lemmyng
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- Comment on Aaaand fade out... 1 day ago:
- Comment on Efficency 4 days ago:
- Comment on Hopeless (2023, dir Kim Chang-hoon) 1 week ago:
Yourn link goes to the Alien Romulus trailer.
- Comment on A second Uncharted movie is officially in the works 1 week ago:
I watched it with very low expectations. IMO it was more entertaining than Red Notice, which came out at the same time and I guess sold itself as "We have Uncharted at home. "
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
CIV:BE sort of scratches the SMAC itch.
- Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use? 3 weeks ago:
Icelandian.
- Comment on Heart Size 3 weeks ago:
Is that why cities are full of rats? Because of heartless bastards that no longer need theirs?
- Comment on What is the equivalent stereotype of 'women should all be homemakers,' for men? 4 weeks ago:
Men not being allowed to be emotionally expressive has led to so many mental health problems…
- Comment on The next No Man’s Sky update makes the game lonelier — and more dangerous 4 weeks ago:
Nah, you’ll be fine. The game is quite forgiving.
- Comment on The next No Man’s Sky update makes the game lonelier — and more dangerous 4 weeks ago:
Six spaceships, base building, your own dreadnought (aka base building… IN SPACE), minor space politics where the decisions don’t matter, and lots and lots of exploration.
- Comment on How do you search for honest product recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
Reddit has been astroturfed so much the recommendations there have to be taken with a lot of salt.
- Comment on ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep 1 month ago:
Apart from the license incompatibility (which doesn’t stop it from being used by distros, as Ubuntu has shown): While it’s a fantastic filesystem for servers, it is also resource hungry and not suitable for small or portable systems.
- Comment on Touchy 1 month ago:
Beat me to it by that much 🤏
- Comment on Touchy 1 month ago:
If it’s not in OEIS it’s not famous.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 month ago:
Yep, if you request the desktop version you don’t get that redirect.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 month ago:
Or just request the desktop version.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
- A static IP is actually not necessary, but what you need is a consistent identifier. For the server, that’s typically a DNS address, but for clients and peer to peer networks there’s other ways to identify devices, usually tied to an account or some other key kept on the device.
- For centralised communications yes, you would need an always online server. For decentralised networks, you just need a sufficient amount of online peers, but each individual peer does not need to be always online.
- Pretty much, yes. Even push notifications on cell phones work this way.
- Route, yes. Manually. VPN is usually not necessary. In modern web-based services this is typically done with websockets, which are client-initiated (so the client address can change), and which allow two-way communication and typically only require a keepalive packet from the client every minute or so.
There’s other reasons why universal addressing is not done - privacy, network segmentation, resiliency, security, etc. And while IPv6 proponents do like to claim that local networks wouldn’t be strictly necessary (which is technically true), local networks will still be wanted by many. Tying this back to phone numbers - phone numbers work because there’s an implicit trust in the telcos, and conversely there’s built in central control. It also helps that it’s only a very domain specific implementation - phone communication specifications don’t change very often. On computer networks, a lot of work has been done to reduce the reliance on a central trust authority. Nowadays, DNS and SSL registries are pretty much the last bastion of such an authority, with a lot of research and work having gone into being able to safely communicate through untrusted layers: GPG, TOR, IPFS, TLS, etc.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Whoa, that’s a sizeable edit to the post! Regardless the answer is pretty straightforward: your VOIP client (either the device if you have one or the software) is connected to a VOIP service which acts like a gateway for your client. Since the client initiated the connection to the gateway and is keeping it alive, you don’t need to make any network changes. Once the connection is established, standard SIP call flows (you can Google that for flow diagrams) are followed.
So no, you router is not part of the cell service. The VOIP provider is part of a phone service that receives calls and routes them for you, just like the cell towers are part of a telephony provider that routes calls through the appropriate tower.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Ah, I see we are resorting to ad hominem attacks now.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Laptops don’t get a new IP address every time they switch from one AP to another in the same network either. Your cell phone will get a new IP address if it switches to a different cell network.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
A phone number does not uniquely identify a phone either.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
When you do call routing with a PBX each phone has an unique extension, equivalent to the private IP of each host.
Oh, and there’s also anycast, which is literally multiple active devices sharing an IP.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Phone numbers can be spoofed, and SIM cards can be cloned. The analogy stands.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
Sure they can. If you put a network behind a router they will share an egress/ingress IP. And there are certain high availability setups where computers share IPs in the same subnet for hot/standby failover.
- Comment on ))<>(( 2 months ago:
I still have my HP 48 series calculator. It’s a sturdy beast.
- Comment on Someone should release Discovery with all the speeches removed 3 months ago:
If you remove the speeches from Trek, don’t you just end up with the kind of content everyone seems to be complaining about in JJ-Trek?
- Comment on [Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment? 3 months ago:
Characters in dystopian settings with clean faces with makeup, and perfectly coiffed hair. You’re telling me that whoever built your doomsday vault decided that a 10 year supply of concealer, mascara, lipstick, etc should be part of a survival kit?
- Comment on How does this math work? 3 months ago:
I wanted to keep it simple and avoid a factorial sum. My example also shows that the remainder sum goes up even when nothing is spent.
- Comment on How does this math work? 3 months ago:
You can’t just add the balances and expect it to amount to the same as the spend. Consider this: you spend 0, 0, 0, 50. Your balances are 50, 50, 50, 0. Adding up the balances you get 150. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Any service cheaper than Backblaze? 3 months ago:
Note that Wasabi has no egress fees, but has a transfer limit - essentially the contract stipulates that your monthly egress will be less than the amount of storage you pay for.