bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

"language shapes how we think"

classic sapir-whorf. i really don't get how anyone in their right mind believes that. it's just a bad "easy explanation".

@r000t ffs

@metawish ipv6 is another ip protocol with longer addresses. the problem is that after 20? years it is still not supported everywhere, so your server might not be reachable from these systems.
_when_ it works it's really nice imo because you don't have to fiddle around with NAT, as every device can have its own static address. you only have to take care of the firewall rules to permit connections.

if you are interested in v6: https://ipv6.he.net/certification/

@metawish i think so too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_blossfeldiana @Nasenspray

@thor it still is, only with more bling! :)

@rysiek 💯 i'll take moderate human smell over vanilla explosions anytime..

@mdhughes

- "wasting build time" is a shit argument sorry. most dynamic languages just waste that at runtime, exploding spectacularly if they hit an error because there isn't another way to handle things.

- no one in their right mind would say it's correct if it passes the type checker. static typing just removes type mismatch errors, not every error. with good static typing you can _prove_ that you won't get type errors though. if you then define good types, you can prevent many logic errors, not everything of course. 3/4 of programming is to get the data structures right.

- if the only thing you have is testing, everything looks like a testcase.

- i haven't used it extensively, but ocaml doesn't have shit compile times, there is a REPL and it is statically typed.

@clacke

but! i can have a laptop now which i can read while sitting in the sun. not everything is shit.

i kind of miss the sense of wonder and "cozyness" of the net from my youth.

playing with terragen, "aimbot" by binding mouse1 to "centerlook; +attack", downloading 128kbps mp3s per track. quakenet, finally having enough people to get Q in the channel.

goddamn nostalgia.

@mdhughes and if anything boild the ocean it's the web.

@mdhughes i don't really know much about julia. judging form the wikipedia article, it may be slow, but it's not due to static typing. fortran is statically typed, they wouldn't have done this in the 60s if it would be intrinsically slow to compile.

@Seirdy nice post! i knew only of mojeek, time to try some of the others :)

@thor i think it's classic embrace extend extinguish by gmail etc.

@thor previously it was spamassassin on the server, but that stopped to detect some mails which were spam. i only ran bogofilter locally for some time. rspamd is really nice though, was rather easy to setup compared to other mail stuff.

@thor i've chosen the amsterdam exit as the ping was shorter than to frankfurt :)

i think the blocklists consist of looking up which ip ranges are owned by VPN (or anything not considered end-user) companies and then block them, regardless of which country they are in.

it's the same for mail servers, there are less and less ips which you can use to reliably send mail from. which is totally bullshit, 99% of the blocks my rspamd does is not because of some ip range shit, but because it's really obviously spam detected by the bayesian filter or the headers are fucked up.

@thor yeah, maybe with a norway vpn ip exit it's better.

that said, my v6 tunnel exit is in amsterdam. i think in reality they tend to do shotgun blocks, because complaining customers are less of a problem (monetary) than rights-holders complaining that people can access content "nOt aVaiLAbLE iN yOUR cOuNtRy".

sigh, i'm getting into a filthy mood again.

@thor i'm not really sure how the provider could _prove_ that it's shared, but vpn can't hurt. only that ip ranges of vpn providers are usually blocked by netflix etc.

it's really fucking bullshit that one has to think about this stuff. invokes the "burn it all to the ground" mood in me..

@thor whitelisting is an uphill battle, i have a hurricane electric ipv6 tunnel, and recaptcha is taking endless when loaded via v6. other sites just block completely..