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zokier · 2026-10-22T17:24:58 1792689898

I'd recommend everyone to familiarize how these forests were formed in the first place. They are not some natural thing, nor any ecologic sanctuaries. They are the result of immense postwar hubris and greed, draining ecologically precious and fragile wetlands to create poor (semi-)monoculture plantation forests whose only destiny ever was to get clearcut later.

Of course Google is (likely) still at fault here and should have managed this better, but it is important to understand the context also.

zokier · 2026-10-22T16:27:59 1792686479

These new DC sites are literally middle of nowhere with major nearby renewable (hydro and wind) power plants.

zokier · 2026-10-19T10:02:29 1792404149

Tbh the .bg situation seems rather internal problem in Bulgaria rather than problem in the system. As the article mentions, governments definitely can get control of their tld if they want to, so the problem here seems to be that Bulgaria isn't interested.

zokier · 2026-10-19T09:45:45 1792403145

Then buy domain operated by european registry?

trilogic · 2026-10-19T10:49:38 1792406978

Sure, but the final destination of the money flow is the same ICANN, which apparently need to give "Accreditations"/affiliation to the franchise. I remind you that the infrastructure is 100% European, this is purely idiotic from the European side.

zokier · 2026-10-19T12:08:41 1792411721

In general icann fees are fairly small fraction of the overall cost of a domain, most of the money ends to registrars and registrys.

trilogic · 2026-10-19T13:37:40 1792417060

That´s is not the point. The monopoly is the whole point. Would you pay tax to India or China because the sunlight shines in your country every day? Who owns the sun!

zokier · 2026-10-19T15:38:56 1792424336

You are perfectly free to run your own root servers

trilogic · 2026-10-19T18:15:39 1792433739

Don´t you worry about it, We already do. That do not solve the bigger issue yet, but the alert was sent, so be happy :)

zokier · 2026-10-19T09:14:26 1792401266

This whole case seems to hinge on the argument that .com domains somehow constitute their own market, instead of being just part of wider domain name market with plenty of competing registrys. That might prove difficult argument in court.

zokier · 2026-10-14T21:15:10 1792012510

xbox 360 would have been better example, xenos with its unified shaders was in some ways more advanced than its contemporary desktop gpus at launch.

zokier · 2026-10-12T09:42:00 1791798120

> I honestly think that all phones and even professional cameras should replace JPG with WEBP, we will have like 30% smaller photos.

> I am happy that HEIC from Apple did not take off (as it was proprietary, protected by patents).

Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, and Fujifilm cameras all shoot HEIF these days.

zokier · 2026-10-09T07:24:04 1791530644

Afaik all pro audio standards more or less require ptp for timing, and that might add requirements for nics and switches? otoh the i210 nic, that is mentioned in the post, does have full (g)ptp/phc/tsn/etc support

iso1631 · 2026-10-09T09:45:44 1791539144

If you want low and deterministic latency between different devices then you'll need ptp

justincormack · 2026-10-09T11:23:34 1791545014

ptp support in nics is becoming more widespread, nics not yet as far as I can see.

zokier · 2026-10-08T23:22:36 1791501756

> There is no need for another clock on the Linux host

surely that works only as long as eth68 is the only interface? but often you might want other interfaces too which inherently have their own clocks

alowell · 2026-10-08T23:40:54 1791502854

That is sort of true, although it should be possible to take advantage of the resampler in PipeWire or JACK (zalsa_in/zalsa_out) to effectively get multiple interfaces in the same graph. I would expect some hit to the audio latency when going through the resampler.

zokier · 2026-10-08T23:20:18 1791501618

I'm starting to lean in the opposite direction and feel like we should have probably stopped at ecma-48. piling up extension after extension is just straying further from the light.