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Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by toyg »

literallyWTF wrote: post #48
daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

They couldn’t come up with anything else? Shit you could’ve just named it after some random fruit and it would’ve been better than this dungeon and dragons sounding ass name.

These days it's more a Thor/Marvel-sounding name, but anyway, it's actually from Norse mythology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by roywiggins »

dymk wrote: post #14
commandlinefan wrote: post #10

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> houses broadcasting wifi Cell phones are popular with drug dealers in south america because they're impossible to shut down - if the government can't shut down drug dealers, they definitely can't shut down people sharing offensive memes.

It may not be possible to target specific uses of cellphone data channels, but this isn't much of a roadblock for the Iranian government. They'll just shut down every cell tower within their borders. Iran is already willing to impose full internet blackouts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Internet_blackout_in_Iran ).

In 2019 India shut down both the internet and regular voice networks in Kashmir:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-two-...

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by toyg »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

> It's impossible to say correctly without being taught

I mean, the world of tech is littered with "permanently questionable" pronounciations, one more makes no difference. SQL, GIF, LOG4J, etc etc, they are all successful products despite people not agreeing on how they should be pronounced.

I'm Italian so I read it like it's written: "ee-gg-dra-seel".

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by rnotaro »

donohoe wrote: post #49
ehutch79 wrote: post #46

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For normal, mainstream people, it isn't.

In your bubble that might be the case, but that’s not necessarily true for a lot of other people.

Something like "Zeus" is mainstream.

Yggdrasil is not. You can lookup the Google Trends [1] to see that it's not really popular outside of Northen Europe.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16417794...

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by zrail »

NorwegianDude wrote: post #32
jaytaylor wrote: post #26

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Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

Port 25 is blocked by default for many ISPs around the world, and it makes sense. Look at it this way: If it was open by default, a lot of IPs would be blacklisted, making them basically unusable for email anyway. You can always rent a subnet or a server including network and host mail yourself.

Residential IPs are generally proactively added to RBLs by the ISPs themselves as a form of spam protection. Before they started doing that it was basically whack-a-spammer all day every day for them.

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Post by civilized »

daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

He's marketing to the kind of people for whom Yggdrasil is a memorable name.

When I was a nerd teenager in the 90s, reading F-PROT's built-in encyclopedia of computer viruses, it was hard not to notice the abundance of Tolkien and similar references. Hackers have always loved this stuff.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by zrail »

jaytaylor wrote: post #50
fragmede wrote: post #41

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The solution is to pay for business-class Internet at your home.

That's true, even though I'm not a business. Would it be more cost effective to do a DO droplet? (haven't tried it personally yet).

At least where I am, the business class internet that I have access to doesn't come with static IPs and is approximately three times as expensive as residential for the same service level.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by dariusj18 »

ehutch79 wrote: post #46
nynx wrote: post #39

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It’s pretty easy to say and quite memorable in my opinion. Are you aware of the Norse roots of the name?

For normal, mainstream people, it isn't.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Yggdrasil

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by ssss11 »

toyg wrote: post #53
daenz wrote: post #37

>Enter Yggdrasil This is perhaps the worst branding I've seen in awhile. It's impossible to say correctly without being taught, difficult to remember, and difficult to spell. It's almost like they don't want their efforts to be acknowledged.

> It's impossible to say correctly without being taught I mean, the world of tech is littered with "permanently questionable" pronounciations, one more makes no difference. SQL, GIF, LOG4J, etc etc, they are all successful products despite people not agreeing on how they should be pronounced. I'm Italian so I read it like it's written: "ee-gg-dra-seel".

True, but on a spectrum, the acronym ones are even easier to try to pronounce than a word like Yggdrasil

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by willjp »

jaytaylor wrote: post #50
fragmede wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is to pay for business-class Internet at your home.

That's true, even though I'm not a business. Would it be more cost effective to do a DO droplet? (haven't tried it personally yet).

You can tunnel wireguard from a local server to a cheapie DO droplet for about 5$ USD/mo. Only one ipv4 pre dropte though. I read a blogpost that mentioned a free tier cloudflare service for public ips, but have not investigated.
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