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The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments

alastairbarber.com
1 points·by alibarber·2 mesi fa·0 comments

The Fast Way to Sweden – BGP Routing Experiments

alastairbarber.com
4 points·by alibarber·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear names

theguardian.com
3 points·by alibarber·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Adventures with Anycast – Building a Public Anycast Network

preview-anycast.oh2xab.pages.dev
2 points·by alibarber·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Wikipedia: AI or Not Quiz

en.wikipedia.org
1 points·by alibarber·3 mesi fa·0 comments

PyCon US 2026: Why we're asking you to think about your hotel reservation

pyfound.blogspot.com
28 points·by alibarber·3 mesi fa·9 comments

The shady world of IP leasing

acid.vegas
146 points·by alibarber·4 mesi fa·105 comments

Scottish independence accounts go dark after Iran internet blackout

web.archive.org
4 points·by alibarber·6 mesi fa·1 comments

Nineteen Septillion Addresses – Setting Up an ASN and Getting an IPv6 Allocation

alastairbarber.com
4 points·by alibarber·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Nineteen Septillion Addresses – Setting Up an ASN and Obtaining IP Addresses

alastairbarber.com
1 points·by alibarber·6 mesi fa·0 comments

MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms

theguardian.com
2 points·by alibarber·9 mesi fa·0 comments

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alibarber
·26 giorni fa·discuss
I was recently looking at a Python project to learn a bit about RTC and just generally hack around and try something out.

https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc

It was fun and I found the code nice and helpful.

I clicked on the PRs to see if there was anything interesting to look at. I started reading one when I just realised I was just reading someone’s Claude talking to GitHub Copilot. That was when I decided that the Dead Internet Theory had already happened.
alibarber
·26 giorni fa·discuss
I remember vaguely from interning at a bank that there you were actually obliged to be totally isolated from the company for a continuous period of time by policy.

The thinking was that if you were cooking the books of doing some dodgy dealing on the side it would come to light without you there to actively 'manage' it.
alibarber
·26 giorni fa·discuss
Yes - and realistically, if you're $BIGCO who's shipped a billion devices with some obscure curl vulnerability you just discovered, then the hard part is going to be rolling out a patch to all of them anyway, which is still a 'you' problem.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
Such a shame - in America they give you $95 for not getting Siri apparently

https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-siri-artificial-inte...
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
I'm afraid that it looks as if there are plenty of other contenders for those who might wish to undermine the EU, now and in the future.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
Yes I have also received payments for refunds of PAYE automatically within a month or two of no action on my part.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
Some banks in some parts of the EU have - SEPA instant was only mandated in January 2025, only for Euro payments.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
Selling a car usually does require a report to the government. Why would the seller care what happens down the line to the buyer?
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good narrative it seems.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
I’ve never submitted a tax return in the UK as a simple PAYE employee.

In another European country where I work (Finland) it’s as you describe but it’s still more than doing absolutely nothing that I did in the UK.
alibarber
·mese scorso·discuss
This is about illegally dangerous products (banned chemicals, dangerous baby toys, crappy mains chargers) specifically. The stuff that makes for exciting viewing on Big Clive's YouTube channel.

Local importers, shops and marketplaces selling such stuff do often get hit by national enforcement. Not enough in my opinion - but this isn't about just targeting Teemu for the normal commodities that you can indeed buy anywhere else.
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I'm delighted about this and also really hated the debate that had surrounded it.

Bring up WebSerial and WebUSB and oh no, all of a sudden, my 'document browser should not be accessing hardware' - yes we get it, you think the web is a collection of documents and are technically - in the most strictest sense possible correct. Hyper TEXT Transfer Protocol and all that.

Of course I've been watching Netflix and YouTube on my Firefox 'document browser' for years, because if I couldn't then there would literally no hope of anyone using Firefox in the real world, but WebUSB and WebSerial people are nerds who we can argue the toss about document browsers with and prove wrong.
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
From what I gathered from the article the person who got off was a resident of Tristan? They have such limited shipping options that this might have been the only way for them to travel from any mainland. Not sure though, but I don't think they got off there to seek medical assistance.
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> (albeit over Teams)

Would be great if this irony was taken note of at this level.
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Obligatory 'works fine for me', but I did have an issue earlier with using another ISP (timeouts) but switching to mobile data solved this, so maybe some connectivity issue?
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> The same way you fine drivers for traffic violation, but not the road.

Eh - my new car has an EU mandated speed limiter in it that takes over the cruise control. It uses a combination of GPS and vision to determine what speed limit to apply. Only slammed the breaks on on the motorway to drop from 120 to 80 KM/h erroneously 4 times in one journey last week.

Much like the oft maligned Google PM that releases/deprecates another chat product to get their promotion, some commissioner somewhere in Brussels managed to make the world a better place with this too.
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
In ham radio - we have a 'Q code' (abbreviation) for man-made noise: QRM (QRN is naturally occurring: thunderstorms and such). This is used mainly to refer to electrically noisy transformers, vehicles, misconfigured transmitters etc. Always been there, gets worse and/or better over time - but gotta figure out how to deal with it as part of the hobby.

When doing stuff on the internet, I've just decided to stop worrying and treat these scans like that above mentioned QRM. You can filter it a bit if you like [1], but really, a sensibly configured and maintained SSH server is as secure as it gets as far as I can see.

[1] https://alastairbarber.com/Building-Anycast-Network/#securit...
alibarber
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Let that sink in.
alibarber
·3 mesi fa·discuss
So - it sounds like you are doing exactly what is suggested, taking sensible steps to ensure your retirement and making the most of the available savings plans?

The 100k is just a number that means 'doing well for yourself in the local market and for the work you do'. From what I understood the 'retire at 45' is something separate.
alibarber
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I feel like this is a bit snarky, it simply means plan for your retirement and invest in your own future, take advantage of government / employer backed savings plans. Plenty of these exist over here. Don't waste your money.

Everything is not perfect in the singular country of Europe, I sure as hell don't want to be relying on only what the state decides it can give me in my old age.