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ectosphenoon Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

Ad hominem. If it’s clearly wrong then demonstrate.

ectosphenoon A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm

Not up to you as a hole puncher to decide what a network uses. You just punch holes. IPv6 doesn’t allow you to skip NAT unless you are comfortable with your code not running everywhere.

ectosphenoon A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm

IPv6 nat is a thing that exists and is used. IPv6 purists like to imagine it doesn't exist which is cute.

ectosphenoon Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

I’ve fallen prey to too many people at the top of slippery slopes offering “gentle pushes”. The end result is always the same. If I’m to go down one it will be kicking and screaming not silent as a lamb.

ectosphenoon I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

While “perception is reality” is indeed a thing in life so is respecting diversity. If this person prefers to be spoken to in a certain way then it is polite to respect their wishes. You can have your own preference and they should likewise respect yours.

ectosphenoon The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

Yes, if you can’t properly setup a network now then IPv6 won’t help you. That isn’t IPv6’s fault.

ectosphenoon Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain

I have an ipv6 only wireguard connection from my phone to my house which is also comcast. Lets me hit my ULAs just fine.

ectosphenoon Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

My car has heated and ventilated seats. These do not require a subscription.

ectosphenoon Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

Once I verify a home video product works as intended I remove its network connection and never connect it again. I then leave its static ip address configured and block any traffic from it on the off chance it’s ever connected again.

The sole exception is my PlayStation 5. I use apps on it for all streaming.

ectosphenoon I love email (2023)

I like that email respects the time of both parties. Either can reply when convenient. When a reply requires careful consideration or phrasing you have the time to do so. When you are otherwise engaged you don’t have to stop and handle each one now. When you need to reference it later it is often much easier than finding a chat. It’s almost the only relaxing comms method left apart from mailing a letter.

ectosphenoon Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

They will stop just to be sure no boundaries are crossed.

ectosphenoon Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9851491/

There is no safe level of air pollution. If you haven’t invested in a home air filtration system then you might want to consider it.

ectosphenoon New iPad Air, powered by M4

We each have our own car too. Hard to share the things people use at the same time.

ectosphenoon New iPad Air, powered by M4

I’ve always found this funny because everyone in my family has an iPad and none of us have a Mac.

ectosphenoon A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

Have you ever gone through jury selection? It isn't what you think it is.

ectosphenoon Never buy a .online domain

Certain file hosting services located there. I agree that one is a wide net.

ectosphenoon Never buy a .online domain

I'll append the current list below. My primary issue is protecting my son. His educational difficulties present a problem when it comes to determining when a link is good or bad. It is easier to cast a very wide net and whitelist good sites. There are other reasons for some of the TLDs but I can't go into that here.

  ad ads adult af alibaba alipay analytics anquan asia baidu
  bar bcn bible blockbuster by cf cfd cg chintai christmas
  citic click cloud cn coop country creditunion cyou data
  dish diy dm dot dtv dvr et feedback food forum fun gift
  hiphop hiv hk hkt host icbc il in iq ir kfh kp ky latino
  lb lifestyle link living locker lol love ly ml mm mo
  mobile moscow mov music my nhk ni nz observer ollo online
  ott ph phone pid porn press property pw quest realty
  redstone ren rest ru sbs sex sexy shouji site sling
  so sohu space st store su sy tech to top trust ua unicom
  uno vana ve wang website xihuan xxx yandex ye yun zip

ectosphenoon AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

Access points frequently have multiple BSSIDs even if just for broadcasting on 2.4 and 5 at the same time. Any multiple AP scenario will have them regardless. Couple that with weak duplicate MAC checking and shared GTK (WPA2-PSK) and the attack becomes trivial. I imagine old hardware will be broken forever. Especially pre 802.11w.

ectosphenoon Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

If you are trying to keep your secret accounts secret then you don’t want them to have your writing style. By having a LLM author each post you help eliminate that as a metric. Couple that with the usual opsec of posting via tor at random times and you arrive at something closer to anonymous. The hardest remaining item would be not exposing all of your real interests in the prompts.

ectosphenoon Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

I expect more people over time to use local LLMs to write every single post they make online.

ectosphenoon Never buy a .online domain

Buy all 10 years you can when you get the domain. Renew yearly. When they pull silliness like this you have at least 9 years to migrate.

ectosphenoon Never buy a .online domain

Despite blocking 66 TLDs and all IDN ccTLDs on my home dns I didn’t have these blocked. Guess I’ll consider it. Once you have the hagezi rpz files including threat information feed though you really have blocked most silliness.

ectosphenoon UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)

I had one in grade school. Taught me the value of backups early in life. Spent all night typing in a game from a magazine. Started it without saving to tape first. It was so loud! Panicked and restarted the machine. Sadness ensued.

Replaced it with a C128-D. Didn’t get my first intel until I bought a 386 after graduating high school. Good times.

ectosphenoon I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure

I go out of my way to use American services. It would be hypocritical of me to deny others the right to use their country’s services. Plus competition is always better for consumers so have at it.

ectosphenoon DHS has reportedly sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

I think the trick now would be finding a pro ice sentiment online.

ectosphenoon IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

IBM has practiced ageism for decades with the same playbook. AI is just the latest excuse. Fire a wide enough swath so it isn’t all old employees and then only hire entry level positions. Often within the same year. Repeat.

ectosphenoon Open source is not about you (2018)

> It doesn't mean expressing your opinions about Hackernews, the thing or some proprietary software, even negative ones, is inherently wrong.

I agree. I’ve often wondered why open source maintainers get worked up over this. You can just ignore them. Odds are the maintainer spent zero seconds thinking about the person before the negativity over the course of their entire lives to that point. Why let them have free rent in your head now? Chuckle and go on not thinking about them for the remainder of your life.

ectosphenoon Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.695005v1

Is that the paper in question?

ectosphenoon Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

I agree, being able to transcribe low quality audio would be an amazing new feature. What I was disputing was the notion that even an old iPhone is incapable of capturing crystal clear audio from an entire room while in your pocket. It has been able to do that forever.

ectosphenoon FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled

Family albums work with lockdown mode. You can also disable web restrictions per app and website.