Lots of 503's happening right now at least where I am.

Built this after years watching post-production studios pay $10k+/year for Aspera/Signiant to move large files. Keryx supports S3, P2P (with NAT traversal), and relay transfers. ML model picks the best strategy based on network conditions, RTT, and file type in real-time. Recent test: 66.8GB Athens→LA in 11 minutes (102.82 MB/s sustained). Production files - BRAW, EXR, MOV sequences. Built in Rust. Free CLI available at https://netviper.gr/keryx/download/ Technical bits: adaptive chunking, STUN/TURN for NAT hole punching, concurrent stream management, strategy selection without overfitting. Happy to discuss the architecture or answer questions. Free CLI: https://netviper.gr/keryx/download/

Interesting there is an optical networking option for end users (claims ~6TBps). Maybe a really dumb question, but how would the end user's ground station maintain connectivity during cloudy weather? Do they have cloud-penetrating lasers from the MEO satellites? Would that interfere with aircraft, astronomy tools, etc?

Some short googling says they have lasers that clear a path for a data carrying beam, but that seems wasteful/infeasible for commercial uses

Passkeys can be hijacked to serve as cryptographic seed material that is securely synced across all of a user’s devices, enabling the generation of a wide range of cryptographic keys. This allows Passkeys to power use cases far beyond what they have traditionally been constrained to. I’ve been calling this mechanism PassSeeds.

I’ll leave the details to the blog post, but here’s a short list of what PassSeeds enable:

- Need a user-custodied BLS12-381 key to engage in more advanced ZKP Verifiable Credential / proofing flows? Say less, you're covered.

- Want to create a petty cash Web wallet for Bitcoin transactions that relies on a secp256k1 key? Ask and ye shall receive.

- How about keys for decentralized social media identifiers and post signing that are of a type other than P-256? No problem, I got you!

The author here, I ran another test here https://jsben.ch/QCXCY . https://jsbenchmark.com/ seems to have issues with longer running code. 1500 repeats, for me for-of is now on par with classic for. As I said, for-of loops are not optimized as easily and reliably because v8 has to prove certain things to be able to do so. For-of's default is iterator protocol, and its more sensitive to deoptimization.

Great read. The consumption angle is one I'd never seen before, but very persuasive.

> This framework clarifies a particular hypocrisy in contemporary British politics. The generation that has used its demographic weight to consume the surplus of current producers through triple-locked pensions, healthcare spending that rises inexorably with age, and property wealth accumulated behind exclusionary planning regimes, is the same generation that now drives the populist right’s fixation on migration. Yet the migrant, whatever burden they may place on public services, consumes a fraction of what the pensioner consumes in annual transfers. The young worker paying 40-50% of their income in tax, rent, and student loans is not being impoverished by the asylum seeker or migrant worker as much as they are being disadvantaged by the pensioner who owns their rented flat, by the planning regime that prevents new construction, by the landlord interest that captures housing benefit, and by the financial sector that inflates asset prices while starving productive enterprise of capital.

The only solution to this underlying cause is obvious and one I have been advocating for years now. Votes must be weighted by age, with the minimum voting age getting the maximum weight, down to maybe 20% (exact number is up for calculation) for the oldest person in the country. Otherwise, there is no escaping this problem. The older one gets, the more one is disincentivized to vote for long-term interests for the good of. The youth is the future, and policies are to be for the future.

For what it's worth, I'm nowhere near the minimum voting age, so this isn't a teenager saying "teenagers deserve all the rights". It's an inevitability. I've generally voted against personal interests and for the common good, but the huge majority of people are simply incapable of doing so. Hence if a group whose interest is aligned purely with short-term status-quo maintenance and hoarding becomes too large, there's no recourse. Which is where Europe is at.

There is of course one other solution, which is war. This temporarily resets the ability of many to vote for the common good rather than pure self-interest. This is naturally the "solution" that will be implemented, though unfortunately technology has advanced to such a stage that there's unlikely to be such an "after" period.