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Comment · 4 hours ago
In situations you described, everything available on said phone/laptop will be compromised, including Signal, no?
Comment · 1 day ago
I read it, and my disappointment was immeasurable, and day ruined. The novel is just bad. It seems the real story is that it was a draft which J.Vernes and his publisher discarded exactly because it was below expected quality line, and not because "prophecy implausible". Fast forward to our times, and someone decided (not without a reason) that it's possible to sell anything with J.Vernes name on it, and marketed it as a "lost manuscript" accidentally found in "family safe".
Comment · 1 day ago
I was healthy enough, and my mood was normal for an adult Eastern European, I was struggling with constant tiredness though, and it seemingly helped. Can't comment on longevity, I'm still alive so the data point isn't ready for analysis!
Comment · 1 day ago
I had deficiency, I took supplements, it successfully raised my levels. It was late fall, and I didn't have much sun exposure.
Comment · 1 day ago
Don't know why but coloring and backround sounds of this animation feel very uncomfortable to me.
Comment · 1 day ago
They are decentralized cause they operate on a sort of consensus between nodes as was original premise. Are they "very decentralized" depends on your definition of "very", of course, and techical realities of a particular situation.
Comment · 1 day ago
I don't play this kind of games at all, but I still can sympathize with you if it's your preferred pastime, and it doesn't work as good as you'd like. I just don't think it warrants a conclusion that those nets in which we are arguing are broken. They are tangibly, observably doing pretty well. And I find that the idea that in a shiny world of pure IPv6 central servers/nodes would decentralize themselves comes from deep misunderstanding about what "normal" humans want.
Comment · 1 day ago
>iroh relies on relays

Yes, and DynDNS too. Which is fine, cause it works, and that is what I said. The claim to which it replies is that people have to pay to Dropbox cause poor souls were stopped from sharing files using existing technologies like FTP by the damned IPv4, and not because they simply prefer an out-of-the-box GUI thing.

Comment · 1 day ago
>it would never have existed in a world without NAT because it wouldn't have been needed,

I'm sorry, but this claim is one of the brightest examples of false consenses effect I've seen in ages. People generally just prefer an icon on desktop to click/tap. And that's the reason Dropbox found its audience.

Comment · 1 day ago
You absolutely can do it within the existing paradigm, in a number of ways, actually. Search for iroh, or DynDNS for example.

And if you seriously believe that Dropbox appeared because of NAT, and not because people prefer out-of-the-box solutions, I can only suggest you to go out of your bubble, and discuss technical issues with random people.

"Intended" btw is not even an argument. Internet wasn't intended for many things which we happily do here.

Comment · 2 days ago
There are working procedures to follow in such situations, and minimally competent ISPs deal with them well enough so that most users don't even know the problem exists.
Comment · 2 days ago
It's slightly unrealic idea though, as most of internet users are consumers, and that's the role they really prefer. That's why Dropbox gained popularity in spite of, you know, the fact that we all can do it with FTP.
Comment · 2 days ago
You mean it's fixed by NAT and CGNAT. Because it's works just fine for me.
Comment · 2 days ago
There are plenty of apps in which you can setup an action on geolocation
Comment · 3 days ago
Fair. I didn't read it as something specific to git cause I know how it works with MacOS

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