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Engineer (DNS/DHCP/IPAM), outdoors, ⛷️

[A  @a_snair]

🚨 New Blog Post:
“Bio implants: Prod and Cons”
https://t.co/8w5c8mvRVy

[A  @a_snair]

@WFG_DEN Thank you, saved me a lot of time

[aditya - oss/acc @0x0elliot]

bro just went forward with it

[The Poll Lady @ThePollLady]

10. Hillary Clinton Emails leak (2016):

WikiLeaks released emails from the DNC, which were seen as damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

The revelations sparked significant controversy and discussion about the integrity of the US political process and the transparency of Clinton's campaign.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[A  @a_snair]

@SciPyTip Looks like this lib recommends another for reading newer (xlsx?) files?

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Freedom of the Press Foundation: "Prosecuting Julian Assange threatens journalists and press freedom"

UK court decision on extradition: Monday May 20 2024 #FreeAssangeNOW

[A  @a_snair]

@ForeignAffairs @AOstovar Not sure I understand, Israel bombs Iran, Iran fights back, so Iran is escalating?

[A  @a_snair]

@BMakuch @lorenzofb @huibmodderkolk “AIVD'er who sabotaged the Iranian nuclear weapons program in 2007 was the Dutch engineer Erik van Sabben
Americans kept crucial information from infamous Stuxnet operation secret from the Netherlands
Prime Minister Balkenende and committee Secretly were not informed
…”

[Teri Radichel #cybersecurity #ai #pentesting @TeriRadichel]

Also note the outbound connections your server makes after you perform that action.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

"Starlink" has been trending for the last couple days because the FCC canceled $800-million it was going to give to Musk/SpaceX/Starlink for "rural broadband". I thought I'd write up some notes.

Here's the three things you need to know:
- Starlink is not as good as wired Internet -- the FCC has good technical reasons for not liking it.
- But it's damn close -- close enough that we have to question whether the FCC is being reasonable.
- The FCC is already horribly politicized and unreasonable even without Starlink in the picture.

The government has been trying to subsidize "broadband" since forever. For example, back in 1992, the argument was for subsidizing ISDN at 128-kbps (instead of the slow 14.4-kbps that was then common for modems) in rural America.

I have a rural property just outside DSL range (commute distance to Intel's headquarters). I've been waiting for 20 years for FCC to fulfill it's mandate of providing wired/fiber to my property. The reality is that this isn't going to happen in my lifetime.

The biggest reason is that the FCC wants the highest speed possible. It'd rather fund one household getting 100-mbps from fiber than 10 households getting 10-mbps.

It's pretty random which rural customers get the subsidies. There's no real way for a rural customer to influence the process, such as agreeing to pay more. I'd happily pay $10k to get a 100-mbps wire installed to my place -- it'd more than pay for itself from some rich Intel engineer wanting to buy the property to commute from, where the only sticking point is lack of Internet.

Thus, the chance of my property ever getting wired Internet is essentially nil. The FCC hands out money to the politically connected, those who know how to work the system, and that's not me. With some effort I could probably figure it out, setup a coop, and apply for funds, it'd work, but I'd have to spend basically a year of my life doing it. Unless I get lucky and some Intel engineer buys a nearby property with experiencing in ISPs, it's not going to happen.

But Starlink did happen, I've been an ecstatic customer for 3 years now. The fact that Starlink exists and provides good Internet service to my property has probably doubled its market value.

Previous satellite Internet wasn't really an option. It'd work, but the latency and bandwidth restrictions were so bad you really couldn't call it "Internet". For example, you couldn't use Netflix with it. You definitely couldn't play online games, even slow-twitch games.

But with Starlink, all the problems of traditional satellite go away. The latency gets reduced to only slightly worse than wired. You can now use Netflix and Amazon Prime and YouTube with reckless abandon. For most users, they wouldn't even notice a difference.

I have an AT&T microcell that runs through Starlink (because mobile service is so bad at the property), and it runs just as good as normal cell service. It's amazing how well it works, given the unreliability of server before Starlink.

With all this said, there are problems. Despite latency being low, it's highly variable. Same with bandwidth. Starlink satellites wizzing by overhead are only visible for a few minutes at a time, so the groundstation "dish" is constantly shifting from one satellite to another. Even if you are on the same satellite for a bit, congestion is constantly changing, as suddenly a bunch of other users are suddenly transfer to your dish.

One consequence is that suddenly video (FaceTime, Zoom, Netflix) shifts to a low blocky resolution for a minute. It can happen on Comcast, too, but its very rare. It happens several times a day on Starlink.

Another consequence is the fastest of fast-twitch games, where a even a small blip in latency can lose you the match. I don't play those sorts of games, so I don't care. I do play other Internet games that aren't quite so sensitive, which are unplayable on traditional satellite. I don't notice any problem with them.

I can't see Starlink ever improving this, and that's probably why the FCC canceled their $800-million. A wired provider can guarantee that 90% of the time, bandwidth will be above 100-mbps and latency below 50-milliseconds, reliable for fast twitch games. Starlink can only guarantee that 50% of the time.

But Starlink is here, for almost every rural users. It's done far more for rural broadband than all of the FCC's spending on the problem put together. It cost less to create than the $20-billion that FCC has allocated for rural broadband subsidies and services many times more customers.

Given that Starlink is here and is in the reach of almost all rural customers, the FCC needs to shutdown it's current rural initiative (meaning, make no new grants, but of course, live up to existing promises) and re-evaluate it's roll in the matter.

But of course they won't do that, and will instead keep investing $billions in fiber-to-nowhere. FCC is bureaucracy, and loves such waste.

The point of these post is simply that I'm note sure it's Biden's hostility toward Musk so much as government bureaucrats hostile to free enterprise that are busy solving problems without government direction. I've been watching this process for 30 years and it's been a constant boondoggle from the beginning.

And I'm still not going to get wired Internet to my rural property no matter how many dollars the FCC wastes on the problem. While Musk is an idiot managing Twitter, I still thank God for Starlink!!

[الباروميتر العربي /Arab Barometer @ArabBarometer]

How the #Israel-#Hamas War in #Gaza Is Changing #Arab Views

Support Is Falling for #America and the Two-State Solution—but Rising for #Iran and Armed #Resistance

By: @mdhrobbins @MC_Roche_ @AmaneyJamal Salma Al-Shami & Mark Tessler

Read @ForeignAffairs
https://t.co/DxoThHKCDH

[A  @a_snair]

@luke_pighetti Thank you! This was very informative and exactly what I needed, have been working on replacing subfloor from water damage and def need to practice my layout skills!

[Steve (Builder.io) @Steve8708]

fun fact - you can chain '!' and '?' operators in ts for added drama

[A  @a_snair]

@Cannibal Redid duct work in a ceiling, and fixed the power cord for a circ saw

[A  @a_snair]

@RayRedacted It’s always weird to me that we have “lactose intolerance” but diabetes (type 2) isn’t called “sugar intolerance”

[A  @a_snair]

Surprised how well @streamlit works, using it for disperse unstructured data and it just works

[Rona Wang @ronawang]

🤨

[A  @a_snair]

@BKAngryKing @Ionrover2 @sysadafterdark Got a Mac at work specifically because they can’t administer it as well (by putting 20 agents on it)

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

@JohannBiermann1 they make it too easy🤧