patmorgan23 (u/patmorgan23)

patmorgan23 commented on Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair attheu.utah.edu/health-me... · Posted by u/geox

WorldMaker · 5 days ago

Chernobyl may have done a lot to inflame cultural imagination of what could happen in the worst cases, but the US still had its own high profile disasters like Three Mile Island.

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

patmorgan23 · 5 days ago

I would hesitate to call Three Mile Island a disaster, it was certainly a nuclear accident. A reactor was damaged, but no one was injured and an absolutely miniscule amount of radiation was released. The other units at the plant continued to operate until quite recently (and might actually be starting up again).

patmorgan23 commented on 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

digiown · 6 days ago

Note there is no intrinsic reason running multiple streams should be faster than one [EDIT: "at this scale"]. It almost always indicates some bottleneck in the application or TCP tuning. (Though, very fast links can overwhelm slow hardware, and ISPs might do some traffic shaping too, but this doesn't apply to local links).

SSH was never really meant to be a high performance data transfer tool, and it shows. For example, it has a hardcoded maximum receive buffer of 2MiB (separate from the TCP one), which drastically limits transfer speed over high BDP links (even a fast local link, like the 10gbps one the author has). The encryption can also be a bottleneck. hpn-ssh [1] aims to solve this issue but I'm not so sure about running an ssh fork on important systems.

1. https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh

patmorgan23 · 6 days ago

I mean isn't a single TCP connections throughput limited by the latency? Which is why in high(er) latency WAN links you generally want to open multiple connections for large file transfers.

https://wintelguy.com/wanperf.pl

patmorgan23 commented on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking netbird.io/... · Posted by u/l1am0

woile · 7 days ago

For the guys at Netbird, please create an entry in the https://wiki.nixos.org explaining how to use it with nixos.

- Tailscale has one entry - Pangolin is getting one

I would like to see, even if brief:

1. Getting started

2. Hardware requirements

3. Security considerations

4. Recommended architecture, like running in a VPS if it makes sense

5. Configuring a server

6. Configuring devices

7. Resources (links to read more on netbird)

Thank you from the home lab community

patmorgan23 · 7 days ago

Anyone can contribute to the nixos wiki, why don't you get the page started?

patmorgan23 commented on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/jamesblonde

fakedang · 8 days ago

That's representative democracy for you. Heck, even China faces the same issue, but they get to make it a competition between provinces, on who can win the favor of the emperor. Helps for them that the emperor has supreme authority though.

patmorgan23 · 8 days ago

No, that's the incentive this specific system creates. There are democratic systems which do not suffer from such hyper localism. Such as the German mixed member proportional system.

patmorgan23 commented on CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider physicsworld.com/a/cern-a... · Posted by u/zeristor

jocaal · 8 days ago

How are radio telescopes and mars rovers in my interest? How would you know what is in my interest? I worked for my money so the person in the best position to judge what is in my interest is me. I am sorry for you if that is such a hard concept to understand.

patmorgan23 · 8 days ago

So you think we shouldn't try to understand the world around us?

patmorgan23 commented on Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision alilleybrinker.com/mini/r... · Posted by u/birdculture

patmorgan23 · 12 days ago

This has been a strong part of Rust culture for a long time. One might remember last year when Ted T'so started yelling at someone given a presentation on rust at a Linux developer conference. The thing the presenter kept saying was "we need your (c developers) help in figuring out the semantic meeting of this code so we can encode it in the rust version"

https://lowendbox.com/blog/nontechnical-nonsense-rust-stirs-...

patmorgan23 commented on TSMC Risk stratechery.com/2026/tsmc... · Posted by u/swolpers

tgtweak · 13 days ago

I really don't understand why companies are ignoring intel's foundry services... for the first time since probably the 2000's, intel's 18A nodes are significantly ahead of what TSMC is offering. Apparently they have capacity and are demonstrating wafer production with their own chips.

It seems wholly illogical that Apple would get refused wafer volume by TSMC and still refuse to give volume to intel foundry services. When you layer on geopolitical factors and national security implications + the fact that Apple is a US company - what reason could they possibly have to turn the shoulder to intel's foundries?

If Taiwan ends up imploding in any of the numerous ways we are aware of today - and which this article adds to - I think there are exactly zero reasons to feel like this couldn't have been avoided.

patmorgan23 · 13 days ago

Intel doesn't seem to be properly resourcing and supporting Intel foundry. A lot of it is cultural/political, intels fabs are used to working only for Intel and not having to worry about propriety details of fab processes leaking externally, so there's a distrust when working with the foundry team and external customers.

patmorgan23 commented on I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes/atproto-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BrenBarn · 14 days ago

People often mention email as an example of federated communication, but the way email works in practice doesn't entirely live up to that ideal. Good luck getting your own self-hosted email server to send emails that actually reach anyone using a major email provider; they'll just be blocked as spam.

In practice, email is much less federated than it seems. A significant proportion of people are just using gmail. You probably don't have to include that many providers to cover a majority of people in the US.

I think federation has promise, but federation in itself is not a solution. Technical approaches do not address the more fundamental issue that, regardless of the mechanics of the system, big players will have more influence on its operation and evolution. Thus we will always need sociopolitical mechanisms to restrict big players.

patmorgan23 · 14 days ago

Federation does at least give you the choice of providers, even a little bit of competition goes a long way to improving a company's behavior.

patmorgan23 commented on The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019) bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/choult

yesco · 14 days ago

You're describing how protests energize people who already agree. I'm asking how they persuade people who don't. The honks are from your side. The people you need are either tuning out or getting annoyed. Visibility used to equal influence when everyone watched the same three channels. That's not the world we live in anymore.

patmorgan23 · 14 days ago

Protests themselves probably aren't good at convincing people, but they can bring awareness to an issue. They can persuade politicians they need to take action on an issue.

patmorgan23 commented on Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 blog.cloudflare.com/route... · Posted by u/nomaxx117

arjie · 16 days ago

Based on the number of times I've seen these posted about they seem quite frequent[0]. If I'm being honest, the entire BGP system seems to be very fragile with a massive blast radius. I get that it's super 'core' so it's hard to fix, and that it comes from a time when the Internet was more 'cooperative' (in the protocol sense of the word) but are there any attempts at a successor or is it impossible to do so fundamentally?

Surely the notion of who owns an AS should be cryptographically held so that an update has to be signed. Updates should be infrequent so the cost is felt on the control plane, not on the data plane.

I'm sure there's a BGPSec or whatever like all the other ${oldTech}Sec but I don't know if there is a realistic solution here or if it's IPv6 style tech.

0: I looked it up before posting and it's 3000 leakers with 12 million leaks per quarter https://blog.qrator.net/en/q3-2022-ddos-attacks-and-bgp-inci...

patmorgan23 · 16 days ago

There's several enhancements that have been strapped on to BGP over the years. The article talks about two at the end that will help reduce route leaks.

A wholesale protocol replacement is unlikely, but definitely more doable than replacing something like IP.