Do those small utility boxes alongside the tracks make sense for fiber optic? I expected things like that to be larger, if only because fiber has a minimum bend radius. Edit: Good article though, I enjoyed it a lot.
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#22Do those small utility boxes alongside the tracks make sense for fiber optic? I expected things like that to be larger, if only because fiber has a minimum bend radius. Edit: Good article though, I enjoyed it a lot.
The min bend radius isn’t that large in my experience. On the order of 10cm IIRC, possibly even less.
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#23Do those small utility boxes alongside the tracks make sense for fiber optic? I expected things like that to be larger, if only because fiber has a minimum bend radius. Edit: Good article though, I enjoyed it a lot.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
How cunning and evil it is that America funded the internet and then allowed it to spread around the world. If you're worried about "absolute control over digital systems", notice how many standards get published describing how those digital systems work -- you're welcome to reimplement them if you'd like more control.
The Roman Empire built lots of roads wherever they went and the British Empire built lots of rail networks.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Roman Empire built lots of roads wherever they went and the British Empire built lots of rail networks.
The Roman Empire merely improved roads in many places. Gaul already had a road system, and the Greek and Egyptian spheres did too.
why did they invest in those roads? They weren't a charity.
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DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want, DPRK just doesn't have that much infrastructure that they want externally accessible. As far as I know, end-user traffic from within North Korea usually does not originate from those few IP addresses. Or at least not visibly so, they might be connecting to a proxy from a DPRK IP address.
"DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want" IP4 is quite limited as far as I know and not given out freely since a long time, or what do you mean here?
E.g. I was able to get a /24 in the ARIN region in 2021 and could justify 2 more for a _logical_ network topology similar to what NK presents to the world.
APNIC similarly has a pool available for IPv4 allocations: https://www.apnic.net/manage-ip/ipv4-exhaustion/#the-situati...
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#28Do those small utility boxes alongside the tracks make sense for fiber optic? I expected things like that to be larger, if only because fiber has a minimum bend radius. Edit: Good article though, I enjoyed it a lot.
The min bend radius isn’t that large in my experience. On the order of 10cm IIRC, possibly even less.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want, DPRK just doesn't have that much infrastructure that they want externally accessible. As far as I know, end-user traffic from within North Korea usually does not originate from those few IP addresses. Or at least not visibly so, they might be connecting to a proxy from a DPRK IP address.
"DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want" IP4 is quite limited as far as I know and not given out freely since a long time, or what do you mean here?
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#30As for utility boxes along the track, it could be something railway-related, for example, some railway control or monitoring equipment.