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If every torrent includes a webseed, then you're still left with the problem of needing to build a full HTTP CDN, and now have to also maintain the largest tracker infrastructure e…

I've made a point of calling out Digital Ocean in Linux mirroring talks as the gold standard for being a good citizen; run their own internal mirrors, which are FAST, making it a v…

EPEL is a separate module from fedora-enchilada, but uses the same backend CDN infrastructure and most mirrors tend to carry both /fedora/ and /epel/, so they're not technically th…

The map is a latency heat map. I should probably replace it with a POP map

Sure. And switch ASICs hang off a CPU as a PCIe device, so the line between smartNICs and low end ASICs start to blur. The key is hardware acceleration of some sort.

256 next hops isn't enough. Typical ASICs support 20,000 to 160,000 next hops FECs. Cisco tried caching routing decisions from non-line rate routing engines in the 90s, and the ind…

The base power with any colo space is going to be minimal. You typically come back and spec out what additional power you want with the rack a la carte.

When you want line rate forwarding across several Tbps of front panel ports, you need the packet pipeline to be able to make all the routing decisions without involvement from the …

I started an Internet Exchange Point adjacent to it, use it to host mirror.fcix.net, and got a second ASN to build the anycast ns-global.zone service

I only got a few years out of it. I'm running an Arista 7280SR-48C8 now. The problem is that the million tcam entries are split between IPv4 and IPv6, so I really ran out of space.…

This article is also essentially available as a podcast. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/kenneth-finnega...

A good old fashioned slash dotting on a self hosted server. Chill dude.

As far as I can tell, SU traffic is almost useless. I may get 1,000x as hits from SU, but I derive more value from some hole-in-the-wall site writing about me and sending 20 people…

So what? Do I incorporate in Nevada? I can't believe there's no way around this.

What's legally keeping us from giving Amazon a Nevada PO Box number and filing a Nevada tax return on just what we earn through the Amazon Affiliate program?

Alright guys, so we all lost our Affiliate programs. What are the legal implications for just putting down an out-of-state friend's address in our Amazon account information?

Because the state is not allowed to. The items are still being entirely taxed, people are just dishonest when they file their taxes.

A few small sites, but most of my Amazon earnings actually just come from one post: http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-b... The rest of the site pulls in ab…

And if I have to start filing tax returns with every state and county my small business happens to do business with (~$1000 / year business), I'll probably shut that down entirely …

Damn. There goes my $300-$400 a month passive income... And I already report my use-tax to begin with. Guess it's time to start calling up friends out-of-state for their mailing ad…

Then pursue the customers and force them to actually report their rightful use-tax when they file their taxes at the end of the year. Amazon isn't not collecting CA sales tax becau…

I don't think the award is for perfect attendance. I think the award is for showing up for work for one hundred and ten freakin years.

No cost, plus a $50 programmer. What is the PIC equivalent of the $20 USBtinyISP?