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New comment by zokier in "Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest"

zokier — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:24:58 +0000

I'd recommend everyone to familiarize how these forests were formed in the first place. They are not some natural thing, nor any ecologic sanctuaries. They are the result of immense postwar hubris and greed, draining ecologically precious and fragile wetlands to create poor (semi-)monoculture plantation forests whose only destiny ever was to get clearcut later.

Of course Google is (likely) still at fault here and should have managed this better, but it is important to understand the context also.

New comment by zokier in "Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest"

zokier — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:27:59 +0000

These new DC sites are literally middle of nowhere with major nearby renewable (hydro and wind) power plants.

New comment by zokier in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

zokier — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:38:56 +0000

You are perfectly free to run your own root servers

New comment by zokier in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

zokier — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:08:41 +0000

In general icann fees are fairly small fraction of the overall cost of a domain, most of the money ends to registrars and registrys.

New comment by zokier in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

zokier — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:02:29 +0000

Tbh the .bg situation seems rather internal problem in Bulgaria rather than problem in the system. As the article mentions, governments definitely can get control of their tld if they want to, so the problem here seems to be that Bulgaria isn't interested.

New comment by zokier in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

zokier — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:45:45 +0000

Then buy domain operated by european registry?

New comment by zokier in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

zokier — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:14:26 +0000

This whole case seems to hinge on the argument that .com domains somehow constitute their own market, instead of being just part of wider domain name market with plenty of competing registrys. That might prove difficult argument in court.

New comment by zokier in "BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC"

zokier — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:01:29 +0000

We have been working on interplanetary (or rather non-earth centric) time standards already for a while. See e.g. Barycentric Coordinate Time, Coordinated Lunar Time, Areocentric Coordinate Time, and related publications.

New comment by zokier in "Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256"

zokier — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:15:10 +0000

xbox 360 would have been better example, xenos with its unified shaders was in some ways more advanced than its contemporary desktop gpus at launch.

New comment by zokier in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

zokier — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:42:00 +0000

> I honestly think that all phones and even professional cameras should replace JPG with WEBP, we will have like 30% smaller photos.

> I am happy that HEIC from Apple did not take off (as it was proprietary, protected by patents).

Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, and Fujifilm cameras all shoot HEIF these days.

New comment by zokier in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

zokier — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:24:04 +0000

Afaik all pro audio standards more or less require ptp for timing, and that might add requirements for nics and switches? otoh the i210 nic, that is mentioned in the post, does have full (g)ptp/phc/tsn/etc support

New comment by zokier in "Time Travel in Braid (2015)"

zokier — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:38:34 +0000

And drm free with native linux ports

New comment by zokier in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

zokier — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:22:36 +0000

> There is no need for another clock on the Linux host

surely that works only as long as eth68 is the only interface? but often you might want other interfaces too which inherently have their own clocks

New comment by zokier in "A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)"

zokier — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:20:18 +0000

I'm starting to lean in the opposite direction and feel like we should have probably stopped at ecma-48. piling up extension after extension is just straying further from the light.

New comment by zokier in "Time Travel in Braid (2015)"

zokier — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:19:12 +0000

That bundle also included Amnesia: The Dark Descent as additional star. Crazy times, it must have been one of the peak bundles in terms of quality

New comment by zokier in "Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks"

zokier — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:15:16 +0000

Your intuition is not completely wrong. We are currently in process of redefining the fundamental SI second because our new clocks are more precise than the definition. It is quite mind-bending stuff.

See for example previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264481

New comment by zokier in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

zokier — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:46:10 +0000

> If they think TLDs need more variety, why not allow them to be anything already (save a few reserved TLDs)?

that is pretty much exactly what they did?

New comment by zokier in "ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains"

zokier — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:33:27 +0000

that already happened during previous round

New comment by zokier in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

zokier — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:25:13 +0000

> assuming we're not talking about .brand

New comment by zokier in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

zokier — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:23:03 +0000

gTLDs didn't really ever have any meaningful purpose though, that is kinda the crux of the problem. Postel didn't bother enforcing any sort of policy of what goes where so the gTLDs became completely meaningless.