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akho··on If IPv4 were land
(apparently, the same page showed 9% for Russia in early 2025, so, yeah, low trust)
akho··on If IPv4 were land
Thank you. It's been a while since that paper was published )

I was interested in the number for Russia; 2 out of 4 mobile networks do not provide ipv6, and wired network ipv6 availability depends on provider; provider-supplied routers generally disable ipv6 anyway. So the 78% seems high.

Could be that this is measured from youtube; people use vpns to go there, and those typically have ipv6. That would mean that country is tracked by account, not source ip.

akho··on If IPv4 were land
I wonder how they measure.
akho··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
> want to keep it going as long as possible

note that the volume of EU and US support to Ukraine is obviously calibrated to the same goal.

akho··on Tiny Little Office
typst is VC-funded, and its longevity is in doubt.
akho··on What I Self-Host
> Self-hosting e-mail seems like a lot of work for very little benefit. I cannot risk not being able to send or receive e-mails.

I do not understand the combination of these two sentences. The second is the reason to self-host email, and the first is somehow about not self-hosting email?..

> how all of this could run on 16 GB RAM

apart from Frigate (I've never run something like that, so I don't know), all this should fit in, like, 4 GB. Services are cheap.

> Single binary deployment? Yes, please.

>

> Podman.

Lol.

akho··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
does it achieve token efficiency? vs something like maki? It's not at all clear what the method of that "efficiency" is.

my main issues with maki are that the line editor (what you use to enter your prompts) is very barebones, copy-paste is broken (no middle-click paste, or copy to PRIMARY; implicit copying to CLIPBOARD that can only be used with a mouse), and scrollback is not native. So it's not a real cli, but some sort of weblike tui.

I tried 3code; it does not mess with selection, but code printed in the conversation has | markers in every line, and is thus uncopyable in practice. Don't know how to use that.

akho··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
At least GNOME 1 enjoyers seem to have aged out of these discussions.
akho··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Works on Wayland. Doesn't work in some assclown programs; e.g. claude attempts its own copy-to-clipboard feature, which goes around primary.
akho··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
I don't understand your initial comment at all, then. You want touchpads to have features they already have, which you haven't tried, because you don't have a touchpad?..

Or was there a different meaning?

akho··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Pinch-to-zoom is handled by libinput, and exposed to gtk apps. Works fine in firefox. Works in GtkWebkit views. works in Loupe the image viewer. works in Gnome Maps. Even works in Emacs, ffs.

Are you on X or smth?

akho··on Heretic removes restrictions from language models
The Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Traffic in Obscene Publications, which is ratified by most countries, and only denounced by Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands, bans most porn.

There are some enforcement issues.

akho··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
This post is _about_ how that is both possible and common.

Only GPL is somewhat immune, because Stallman was always right.

akho··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Why not allow everything? It's not like it can do much inside the container.
akho··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
— Open the garage door, Siri.

— I'm sorry, OptionOfT. I'm afraid I can't do that.

akho··on Rune is now open source
> Internal Server Error: administrator has misconfigured Anubis. Please contact the administrator and ask them to look for the logs around: fast.

Lol.

Worked after a couple of tries. Love how the pictured creepy furry pushes blame on the "administrator".

akho··on On Really Trying (2009)
The kids of everyone on that flight went on to good educations and some measure of success. It takes a lot of effort to fuck up. That is the privilege, yes.

Attributing that success to strict parenting and hard work requires quite a lot of extra argument, which the thread starter does not have. Refusing humanity of people who were not on the flight, and did not achieve the same success, is something else entirely.

akho··on On Really Trying (2009)
Of course everyone is influenced by their parents and grandparents. That does not mean their achievement is yours.

The person I was replying to started the comment chain from an abhorrent position of Social Darwinism. Failing to see their privilege, and failing to distinguish their lives from their grandparents' is very common for people holding those opinions.

akho··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
eh, the whole site is claudes anyway
akho··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
What's the point of getting a DRMed e-book from a library, and then converting it? You are not supporting the author, you are not supporting the library, and you are not even being a good boy, legally. (You also typically get worse files than you'd get through other means)
akho··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
is this using my subscription
akho··on On Really Trying (2009)
sob stories of your gramps life have nothing to do with you
akho··on On Really Trying (2009)
children from families flying Concorde grow up to be doctors and lawyers, news at 11
akho··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame
I've owned several Kindles, and haven't bought a single ebook from Amazon.
akho··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
At that point, there's an IB team handling the deal, an LLC holding the money, and probably several banks holding its accounts. Few banks are happy to handle that kind of concentration in a retail sight account.
akho··on Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Calls are implemented differently across clients, threads only sometimes work. And, apparently from your comment, there's only ever going to be one encryption algorithm, because cryptography is a solved problem now?..
akho··on Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Matrix is in the same place wrt feature mismatches. It's a quality of the problem, not of the solution. I actually think XMPP does a better, more structured job here.
akho··on Stop Making TUIs
A wiki that's somehow not in a browser, a tv remote replacement without obvious keyboard shortcuts, a jupyter lookalike with no editing (as far as I can tell), and two chat interfaces with skills. Good for you, but not like how I use computers.
akho··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
And Apple are still unable to master cables that don't fray within a few months of use.

I still don't see how Framework's relative youth compensates my issues.

akho··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Aren't they all the same api? Are you paying 15 % to change one line, and not, like, three?
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