Wait there was active efforts to tailor free speech all over the place? Are you going to make an argument tyere has EVER been a US admin that didn't try to do this?
I live in the present, and not the past, so I'm not sure what your argument is here.
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icehawk commented on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc984... · Posted by u/P_qRs
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
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
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
icehawk commented on RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc984... · Posted by u/P_qRs
I wouldn't say you're mistaken, but it's a simplification. In the network world, the capability exists to restrict what BGP advertisements are accepted via RPKI/a peer. Internet providers usually don't because the premium is placed on uptime/connectivity.
If tomorrow, everyone said "we don't want IP's from Frankfurt showing up somewhere in Dubai", you'd have a massive technical problem and rearranging to start with but once that was sorted you could geo-lock. IANA and Network providers simply haven't been doing that.
The reason it doesn't happen is Devs/Stakeholders want uptime from ISPs/Networks and not something they can't abstract. Basically its just a status quo much like the entire internet reverse-proxying through CDNs is a status quo. It wasn't always like that, and it may not always be like that in the future - just depends which way the winds blow over time.
> "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,
> 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.
icehawk commented on Television is 100 years old today diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov
I've sometimes wondered how things would have been different if the TV pioneers had went with circular CRTs instead of rounded rectangles.
Circles would have had a couple of advantages. First, I believe they would have been easier to make. From what I've read rectangles have more stress at the corners. Rounding the corners reduces that but it is still more than circles have. With circles they could have more easily made bigger CRTs.
Second, there is no aspect ratio thus avoiding the whole problem of picking an aspect ratio.
Electronically the signals to the XY deflectors to scan a spiral out from the center (or in from the edge if you prefer) on a circle are as easy to make as the signals to to scan in horizontal lines on a rectangle.
As far as I can tell that would have been fine up until we got computers and wanted to use TV CRTs as computer displays. I can't imagine how to build a bitmapped interface for such a CRT that would not be a complete nightmare to deal with.
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
icehawk commented on What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 scotthelme.co.uk/what-a-y... · Posted by u/MattSayar
Good analysis. And kudos to the author for saving money. But still 21.6MWh per year excluding solar production seems too high for a household. I use electric heating and drive an electric vehicle, and my household annual energy consumption is about one fifth of that.
20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.
icehawk commented on 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player lightcapai.medium.com/the... · Posted by u/ResisBey
> Much less prone to degradation to vinyl
huh... and I thought the vinyl craze happened because it's more durable out of ye old formats
CDs are well known to oxydize in the span of decades of storage
CDs can oxidize in the span of decades. I've got hundreds of burned CDs that are from 2003 that are fine (even if they have changed color) because i store them in a climate controlled environment.
A vinyl record degrades every time you play it in a normal turntable.
icehawk commented on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan developer.apple.com/suppo... · Posted by u/eklavya
I can't wait until regulators do their job and take away Apple's dictatorial control, in all areas, and all these doom-and-gloom predictions on all these tangential issues end up proving ludicrous.
What kind of control would Chrome have over the web? Adding APIs doesn't force the billions of websites to adopt them. So what if a website adds WebBluetooth? You don't want the web to have that anyway, and if you keep using Safari, you still won't have it. Happy you!
If scrappy Firefox on open platforms could save the web from 95% IE, then why are we all dependent on Apple, alone, to save us from ~60% Chrome? It's learned helplessness and Stockholm syndrome. I wonder how our species survived before the trillion-dollar company started taking such good care of us!
Not even a day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454115:
> I want my browser to protect me from ALL those things. Ublock origin did precisely that, then Google went in to kill ublock origin. Ublock lite is nowhere near as good.
>
> I consider this betrayal - naturally by Google, but also by random web designers such as on the python homepage who consider it morally just to pester visitors when they do not want to be pestered. I don't accept ads; I don't accept pop-ups or slide-in effects (in 99.999% of the cases; notifications for some things can be ok, but this does not extend in my book to donation Robin Hood waylanders)."
Does anyone else remember the 12 pains of Christmas?
RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!!
Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards.
The damn lightS!!!
Facing my in laws!
One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!!
FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!!
She's a witch, I hate her.
You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights!
It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper."
icehawk commented on Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game? alexene.dev/2025/12/03/Wh... · Posted by u/pacificat0r
Are they loud because they're double-conversion or are they loud because they're designed for server racks? When I search for double-conversion online I can practically only find rack-mount solutions.
I have several that are not rackmount (SU1000XLCD/SU1500XLCD), and they're all loud because they run fans constantly.