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huitema

@huitema@social.secret-wg.org

Working on that Internet thing...

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spaf, to random
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Found in my archives:

Five cannibals get hired as new instructors at the university.
During the welcoming meeting, their department head says: "You're all part of our faculty now. You can earn good money here, and you can go to the faculty club for lunch. So don't trouble the other faculty and staff."

The cannibals promise not to trouble the other employees.

1/3

huitema,
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@Meyerweb @spaf I also remember the IBM version, although I remember "vice president" instead of "manager". I think it is earlier than 1990.

timbray, to random
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Ewwwww: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-south-coast-fall-storm-1.6976933?cmp=rss

huitema,
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@timbray @SpaceLifeForm Cyclone, really? I am not in BC, but Friday Harbor is about 20 Miles east of Victoria, and the marine forecast only mentions up to 30 kt of wind. That's a lot, but a violent storm would be 40 to 50kt, and a cyclone over 60 kt...

https://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=pzz133&syn=pzz100

huitema,
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@timbray @SpaceLifeForm Interesting difference between the US marine weather forecast for the San Juan Islands, and the Canadian marine weather forecast for Haro Strait. They should be pretty similar, but the Canadian forecast 25 to 35 kt of wind when the US only sees 20 to 30 kt.
https://weather.gc.ca/marine/forecast_e.html?mapID=02&siteID=06100

huitema,
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@SpaceLifeForm @timbray The wind force varies with the gradient of the pressure -- or the distance between the isobars on the charts. There is obviously a lot of wind close to the low, and it would get quite bad if that low moved closer to Vancouver Island. But I think the big storm will be further North. The forecast for Hecate Straight has wind SE 45 to 55 kt by Monday evening, and that's consistent with the low moving North.

evacide, to random
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Every time I start to write a definitive guide to bluetooth-enabled physical trackers, some new thing happens and everything I've written is out of date.

huitema,
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@evacide have you considered starting a wiki on Bluetooth tracking techniques, rather than trying to write a definitive guide?

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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So the Northwestern crow, Corvus caurinus, is no longer a thing because the species was merged with Corvus brachyrhynchos, the American Crow.

Genetics schemetics but with a name like "Crow of the Northwestern Wind" get the fuck outta here.

huitema,
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@ct_bergstrom there are genetics and there is culture. I had to come all the way to the San Juan Islands to see crows pick clams and drop them on a rock from high on to crack them.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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OK this is hands-down the funniest thing I have read today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/dining/drinks/cocktail-glasses-gender.html

huitema,
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@ct_bergstrom Lol. If this young finance guy wanted to show off his manly side, he should ask for a bourbon on the rock, not one of those fancy herbal mixes...

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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🤔If Trump jumps bail, who would the bail bonds person send to go get him?

Please don't say Dog the Bounty Hunter. It would probably be him though. But if not him, then who?

Who is the Bass Reeves of today?

I mean, technically, wouldn't Trump still have a Secret Service detail? How would that work? Would there be a standoff between the US Marshals and the US Secret Service?

So many questions!

huitema,
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@floatybirb @mekkaokereke rich people don't need a bondsman, they just sign a check. If they fly, they lose the money, end of story.

huitema,
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@mekkaokereke @floatybirb OK. I suppose that if he does fly he could just send a check to the bondsman. But then this man is famous for stiffing contractors...

timbray, to photography
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So, I never use the selfie-cam on my phone, except when I’m trying to figure out how that damn fitting is fastened onto that damn fiberglass where I can’t see it, so I can replace that frayed line. Of course, will it focus on the fitting? It will not, but I learned enough.

huitema,
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@timbray consider splicing the replacement in place?

huitema,
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@timbray the subtext was: think twice before taking off the bolts through the fiberglass. Each time you do that the hole is going to become a little bit bigger, and the assembly a little bit shakier. Any solution that leaves them in place is preferable. I would use a shackle between the ring and the loop in your cord.

wordshaper, to random
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@paul_ipv6 @SteveBellovin @darkuncle IPv6 is one of those things that, given the environment of the time, seemed a tolerable improvement and in retrospect it still does. It's not the best design, and looking at it now it's not even really that good a design given its target, but in context it's understandable and sensible.

Definitely a shame some of the purely political fights went different ways, though.

huitema,
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@danwing @SteveBellovin @EricCarroll @paul_ipv6 @wordshaper @darkuncle
The flow label was really there because there because 64 bit alignment caused this extra space in the header, and we had to do something with these extra bits, and so, why not a flow label.

huitema,
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@danwing @SteveBellovin @EricCarroll @paul_ipv6 @wordshaper @darkuncle IP mobility never took off because it was essentially misguided. Applications don't want a switchover under the cover. They need at a minimum something like make-before-break, and preferably having paths available in parallel. Also, transport needs to be path-conscious because of congestion control, etc. So burying mobility inside the IP layer just does not work well.

huitema,
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@SteveBellovin @danwing @EricCarroll @paul_ipv6 @wordshaper @darkuncle
Yes. As @danwing said, these functions have been rolled into QUIC, which solves a number of security problems without requiring an extra infrastructure of "home agents" and tunnels. The QUIC connection identifiers are designed to work well with server farms. Also, only clients start new paths, which works easily with NATs. But it deliberately blocks "deep packet inspection", so with firewalls your mileage may vary.

lauren, to random
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Technically, what we call uppercase letters are termed "majuscule" and lowercase letters are termed "minuscule". Since common manual movable type typesetting stations usually kept the more frequently used type in a case closer to the user, and the less frequently used type in a different case at a higher level farther from the user, the terms upper case and lower case came into common usage.

huitema,
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@lauren Lower and upper case letters are still called "minuscule" and "majuscule" in French.

huitema, to random
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Ah, the American system of measurements. Speaking of past disasters in Hawaii, the New York Times uses a well known unit of large volumes: "The monthslong eruption of the volcano Kilauea on the island of Hawaii, from May to August of 2018, unleashed 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of lava." Of course, the depth of Olympic swimming pools is not standardized, so you are at a loss if you want to translate in cubic meters...

huitema,
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@SteveBellovin The depth of Olympic pools varies between 1.35m (minimum), at least 2 meters (international competitions) and at places 6 meters or more (if also used for diving). Quite a bit of uncertainty, isn't it? It might help visualize, but it also confuses!

huitema,
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@SteveBellovin @thomasbeagle I suppose the adequate imperial measure would be acre feet, which might in fact be easier to visualize than "swimming pools". Assuming a pool is 50x25x2 meters, 320,000 pools would be 800 millions cubic meters, or 656 thousands acre feet.

carlmalamud, to random
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I've had no indictments or injunctions issued against me this year. My only significant legal action is I had a fingerprint taken, but that was because I had a document notarized old school style. Could probably have done that with a zoom call but it was easier to go to the UPS store.

huitema,
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@SteveBellovin @carlmalamud There are two things I learned since coming to the US. First, don't be surprised by anything that happens in Florida. Second, ditto California.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Fantastic accomplishment!♥️👍🏿

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/

And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.

So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢

Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.

huitema,
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@mekkaokereke @marjolica @techghoul looks great. But then my own email server has landed on the DNS black lists many time, while I certainly never sent spam. In email, that's a powerful push centralization to a few too-big-to-block servers. I would hate to see the same randomness on the Fediverse.

TMEubanks, to random
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@huitema I saw your Quic to Mars, which I thought was interesting. I am not sure about relying on round trips on long links (to Mars or beyond), which tend to be strongly non-duplex, but I could see using in in cislunar space - i.e., LunaNet.

huitema,
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@AkaSci @TMEubanks to deploy a PEP in QUIC you need to break the end to end encryption. That's too big a tradeoff in many scenarios. That's why I have been studying end-to-end solutions -- tuning QUIC to behave properly, without need for a proxy.

huitema,
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@AkaSci @TMEubanks I have been working on these high-latency improvements in QUIC for some time. The picoquic test code includes a "warp time" simulator that is very convenient for that, and series of test cases for geo satellite, delays of a few seconds, or delays of several minutes. The code implements a bunch of fixes for adapting to such latency. Definitely much better than TCP.

huitema,
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@AkaSci @TMEubanks Main improvements are in the "startup" phase: either remember settings from previous connections, or use smarts to ramp up congestion control more quickly than classic TCP algorithms. But you also need fixes in congestion control, flow control, reaction to packet losses, etc. Overall, the geo-satellite tests match the ETOSAT requirements, and the high latency tests "look good."

huitema,
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@AkaSci @TMEubanks You cannot say whether "QUIC" does this or that. It is all dependent on implementations. The slow ramp up and the slow-start issues are fixed in picoquic. Tests with BBR get better results than with Cubic.

huitema,
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@AkaSci @TMEubanks I would probably need to write a draft listing all these improvements -- having a few blog entries is not enough. The improvement are in the master branch of picoquic. Can't speak for Google, but progressing a draft would probably help convince them.

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