Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)C

chaospatterns

@ chaospatterns @lemmy.world

Posts
27
Comments
188
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Why is so much of IPv4 allocated to multicast when it cannot be used by the public at large ?

    Jump

  • I don't know who they is in the case, but let's think about this for a minute.

    Technically what do you need for this to work?

    How many Multicast Addresses do you need? How are multicast addresses assigned? Can anybody write to any multicast address? How do I decide that 239.53.244.53 is for my file not your movie? How do we know who is listening? This is effectively BGP, but more tricky because depending on the answer to the previous question you may not benefit from any network block sizes to reduce the routing info being shared. How do you decide when to start transmitting a file? Is anybody listening? Does anybody care?

    You seem latched on to assume that technically would work and haven't asked if it is actually technically a good solution. P2P is going to work better than multicast

  • Why is so much of IPv4 allocated to multicast when it cannot be used by the public at large ?

    Jump

  • Multicast addresses are handled specially in routers and switches all over the world.

    Changing that would require massive firmware updates everywhere to get this to work and we can't even get people to adopt IPv6. Nevermind the complexity in figuring out to how manage IGMP group membership at the Internet scale.

    Given the complexity with either change, its better to adopt IPv6 and use PeerTube. Multicast at the Internet scale won't work and IPv6 is less work

  • Why is so much of IPv4 allocated to multicast when it cannot be used by the public at large ?

    Jump

  • Assuming multicast worked across the internet, it's not going to work in practice. Multicast works by sending a packet and fanning it out to all receivers.

    It works with broadcast TV like IPTV because everybody is watching the same few set of channels at the same time, but on YouTube I can watch any video at any time. How does a mythical Transmitter know what video packets to send when? Are they on loop? Are clients receiving packets for videos they don't care about?

    You might be interested in PeerTube which uses unicast peer to peer to distribute videos in a way that works.

  • Help setting up a selfhosted VPN at home

    Jump

  • Paperless‑NGX Android Uploader

    Jump

  • So I had a chance to try this out. It wasn't on Google Play Store, only F-Droid. There isn't really SSO support, you either login with User/Password or a token. Instead, I login with my browser, get the token and paste it in. That works fine, but an ideal world is just pop up an browser WebView and go through the flow, then grab the token. Maybe it was intentional, but PaperlessShare registered as an Open handler for PDFs and the share menu, whereas this is only share menu. This seems to mean that I need to grant file access, whereas the open handler didn't need that I think.

    Overall, it does the job and gets my docs uploaded.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

    Jump

  • My prediction is that manually reviewing user creation won't scale to a high level and unless systems develop spam detection and reputation management similar to email then it's not going to be limited to just one or two bad instances.

    Its trivial to create my own instance with a new domain and there's no limitations against sending ActivityPub messages to a server. Unfortunately the simplest fix is for big instances to restrict what instances can communicate to it, but that causes centralization.

    Plus, we don't need to be huge. There's no benefit from it.

    The benefit is breadth and depth of communities. Reddit is great because if you are interested in a topic, there's a bunch of people talking about it.

  • Systemd Service Hardening

    Jump

  • How hard would it be to contribute these improvements back to the project in the form of either distro package updates or documentation changes? Did you consider that?

  • Australia to recognize Palestinian state, leaving US increasingly isolated among key allies

    Jump

  • Why do they need to wait for the UN vote to recognize another state? I could see a UN vote being needed to vote for the UN to recogize and incorporate them, but that shouldn't stop a country from acting independently.

  • Paperless‑NGX Android Uploader

    Jump

  • Can you expand on the OIDC/OpenID support? Does it support SSO based authentication to Paperless? That's my biggest problem with PaperlessShare right now. I can't actually sign in because I use an SSO provider.

  • I'm in love with leeks

    Jump

  • I tried to grow leeks in my garden, but I don't think I did it right because when I went to harvest them the stalk was not tasty like it had become woody or something. Do you need to harvest them before they start to create the flower?

  • Leaving GitHub. Seeking ethical music server alternatives.

    Jump

  • I respect your strong ethics and sticking to them, but saying they people support genocide for using software hosted on GitHub is an extreme position.

    I could easily change this: Do you drive a car or fly a plane? Then you must have no red lines against climate change.

  • Home Assistant 2025.8: The summer of AI ☀️

    Jump

  • Ah yeah you're totally right. I reread it a couple times and totally missed the "Last release we launched"

  • Home Assistant 2025.8: The summer of AI ☀️

    Jump

  • Does the streaming text to speech apply only to Piper running in home assistant cloud or does it include locally hosted Piper? The release notes aren't very clear on this.

  • Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?

    Jump

  • Corsair HX1200i 2025 Power Supply Monitoring Now Works Under Linux

    Jump

  • Not from PSU data, but I was running Kepler on my dev servers. But then I stopped because it correlated strongly with system load and didn't really think I learned anything new from graphing it. Having the full system usage might actually make this monitoring useful.

  • What's your most pointless or silliest automation?

    Jump

  • When my girlfriend is over and the freezer door is open, I play ice ice baby. It never fails to cause some eye rolls

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • The problem is the payment processor. There's only so many of them that customers actually choose to use.

  • Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content

    Jump

  • buy a stock through a company like Fidelity where is the stock actually held and that was layers of public/private companies/corporations

    The Depository Trust Company

  • Modbus problem

    Jump

  • Sorry, I don't fully understand your setup or the problem.

    Seems like it's modbus <--> node-red <--> MQTT <--> HASS?

    But you want to cut out node red? So if the input to MQTT is slow, what's writing that MQTT value?

    Without having any more context, I think I'd reach for Wireshark/tcpdump and just see the packets come in and understand timing.