r00ty
@r00ty@kbin.life
I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
No, this is the thing. Compared to UK prices it was ridiculously cheap. In fact even when you add the higher expected tip it was cheap. And it was actually very nice. Just, so much food!
- Comment on Anon visits the Philippines 3 weeks ago:
Many many years ago. I did some work in Texas. We go into this sit down place. Now, having been caught by the huge portions a previous evening I'm cautious. I just order a chicken burger. The waitress is all like "Oh are you sure, just the chicken burger on its own?" I'm thinking, oh well maybe things are normal size at this place. I order some fries to go with it.
Some time later the chicken burger arrives completely filling the full size plate it came on, and the fries came on an entirely separate plate.
I'm not a small guy, but I could not eat all that.
- Comment on Anon's uncle is sick 4 weeks ago:
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Comment on Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations. 4 weeks ago:
I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.
- Comment on Anon falls through the cracks 5 weeks ago:
You can make fun of managers not doing work. You know what's worse than someone at manager/director level that doesn't do any work? One that insists on doing so! Trust me, first hand experience.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
20 years into the trump dynasty dictatorship, they will still be saying "thanks Biden" to every financial inconvenience.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 1 month ago:
I wouldn't even bother replying to comments from hexbear mk II. I just automatically assume troll.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was going to say. Not pension, but I put money into two different blended portfolios (I didn't choose the contents, just the two choices from a list). I started it in Feb 2021 and the overall gain has been over 35%. I have no idea what the pension fund put their money into there, but it seems like some bad choices.
OP should check the options they have.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 1 month ago:
That dystopian "future". It's the present, isn't it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 1 month ago:
2.49 extra for assured personal rioter. Otherwise you'll get the standard service where your rioter may have another riot to attend to first.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs 1 month ago:
Maybe someone can make an app, so I can have someone paid at an insultingly low hourly rate to go protest/riot in my place?
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
It's going to be precisely the reason. If you have a dedicated wire, fibre or copper then the entire available bandwidth is available per connection (one caveat with copper is crosstalk but it is minimal and can be mitigated). With fibre the available bandwidth per strand is huge.
It's so fast that even where there's contention, it is rarely a problem that everyone sharing a part of the connection is downloading or uploading at once. So pretty much most of the times you test, you get the full speed.
With mobile data, the entire cell is sharing a small amount (in comparison) of spectrum. Unlike a wire, the entire spectrum cannot be used by a single tower, a pretty small number of channels are carved out for them. Also because the signals are travelling through the air, there is more of a problem of signal loss and interference to contend with, so the channels very rarely reach the maximum possible speed (forward error correction and reducing bits per symbol to reach a suitable signal to noise ratio both will reduce speed for example.
For upload (which isn't usually much of an issue) there's another problem of guard time between timeslots. When downloading, the cell transmitter transmits the whole time and shared the channel between all users (another thing that can slow things down) so there's no problem of needing a guard time. But when it's separate transmitters (phones) sending there's going to be a guard time between different handsets timeslot and the more active transmit stations there are (phones) the more these guard times add up to wasted bandwidth. Luckily most people are downloading far more than uploading, so it's less of an issue.
I think for these reasons caps are used to limit people from ALWAYS consuming data on the cell/mobile networks and instead using wifi wherever they can in order to keep it fast for those that do/need to.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 1 month ago:
I feel she should have at least tried the shaggy defence.
- Comment on Anon watches a movie with a girl 2 months ago:
I think there's still a lot less subtle ways than skipping straight to that. But, that's my opinion I guess.
- Comment on Anon watches a movie with a girl 2 months ago:
I'm also going to say it's kinda weird behaviour on her part too, no? I mean going from cuddling to returning to the room half naked has skipped a few steps in my (perhaps old fashioned) mind here.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 2 months ago:
This is the answer. If you don't like live service don't buy live service games. If the majority have the same opinion there won't be profit in it.
Games publishers are businesses and they want to make money.
Now in reality I think they make more money from those that are buying microtransactions and so long as that makes them more money than selling a plain single player game, it's a no brainer they'll keep making the.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
AOL did, and the others that were easy (compuserve etc) provided their own limited interface to a curated Internet.
Most providers (at least here in the UK) that provided actual tcpip did so using slip and a login screen. Which generally needed a script to login and then chain on slip to connect it to the local stack.
It wasn't until 1998 or 1999 there was widespread use of ppp and the windows 98 dial up networking could get you straight in. Then in the UK we had services like freeserve which provided simple ways to connect.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
Well. I think it might be worth checking again what I wrote. I was quite clear in that I said there's a not lot to like, not that there's nothing to like. If I didn't get anything from the modern internet, I'd not be here posting these comments.
I'd like to pull you up on the point about free e-books. Project Gutenburg was in its second decade by the time most home users got online. So that's hardly a contemporary internet exclusive, it's almost as old as the internet itself. Also, communication about weird hobbies is certainly not unique to the contemporary internet. We just did it on open services not controlled by corporate entities. Corporates that only run the service in order to sell your data.
As for a few of the things I don't like? Well. Ads everywhere (including those containing malware), constant hacking attempts for anyone running a server (ssh/sip/www very commonly hit with some protocols getting 100+ hits per second), AI crawlers scooping up the whole internet without any care about how they impact transit fees or user experience, licensed purchases (streaming services, games, etc that can be taken away at a moments notice with zero recourse for the user), terrible user agreements for EVERYTHING especially regarding privacy with no way to reject since ALL companies offering similar services have the same damned agreements, subscriptions on everything everywhere and increasingly so, having to click to reject cookies everywhere and knowing they're still building a profile about me whether I like it or not just in order to throw more adverts my way.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
I loved the old BBS community. I used to run an Amiga based BBS (also on Fidonet, I would say my node number, but it can still be looked up today, and we used real names so...). One day I had a drive failure and lost pretty much everything. No problem, said another Amiga BBS operator in my city. Bring your new HDD over and we'll copy over my downloads folder.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
I feel the same about the early (home) internet (years 1994-1999). Adverts if they even existed on a page were just a few lame gifs on a page. IRC and usenet were the "social media" of the time, except no-one called it that. Almost everyone online was as much of a geek as you (except AOL users), because the hoops to get online were significant enough to keep most normal people away. Businesses were convinced it was a fad, so didn't get too involved.
It was basically universities, students and a handful of modem owners that could get a TCP/IP stack to work and write a login script (ppp was quite rare in the beginning).
Rose-tinted glasses? Maybe, but there's a lot not to like about the modern internet.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 2 months ago:
Hmm. That would mean it's likely one of the following (well perhaps more options, but these spring to mind)
- A windows machine that has the network set as a public network, or netbios specifically blocked on LAN.
- A windows machine that has all the netbios services disabled.
- Not a windows machine, or a container as others suggested that's running some kind of IIS install
- Not a windows machine at all but for some weird reason IIS files and a web server setup.
I think you suggested in another comment, that it's not in your DHCP client list but has an IP in your normal range. Which suggests it is setup with a static IP. That is odd.
Some other people suggested it could be a container that is using a real IP rather than the NAT that docker etc usually use. I do know that you can use real IPs in containers, I've done it on my NAS to get a "proper" linux install on top of the NAS lite linux that is provided. But I would have expected that you'd know about that, since it would require someone to actually choose the IP address to use.
If you have managed switches you could find which port on which switch the MAC address (as found by lookuping up the arp record for the IP using arp -a) is on (provided the switch allows access to the forwarding tables). Of course, if they're on Wi-Fi it's only going to lead to the access point they're connecting to.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 2 months ago:
I don't even think my current wifi kit has WPA (1) as an option. It's WPA2 or 3 only I'm pretty sure.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 2 months ago:
So, as others have saId this is just an unconfigured IIS server, which implies it's either a windows machine, or a windows based VM, well or someone put the default IIS files on another server, but that's unlikely.
When you say "weird" IP I'd wonder what you mean by that.
I think since it's probably a windows machine, from another windows machine typing nbtstat -A <ip> should give you the computer name and workgroup or domain they belong to. See if it matches anything you expect on your network.
If not, maybe it's time to change your WPA wifi key.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 2 months ago:
Don't need the router. If you're on windows or linux, you just ping the ip then enter 'arp -a <ip>' it will show the MAC address for the IP from your machine's arp cache.
- Comment on Anon finds the culprit 2 months ago:
No, you just stop telling everyone else about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
"it goes up to eleven"
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 2 months ago:
The problem with wifi is that things will go downhill quickly once you have too many stations online. Even if they're not actively browsing, the normal amount of chatter that a network has will often just slow things right down. It would need to be split into smaller wifi networks linked somehow and that means someone needs to be in a central location that is easily traced.
In theory I guess someone with a very fast connection could run a layer 2 VPN. Then you could all run a routing protocol over that network which is accessed over the internet.
Lot's of ways to do it really. Wifi alone is probably the worst though.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 2 months ago:
In fact, forget the internet!
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 2 months ago:
I mean you could have an open wifi mesh and/or a network of either cheap fibre/ethernet with open switches. Then using OSPF or a similar routing protocol that supports routing over LAN networks you could handle the routing between all the remote networks.
I think you'd need to break the network up at some points to break down the broadcast domains. You could do a similar thing to defederating, by not accepting certain routes, or routes from certain OSPF nodes.
Issues with LANs that get too big without splitting into a new LAN (limiting broadcast domains) and definitely even the most modern wifi becomes problematic with a number of active stations online (wifi is half duplex in operation). So multiple channels and some backbone either over point to point radio links, or cable to connect wifi zones and alternate channels would improve things somewhat.
Not sure why you'd want to do something like this. But the tech to do it is fairly inexpensive.
- Comment on Anon has a lucid dream 2 months ago:
Lucid dream rookie! If the lucid dream happens, and you're in the same place you fell asleep, well actually if that happens the majority of the time it will become a sleep paralysis episode. But, if it isn't, always teleport yourself the fuck away from the location.
Ain't no way you want to risk that you're too close to being awake (or in this case not asleep at all). I'd wager anon fell asleep, woke up but was having a hypnopompic hallucination, and that explains the text on the board.