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New comment by tsoukase in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"

tsoukase — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:15:08 +0000

Most probably the artifact was transferred there in modern times. Once I had found a 2nf century AD Roman coin while playing outside, worth about 200E. If they were transfered in their corresponding time, they would be burried many metres beneath earth surface.

New comment by tsoukase in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

tsoukase — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:30:57 +0000

Of course it's happening. I am not paranoid. But, the leaders win billions for themselves pushing people to fight. It's not a real intention of the Russian people but of the corrupt Polit-buro that is paid by Lockheed et al. I cannot say it more boldly.

New comment by tsoukase in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

tsoukase — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:52:11 +0000

Russia is a very volatile region, politically and financially. I believe Putin's aggressiveness is not real but due to pressure from Western dark powers. EVERY war Russia fought outside it's borders was lost. They don't need more land or a silly warm water port. It's the huge sum of power of global weaponry. If we fight them in the USA and Europe, Russia will follow.

New comment by tsoukase in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

tsoukase — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:03:25 +0000

I live in Greece, technically under a continuous more or less hot war with all our neighbours since the last 5 f.. centuries. Coping with aggressivity at group level needs deep historical experience, delicate balance above words and lines and knowing that "the best defense is the attack". Ideally, "the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting", Sun Tzu, but it's difficult, even locally.

Leaders like the POTUS, the Chancellor or the "Czar" exert immense influence over the global stuff. Let's press all of them to behave sanely and throw out of their bed the weapon companies. In the 60's the USA had 60000 nuclear warheads, now 5000. Let's make them 60000 again so to stop all conventional wars overnight.

New comment by tsoukase in "The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?"

tsoukase — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:36:58 +0000

Put an 8cm thick rockwool under your ceiling and you are 90% sound insulated. The rest is 5cm at neighbouring walls.

New comment by tsoukase in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

tsoukase — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:06:42 +0000

We are too far away from the last real war in Europe, which was WWII, and forgot how massive thing it is. Let's start saying that a war or a preparation for it is an experience that cannot be expressed wholly by words. Our current life doesn't seem to be anything like that. That's because, IMHO, the war shenanigan is a forced artificial thing, imposed by background global forces just to sell some more weapons and spread some fear and worry. Not much more will happen.

New comment by tsoukase in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

tsoukase — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:53:56 +0000

This incident validates the opinion that for an US citizen, it's better to hand over his private data to a foreign (read Chinese) cloud company than a US one.

New comment by tsoukase in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

tsoukase — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:04:31 +0000

It might be that the "secret owner" had an obsession to liberalise the song field, like the book one, and erroneously thought he could get away indefinitely. Songs are not books as they are backed by much stronger, concentrated and dedicate to kill piracy capital.

New comment by tsoukase in "All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample"

tsoukase — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:26:03 +0000

It is indeed big news IF the sample is not polluted from the ample existence of nucleotides in earth. Using the Bayes theorem the possibility of seeded life from the universe is not negligible any more. But the geological time scales bring us not far more.

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

tsoukase — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:28:33 +0000

The answer comes from the suggested design: you update your DNS right after you run the new stack, irrespective of what others (ISPs and users) do. The records will initially still function as v4 (discard the lb32b). Only when all others switch, they will enable their full length.

Obviously there should be simulations and refining to avoid edge cases and conflicts. I will not design the full spec.

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

tsoukase — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:50:48 +0000

[The answer goes to both commenters]

There are two groups that should update to v8 in order to be fully functional: users' OS net stack and ISPs' infra.

The incompatibility of IPvs between two endpoints can be solved by a couple of mechanisms. One is to make a preflight check if all nodes support v8, another is to start with a flag isv8=1 and change it along the path. If a single node is still at v4, all the communication continues v4-like (the v8 nodes send 0 at the ls32b).

It will be a gradual migration, in some regions faster or slower, but it will be SEAMLESS for the user, without the awful v6 UX that we have now.

New comment by tsoukase in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

tsoukase — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:39:48 +0000

Related: "A 29-year-old employee, identified as Chamel Abdulkarim, was arrested for allegedly starting a massive six-alarm fire that destroyed a Kimberly-Clark sanitary paper warehouse in Ontario, California, on April 7, 2026."

He said "All you had to do was pay us enough to live"

And this was caused not by a homeless or unemployed.

New comment by tsoukase in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

tsoukase — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:56:43 +0000

It's extremely difficult to compete with the US SW companies. Their products are so engaging and attractive that anyone till up to the leaders are tempted to use. It's not surprising that EU's attempt to de-USAisation happens with Linux/OSS and not with an in-house prop SW because it's unable to write one. Also it doesn't happen without cries and pain. We speak for an endeavour to bring a 90% share of a beloved product to 3% and vice versa for a nerdy "cold" one. I keep a long lasting pop corn bag to follow the numbers.

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

tsoukase — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:34:40 +0000

> How are you going to make v8 addressable from v4?

I expected this question and have thought about it. Here is an idea: all nodes (PCs, routers etc) run an updated stack, which sends/receives 64bit addresses. If it receives 1:2:3:4:0:0:0:0, that's v4 and continues as such. It's on the ISP when the switch happens because they deliver the addresses. The user notices nothing. Edge cases can arise and be handled accordingly.

The update from 32-to-64 will be massively pushed to all kernels and userspaces in a short time so to shorten outages.

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

tsoukase — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:41:34 +0000

Something like 1:2:3:4:a:b:c:d where the most significant 32bits are a valid IPv4. The kernel figures out and keep all others the same (NAT etc). We extend the address space, not invent a new stack. The IPv6 critics shout out that this would be a viable solution.

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

tsoukase — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:48:30 +0000

If IPv6 doesn't dominate in the next, let's say, 10 years, they might publish the IPv8 which will be an 64bit space, backwards compatible with IPv4. It will be the only case where a newer version of software comes back closer to an older one.

New comment by tsoukase in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

tsoukase — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:47:03 +0000

At the moment, I think the data that we protect ourselves are useless and those that are public are precious.

New comment by tsoukase in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

tsoukase — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:41:42 +0000

I'm one such person among the billions worldwide, that is a minority on this forum.

New comment by tsoukase in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

tsoukase — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:15 +0000

The full text of Google's slogan is: Don't be evil (to customers that click ads from which our largest income share comes but not to developers who in the future might be our competitors).

It's just too long to fit on a T-shirt but not to memorise.

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

tsoukase — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:44:43 +0000

EU depending so much on Goo/App feels suspicious for direct lobbying, as someone noted. If I were Ursula, I would draw a red line: no US digital dependence. But the rounding error of the rounding error of these trillion dollar companies is enough to expunge the nonexistent EU infra.