Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 10

@Wolf480pl if I was working in a low SNR environment I would go with a high redundancy transfer protocol with (for instance) a multi-bit parity per word and determine the condition of the line based on how often corrections were needed in received data.

@Wolf480pl it's fun, and sometimes frustrating.

@strypey @Wolf480pl @CharredStencil institutions can do things that individuals can't. In this case, an institution can enforce consistent rules in a way that is utterly impossible for an individual.

Such as shutting down trolls, griefers, and malevolent propagandists and having sufficient strength to both make it stick and let them know why they are being disciplined.

This also allows for the possibility of mercy. I block people for those things all the time, and I can't reverse those choices.

@strypey @Wolf480pl @CharredStencil institutions are established patterns of authority that rely on people for accomplishing persistent tasks. They can be centralized, federated, or democratic in structure depending on the task and the principles of thise establishing them.

@maiyannah such is the state of political discourse today, right from the top.

Note: you can set up a ZFS pool on an SD card under Linux. This may provide hours of entertainment...

@bthall I'd like to see this to see if he gives the idea a fair shake.

My studies have lead me to believe in the "horses for courses" ideology of politics: no ideology works everywhere, but almost every ideology is the best fit *somewhere*.

Barring some major breakthrough, this means that ideological purists will always be at odds with a well functioning country. There will always be a place where their "-ism" isn't represented and they think it should be, and they will be wrong.

@gudenau I can't answer that without measurements. The riser in question needs about an inch of elevation clearance.

@gudenau I've seen them for 1u servers, but I don't have a part# handy.

@fuzzface @SuperFloppies @profoundlynerdy hmm. Well, given the reality of IPv6 not being available in my area on land-line except for Comcast, I guess it's time to pay HE a visit.

Or maybe I should just plunk down the bucks for a professional-grade LTE router. T-Mobile uses IPv6, but I'm really unsure about putting services on-line through them.

@profoundlynerdy @fuzzface the only problem I've had so far with IPv6 is a fundamental one: how to setup a firewall gateway.

For local use it's been awesome, if I don't care about running a firewall gateway it's awesome, but I've never found adequate documentation for firewall setup.

@gudenau @AskChip it's pretty well established that recovery questions are pretty useless for any of their intended purposes, but it's a habit.

@AskChip @gudenau https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/ and a password is good.

@AskChip @gudenau it just proves that your DNA is there and that there is a heartbeat.

Biometrics are only ever the equivalent to a username, you still need 2 authentication factors for 2FA even if you have biometrics.

@mdszy @ashfurrow Having lived on Zulu time for extended periods, it doesn't matter.

It's really just a thing for military, astronomers, and computers.

For daily life: give me time zones, and keep them steady.

@md @Ventronik s/money/power/ and it works for any system.

It's just that in capitalism money is the primary source of power, and how people keep score.

@emsenn there are on-line conference services that support screen sharing. I don't have time to pull my notes on that right now, but they shouldn't be hard to find.