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> and if there were it would be accused as being fake and a ploy from American enemies to discredit them.

Yeah so, the soviets were pretty good at dodging things like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident


At the time they were ~57,000km out and I calculated it was at least 380ms RTT to the ground receiver, so bad but not unusable.

I don't think you understand how a swiss cheese failure happens. They're not independent or semi-independent. Latent failures, expose active failures, like:

"Committed hard to an assumption that was wrong"

Then causes damage to the seawater pumps along the shoreline, and flooded emergency diesel generators.

That causes total loss of AC and DC power.

Loss of AC and DC power causes the reactor to overheat.


Except that there are a LOT of people that want to work in video games (which is the supply) which then depresses the price (wages)

All of my developer friends in the gaming industry have had far worse working conditions then what I've had.


I may have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR, but I ignore all GDPR requests for the website I have that you can just visit, because I don't want to be seen as doing business that makes me subject to GDPR


I live in the present, and not the past, so I'm not sure what your argument is here.


> "we don't want IP's from Frankfurt showing up somewhere in Dubai"

From a network perspective statements like that make no sense. IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality,


They have registration data. Someone could declare they don't want IPs registered to companies from Frankfurt with geofeeds in Frankfurt to be advertised in Dubai.


It’s not how any of it works.

How do you determine to whom an IP is even registered to? They get sub-leased all the time.

The best you can do is check who has administrative control over the prefixes RIR info, but that doesn’t mean that anyone with control is the factual user of the IPs.

You could check the IRR for the ASN and base it on that, but still.

There's also no way to actually know _where_ an IP actually originates from. Only its AS path.

The DFZ contains all prefixes announced everywhere, for the internet is completely decentralized.


> How do you determine to whom an IP is even registered to?

You check the RIR's records.

> They get sub-leased all the time.

With records updated. If not, any consequences from wrong information fall on the lessor and lessee.

> There's also no way to actually know _where_ an IP actually originates from. Only its AS path.

Ping time from different locations on their upstream AS gives a good guess.


> With records updated. If not, any consequences from wrong information fall on the lessor and lessee.

Not always + there are no consequences whatsoever.

Plenty of leasing services will just provide you with IRR & RPKI, without ever touching the actual records.

> Ping time from different locations on their upstream AS gives a good guess.

Upstream AS is meaningless if it's a T1 carrier. Ping AS6939. They are everywhere.


Ping a specific address of AS6939 and find out where it is.


ns1.he.net - 216.218.130.2, is simultaneously in

Texas (measured from Texas):

  8  port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170)  1.830 ms  1.969 ms *
  9  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  1.539 ms  1.560 ms  1.555 ms
Virginia (measured from Maryland):

  11  port-channel2.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.222.174)  19.666 ms 24.395 ms *
  12  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  16.748 ms  17.268 ms  20.507 ms
And California (measured from California):

  8  port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144)  3.830 ms be7.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.132)  5.197 ms port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144)  3.901 ms
  9  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  2.600 ms  2.435 ms  2.728 ms
The speed of light doesn't lie, IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality.


https://bgp.tools/as/6939#prefixes

They are everywhere. It's a global carrier. Carriers also know no geographic boundaries.


> That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.

Yeah, it played out with my whole social circle leaving, as evidenced by the fact that all my friends link me to the bluesky post whenever there's something happening now.


I know noone on BlueSky, I do have friends on X. We liked Twitter and we like X.


same here


I salute the solidarity /s

Joking aside, I think what we see in the larger scheme is a fracturing of social media. More choice, more competition.

This is a good thing


> More choice, more competition. This is a good thing.

hopefully one day we lurk at the same protocol and type: with more federations, more choice. This is a good thing.


ATProto is designed to improve residence and resistance over time. The starting point and requirement was a UX that didn't suck. If you actually want to build a new social fabric that everyone will eventually adopt, you need to be easy and safe for normies, they care more about that than the federated stuff.

Has anyone from the blockchain and federated world found a UX for key management that doesn't suck? Same problem, same non-solution afaik, for how many years now?


More choice, more competition, more echochambers.


Hasn't it always been echochambers? 2000s/2010s forums, irc servers, heavily moderated reddit... Has there ever been free speech truly?

Pre ~2020 4chan was rather open and unmoderated, but also had CSAM issues.


I wasn't talking about free speech per se, but about the fragmentation of public discourse. Having multiple popular platforms makes fragmentation easier.

All your friends are here. All nazies/wokes are there. There's nothing and nowhere to discuss.


It's a strawman argument, of course there are many groups that have nothing to do with politics and echo chamber is wholly inappropriate. Think about your hobby or friend groups, certainly seems fine to have those be little islands in the internet sea.

You are also correct there is nothing new here, groups have been able to create very small echo chambers if they want, many options today.

Nor do they have to be "echo chambers", there are places in the middle which largely remain unexplored. This is where I've charted my course in ATProto


I'll take the echo chamber over being force to read racist and nazi propaganda any day, though kinda hard when the US government is one of the sources of this content.


Yeah, this way there's no need to debunk egregious lies or listen to the other side's replies. You have a feed of debunked lies at home.


Not every group has to be about news, lies, and propaganda or have any content related to that. In fact most are not and created explicitly to escape the noise.


I’m not interested in debunking lies from literal Nazis and fascists, and I’m especially not interested in listening to their replies to anything at all. They can crawl back into the hole they came from.


Picture tubes started round, and then became rectangular:

https://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_crts.html

They didn't really have the problem of picking an aspect ratio because motion pictures existed and that was already 4:3


20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.


This number can mean wildly different things depending on the size of your house (and location).

I live in the Bay Area, CA in a 1,500 square foot house and consumed 7.8MWh in 2025 and 7.6 MWh in 2024.

Digging a bit more into our solar system data: We produced a bit over 9MWh in solar each year and it looks like our Enphase batteries discharged 2MWh each year.


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