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Partially. Telekom keeps up the line for months at a time. I guess that is due to telephony being done via VoIP, and they don't want to interrupt your late night calls. Others, eve…

Our TV started to complain that the Wifi module was unplugged (which apparently is on the main board). Problem: This happened regularly with a dialog box. 'Solution': Put a Wifi do…

I hope very much that that CPU isn't running android, though. I can't clock it, but our current TV seems to take longer to, well, turn on, than the tube tellys of yore.

From my vantage point, it is already. The only parties that don't have IPv6 are my employer (which I maybe need to nag about since we're an ISP and have our own AS), and the custom…

Theoretically, yes. Practically, my laptop is in some Wifi network and has an IPv6 address, but that isn't accessible from the outside because the Wifi/router box blocks incoming c…

How is that supposed to fly? When they look inside the VPN I'm just using, they'll see git-ssh traffic to a bitbucket server, and are none the wiser. (And: Seriously, HN, recaptcha…

Mobile carrier NAT, mobile device hotspot NAT, vmware NAT - that's the most I've seen so far. But IPv6 in home networks replaces the unreachability-because-of-NAT by unreachability…

To think of it - I might have heard these two pass by. Not on that flight, but I lived with my parents in northern germany, not far from the danish border, and en route from the no…

Kleinwalsertag. Austrian territory, but only reachable (by road) through germany. Was connected to german phone network, which changed once telco stuff got smart enough. Effect: Fo…

What wires? You just need to provide internet service to someone, i.e. yourself and maybe your direct neighbours. Also, 1/2 mile distance covers about three quarter of a square mil…

I.e the 10% are not worthy of having an ISP, or health insurance. As for the ISPs, this often isn't even about the customers being annoying, but simply their subscriber line being …

Time spent on assertions is visible, but still lost, unless they actually fire. Depending on how you work, debugging is simply finding out why your tests fail (without you expectin…

> One thing developers spend a lot of time on is completely absent from both of these lists: debugging! The other thing that is absent from both list: Actually writing code. (@Gitl…

Re state actor: I guess secure-or-known-to-have-failed is attainable on a personal scope. Securing a company, no matter what size, is futile.

The force monopoly has little to do with it - few institutions would have the resources to win against the US govt.

Definitely not 'expected'. I like the mailing list bug tracking more than having that on git{hub,lab,whatever}. git makes it even possible to host a repo on multiple git* hostings,…

And, with a whiff of irony, git itself.

IHMO post-scarcity could have started long ago. The problem will be that the people out of a jobs can't think of something new to do, at least not as fast as the machines (or the p…

I'm not. When that happens it means many of us (basically everybody between a keyboard and a chair) are out of a job. 'Dear turing test candidate, how would a program to do this an…

It shifts the balance. Even if my hotline gets bombarded by mechanical turks the costs are the same on both sides. Now google duplex can go and phone up every businessowner asking …

> The network needs to know your location in real time in order to route calls to you. At least for GSM, that isn't as true as you say it. It only needs to know in wich group of ce…

Fun story: A long time ago I was on the phone with someone, and typed some commands. For some reason tab completion made ticking noises in the phone. Then it dawned on me: I was cu…

My android only nags me with that question when the GPS doesn't (yet) have a fix. It's still stupidly worded.

Unified deployment with your non-go containers. Also, port and volume mapping, so the container/go binary does not need to know physical/host pathnames to data files.

They routinely put fiber cables on high voltage lines, and apparently also on catenary masts along railway lines around here (germany). Fibers are somewhat fragile, but not the com…