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The exact text on mobile is

> ssh exe.dev

> The disk persists. You have sudo.

I've seen enough of these kinds of services in my lifetime that I also immediately knew what it was, for example sdf.org, which is one of the OG services, and various "tilde" services like tilde.town.


I thought the same, but it’s not quite like either of those things. It has their same benefits but way more flexibility with its VM model. It offers auth, and will forward most ports for developer access.

All this was totally lost on me from looking at the website. “I already have tilde and sdf, I don’t need this.”

If I hadn’t looked into the comments I would still think that.


> Starlink-style connectivity

Note that one of the higher-profile deliberate internet shutdowns was Starlink itself shutting down internet connectivity in Ukraine.


Ultimately it just becomes a question of where you want the choke point to live — in a state actor, or in a private operator.

Neither option is risk-free; the failure modes simply differ.

A government can shut you off for political reasons, a corporation can shut you off for contractual or geopolitical ones.

As long as the system assumes centralized stewardship for safety or reliability, someone will inevitably hold the switch — the only variable is who.


> in a state actor, or in a private operator.

multiple satellite operators are coming on line. what are the odds all of them coordinate to shut down in one region invalidating using the other providers as fail over?


I might be mistaken, but as far as I know there is currently no other LEO broadband provider that is meaningfully comparable at a global scale.

Starlink is often treated as the reference point not because it is perfect or fully resilient, but because there is no second network at a similar scale that could realistically serve as a failover today.

If we imagine a hypothetical future where three mature operators exist, then yes — absent coordinated political or geopolitical action, at least one network might remain online.

However, even that surviving operator would not necessarily provide full coverage of the affected region. Global redundancy is extremely hard in practice, because maintaining continuous, worldwide LEO coverage is not free — it requires massive capex and opex, ground stations, regulatory permissions, and local political approval.

True worldwide failover remains more of a theoretical construct than an operational reality.


== Low Earth Orbit

What about failing over from LEO to geosynchronous? E.g. Viasat?

Is anyone left doing network from GEO? Places like HughesNet were soooo slow that I can't imagine their users have not all switched to Starlink.

Viasat is still doing it.

Is that true? This comment suggests otherwise, with citations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351511

That particular section I have to Wikipedia article seems to have gone through a bunch of anonymous edits back and forth around the content of this citation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk...


Notably absent from TFA...

Probably because it's not actually a truthful characterization of what happened! I know it's popular to find every possible reason to bag on Musk, but you don't need to resort to disinformation to do it.


Are you trying to argue that Starlink isn't cut off Ukrainian access? Because they did and it was well documented.

They didn't, and you're again repeating misinformation as fact.

What happened was that they refused to turn access on for the Crimean region, which is not the same as "cutting off Ukrainian access".

I understand nuance is hard to grasp sometimes, but if you're going to continue to conflate the two things, I can only chalk it up to a desire to deceive.


> I am astonished that NIST does not have multiple clocks over multiple distributed sites with robust ability to detect and bypass individual failures.

Is this sarcasm? I can't tell.

Per the email:

> Servers at the Boulder and WWV/Ft. Collins campuses are independent and unaffected.


Sorry, maybe I got carried away with the tone. But it is not sarcasm. I genuinely did not realise that the NTP service level was so low. There are two problems raised in the email: There is no on-site redundant fail-over upstream of the NTP servers. All NTP servers at the site were not automatically taken down immediately upon detection of the fault (because some were still, in some sense, within tolerance). This places all of the fault management onto downstream NTP servers. I honestly expected NIST to be running a robust cross-site timebase upstream of NTP.


Can you find me some notable examples?


It's mostly been on comments on various Reddit posts over the last few months. I unfortunately don't have any examples saved. I'm not accusing anybody of anything, just personally curious and remarking on a pattern I've perceived and was wondering if it was just a "me" thing.


I don't think twitter allows someone to take over an account after it's been deleted


They absolutely do. Someone’s parked on what use to be my account there.


They do. I believe that, for once, this isn't even Musk's fault; this baffling design decision predates him.


During deactivation period nobody can take the username but after deletion I'm pretty sure they can.


I think the creator of the video you've linked has had a couple videos go viral, which may be part of it


The inputs are part of the validation that you did the question, so they're kind of a secret.


I'm unaware of how other platforms work, but for Google you can just see what buckets have been associated with your account:

https://myadcenter.google.com/controls

I'm not sure how that would work from an ad-buying perspective, from what I understand you essentially choose which buckets you'd like to show ads to? Like I don't think ad-buyers get the whole dossier for the person they're showing ads to, the platform just decides "from what you've told us, this person seems likely to like your ads"


The US is not even close to the first modern country to move away from single cent coins, and there are many examples of others that don't have "hyperinflation", for example the Netherlands, Italy, and Canada.

People have been talking about getting rid of the penny for decades.


Wow, what an absolute blast from the past.

The page styling is harkening back to the style of some EARLY early personal amateur niche sites. It reminds me of like Time Cube <https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...> or like Neocity pages, even TempleOS in the earlier days. T

It's really taking me back, I'm actually getting a little emotional...


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