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mrsssnake··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
A really great book and very good chapter
mrsssnake··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Regardless of this, I see phone network as a legacy thing that in perfect world should already be replaced with lightweight upgradeable calling protocol over IPv6.
mrsssnake··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
His solution would be taking democracy and freedom above interest of couple of botnet attacked websites.
mrsssnake··on Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
I do appreciate doing unpaid volunteer work. My comment sounds clingy, not is not a demand more of a pointing out.

Icon can really be a generic SVG taken from some CC stock website, if there is no time for anything else, would look much better. Getting rid of emoji vomit is one prompt away. I might do a PR if I find free five minutes.

mrsssnake··on Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
Emojis can be nice, their color alone makes looking up headings easier. But everything has a limit.
mrsssnake··on Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love
While I could understand some AI assistance, I just cannot look at such README with clearly sloppy too detailed nonsense app icon and eyesore emoji vomit:

https://github.com/etkecc/komai

mrsssnake··on Zed 1.0
The biggest problem I personally have with Zed design is it downloading it's own binaries for LSP servers instead of using ones already installed in the system.
mrsssnake··on EU Age Verification Hacked in 2 Minutes: What Happened
> This is not it, this is an open source app that you can run anywhere

The service for EU age verification app requires Google Play Integrity API check. So as much as you "can" run the app itself anywhere, you are forced to do it on whitelisted build of an OS on a whitelisted device.

mrsssnake··on Why is IPv6 so complicated?
IPv4 has exact same problem, the NAT is working here because devices does not actually have proper Internet connection, all connections are terminated on NAT and reassembled after.

Actual solution could be extending TCP and UDP or make a new transport layer procotol that handles changing addresses, similar to what QUIC do. But we cannot do it exactly because things like NATs existing, thus QUIC build was build on ossificated UDP. Imagine if instead of IP+port a connection use unique per-connection hash to persist IP addreses changing. No more trying fighting to keep the IP the same.

mrsssnake··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Do NAT64 and just worry about IPv6 if not wanting dual stack.

All of IPv6 features are just direct effects of having more space and not. Basically IPv6 "features" is just getting rid of IPv4 workarounds.

mrsssnake··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Easy way to explain the absurdity of the idea is to picture how could a law be made restricting 2D printers from printing schematics of guns.

How the printer could detect it, where the censoring circuit or program would live, how effective it would be and what it means long-term.

mrsssnake··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
> We have to use some kind of attestation mechanism per the eIDAS implementing acts.

Translates to:

"We have to make sure citized accessing the public service have not control over the device per the eIDAS implementing acts"

mrsssnake··on Yggdrasil Network
Picture this:

You have three devices at home, A, B and C. Only device A have Internet connection and can connect to public Yggdrasil node. B can connect only to A and C. C can connect only to B. Have Yggdrasil installed on all of them (and tell Yggdrasil about the peers), all devices would have access to full Yggdrasil network.

mrsssnake··on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
> is for faceless hordes of cellphones

How could we determine which device on mobile network is a faceless cellphone and which is a proper device needing real sweet Internet connection? And won't that make things more complicated than just v6 deployment?

Can argue that NAT, which interrupt layers ment for end device do basically the same as popular user hostinle unchangable mobile OSes, but I don't think latter is good either.

mrsssnake··on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
> The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

So anyway it gives 128bits in total, 64 for network and 64 for node.

But I wish there was a better way to write just the local node part and global part being taken automatically.

mrsssnake··on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
> NAT and CGNAT are not sins

Highly disagree. Middleboxes are a huge problem on global scale and have frozen any innovation below application layer. TCP and UDP even that they are on software not hardware layer cannot be updated or changed, see MPTCP efforts or QUIC giving up and building on top of UDP.

If this is so much privacy problem, IPv6 is there for many years reaching 50%+ deployments in some countries, I bet there should be concrete examples of such breaches and papers written.

> Reaching your own stuff is already a solved problem, too. Tailscale/Headscale

No address to receive communication - no problem install an app that would proxy it through someone who has the address. Tailscale/Headscale is great, using it daily, but they are not solution to the huge already build global network created to connect devices not connecting devices because lack of digits. Global is key here.

mrsssnake··on IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
I also know your IPv6 address, ::1

Even easier.

mrsssnake··on I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node
My work guest WiFi network allows only IPv4 HTTPS on port 443 and their their own DNS. Everything else, including ICMP (ping) is blocked. Tailscale barely works as any persistant connection is dropped after 2-3 minutes.

Called this out and the security team said noone complains, that there is no use case and they do not want to deal with security risks.

And the ossification continues.

mrsssnake··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
Even without CGNAT you'll only get one IPv4 address forcing a absurd amount of workarounds to be usable, that are mostly hidden in firmwares but sill there.
mrsssnake··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
Much less pain than people wanting to have something you could connect to would experience.
mrsssnake··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
Dual stack IPv4+IPv6 is still the easiest, but at least the author learned a lot and it helps finding issues in software.
mrsssnake··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
> able to run ~340 undecillion devices on my home network

You now can have these devices connected to network called Internet.

Unlike IPv4 were the number of devices on the Internet in home network is one (the main router) or zero (in case if CGNAT) and the others just pretend.

mrsssnake··on Building a Mostly IPv6 Only Home Network
This video summarizes it nicely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Hy4JtBeQA

mrsssnake··on FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers
What is a router?

Really, do they have a definition?

mrsssnake··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Even if all my apps were from Google Play, it's not up to Google to remotely decide what code I can and cannot run on my device. Especially important when talking about whole population.
mrsssnake··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
> You may not charge users money for Your Program, and Your Source must contain the monetization systems, including the licensing, trial period tracking, and payment system, present in the MMF Source without an alterations, and all of these systems must be active and working as intended in Your Program.

License is not Open Source.

mrsssnake··on Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Can't
- having sensible and very useful system files structure - centralized package management - instant full-disk snapshots and rollback - remote windows (Waypipe) - declarative configurations (NixOS) - FUSE - chroot
mrsssnake··on Zed new terms required to be 18 years old
It is for their online service, not the editor software.
mrsssnake··on I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone
For connecting two devices I already pay for a service allowing that, it's called ISP (Internet Service Provider).
mrsssnake··on Keep Android Open
I wish.
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