realreality

Driving more is not environmentally friendly, even in an EV. You're putting more wear and tear on the tires and brakes, which are not sustainably manufactured. And more road traffic means more repaving, requiring diesel vehicles and massive amounts of tar.

"Free" fuel for you just pushes the externalities elsewhere.

Why not complain about both? Industrial civilization is inherently unsustainable, no matter how you try to power it.

I didn't have access to a 486 until around 1999. I was making do with a hand-me-down 8088 and then a 386SX.

Back then, 10 years of technological advancement made a huge difference. Today, you can get by just fine with a 2016-era laptop.

I haven't noticed any bad actor traffic. Perhaps yggdrasil is still too obscure to bother attacking.

The stationary nodes are connected to several public yggdrasil peers that are geographically close by. The routing "just works", though connecting to a peer can take a few seconds, at first.

I share that sentiment. I've thought about combining yggdrasil with garage to create a sort of plug-and-play distributed storage pool shared with a trusted circle.

Though I wonder if the network routing would break down beyond a certain scale, or if it can be resilient against attacks. I don't know enough about the inner workings to be determine the weak points.

Yes. All you have to do is whitelist your clients' yggdrasil addresses in your firewall.

in pf syntax:

  table <yggdrasil> persist file "/etc/yggdrasil-allowed"

  pass in quick on tun0 inet6 proto tcp from <yggdrasil> to port $services

It's been working well for me as a kind of poor-man's tailscale, connecting several VPS and several laptops.

She ran for President in 2024. Where were you?

There are tipping points, when warming accelerates and becomes irreversible.

There’s some debate in “the science” about how quickly we’ll reach that point. Limiting warming to +2°C was not a scientific position; it was political, based on what people thought was achievable. Before the Paris Agreement, 2° was not considered “safe”.

Anyway, it turns out we’re going to zoom past 2° in the next couple of decades.

Objects in Garage are broken up into 1MB (default) blocks, and compressed with zstandard. So, it would be difficult to reconstruct the files. I don't know if that was a recent change since you looked at it.

Configuration is still through the CLI, though it's fairly simple. If your usecase is similar to the way that the Deuxfleurs organization uses it -- several heterogeneous, geographically distributed nodes that are more or less set-it-and-forget-it -- then it's probably a good fit.

Garage works well for its limited feature set, but it doesn't have very active development. Apparently they're working on a management UI.

Seaweedfs is more mature and has many interfaces (S3, webdav, SFTP, REST, fuse mount). It's most appropriate for storing lots of small files.

I prefer the command line interface and data/synchronization model of Garage, though. It's easier to manage, probably because the developers aren't biting off more than they can chew.

I use a slow cellular connection and noticed some apple service (I could never figure out which one, even after installing an outgoing firewall) was aggressively uploading some large blob every time the mac woke from sleep, which made the whole connection useless for up to half an hour.

At some point, apple must've fixed this "bug", but the experience -- and apple's increasingly obtrusive software -- convinced me to switch to linux.

Where I live, permits are only given to licensed plumbers, and all work on plumbing requires a permit (though I’m sure many people ignore the rule).

You’re wasting your time fighting a straw man. I never said all regulations are bad.

The question was why plumbers are expensive. I assert that it’s not because plumbing is especially difficult.