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@feld it’d it’s a mediatek you might find it works in CURRENT now.

@feld because IPv6 is far enough deployed now that large parts of the internet are ipv6. @ClickyMcTicker @cR0w

@phnt TBF that is when I stopped reading. The idea of having my network stack broken because of some as-yet undiscovered vuln in JWT is horrifying. I'm sure there is a really good idea behind that, so maybe that can be broken out into something useful elsewhere, without the OAuth2 / JWT bits. @feld @ClickyMcTicker @cR0w

@feld so we’d have … what a triple stack world? complexity and exploits cubed I guess @ClickyMcTicker @cR0w

@cR0w I think we can safely assume adoption will be *zero* of this. The main lesson of IPv6 is that change on a global scale is very very hard.

@ClickyMcTicker I don’t expect any large vendors to expend any effort on this. If you can’t get MS and Cisco etc onboard then this is already dead man walking. No comment on whether it’s good or desirable, just this has a classic first mover disadvantage. You expend millions across your product line to make it compatible for something nobody wants. Does anybody with money want this enough to get those companies to do it? @cR0w

@feld glad you like it! I should update the port. Do you have any replication set up? This is why it’s fast, there’s no object replication to manage.

@FiLiS I’m guessing there’s a good reason why UEFI can’t be used here? because a drive called ] or ‘ is a recipe for future trouble

@lw yeah that’s what I meant but apparently I can’t communicate in my native language before midday :-(
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@feld this was my question exactly! Only people I know with that kind of spare storage lying around are already working for the spooks

@feld this sounds ripe for abuse. Subprime-NFT-grift?

@linuxallday FreeBSD off

#Helium 🧵 is super interesting!

It’s an inert gas, atomic weight 4, and is 24% by weight of the entire known universe!

Because it’s so light, we can only transport it in custom reinforced metal canisters, and even then it leaks rapidly.

Delays in shipping may mean complete loss of the helium - 6 weeks is about the longest you can get away with.

#Helium is so inert we can’t chemically combine it with, say chlorine, to make it into a solid to more easily transport it.

Despite it being all over the universe most of it on earth has leaked away into space. The only place we find it on earth is in gas and oil deposits, so it’s a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry.

#Helium is unusual tha it wasn’t discovered on earth, but as a spectrographic line of an undiscovered element in the sun.

Later it was detected in volcanic eruption observations.

Finally it was extracted from uranium decay, but this is a very slow way of producing what we need.

So it comes out slowly under the earth and floats up into gas and oil fields.

#Helium is used in CPUs and RAM. In rockets and making fiber optic cables. Used in deep sea diving, and superconductors for science and for high tech medical imaging. For detecting leaks, and of course in blimps and kids balloons.

And because you can’t effectively store it, the world needs a continuous supply, which only comes from oil fields such as in Qatar, so we can’t just store and buffer to manage supply chain problems.

@joel would be interested in seeing some notes on how all that works if you have a chance to write it up

@jalefkowit I feel this on a daily basis. Yesterday I diagnosed a firmware issue on partner‘s work laptop that prevents usb-c screens working. How does this even ship from a vendor like HP? Apoplectic rage.

@feld where can we document this so people can find it?

@feld no because tailwind bundles binaries and doesn’t check if they can be or need to be compiled. It’s garbage at every layer in between.