from a technologists perspective) isn’t to completely “defeat” law...

While law enforcement oversteps more often than not, the solution (from a technologists perspective) isn’t to completely “defeat” law enforcement and make access impossible (which isn’t even a practical goal), it’s to make it more expensive.

Expense forces targeting, ensuring only high priority targets get surveilled.

I really love Internet Archive, but when you pull a stupid stunt that’s obviously illegal I can’t really get upset that you’re losing...

I really love Internet Archive, but when you pull a stupid stunt that’s obviously illegal I can’t really get upset that you’re losing a lawsuit? (Even if the judge was a little too harsh)

“Any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank, the two sources added.”Seems very not okay that NYDFS...

“Any buyer of Signature must agree to give up all the crypto business at the bank, the two sources added.”

Seems very not okay that NYDFS is making decisions about who gets to have a bank account by seizing a bank (which was not bankrupt, per NYDFS and bank comments) and then selling it with conditions attached.

All while injecting cash into the bank with the federal bailout…

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-regulator-taps-piper-sandler-new-bid-sell-silicon-valley-bank-sources-2023-03-15/

And that’s the problem with banking today. You always *have to* bail them out, no matter how much you want to avoid it, because there’s...

And that’s the problem with banking today. You always *have to* bail them out, no matter how much you want to avoid it, because there’s always some contagion and that’s always always worse than the alternative.

The system is broken, saying no to bailouts isn’t the solution, because expecting people to magically decide not to put their money in a well-regarded top-20 bank because you did wallstreet-level DD on your bank isn’t ever gonna happen. There has to be an alternative solution that involves systemic change, not just reform.

So I'm confused, I asked and u-blox sent me the firmware updater tool in a file labeled *_Confidential_NDA.zip. Except (a) I never...

So I'm confused, I asked and u-blox sent me the firmware updater tool in a file labeled *_Confidential_NDA.zip. Except (a) I never signed an NDA of any form, (b) all the files in it clearly have an open source license, (c) the documentation included explicitly spells out the license as a combination of 2-clause BSD and a few other very similar spins on it, but all clearly open source.

I don't see a linux binary of the firmware updater tool around anywhere, but apparently I now have the source and a makefile for the current version, so, like, ask if you want it?

Lots of folks downloading Bitcoin Core this month. Ordinals pumping that full node count.

Lots of folks downloading Bitcoin Core this month. Ordinals pumping that full node count.

Wonder where @mmasnick is on this. Still kinda sad this hasn’t gotten more traction :(

Wonder where @mmasnick is on this. Still kinda sad this hasn’t gotten more traction :(

Open Source only works if the licenses that it is based on provide developers protection against lawsuits, including SLAPP suits. In this...

Open Source only works if the licenses that it is based on provide developers protection against lawsuits, including SLAPP suits. In this case its been made clear that they do not, at least in the UK, which should be incredibly frightening to all OSS devs.

https://laanwj.github.io/2023/02/06/regrets.html

It’s difficult to correctly state the importance of the Craig Wright case - on one hand the case is absurd, fundamentally it’s about...

It’s difficult to correctly state the importance of the Craig Wright case - on one hand the case is absurd, fundamentally it’s about assigning liability to open source devs releasing code under the MIT license, but also it’s just dumb [1]. Thus, it doesn’t make sense to contemplate the what-if-we-lose scenario. On the other hand the fact that there’s a lawsuit burning millions of (luckily other people’s - we have generous donors in the form of the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund) pounds has the potential to drive away contributors (it already has to some extent) from bitcoin core, or open source in general, which is a terrible outcome.

Who wants to work on open source software if you can get sued in the UK for it? God forbid you don’t have generous donors willing to throw millions of pounds at lawyers.

[1] obviously the coins were never his, obviously even Bitcoin developers releasing a fork wouldn’t do anything to change bitcoin to steal coins, but more importantly that remedy isn’t even available in the US (where it’s compelled speech because software is speech).

The thing that's really awful about the whining that happens when anyone does any scraping on Mastodon is that it deters good actors,...

The thing that's really awful about the whining that happens when anyone does any scraping on Mastodon is that it deters good actors, but bad actors couldn't care less. Whining when scraping happens doesn't slow anyone down who wants to archive mastodon, nor does it slow anyone down who is using the data for much worse (network mapping, etc) purposes.

With so many genuine developers willing to write features that users clamor for regularly, scaring them away only serves to drive users away, with zero impact whatsoever on the concerns that cause the upheaval.

CC @filippo

https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/109750257265679889