betaby

2,849 karma · joined May 13, 2015

Telecom eng., but you will downvote anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering List of truisms you believe and thus want to downvote me: 0) ISPs charge both ends 1) ISPs intentionally make your tube, flix, etc experience miserable 3) Everything should be 'unlimited' 4) Bandwidth is basically free

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betaby··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

Let's compare two countries at the same level of development.

Canada has 14 tonnes carbon footprint per person. Canada is a cold country.

France has 8 tonnes carbon footprint per person. Climate is way warmer.

We can't continue adding population and the wondering what is going on.

betaby··on It's not finance, it's your pensions

I read the article but can't make any conclusion from it. Someone can explain in simpler terms?

betaby··on Another GitHub outage in the same day

Self hosted GitLab is absolutely worth it.

betaby··on Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

But what it is about? What's the end game in detaining lawful workers?

betaby··on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession

I don't see any signs of that

betaby··on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession

> why invest in USA when you could invest somewhere where you can import the needed inputs much cheaper?

What markets do you have in minds? Can retail investors invest there?

betaby··on Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"

> you may not actually have first-hand experience

Sigh ( in canadian )

betaby··on Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"

> You must have been a child when Michelle Obama said

My kids were born long before Obama took the office.

What's your point again? That president can't control the quality of the food in the country under their control?

betaby··on Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"

Meanwhile 2 billion Coca Colas are sold per day. That's over 75 million kgs of sugar/day - no one bats an eye.

Teen/kid addiction to sugar was and is a priority.

Social networks is a sugar for minds.

betaby··on Don't rent the cloud, own instead

> You are paying to offload some of the risk from yourself.

The opposite is also true: one is risking being banned by exascalers.

betaby··on Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

> I am a CS researcher at UC Berkeley. This has seriously impacted my work.

Can I suggest a topic for your next research? "Cloud exascalers and their negative impact on the society"

betaby··on The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

https://www.chisel-lang.org/community

second link - 404

third link - achieved project on github

fourth link - educational project

Perhaps it's a very know and useful project, yet indeed seems very niche to me.

betaby··on The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

Why would the governments invest money on such a niche language? "Scala is widely used to build and operate essential systems across multiple industries." - very bold statement.

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> The us constitution literally allows the people to vote out any government structure or process which they deem unfit.

The Russian Federation's constitution literally allows the people to vote out any government structure or process which they deem unfit.

betaby··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Canada's government is not looking for MS or AWS alternatives.

betaby··on Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

Water available in Nunavut, Canada is no help to Algeria's water crisis. And the opposite, natural gas available in Algeria is no help to Nunavut energy situation.

betaby··on Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

Based on what metric you declare my statement as false?

For example for Algeria: "available resources dropping from 1500 \(m^{3}\)/capita/year in 1962 to 500 \(m^{3}\)/capita/year by 2016, far below the 1000 \(m^{3}\) threshold set by the World Bank"

the main factor is a region overpopulation.

betaby··on Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

Let's concentrate on couple of countries to simplify the discussion: Iran, Egypt, Algeria. Water scarcity there is dominated by explosive population growth there in the last 70 years.

Water is not scarce in general, just yet. It scarce where population is exploding.

betaby··on Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

Los Angeles already gets its water from 500km away. No need to exacerbate the situation.

betaby··on Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say

Governments are not ready to admit the fact of the Earth's overpopulation.

betaby··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered

> Your laptop encryption key is stored in your keychain

Probably not if one is not using Apple cloud on their laptops.

> stored in your keychain (without telliing you!)

How to verify that? Any commands/tools/guides?

betaby··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered

Unless that's a data privacy or monopoly related. Then they won't.

betaby··on Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

Weak engineering. Both from the CloudFlare side and their peers.

betaby··on IP Addresses Through 2025

amazon.com is IPv4-only redirector to www.amazon.com which is dual-staked.

The same is true for amazon.fr.

betaby··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

> My ISP does not give me an IPv6 address, only a single IPv6 which all my network devices have to NAT through.

Interesting how that works in your case. Is your router gives your devices IPv6 from fc00::/7 and then NAT them? It would be a rather rare case.

betaby··on Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

Because Canadian government gives money to some industries to pay for tariffs. It's called Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI).

betaby··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

> data can often be streamed much faster than with local SSDs. 10GB/s has been available for a decade or more, and I think 100GB/s is available these days.

In practice most AWS instances are 10Gbps capped. I have seen ~5Gbps consistently read from GCS and S3. Nitro based images are in theory 100Gbps capable, in practice I've never seen that.

betaby··on French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition

> discussions have been going for ages concerning where the limit should be

I don't remember any discussions about that. It's always a statement 'to protect the children' or 'fight piracy'.

betaby··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

Sometimes that's true.

betaby··on UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

They don't. Why would they?

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