Nobody on earth has ever taken this idea too far? Even if I hadn't seen it myself this would be hard to believe. I've seen people go for the throat just because of opinions on Sailor Moon's color correction. And I mean fully treating them like a monster. The world is an awfully big place to make claims such as the one in this comment. It's one thing to say it doesn't matter or that it's not as bad as this or that, but this is the exact kind of gaslighting that's really messing with people's brains and sending them into underground avenues to discuss how they've been abused and what should be done about it. If we could just stop being so weird about this it would be a lot better. Why is it so hard to say that sexism is bad no matter who it happens to?
There's a phenomenon of fraudulent "security researchers" which has sprung out of the AI world. I became aware of it when someone on discord posted a video covering an "ACE exploit" against users of a particular AI coding assistant. The exploit was this:
1. You accidentally grab a malicious config file for the assistant
2. For some reason, you would pipe this entire file into curl and then into bash
3. This results in downloading and running a script that sets up malware.
It didn't make sense at any point but I was gripped by a need to know the intention such a worthless video.
It made sense when the host started shilling his online course about how to be a "security researcher" like him. Not only that, paying members get premium first access to the latest "disclosures" that professional engineers are afraid to admit exist.
It's likely that the creator of this bug report is building up their own repertoire of exploits that have been ignored. Or perhaps they're trying to put their course knowledge to use.
I discovered Gemini years ago and was completely enchanted by the whole concept. There are two main buzz kills though.
1. The TLS requirement really undercuts the idea of using Gemini for whatever you want. I know how to set up certificates and run DNS but it's too much infrastructure. I've seen the rationale and don't find it realistic.
2. The barriers to entry are so high that only hardcore tech enthusiasts survive the journey. I don't dislike the people on there but they ran out of stuff to teach me pretty quickly.
Due to these two things I find Gemini very self contradictory in it's goals. Is it serious or just for fun? Is it meant for everybody or for a small covenant of nerds?
In the end I was unable to find any value in Gemini, however I'm still very interested in the gmi format and gempub ebooks. It's my opinion that unlike web pages, ebooks actually DO need to be rescued in the style of Gemini. The creator of gempub gives a very good rationale of what problems ebooks have and why gmi is much more condusive to a comfortable and consistent reading experience than html and css.
From what I can tell I'm the only person on earth who gives a rat's ass about this (even more than the dev possibly) so I would really appreciate people checking this out.
The incredible technology you're describing was possible on the Nintendo DS without wires and no need for a LAN either. It's a problem that's been solved in hundreds of different ways over the last 40 years but certain people don't want that problem to ever be solved without cloud services involved.
This dumb pipe thing is certainly interesting but it will run into the same problem as the myriad other solutions that already exist. If you're trying to give a 50MB file to a Windows user they have no way to receive it via any method a Linux user would have to send it unless the Windows user has gone out of their way to install something most people have never heard of.
> It's a problem that's been solved in hundreds of different ways over the last 40 years
If we put the requirements of,
1. E2EE
2. Does not rely on Google. (Or ideally, any other for profit corporation.)
That eliminates like 90% of the recent trend of WebRTC P2P file transfer things that have graced HN over the last decade, as all WebRTC code seems to just copy Google's STUN/TURN servers between each other.
But as you say,
> but certain people don't want that problem to ever be solved without cloud services involved.
ISPs seem to be that in set. IPv6 would obsolete NAT, but my ISP was kind enough to ship an IPv6 firewall that by default drops incoming packets. It has four modes: drop everything, drop all inbound, a weird intermediate mode that is useless¹, and allow everything.
(¹this is Verizon fios; they claim, "This feature enables "outside-to-inside" access for IPv6 services so that an "outside" Internet service (gaming, video, etc.) can access a specific "inside" home client device & port in your local area network."; but the feature, AFAICT, requires the external peer's address. I.e., I need to know what my roaming IP will be before I leave the house, somehow, and that's obviously impossible. It seems utterly clearly slapped on to say "it comes with a firewall" but was never used by anyone at Verizon in the real world prior to shipping…)
starlink doesn't even give you publicly routable ipv6 unless you bypass the starlink router.
My starlink is such that i cannot install/set up things like pfsense/opnsense because the connection drops sometimes, and when either of those installers fail, they fail all the way back to "format the drive y/n?" Also, things like ipcop and monowall et al don't seem to support ipv6.
I looked in to managing ipv6 from a "i am making my own router" and no OS makes this simple. i tried with debian, and could not get it to route any packets. I literally wrote the guide for using a VM for ipcop and one of the "wall" distros; but something about ipv6 just evades me.
> starlink doesn't even give you publicly routable ipv6 unless you bypass the starlink router.
If you've not got an Internet[-routable] address, are you truly connected to the Internet?
> I looked in to managing ipv6 from a "i am making my own router" and no OS makes this simple. i tried with debian, and could not get it to route any packets. I literally wrote the guide for using a VM for ipcop and one of the "wall" distros; but something about ipv6 just evades me.
TBH, I would think that this is just enabling v6 forwarding. That wouldn't do RA or DHCP, I don't think, but I don't think you'd want that, either. (That would be the responsibility of the upstream network.)
You would want that. The upstream network can't do it for you, because RAs can't be routed. Same deal for DHCPv6 (although personally I'd say you can probably skip that and just use SLAAC).
in order to have public ipv6 on starlink you need to manage the /56 they delegate to you into however many /64s that is (at least 8); i tested it with a store bought router, everything worked if you can do PD with DHCP[v6] or whatever. I returned the router because it was $200 and i will eventually figure it out on a VM.
# On the upstream network.
[Network]
DHCP=yes
[DHCPv6]
PrefixDelegationHint=::/56
# On each downstream network.
[Network]
IPv6SendRA=yes
DHCPPrefixDelegation=yes
One frustrating part is that as far as I can tell nothing supports easy downstream DHCPv6-PD delegation, so machines on the downstream network that want their own prefix won't be able to get one automatically. OpenWRT's network config daemon supports it, but nothing on regular Linux does.
I mean, windows users install things they’ve never heard of all the time.
If this was a real thing you needed to do, and it is too much work to get them to install WSL, you could probably just send them the link to install Git and use git bash to run that curl install sh script for dumbpipe.
And if this seemed like a very useful thing, it couldn’t be too hard to package this all up into a little utility that gets windows to do it.
But alas, it remains “easier” to do this with email or a cloud service or a usb stick/sd card.
The way nvidia plasters their name all over this project isn't right. I was led to believe an nvidia team was being paid to make this. But they have practically no relation outside of the underlying tech. They're so unclear about the role of rtx remix that I wouldn't be surprised i some people think RTX automatically "upscales" models somehow. Something about it is a step beyond how an engine dev would treat a game made in their engine.
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