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- Comment on Edge Of Tomorrow 2 Gets Exciting Update From Tom Cruise Movie Director After Years Of Stalls 5 days ago:
The movie that was almost amazing except that half way through the movie they ignored time travel and shit the bed on the script?
They’re making a second one?
Damn, they’re gonna have to market it harder than the first to bother selling it.
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. 1 week ago:
Promotions haven’t been a thing since the 70s Today you job hop because promotions are non existent
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. 1 week ago:
Productivity is for companies who want substance.
We only want continuous stock price increases regardless of how much it rots a company from the inside out.
That’s for someone else to carry about after I’m gone.
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 2 weeks ago:
Fucking eh!
If you spend 10 minutes looking into Dolly Parton, you’ll find a Fucking Angel.
Legitimately. Look into her reading program. Not just the news articles, but the written deals. She makes sure that if her program is a success, that the county is contracted to keep it going FOR-FUCKING-EVER. Her legacy is generations of kids who graduate high school because she sent them books.
And that’s just ONE thing she did, with a legacy that will outlast every one of us.
We ride at dawn.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Oops yep. You’re right
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, I was under the understanding that it actually cancels out the pressure by creating a wave exactly 90 degrees off from the initial wave, creating reverse pressure and canceling the sound….
Not sure?
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 month ago:
I am fairly certain that they are merely holding the eye of Sauron
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Yes, but we’re talking about “seconds” and “nanoseconds” rather than hours.
Networks move much faster than we do.
There’s also no hierarchy of IP addresses, and that matters for lookups.
So the 1 second it takes to do a dns lookup is WAY too long for continuous ip lookups, and the size of the database and chains requires explaining where to find ip address X is too long and updates WAY too much to be accurate and/or kept.
Lookups are easiest if you know “I lookup .uk addresses at this particular server in England” because that particular “ authoritative DNS server” only really handles its own little segment of lookups.
There is no such hierarchy in ip addresses, and they can’t really be cached for long.
You would have to continually know and update all of them. And we sorta do in the larger routers, but keeping that up to date at the edges would require a TON of bandwidth.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 month ago:
Sure, but if I put myself in their shoes, what better options did they have?
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
It’s not just the address space, but also the sheer number of lookups.
DNS has authoritative name servers based on tld, and then domain, and then maybe subdomain.
When you’re dealing with IP addresses, there is no such tree that I lookup, I just fire it into the abyss and let the routing hardware do the lookups. I know who my gateway is to the internet, but I usually don’t keep the routing information.
My ISP’s routing hardware then says “this IP was last found somewhere in Europe so I’ll fire it at my European connection and hope they get it right.”
Losses are expected.
IPv6 CAN route with larger address tables, but the “fire and forget” method still exists.
There’s also a method to scream at all my peers “do you know where 5.5.5.5 is, because I don’t know” I’ll remember their answer for a bit because that’s useful, but I’ll eventually forget it because I expect it to move. I expect this ip movement because I’m fault tolerant. I might not find the fastest way there, but I’ll find it.
Philosophically, the internet is designed to be fault tolerant and pseudo anonymous. So if 5.5.5.5 is somewhere in Spain and my Spain peer dies, I recognise that the packets are failing and then I start blasting them at England, because my British connection knows all about the Spanish villa and can pass along my messages. I don’t really care where Spain is, I care about who can get my message there and that’s it. It’s too onerous to always keep track of where everyone is, and MOST people on the internet I don’t actually know about because they’re behind a Nat gateway and I don’t care about them. This makes it so I only have to care about edge devices and greatly simplifies my list.
So for example, your laptop isn’t actually on the internet. Your modem/router is, but your laptop doesn’t exist to the internet. When I want to send you a packet, I just send it to your router and let the router handle it. I don’t even know that your laptop exists, and I don’t care.
Well your router will send the data to your laptop instead of your phone because the Nat is keeping track of who requested it and your phone didn’t ask for it. This causes problems because it means that from outside your network, I can’t just connect and send data inside your network unless someone asked for it. So I can’t just call your cell phone unless it reaches out first because I don’t know that your cell phone exists, and even if I did, the router would block it. This is why port forwarding exists, it allows you to have your laptop get ALL data sent to the router on port 12345. I still don’t know about your laptop, but I know that there’s a server on your IP address on port 12345 that I can connect to and request/send data to. Keeping track of all of this just so that I always know where your laptop is requires a fair bit of coordination at many layers.
Ideally it has a domain at a registrar that I can ask about where it currently is. The routing is still “fire and forget “ because it simplifies my list of “where every IP is” and even then, I only know about the laptop’s edge connection to the internet and let that edge take care of where to actually send the data so I don’t have to think about it.
In IPv6, Nat works a little different, but it’s still close.
I’m honestly not sure how many mistakes I made, I just kinda brain dumped info, so let me know which pieces don’t make sense.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
The domain registry is NOT, and it’s categorised by various tld’s the scope of the routing is MUCH higher traffic.
Your cell phone is run by a provider and has maybe 0.0000001% as much lookups as routing would have.
These things are all done in various tree light structures to try and eliminate central points of failure . The Internet was designed to try and resist failure, and you are creating some central failure points.
Even if you created several of them, synchronisation issues would be Basically impossible to fix or take up unbelievable amounts of bandwidth
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Shut your filthy mouth! 😝
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Yeah I addressed that IPv6 CAN do it, but you’re right.
Philosophically, I don’t want people or companies following me around that much, hence the “private MAC addresses” that came out a few years ago
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
It’s called a MAC address.
The problem with it is mostly routing.
The osi model has 7 layers of connection to form a proper internet connection.
The MAC address exists but doesn’t leave the physical network. The MAC address is used to physically connect your computer to the router, and it defines your piece of hardware.
The IP address can change, because your computer can connect to different networks.
If you tried to route everything with a MAC address, (which isn’t possible, but for arguments sake we will pretend it is) the problem is that when you take your phone with its MAC address off your wifi and on to your work wifi, Where would the registry be? How would the Internet know how to find your phone? Do you just log into one giant global registry so that everyone can find your phone when they are trying to communicate with it? That would be a giant fucking database and everyone would always be trying to use it.
Routing is a big and complex problem, and these things didn’t work with ipv4
They do work better with IPv6. IPv6 adresses don’t need to change like ipv4 for a bunch of reasons.
From a philosophical level, the Internet was designed for people to be anonymous and make relatively anonymous connections. You wanted to be flexible enough that you can just be assigned a new number and work with that new number quickly.
This is a really simple explanation, and I got some basic facts wrong just for ease of understanding, but the principals are correct.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 2 months ago:
Was just a skin on win 2k and contained an intel chip.
It was just a PC in a box.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 2 months ago:
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 2 months ago:
That’s literally what the original Xbox was
- Comment on Anon writes a movie 5 months ago:
I was thinking more “ league of extraordinary gentlemen”
- Comment on Anon writes a movie 5 months ago:
I would definitely watch that movie
- Comment on Dave Chappelle’s Obsession With Mocking Trans People Continues in New Netflix Special ‘The Dreamer’: ‘I Love Punching Down’ 5 months ago:
He’s in for a hell of a surprise, because he thinks he’s in the club.
And I say that with the most love and someone that’s watched all but the latest special.
- Comment on Data leak 5 months ago:
This looks like the “switch” or “router” end of the cable, so it could be coming from the PC
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 6 months ago:
He should name the charity with which he speaks of, “United way”
The rest are mostly as you describe
- Comment on How do you moderate yourself? 7 months ago:
You have to find other outlets.
It’s a long process with therapy etc…
But you have to find something else that’s more important to you. Video games are designed to appeal to your need for quick feedback, and it’s awful
This may require some significant lifestyle changes.
- Comment on EU "Chat Control" and Mandatory Client Side Scanning 8 months ago:
Well, that’s terrifying
- Comment on Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet 8 months ago:
How is this not fraud to the advertisers?
With Adsense I pay for people to search for X term and in turn show them an ad for my product.
But people are searching for Y, google is changing their search terms to include X so that I have to pay Google more and the client gets a shittier result.
Holy fuck.
That’s epic scale fraud.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 9 months ago:
“Don’t be evil”
Unless people want to be paid.
- Comment on Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor 9 months ago:
That’s the suggestion, but we don’t know what versions it applies to or how it’s accessed etc…
- Comment on UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? 9 months ago:
The stock buybacks are really the answer. They spent 100x on them, but the CEO pay is still a valid target
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Soooo, not taking sides on this one because it’s very divisive buuuut……
The conservatives are worried that therapists are run amok and are out there convincing normal kids that are on a path of self discovery that they should flip genders. I mean I’m a guy and there were definitely points in my life where I wondered what it’s like to be a girl beyond just the simple question. There’s some validity to this because the therapy community has made messes before (see “recovered memories”)
As an example of this, at a recent pride event I was at, I saw a 10 year old wearing the asexual flag. They’re far too young to try and define what they are, they we’ll change as life goes on…… but more than that, should a 10 year old have a sexuality?? Are they actually asexual or just 10 and not yet finished puberty?
I don’t have the answers, but it’s a valid question.
That being said, the reality is that there are VERY few children who actually transition that early in life and they seem to be fairly clear cases, so the risks seem WAY overblown and the blowback on that great mongering is a huge safety risk to the trans community and frankly the lgbtq community as a whole. So while they do have a somewhat valid but minor concern, they’re treating it like every elementary school teacher is trying to find the “trans” in everyone. It gets much worse than that in the “don’t say gay” bills.
Then there’s the sports problem and quite frankly I agree with the conservatives on that one. Trans folk should compete with the men’s/open leagues and not the women’s leagues. Testosterone is too powerful to allow trans (in either direction) to obliterate the women’s leagues.
- Comment on Locked out of account 9 months ago:
Check the clock on your system