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doomjunky commented on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses   aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/... · Posted by u/realshadow
MagicMoonlight · 3 years ago
I still don't get why we can't just expand IPv4 into IPv5 by adding some new blocks to the front.

So instead of 192.0.0.1 it becomes 0.0.0.0.192.0.0.1

All existing addresses work, you simply append zeroes to any address which is too short for the new standard. Any old timey software still works as long as you use a router between the two systems with an old timey address.

This would give us as many addresses as we want without any changes or downsides. So why no do?

doomjunky · 3 years ago
IP is not a text format (like HTTP). It's a binary format where each field of the IPv4 header has an exactly defined offset and length. The source IP address is placed at offset 96 and has a length of 32 bit, the destination IP address sits right afterwards with the same length. Changing anything will result in new protocol definition, et voilà that's IPv6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_version_4#He...

doomjunky commented on Conversation skills essentials   tynan.com/letstalk/... · Posted by u/lylejantzi3rd
skrebbel · 3 years ago
Hmm but how is that fundamentally different from peer reviewing ideas?
doomjunky · 3 years ago
One is about ideas the other is about values.
doomjunky commented on High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 μm   arxiv.org/abs/2208.14990... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
bookofjoe · 4 years ago
From the submission page:

>Comments: 35 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables, 1 wonderful telescope; Submitted to AAS Journals

doomjunky · 4 years ago
109 autors
doomjunky commented on Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?   nusenu.medium.com/is-kax1... · Posted by u/Tomte
hereforphone · 4 years ago
Question from someone outside the Tor loop: how do they know that these various nodes are correlated with one another / belong to the same entity?
doomjunky · 4 years ago
They don't need correlation. Operating large numbers of nodes gives them a high enough probability that all three hops may be under their control thus they can observe the entire route.
doomjunky commented on Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies   journals.plos.org/plosone... · Posted by u/howsilly
rogereur · 4 years ago
I think wars in the future will be about who's better at computer science. It will be programmers vs programmers, and computer literacy will become the new military service and a national security interest
doomjunky · 4 years ago
I was astonished about the rapid expansion of the list of cyber warfare forces in recent years and by the incredible mass of cyber warfare capabilities of the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyber_warfare_forces

doomjunky commented on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?    · Posted by u/adamkochanowicz
doomjunky · 4 years ago
Only 500 years or better through the dark age of the Galactic Empire?

The Seldon Plan:

1. Start a foundation.

2. Locate it at the outer rimes of the civilised galaxy.

3. Implement a technocratic cult governed by a dynasty of priests.

4. Engage in psychohistorical research for envisioning future risks.

doomjunky commented on Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon   medium.com/war-is-boring/... · Posted by u/omarfarooq
Andrew_nenakhov · 5 years ago
Hm. That's strange, because USSR's 57 Megaton Tzar-bomb had a negligible amount of radiation:

"Radioactive contamination of the experimental field with a radius of 2–3 km (1.2–1.9 mi) in the epicenter area was no more than 1 milliroentgen / hour, the testers appeared at the explosion site 2 hours later, radioactive contamination posed practically no danger to the test participants" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba#Test_results

doomjunky · 4 years ago
The Tzar-bomb was not an fission-based A-bomb, it was a fusion-based H-bomb. This type of nuke has typically much less fallout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bombahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weaponhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

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doomjunky commented on Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers [pdf]   ndss-symposium.org/wp-con... · Posted by u/weinzierl
ISO-morphism · 5 years ago
Every time I open the Snapchat Android app it prompts me with a Snapchat-styled (not the system) dialog to share my contacts. Every time I hit "Don't allow". Every time it prompts me again.

This is an inexcusable dark pattern. Two things need to happen:

1. The operating system needs to provide a "screw you, never" option for any permissions.

2. We as engineers need to say "screw you, never" to requests to implement behavior like this. Sure, this could be a bug, but I see the same behavior with Venmo and location access.

Personally I'm rather disillusioned with where we've found ourselves. This sort of adversarial relationship in which people are property of a platform and treated as such is winning.

Edit: Venmo had been set to "Only while using the app" and was prompting to enable location services on the device, not for permission. That's my own fault.

doomjunky · 5 years ago
This dark pattern is called the ratchet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16689663
doomjunky commented on Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates   kjzz.org/content/1660988/... · Posted by u/macg333
doomjunky · 5 years ago
For the sake of completeness:

"Prisoners released early by software bug (2015)" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35167191

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