melmi

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[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Only the 14% statistic was explicitly about IPTV, the others are about "consuming content illegally". It seems like maybe there are multiple surveys involved?

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Only giving a /64 breaks stuff, but some ISPs do it anyway. With only a /64 you can't subnet your network at all.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Giving a /48 is spec, but a lot of ISPs are too stingy :/

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Going to other planets would require a total re-architecting of our communications infrastructure anyway. There's such distance too it's not really viable to have a shared internet. Even Mars would have up to 22 minute latency at peak. So I don't think it makes sense to plan our current internet around potential future space colonization.

Even so, IPv6 is truly massive. We could give a /64 to every square centimeter of the Earth's surface and still have IPs to spare. Frankly, I think the protocol itself will be obsolete before we run out.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"You wouldn't download a car" is a meme edit that got stuck in everyone's heads. The original PSA actually does say "you wouldn't steal a car" and basically was what you describe in your last paragraph.

https://youtu.be/P-pYiWGSN8w

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

All of your temporary privacy addresses will be coming out of the same subnet, so it's clear they all belong to the same people.

Ultimately the privacy extensions are just bringing IPv6's privacy back in line with IPv4, because without the privacy extensions every single device has a separate IPv6 address based on its MAC address whereas in IPv4 most consumer networks have every device sharing a single IP.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

What does "woke" mean? What makes modern Trek woke but old Trek not?

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think the utility of blocking people on a public platform is kind of fake anyway. If someone is harassing you, and you block them, it's obvious that you did it so they'll just log out and suddenly they can see your posts again. Accounts are trivial to make on the fediverse too so they can always just spin up a new one to harass you.

I think silent filtering is better for that reason because they can't tell that you did it so they won't just immediately switch to a new account and keep going.

Active blocking like you're talking about only makes sense if there's such a thing as "follower-only" posts imo. Otherwise it's a false sense of security because they can see everything anyway just by logging out or switching to another account.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you have a link to people talking about running a relay on a raspberry pi? I find it hard to believe that's possible. A PDS, sure, but a relay requires multiple terabytes of storage alone and plenty of bandwidth/CPU/RAM that I just don't see a raspberry pi being able to support.

I'd be curious to hear about any progress on setting up new relays though.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

The free version of ChatGPT is 4o or 4.1-mini at this point. You can't even access 3.5 without paying, ironically, since it's legacy now.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Years ago my ex was trying to get me into anime and they decided to show me Made in Abyss and it put me off anime for years

 

It seems that the issue was resolved behind closed doors, so it could have been resolved behind closed doors to begin with, and then if the defederation was to go ahead simply announce the defederation.

Making an announcement "it will be defederated in 48 hours" made for this weird countdown drama thread (we even had programming.dev people show up and be sad about defederation!) that didn't really go anywhere, and then y'all just locked it when we refederated and made it clear that you were never interested in input and you'll be running the instance as you please (which is well within your rights of course). So what was the point of the thread?

I can see how it is nice to have warning if a community you're involved in is going to be defederated, but it also drags drama to our nice little corner of the fediverse, and pins it at the top of our feeds for all to see. In fact it shows up as the top of every feed for me, Local, All, and Subscribed. I can't get away from it.

Every time these threads show up they end up blowing up. Honestly, if you didn't make these threads, I wouldn't care who you defederate. But because the thread exists, I have to come in and I have to have an opinion. That's a personal issue and I recognize that, but I would hazard a guess that I'm not the only one. People who have never interacted with Blahaj nor the instance getting defederated show up in these threads sometimes. These threads invite drama, and for me personally, whenever they come up they make this space feel significantly less safe and make me want to leave Lemmy as a whole because it feels like it's just nonstop defederation drama for days at a time, but it's pinned at the top of my feed.

Maybe these threads actually provide utility, and I should just take these threads as a sign I should take a break from the Internet for a bit. But to me, they just seem like they're all downsides.

 

I know you're supposed to pronounce it along the lines of "blo-hi", but the Anglicized "blahaj" is so hard to resist!

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