Yes, in the end one always has to be aware if one is turning a description into an ontological question. We identify the light beam with its electric and magnetic field, even though none of them even move into the same…
You cannot treat light as particles in that scenario. The primary wave gets absolutely and completely delayed, with no part getting ahead. It's not some photons doing something with a certain probability and then…
I always find it interesting to read takes like this. I get it, I also bounced multiple times off Elite Dangerous due to boredom. But in the end it was always intended to be Euro Truck Simulator in Space. The main…
People often say that but does the cost for handling cash really scale (even approximately) proportionally with the number of transactions or revenue? Or is it more binary that you have to decide, you either handle any…
If you actually read how GUIX (what they talk about in section 7.3) is calling a "full source bootstrap", they have brought down the compiler seed to less than 200 bytes, but also they rely on an execution environment…
The paper is not about implementing a general attack that works on all trusting-trust mitigations. It is precisely about showing that you can still propagate backdoored code if the compromised binary in your seed is NOT…
But to be fair, at least paper disposal is truly free because paper recycling generally turns a profit for the municipalities.
Note that the fork()/execve() semantics of Linux pretty much depend on memory overcommit. You may get weird OOM crashes when there is seemingly no memory pressure, if you turn overcommit off. In the short time between…
Read up on the Koch method. To be exact: Koch method with Farnsworth timing. You'll have to keep the letters in a certain speed so your brain does not have enough time to decode dots and dashes. So only the length…
HAM was a nice rabbit hole to fall into, but unfortunately I couldn't muster enough interest to actually get good enough to go "on air". Some other things that surprised me and may be interesting for other people:…
The normalization of the age variable still looks problematic, as it requires that there is a linear dependency between age and incidence. Both the scatter plot and also the probability graph seem to be curving upwards…
I think when thinking about progress as a society, people need to internalize better that we all without exception are on this world for the first time. We may have collectively filled libraries full of books, and…
Yes, that is plausible indeed, but the problem is that there are many explanations which are plausible, but there doesn't seem to be a smoking gun. Strange about that explanation for example is that the time correlation…
Yes, I think it's wrong, or at least way over-exaggerated. You can run a grid to supply approximately 80% renewables (long-term average) without significant technical changes. Only if you want to get the last 20% to…
> crap like that report > Only those working closely in that profession have any knowledge of the underlying causes. This report is literally from the ENTSO-E which is the main regulatory body for the grid in Europe. >…
That being said, I was apparently also under the impression of outdated or just plain wrong information. While the report I listed mentions the sudden loss of decentralized generation as starting point of the blackout,…
> It's not that easy, and the 2025 blackout good evidence of that. Renewables need a grid that's engineered for them and that require significative investments. The outage in spain had multiple complex causes. While the…
Then we are just talking about two different things. On ISP level, routing tables are built via BGP. BGP needs Autonomous Systems (AS) as organization unit to work. If you are not an AS you are never a peer as you are…
> This also describes transit and describes getting internet service at home. Well no. Transit means that you use another AS (usually by a larger ISP) to get connectivity to a certain AS. And as for your internet…
Well, there is always a regulatory measure that would be a lot easier to implement: Lawmakers could just disallow Tier 1 carriers to provide consumer Internet access. (This forced separation of business domain already…
Peering just means that two AS physically connect to each other directly. Whether this peering is paid or not is independent from the technical implementation. Just nearly everybody except Telekom is doing this on a…
DTAG are also a consumer ISP. A consumer ISP should be considered a utility, and utilities can also be forced to provide certain services. In addition, Internet Exchanges have become so critical for the Internet…
Regulating peering within the EU would already be a win. The providers are then free to either move out of the EU market, or let their non-EU traffic flow via the (then likely larger) unrestricted pipes at DECIX and…
Small tangent, but I feel like it is a good time to drop the term "net neutrality", which covers way too much ground. In the past in political discussions, the term "violation of net neutrality" was used to protest…
I think you are reading too much into it indeed. I just paraphrased what the author called "My teenage daughter went mad." I explicitly do not want to make a statement about the normality of the described behaviour, as…
Yes, in the end one always has to be aware if one is turning a description into an ontological question. We identify the light beam with its electric and magnetic field, even though none of them even move into the same…
You cannot treat light as particles in that scenario. The primary wave gets absolutely and completely delayed, with no part getting ahead. It's not some photons doing something with a certain probability and then…
I always find it interesting to read takes like this. I get it, I also bounced multiple times off Elite Dangerous due to boredom. But in the end it was always intended to be Euro Truck Simulator in Space. The main…
People often say that but does the cost for handling cash really scale (even approximately) proportionally with the number of transactions or revenue? Or is it more binary that you have to decide, you either handle any…
If you actually read how GUIX (what they talk about in section 7.3) is calling a "full source bootstrap", they have brought down the compiler seed to less than 200 bytes, but also they rely on an execution environment…
The paper is not about implementing a general attack that works on all trusting-trust mitigations. It is precisely about showing that you can still propagate backdoored code if the compromised binary in your seed is NOT…
But to be fair, at least paper disposal is truly free because paper recycling generally turns a profit for the municipalities.
Note that the fork()/execve() semantics of Linux pretty much depend on memory overcommit. You may get weird OOM crashes when there is seemingly no memory pressure, if you turn overcommit off. In the short time between…
Read up on the Koch method. To be exact: Koch method with Farnsworth timing. You'll have to keep the letters in a certain speed so your brain does not have enough time to decode dots and dashes. So only the length…
HAM was a nice rabbit hole to fall into, but unfortunately I couldn't muster enough interest to actually get good enough to go "on air". Some other things that surprised me and may be interesting for other people:…
The normalization of the age variable still looks problematic, as it requires that there is a linear dependency between age and incidence. Both the scatter plot and also the probability graph seem to be curving upwards…
I think when thinking about progress as a society, people need to internalize better that we all without exception are on this world for the first time. We may have collectively filled libraries full of books, and…
Yes, that is plausible indeed, but the problem is that there are many explanations which are plausible, but there doesn't seem to be a smoking gun. Strange about that explanation for example is that the time correlation…
Yes, I think it's wrong, or at least way over-exaggerated. You can run a grid to supply approximately 80% renewables (long-term average) without significant technical changes. Only if you want to get the last 20% to…
> crap like that report > Only those working closely in that profession have any knowledge of the underlying causes. This report is literally from the ENTSO-E which is the main regulatory body for the grid in Europe. >…
That being said, I was apparently also under the impression of outdated or just plain wrong information. While the report I listed mentions the sudden loss of decentralized generation as starting point of the blackout,…
> It's not that easy, and the 2025 blackout good evidence of that. Renewables need a grid that's engineered for them and that require significative investments. The outage in spain had multiple complex causes. While the…
Then we are just talking about two different things. On ISP level, routing tables are built via BGP. BGP needs Autonomous Systems (AS) as organization unit to work. If you are not an AS you are never a peer as you are…
> This also describes transit and describes getting internet service at home. Well no. Transit means that you use another AS (usually by a larger ISP) to get connectivity to a certain AS. And as for your internet…
Well, there is always a regulatory measure that would be a lot easier to implement: Lawmakers could just disallow Tier 1 carriers to provide consumer Internet access. (This forced separation of business domain already…
Peering just means that two AS physically connect to each other directly. Whether this peering is paid or not is independent from the technical implementation. Just nearly everybody except Telekom is doing this on a…
DTAG are also a consumer ISP. A consumer ISP should be considered a utility, and utilities can also be forced to provide certain services. In addition, Internet Exchanges have become so critical for the Internet…
Regulating peering within the EU would already be a win. The providers are then free to either move out of the EU market, or let their non-EU traffic flow via the (then likely larger) unrestricted pipes at DECIX and…
Small tangent, but I feel like it is a good time to drop the term "net neutrality", which covers way too much ground. In the past in political discussions, the term "violation of net neutrality" was used to protest…
I think you are reading too much into it indeed. I just paraphrased what the author called "My teenage daughter went mad." I explicitly do not want to make a statement about the normality of the described behaviour, as…