bilegeek

1.) IPv4 is still heavily favored over IPv6.

2.) Market segmentation: keeps home users from easily hosting their own services without spending $$$ on an upgraded plan.

3.) Adding on to #2, I've seen claims of providers putting IPv6 behind NAT, so don't think full IPv6 acceptance will solve this problem.

Problem is some kids don't have alternatives to online. Just recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945114

Not saying you're wrong, but it's more complicated than you think in many cases. The rot goes deep into society as a whole, which tech corpos then exploit.

I wish things had gone differently too, but a couple of nitpicks:

1.) It's already a miracle Xerox PARC escaped their parent company's management for as long as they did.

3.) IBM was playing catch-up on the supercomputer front since the CDC 6400 in 1964. Arguably, they did finally catch up in the mid-late 80's with the 3090.

Are there any studies on people who grew up with similar isolated childhoods in the 20th century (as in modern-day levels, even comparing with the late 20th declining average)? It would be interesting to see the similarities/differences between them and modern cohorts, and if surrounding culture made adult integration harder or easier (though I'm rather pessimistic on that). Any HNer willing to share a personal anecdote on this?

>> If you are a farmer who has the choice of planting more productive plants or not, if you do not, you will be at a disadvantage and eventually will be outcompeted in the market if you don't "defect".

More productive crops = more competitive = higher chance of market survival.

It's not about the crops per se. It's about surviving in a market that is ruthlessly cruel to anybody who doesn't subscribe to "line go up" dogma, and who isn't cutthroat in every advantage they can eke out or margin they can widen.

> I would hope most nations have sensible checks and balances to prevent extradition over this sort of thing, but it would still be a PITA.

EDIT: If you're an emigrant:

More than just a PITA, you could still fail; see [1].

Also - I can't find the source right now - I remember hearing about Russian emigrants in Europe being charged with serious crimes in absentia over criticism of the war, and they were slated for deportation because the bureaucracy still considered all such Russian warrants as valid. The US would probably be harder to excise in this regard.

[1]https://www.dw.com/en/germany-shelters-russians-persecuted-f...

3. Hosting websites with DDNS (though the abuse from that caused Mullvad and IVPN to drop port forwarding)

4. Though it hurts anonymity, and is relatively rare: I2P or Hyphanet, because some websites block known P2P nodes[1]. Important if your bank or work is being a jerk about it.

5. As ThatMedicIsASpy notes, ISP issues: some routers soil the bed from P2P, some ISP's throttle P2P traffic regardless of legality, etc.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/tc3bhs/is_anybody_else...

OOC what's your current favored provider? AirVPN? Proton?

Somebody made a script that automatically downloads from YouTube using RSS feeds - assuming I don't jinx it by mentioning they still have those...

https://github.com/Jocomol/newsboat_video_downloader

Couple of caveats:

1. Last I tried about 9mo. ago on a Pi 4, you still need 3rd party firmware to make use of >3gb RAM. Unfortunately, I couldn't get that to work.

2. Even though the full image has the complete software set, the installer can't see it; you have to either use the network (I have a datacap, it's a pain point with FOSS sometimes), or load another drive with the sets.

The majority of EAS equipment responds this way. That's why the tones are so strictly regulated on broadcasts.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-758A1.pdf

> Total or free?

Total. You can change the default to any % or GiB, but I couldn't figure out how to apply that to /etc/tmpfiles.d, had to switch to fstab.

Can't find anything about RPI, but apparently the last known site was shut down in 2000: https://multicians.org/site-dndh.html

Thanks for the explanation on CUDIMM, I never quite grokked the difference besides it being more stable with two sticks per channel. Hopefully they'll make an ECC CUDIMM at some point, but I'm not holding my breath.

Their second point is wrong (unless the silicon is buggy), but their first point is true. I researched when buying ECC sticks for my rig; nobody that I've found makes unregistered sticks that go above 5600, while some non-ECC sticks are already at 8200, and 6400 is commonplace.

Frustratingly, it's only unregistered that's stuck in limbo; VCC makes a kit of registered 7200.

Not great, but a bit better than FS-UAE. Amiberry has a much more logical UX, though it's still a bit cluttered.

> it's rendered PL/I

Fixed.

I personally use Claws Mail with plugins, but OAuth2 is laborious to setup. Works though.

If you want to experience it again, they re-released the final version awhile back; they've got emulators for both the mainframe and terminals.

https://codex.retro1.org/plato:operation.r1:installing

Not just an inferred point, it's been explicitly stated before. In the longer form interviews (can't find everything in full at the moment), the context is the news media in particular, but it applies to the general public as well.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiaU8P9y-wU

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5xxlajTW0 (short clip)

[3]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iTSgL_R1CC4 (another short clip)

Amazing that they're able to make progress with such little public documentation.

Found the original paper outside of the paywall:

https://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~koucky/papers/catalytic.pdf

The ~koucky/papers/ root is also a goldmine of papers, including another catalytic one.

I didn't intend to sound crunchy like that. College for practical means has long been the norm in the US vs. elsewhere, going back to agricultural schools in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is nothing wrong with that; what is NOT good is the whole-sale replacement of job training to colleges, as it cannot properly encompass every eccentricity of a particular job, leading to the problems mentioned before.

College is about getting the knowledge to perform your field, not the knowledge of every particular procedure one could possibly expect to see. The modern emphasis on internships softens the blow somewhat, but it's a half-hearted replacement and is easily abused in many fields.

That's the exact problem though. Companies have been outsourcing training to colleges for decades now, further and further reducing available career paths as mentioned and causing degree inflation, higher education costs for everybody, etc.

It's also unlikely to change because it's just one more symptom of how companies are run these days, and that mindset has societal-scale momentum now.

I agree it's 99% ridiculous, but to play the devil's advocate: modifications could require re-certifying the transmitter due to regulations, which might make them not financially worth it after the remaining correct tubes die. Especially since regulations governing something so boutique and relatively obscure haven't probably been updated much to make stuff like this easier. (I confess high ignorance to UK law.)

Full verticals, dipoles, Yagis or logs, yes.

Marconi T or L antennas with capacitance hats and loading coils are well within amateur practice on 630m[1] and 2200m, and common from 40m/7MHz on down.

Not very efficient still; an ERP of 1W, as demanded by the 2200m band, can still take a lot of power on a less-than-ideal antenna. Similar story for 630m. (160m and up is usually not so bad, just that even a good Marconi on longwave is still too big for most people.)

But the current LowFER[3] regs limit the transmitter to 1W final stage input power, and a COMBINED feedline and antenna length of 15m. At least allowing amateurs to operate more here would allow more than just extremely low SNR modes like WSPR to be used at any real distance.

[1]https://www.hamsignal.com/blog/dog-days-and-the-marconi-t-an...

and https://vk6ysf.com/t_antenna_arrangment.htm

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2200-meter_band#International_...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LowFER

I sincerely hope that if the remaining stations shut down, the band will become an amateur band. Existing 2200m and 630m are narrow, so allocating this entire range is something of a pipe dream, but it would be the best outcome.

(Not sure how 1750m LowFER would be handled; maybe just keep it on as an unlicensed exception?)

I can think of at least a few:

1.) Cost (mostly in the labor rather than materials, and because of less standardization probably)

2.) [1]Earthquakes. Unless you do extra steps (which add more cost), it's much likelier to collapse in an earthquake.

3.) Harder to tear down for new construction. (More of a city-planners nicety than a homeowner's consideration, but still there.)

Probably a couple other points I'm missing.

[1]https://www.earthquakecountry.org/step4/urmwalls/

Part of that high margin is because emissions and fuel economy laws are looser for truck-like vehicles, so they make everything a truck-like vehicle to avoid having to comply.