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ArbiterXero ,

Going from “sim “ to “voip” means that your cell phone will only ever work when it’s on wifi. The reliability will drop significantly Your ability to get maps and things while on the road, in fact you won’t be able to receive or make phone calls/texts/anything while travelling at all (by bus, car or bike)

… just fyi

ArbiterXero ,

I dunno, I feel like this could have been solved with a pizza party and T-shirts for less money

/s

ArbiterXero ,

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.

ArbiterXero ,

Yep, it’ll be opt in until they can turn it on without people noticing

ArbiterXero ,

Sure but you also haven’t lost any of the power that wasn’t generated by them being dead/broken

ArbiterXero ,

Not really, no.

But this thing could be beat with a raspberry pi.

ArbiterXero ,

100%

We’re measuring our economy by how much can be siphoned off by investors.

That’s a really shitty measure.

I mean at this rate, why don’t we measure it by how many oranges the average citizen can squeeze up their ass?

ArbiterXero ,

Even people sometimes just wake up day and snap for reasons beyond our control.

Now you’re generally right, most of these cases there’s some meaningful details missing and the “no history of attacks” is a lie.

We just can’t broadly apply that because we don’t know which one isn’t a lie.

ArbiterXero ,

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?

ArbiterXero ,

Oops yep. You’re right

ArbiterXero ,

I think it’s a combination of a few things…

  1. It’s nearly impossible to REALLY get ahead these days. Everyone seems to be just keeping their heads above water, so people are getting desperate. They’ve run out of good answers to their problems
  2. They see a lot of people cheating each other and want to cheat the system themselves
  3. It uses legalese that they don’t really understand, but they think they do and it makes them feel powerful to understand something you don’t
  4. See point one. They don’t have legal options to solve their problems.
ArbiterXero ,

I mean the ones that end up on YouTube are shitbags, But I’m not certain that all of the rest are shitbags…… to be seen?

ArbiterXero ,

I mean, I really wanna hear musks opinion on this……

Because trump has promised to kill electric vehicle sales……so like, musk is going to support that?

ArbiterXero ,

Perfect. Zero notes.

Social media should not be for kids.

ArbiterXero ,

The algorithms designed to keep you there and sell you more are the real poison there, but I can’t say you’re wrong.

ArbiterXero ,

It’s when they tried to monetise it and then figured out that “to make the most money, we need people to stay on our site the longest” that things went to shit.

The algorithms soon learned that echo chambers of outrage worked great to maximize viewership.

And we all suffer more for it.

ArbiterXero ,

Agreed, but the allure of fame and Facebook/YouTube made this behaviour worse.

Or at least gave the mom the tools to make it worse.

ArbiterXero ,

Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, all the major ones. I’d like to think that Reddit is less affected by it than the rest of them, but I’m not certain that is accurate anymore.

…… I call this “exhibit A” for why I’m on lemmy.

ArbiterXero ,

I can agree with “was”

Now they’re looking to maximize monetisation.

The pattern repeats

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ArbiterXero ,

Amazing, I didn’t know they did this

ArbiterXero ,

2 problems….

  1. If you forget to turn off the mains, it could really make a lineman unhappy.
  2. Most of these setups require a reprimand dangerous “ suicide cord”
ArbiterXero ,

Yes, but not at 800W

ArbiterXero ,

I agree on all points, but honestly I’d be pretty upset if I got a solar setup that didn’t work when the power was out haha

ArbiterXero ,

I’d be super disappointed by owning a solar cell and not being able to use it during a power outage.

ArbiterXero ,

Sure, but this solution isn’t that.

ArbiterXero ,

Richard stallman is the only answer.

I really hate everything he says, but so far on a lot enough timescale he has been fucking right about everything

ArbiterXero ,

The only possible correct answer

No matter what crazy shit he says, give it a few years and he will be right . And I really hate that

ArbiterXero ,

There isn’t a coin out there that can process 1/10 of the number of transactions that Visa does in an hour.

Anonymous vpns would still exist, as block chain existed prior to crypto.

Visa having the power they do is definitely a problem, however buttcoin is not a viable answer.

You’re right, it’s not a ponzi scheme, it’s the “bigger idiot” scam.

ArbiterXero ,

“Combine all blockchains and they’d surpass credit cards”

I honestly can’t believe that’s a real argument you’re making, that’s just ridiculous. Especially given the number of rug pull scams there are with coins.

They aren’t currencies, they’re investment vehicles backed by nothing.

Block chain transactions aren’t as anonymous as you think, people can be easily revealed by looking at the wallet’s history and asking the last person you bought from “where the item was shipped to” …. Public ledger and all…

Ethereum can now process 1000 x 10 transactions. Visa currently does what, 80000 per second? Yeah it’s not quite 1/10th but….

How long until arbitrum reveals the rug pull? I’m sure it will be any day now.

Crypto is a solution to a problem nobody has. Need anonymous transactions? Here’s some cash. Need international anonymous transactions? Yeah, those are probably better being tracked anyways. And I say that as a privacy advocate. Yes, privacy matters, no international transaction privacy doesn’t.

Ya know what most “anonymous” international transactions are? Scams.

Let’s break this down to a single argument though…. Crypto is the answer to a problem nobody has. Smart contracts? For what exactly? Anonymous international transactions? What’s the need? As a society we’ve decided that some types of transactions are illegal. Yes, sometimes governments make things illegal that they shouldn’t, and authoritarians around the world make all sorts of things illegal that they shouldn’t… but for your necessities, they’ll all be available locally. And under an authoritarian enough regime, they can just inspect your mail anyways. Society requires trust, and that’s going to happen locally no matter what coin you use. It’s great that I can have a zero trust model for sending money, but it’s useless, because ultimately you still need to trust the person receiving it to do the exchange.

ArbiterXero ,

But none of them are REAL problems. They all have slow and albeit painful solutions, but they do work.

“Want to send 10k anonymously”

Who the fuck wants to send $10,000 to someone in a zero trust scenario?

Why are you sending 10K to someone without a legal paper trail?

The banks in China stopped giving people money because they couldn’t. You’re talking about a bank run, and these are societal issues that will still need to be dealt with. You think in a bank run, people will accept your monero?

You’re just going to be able to survive all societal ills will your buttcoin?

Most of these problems have already been solved and were short lived.

A central ledger is how we process transactions as a source of truth. The only reason the largest bitcoin holder isn’t revealed is because they’ve never spent a thing. The second they buy themselves anything, their shipping address is revealed.

You’re going to what…… buy property with bitcoin so that it’s anonymous despite your name ending up on the land registry?

Yes, when “money” falls, and the societal collapse happens, everyone’s going to trade in bitcoin.

Let’s bring it all together…. What are you buying with 10G where you need secrecy from everyone and are comfortable sending the cash in a zero trust environment?

ArbiterXero ,

You’re over simplifying my statements to try and support what’s going to be a failed investment.

Crypto allows you to send 10k internationally with zero trust. That’s insanity.

You can’t give one reasonable use case for it.

“You might want your salary to be a secret, until you have to report it for taxes.”

Sooooo, secret from whom? Because your neighbour and the cops can’t see your salary already. The problem doesn’t exist, unless your goal is tax fraud. But you quickly backed out of that argument because you saw the corner you were painting yourself into.

I totally agree that privacy is, and should remain an inalienable right, and you shouldn’t need a reason for information to be private.

Money isn’t information in itself. Who you give it to CAN be, but cash still solves that problem, so the problem doesn’t exist…… Until you’re trying to use cash remotely, but there are no reasonable use cases for needing anonymity in international money transfers. In fact there’s a ton of safety in having banks involved. It’s not 100% secure, but nothing ever is. As opposed to throwing your monero into the wind and hoping the other person ships your illicit items.

ArbiterXero ,

Sometimes the breed temperament has more to do with it than anything else….

But also assholes all seem to like the same breed so….

ArbiterXero ,

It pains me to say this as a great dog lover, and someone that has known some very loving pitbulls, Sadly not all dogs can be good dogs.

Like people, some are just born as “assholes”

But yes, breed temperament is a thing. Not an absolute thing, but still a thing.

ArbiterXero ,

Even pitbulls are safe in the right hands. Fuck it, tigers and lions and silverback gorillas are safe in the right environment.

However a proper education in caring for the animals aswell as proper enclosures and a knowledge of the animal and its needs….

Yes you CAN do it, but should Tom from down the street have his own pitbull army and alligator pool in his back yard?

Hard pass.

I’m sure some people can do it safely, but training, registration, safety, etc…. Ban them all as pets unless you get X license, like a gun.

ArbiterXero ,

I’m Canadian…. Slightly different standards.

ArbiterXero ,

The Ukraine is the sideshow.

China was waiting to see what the world did with Russia after the invasion.

China is now weighing whether the world will do the same with Taiwan as they did with Crimea and Ukraine.

The world will not stand by because of tmsc.

This is the problem with leaders that always need “more”

This is going to be a disaster.

ArbiterXero ,

The Ukraine “operation”

I just oopsied a word, but I do genuinely appreciate the heads up on grammar.

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ArbiterXero ,

Yes but the owners in Norway aren’t making more profits than last year.

The whole problem isn’t that they’re not making good profits, but that it’s not exponentially growing profits.

Greed.

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ArbiterXero ,

We told these stupid employees that they had to do a 3 hour test in 1 hour or get fired and they started faking it.

No idea why.

Anyways, we fired these low level employees as an example because they broke our rules when we encouraged them to.

Don’t worry, the directors and execs that forced this scenario are safe and will continue to blame employees for the fuckups no matter HOW systemic they seem.

The system isn’t bad, Charles was bad.

We infected his personal items with the bubonic plague on the way out so that he can’t harm any more stock prices. I mean airplanes.

✈️ ✈️

ArbiterXero ,

Our condolences to his window

(He somehow defenestrated himself 8 floors up)

ArbiterXero ,

I am fairly certain that they are merely holding the eye of Sauron

ArbiterXero ,

Sure, but if I put myself in their shoes, what better options did they have?

ArbiterXero ,

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

ArbiterXero ,

Shut your filthy mouth! 😝

ArbiterXero ,

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

ArbiterXero ,

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.

ArbiterXero ,

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.

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ArbiterXero ,

The convenience is spectacular! Haha

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