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Flocular··on The IPv6 Mess (2002)
Are we sure a 2002 perspective is a good basis for discussion in 2022? Does this even reflect the latest opinion of the author? I dont see how AAAA-records created problems or why dual-stacking is a bad joke.
Flocular··on Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
The error message " Can’t Convert “2201010001” to long." makes it seem like that was the timestamp/serial used (Would be yymmddHHMM format). No factor 10 in deserialisation needed for an overflow.
Flocular··on $2,295 5-port Ethernet Switch for Audiophiles
The only thing more ridicously expensive would be an NFT of an image of this switch.
Flocular··on Fast rebases with git-move
If this is a faster and drop-in replacement, why doesnt the git project just use this? Sentences like "This isn’t strictly necessary for many rebases, and can be quite slow on sizable repos." kind of scare me.
Flocular··on HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)
It sounds like freenet to me. How will this allow for governments to censor CSAM?
Flocular··on Robots Must Be Ephemeralized
The take away from this for me is that we probably live in a simulated world that is training some robots. Sooo, who's the robot here?
Flocular··on Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication
Still haven solved the CSAM problem, so the public servers are off limits. The private infrastructure solution always looked interesting to me, but I'm missing any actual application ideas for that?
Flocular··on Fortran Web Framework
Always interesting to me to see how much "IT-first" educated people think that Fortran is a dead language. While when learning physics first you will quickly see how very much alive it still is (newest standard is "Fortran 2018" btw) Every weather forcast you are seeing was computed using Fortran for example :P
Flocular··on PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained
Instead of calling them comments (which to me are very much not interpreted) maybe make "documentation" a first class object of the language instead?
Flocular··on Localhost
Only way I could imagine this is if the text of the link had copyrighted information in it. But I have never seen Google link to spurious localhosts anyway (presumably they dont copy links into results but only show sites they were able to crawl).
Flocular··on To help gamers on Twitch, Dr. K balances mental health advice and medical ethics
He replied to that personally, let me try to repeat his argument (I cant find a link). He argued that giving advice to other people is completly accepted if the advice doesn't come from a mental health professional. (You'll find plenty youtube videos on how to "overcome procrastination") However having the better understanding of the mind that a professional has can't lead to worse advice, so he too should be accepted giving it. Whether there is an inherent danger of talking to an psychiatrist in this interview format for the interviewee I don't know, but given the amount of disclaimers he's putting out there it seems save to me.
Flocular··on Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything
By default I would recommend tail -F with captilized F. This will reopen files after a log rotation automatically.
Flocular··on Millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life on January 20
Yeah, sharing SSIDs isnt such a great idea. Check out https://wigle.net ... Obviously multiple people around the world use this one, but it narrows it down for dedicated people
Flocular··on Can you tell an assembly language when you see one?
For me assembly is formatted version of what my hardware can parse without further abstraction. Any other way everything is assembly. I can find an assembly C-compiler && I can find a C-python compiler == python is assembly... But I would find the challenge interesting if you're asking "how advanced of instructions can our hardware handle these days"
Flocular··on Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
not at all if you're not taking part in the data collection at all and are just sending noise on the channel. I guess chrome could counter DRM-signing the cohort-id or something
Flocular··on Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern
Can't privacy concious browser defeat FLoC simply by sending random cohort IDs on each request?
Flocular··on Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect
I, for one, am mostly preoccupied with the covert channel. That one sounds like it's pretty real.
Flocular··on The Prime Hexagon
The only surprising thing would be the pi-numbers. However the statistical evidence there isnt very strong. It's quite likely he looked at more than 400 series, so finding a 1 in 400-pattern in one of them is no surprise.
Flocular··on Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
Sounds like "Let them eat cake" to me. Only bosses could follow this advise
Flocular··on Vim-Mario: Mario on Vim
exiting vim with just q is heresy!
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