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New comment by esbranson in "Understanding Traceroute"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:09:40 +0000

tracepath on Linux does not need the CAP_NET_RAW capability (or full root capabilities) during network data processing because it relies on the Linux socket error queue behavior. I assume traceroute on OpenBSD opens all required sockets and immediately drops privileges.

New comment by esbranson in "Move Detroit"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:06:56 +0000

Its metropolitan area major economic indicators still look brutal. Its peak unemployment rate was almost 24% during COVID when its labor force participation rate went to 43.5%. That means only 33% of adults were employed in periods during COVID...

Now it is closer to 46.6% of adults working. That's the best of times for the Detroit area.

New comment by esbranson in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:37 +0000

A crime drop between over that 3 months is not, as evidenced by the subsequent rise for 3 months after, of the time period you claim as evidence.

New comment by esbranson in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:10:05 +0000

mDNS is orthogonal to ULA. mDNS is for discovery and name resolution, whereas ULA is for IP connectivity. And mDNS operates at the link-local scope (link-local addresses), whereas ULA is scoped for the entire home network.

New comment by esbranson in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:01:09 +0000

RFC 7368 for home networks recommends the use of ULA locally.

> A home network running IPv6 should deploy ULAs alongside its globally unique prefix(es) to allow stable communication between devices (on different subnets) within the homenet

> When an IPv6 node in a homenet has both a ULA and a globally unique IPv6 address, it should only use its ULA address internally and use its additional globally unique IPv6 address as a source address for external communications.

New comment by esbranson in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:55:35 +0000

Unmentioned in the Wikipedia article is RFC 7368 IPv6 Home Networking Architecture Principles[1] that discusses them as well.

> A home network running IPv6 should deploy ULAs alongside its globally unique prefix(es) to allow stable communication between devices (on different subnets) within the homenet

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7368.html#section-2...

New comment by esbranson in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:51:02 +0000

And I know the homenet WG has concluded but I found RFC 7368 IPv6 Home Networking Architecture Principles[1] interesting as well, including its discussion of reachability and RFC 6092 Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service.[2] IPv6 still occasionally seem more flaky than IPv4 with some set ups though.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7368.html#section-3...

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6092

New comment by esbranson in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:04:45 +0000

> Would crime go up, down or stay the same if all surveillance cameras were removed?

I would think the same, crime rates would be unaffected in the short and medium term, since I don't think it prevents much crime given the short or non-custodial sentences given many criminals. Clearance rates and justice (conviction rates) would likely go down though IMO.

New comment by esbranson in "US labor force participation continues to slide"

esbranson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:19:01 +0000

The biggest issue is tertiary (post-secondary) education and its effect on the LFPR in that age range, but not the prime age LFPR.

New comment by esbranson in "US labor force participation continues to slide"

esbranson — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:03:56 +0000

> In November 2023, the labor force participation rate reached 62.8%

In November 2023, the prime age (25-54 years old) labor force participation rate was 83.4%.[1]

> At the same time, the labor force participation rate edged down from 62.0% in February to 61.9% in March, the lowest level since November 2021.

The prime age LFPR was 83.9% and 83.8% in February and March 2026, and 82% in November 2021.[1]

The prime age labor participation rate is just about the highest it's ever been in recorded history. The gender gap is also the lowest it's ever been.[2]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/spotlighting...

New comment by esbranson in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

esbranson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:15:04 +0000

Verifiable credentials (VCs) are W3C standards and do not involve blockchains. Nor does Web 3.0.

New comment by esbranson in "Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC"

esbranson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:56:42 +0000

Excellent. Since privacy and cybersecurity are goals, TLS Encrypted Client Hello (RFC 9849, ECH) and its DNS service bindings (RFC 9848) were finalized last month.

New comment by esbranson in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

esbranson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:02:18 +0000

RSS (RDF Site Summary), released in 1999-2000.

Because I don't want to deal with formatting, I want to focus on data. Firefox and Safari formatting looked great.

New comment by esbranson in "I'm betting on ATProto"

esbranson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:12:26 +0000

The Fediverse did take off. Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos and realized how much better and reliable (non-profit or not) corporate censors are.

New comment by esbranson in "Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)"

esbranson — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:59:00 +0000

Is the same algorithmic connectivity with Japanese happening on Bluesky as it is on Twitter, or are Bluesky's algorithms just as opaque as Twitter's?

New comment by esbranson in "Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too)"

esbranson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:59:41 +0000

I was disappointed by the hard divergence from core aspects of Tim Berners-Lee‘s vision (and its current implementations) of a Web 3.0 but oh well. Threads got on board, and it’s not to say the missing parts can’t be bolted on later. In particular any future W3C Linked Web Storage WG protocols.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/

New comment by esbranson in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

esbranson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:08:22 +0000

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are way ahead of you. Ask your heart away. I am unsure about open source models, it'd be interesting to know if they're ingesting the law.

New comment by esbranson in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

esbranson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:07:12 +0000

Have at it!

The reality is that the official United States Code gives plenty of history for statutes, while the Code of Federal Regulations gives less but still basic history. Both are also provided in XML in bulk, though the former has a modern USLM format and the latter has an archaic schema. Case law is less amenable to git histories.

New comment by esbranson in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

esbranson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:03:59 +0000

CourtListener (from the non-profit Free Law Project) provides bulk access to its case law collection.[1][2] I expect they are ingesting the GPO uscourts collection so it should have near complete (99%) coverage.[3][4]

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/help/api/

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/help/coverage/

[3] https://www.govinfo.gov/help/uscourts

[4] https://www.courtlistener.com/help/coverage/opinions/

New comment by esbranson in "Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear"

esbranson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:21:06 +0000

Common sense?