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hashworks commented on Time travel is self-suppressing   arxiv.org/abs/2508.09157... · Posted by u/warrenm
gchamonlive · 15 days ago
Maybe you can only create rifts, and you need to create one before travelling back and forth. So only time travelling after the first time travel rift has been opened. Otherwise it'd break continuity.

EDIT: If you created such rift and nobody would come out, then you'd have to start worrying.

hashworks · 15 days ago
Wouldn't such a gate imply that an unlimited amount of entities would arrive at the time of the gate?
hashworks commented on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol   blog.nginx.org/blog/nativ... · Posted by u/phickey
clvx · 17 days ago
But you have to have your dns api key loaded and many dns providers don’t allow api keys per zone. I do like it but a compromise could be awful.
hashworks · 17 days ago
If you host a hidden primary yourself you get that easily.
hashworks commented on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks   github.com/jackjackbits/b... · Posted by u/ananddtyagi
littlecranky67 · 2 months ago
Neat academic toy - unless you can predict why a large-scale, long-term internet outage should happen.

Aside from that, most of what your concept includes (but uses Internet instead of BT) exists with Nostr+Lightning.

hashworks · 2 months ago
There have been incidents where governments disabled routing to specific services or the Internet entirely to hinder demonstrations.
hashworks commented on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks   github.com/jackjackbits/b... · Posted by u/ananddtyagi
BiteCode_dev · 2 months ago
Delta chat does this, without the micropayment.
hashworks · 2 months ago
Delta Chat can transfer messages using a Bluetooth Mesh Network? That's new to me.
hashworks commented on Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity   jamesmcm.github.io/blog/n... · Posted by u/jmillikin
sylware · 2 months ago
Blockers for switching off IPv4:

- I am using alternative search engines, and it seems most do not provide IPv6 connectivity (when they are not wrecked by big tech gigantic network resources, you know "AI"... how to conveniently DDOS alternatives...)

- github.com: zero ipv6 last time I did check. This is microsoft, do not expect anything good, actually expect the worst, for instance they broke recently noscript/basic (x)html for the issues. Can we still create a account with a noscript/basic (x)html browser and self-hosted emails with IP(v6) literals (mailbox@[ipv6:...])?

- steam? games? Did not check lately. I think many CDNs/game servers or good chunks of them are still IPv4 only.

- many email servers: additionnally many blocks self-hosted email servers (often due to the usage of clumsy and inappropriate block lists from spamhaus, a shaddy company from Switzerland and Andore), with a DNS (SPF) or ip literals (even if it is much stronger than SPF).

- A lot of network applications do not leverage the power of IPv6: for instance for the client-server applications (web for instance), a client-server session should be using a randomly generated IPv6 address, if the ISP provides a not to big prefix. Mobile internet IPv6 ISPs seem to provide random IPv6/128 addresses (in their prefixes), but should provide a stable prefix (probably 96bits) in order to let the terminal applications choose "fixed" ipv6 addresses for direct audio/video calls (no central and online name resolution required). A new user-level OS service is required for user application IPv6 address coordination (beware of brain damaged complexity which some vendors and developer will force upon users and app devs for lock-in).

hashworks · 2 months ago
I can confirm that Steam requires IPv4. Also some games that require authentication to play do too.
hashworks commented on Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity   jamesmcm.github.io/blog/n... · Posted by u/jmillikin
hashworks · 2 months ago
I'm in the same situation myself. It's quite frustrating, since 2 weeks I have been told that "the ticket is open and the technicians will take a look soon". Not sure if stuff like this has a low priority since IPv6 works and it's not considered a total outtage? In Germany there are laws to grant consumers compensation in those cases, but I'll see if this counts soon enough.

One problem with the solution in this blog post is that various endpoints block datacenter IP ranges entirely or make you go through various captcha hoops, but no good way around that. Same for common VPN providers.

Since I wanted to fix this for my entire home network I also had to do this on my router - in those cases it's quite beneficial to have a non-standard device like an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, not sure how I would have set up all the Wireguard routing and nat rules on something like a FritzBox. The only downside is that the Router isn't powerful enough to handle a lot of connections, so I'll have to switch to IPSec which is supported by hardware offloading.

hashworks commented on Matrix v1.15   matrix.org/blog/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
cpfiffer · 2 months ago
Why exactly don't people use matrix that much? It strikes me as a reasonably good open, secure comms protocol.
hashworks · 2 months ago
The official client is clunky and being electron on the desktop doesn't make it better. Messengers live and die on UX. Since it's an open protocol alternative clients exist of course, but are often not feature complete. Things are often slow, especially with large group channels with lots of messages.

If you host a server yourself - it's great that you can! - you'll try the official implementation, synapse — ...and discover that it's a resource hog. Things got a bit better with some streaming sync protocol or something like that, but last time I looked it up that was still experimental and the server is still a chonker. Again, alternative servers exist, again the problem with feature parity.

I feel like the protocol is bloated as well, but I didn't dive into it too much to have a good opinion on that.

When choosing a messenger, I go to Signal for security, to IRC for simplicity and to Telegram for UX. I never thought "Oh let's use Matrix"...

hashworks commented on The Fairphone (Gen. 6)   shop.fairphone.com/the-fa... · Posted by u/DavideNL
PoignardAzur · 2 months ago
It's not clear to me how many of the components are swappable in this version. That was a big selling point of the Fairphone to begin with.
hashworks · 2 months ago
The website speaks of 12 modules, haven't investigated which.
hashworks commented on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable   androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/Bluestein
bombela · 2 months ago
The removal of the phone jack is so obviously planned obsolescence, it is ironic that this project for sustainability follows the trend.

Wired headphones still have better sound quality. Don't need charging. Don't break with software update. But because of that it means less consumption.

Think about how insane it is that companies can remove the phone jack and glue in the battery with the very obvious goal of planned obsolescence. And this is legal.

hashworks · 2 months ago
Nothing stops you from using wired headphones with USB-C.
hashworks commented on Tailscale has raised $160M   tailscale.com/blog/series... · Posted by u/louis-paul
briHass · 5 months ago
I'm a fan of TS and have been a paying customer for work infra for almost a year now. It really is well put together and easy to use, but I do run up against some issues/complaints when diving deep that I hope they can work out:

* The pricing tiers and included features by tier penalizes you in frustrating ways. The base plan is a reasonable $6/user/m, but if you want to use ACLs to control anything in a workable way, it jumps 3x to $18/u/m. Better solutions are available for that kind of money, and I shudder to imagine what the next tier ('call us') costs.

* Subnet routing broke on Ubuntu (maybe other distros) recently, and there were no alerts, communication from TS, or TS tools to pinpoint/figure out what was going on. I stumbled on a solution (install subnet router on a Windows box), and from there I searched and found others with that issue. Lost half a day in emergency mode over that!

* Better tooling to determine why it's falling back to DERP instead of direct for remote clients. DERP relays should be an absolute last resort to provide connectivity for Business-plan-level customers (very slow), and the way TS works just assumes any connectivity is fine.

Overall, the simplicity and abstraction of complex VPN networking is wonderful, but if you have issues or advanced needs, you are immediately thrust into the low-level UDP/NAT/STUN world you were trying to avoid. At that point, you're better off using a traditional VPN (WG, OpenVPN, or heaven forbid, IPSec), because it ends up being more straightforward (not easier) without the abstractions and easy-button stuff.

hashworks · 5 months ago
> I shudder to imagine what the next tier (cal us') costs.

There is no enterprise tier, instead you pay for any additional features you need. I.e. log streaming is 2$/month/user and SSH recording is 3$/month/user.

u/hashworks

KarmaCake day94December 21, 2019View Original