I may have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR, but I ignore all GDPR requests for the website I have that you can just visit, because I don't want to be seen as doing business that makes me subject to GDPR
They have registration data. Someone could declare they don't want IPs registered to companies from Frankfurt with geofeeds in Frankfurt to be advertised in Dubai.
How do you determine to whom an IP is even registered to? They get sub-leased all the time.
The best you can do is check who has administrative control over the prefixes RIR info, but that doesn’t mean that anyone with control is the factual user of the IPs.
You could check the IRR for the ASN and base it on that, but still.
There's also no way to actually know _where_ an IP actually originates from. Only its AS path.
The DFZ contains all prefixes announced everywhere, for the internet is completely decentralized.
8 port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170) 1.830 ms 1.969 ms *
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 1.539 ms 1.560 ms 1.555 ms
Virginia (measured from Maryland):
11 port-channel2.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.222.174) 19.666 ms 24.395 ms *
12 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 16.748 ms 17.268 ms 20.507 ms
And California (measured from California):
8 port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.830 ms be7.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.132) 5.197 ms port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144) 3.901 ms
9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 2.600 ms 2.435 ms 2.728 ms
The speed of light doesn't lie, IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality.
> That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.
Yeah, it played out with my whole social circle leaving, as evidenced by the fact that all my friends link me to the bluesky post whenever there's something happening now.
ATProto is designed to improve residence and resistance over time. The starting point and requirement was a UX that didn't suck. If you actually want to build a new social fabric that everyone will eventually adopt, you need to be easy and safe for normies, they care more about that than the federated stuff.
Has anyone from the blockchain and federated world found a UX for key management that doesn't suck? Same problem, same non-solution afaik, for how many years now?
I wasn't talking about free speech per se, but about the fragmentation of public discourse. Having multiple popular platforms makes fragmentation easier.
All your friends are here. All nazies/wokes are there. There's nothing and nowhere to discuss.
It's a strawman argument, of course there are many groups that have nothing to do with politics and echo chamber is wholly inappropriate. Think about your hobby or friend groups, certainly seems fine to have those be little islands in the internet sea.
You are also correct there is nothing new here, groups have been able to create very small echo chambers if they want, many options today.
Nor do they have to be "echo chambers", there are places in the middle which largely remain unexplored. This is where I've charted my course in ATProto
I'll take the echo chamber over being force to read racist and nazi propaganda any day, though kinda hard when the US government is one of the sources of this content.
Not every group has to be about news, lies, and propaganda or have any content related to that. In fact most are not and created explicitly to escape the noise.
I’m not interested in debunking lies from literal Nazis and fascists, and I’m especially not interested in listening to their replies to anything at all. They can crawl back into the hole they came from.
This number can mean wildly different things depending on the size of your house (and location).
I live in the Bay Area, CA in a 1,500 square foot house and consumed 7.8MWh in 2025 and 7.6 MWh in 2024.
Digging a bit more into our solar system data:
We produced a bit over 9MWh in solar each year and it looks like our Enphase batteries discharged 2MWh each year.
CDs can oxidize in the span of decades. I've got hundreds of burned CDs that are from 2003 that are fine (even if they have changed color) because i store them in a climate controlled environment.
A vinyl record degrades every time you play it in a normal turntable.
Most of my CD collection is from the 80's and 90's and I've never done much to take care of them. Many have spent a decade or more of their life in a car. Most of them spent ten years in my attic that gets very hot and very cold.
Out of 100 disks, only five or six have failed and all have been because of scratches on the foil side (or whatever the media that the music is encoded into is called).
Note that if you don't store your records in a climate-controlled environment, they'll melt. You don't need to play a record to degrade it; just keeping it around is enough to render it completely unplayable.
> I want my browser to protect me from ALL those things. Ublock origin did precisely that, then Google went in to kill ublock origin. Ublock lite is nowhere near as good.
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> I consider this betrayal - naturally by Google, but also by random web designers such as on the python homepage who consider it morally just to pester visitors when they do not want to be pestered. I don't accept ads; I don't accept pop-ups or slide-in effects (in 99.999% of the cases; notifications for some things can be ok, but this does not extend in my book to donation Robin Hood waylanders)."
> If Chrome wants to make itself less attractive, you should celebrate.
I appreciate that Chrome reducing user autonomy in order to further Google's own business goals _should_ be a reduction in their competitiveness in a perfect market.
But the web browser market does not have perfect competition today, and I cannot recall a time when it had.
Regulators preventing Apple from controlling iOS browser engines but allowing Google to have de facto ownership of the web would be an example of governments picking winners and losers.
Public policy needs to move the market towards real competition.
It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper."
All of my developer friends in the gaming industry have had far worse working conditions then what I've had.
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