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In a lot of rural places in general, don’t know about Alaska, it was either you got starlink or nothing after the fiber only rules were withdrawn

Which basically means if starlink goes if there’s not another sat vendor … basically there’s nothing. I don’t think any other providers service that far up(hughesnet maybe?)

I’m also not sure if starlink and the others will be forced to do COLR (carrier of last resort) but I think the answer might be “no”.

Any kind of poll mode networking:

Rdma, dpdk, io_uring it’s really kind of up to the user to do the memory isolation

In io_urings case tho, you can’t do much because the rings are in the kernel.

I’m hopeful though that with Llm things will get better.

But it’s just hard problem to solve . Very difficult to do in the kernel itself, and folks don’t really even understand tuning for it.

Yes!!

So.... worked at a telco on a telco cloud solution, and ipv4 addresses are expensive.

LAN/RFC1918 doesn't work at scale of hundreds/thousands of data centers(each central office was a data center)

as such ipv6...

Still had some legacy tools that relied on ipv4, but ipv6 was basically the only way to fix some of their issues with data normalization in their IPAM etc.

Also, having to provision and manage these servers with people and flash drives and keyboards and bios settings was suboptimal. Insert multiple racks ... hundreds of them inside the same data center, multiple vlan's(reasons) some good ... some not ... l2 at that scale had issues.

Wanted to just turn them on with a firmware/boot agent that would connect to a provisioning server and download their OS and bios settings.

as such we built something that was basically the replacement for an iDRAC/ILO :) and ran on actual factual ipv6 first.

some nic's still let you burn into the ROM your own boot loader... can't say more for NDA reasons though I doubt anyone is using this as the whole product got subsumed by the public cloud push.

they say they should be banned because kids are using them to get around.

Ummm what??? lolll

if they don't want their kids using vpn... why would banning vpn for everyone and requiring ID verification be the answer? LOLLLL

That sounds like they need to control their kids

"it's hard" ...

"WHY DID YOU HAVE KIDS THEN?!?!?!"

Yeah all of these rely on layer 2 or dhcp relay and are really ipv4 only solutions.

Not to discount what the fog guys had… love what they made :)

Look at ironic for something better.

What we eventually ended up with after a couple of iterations was decidedly better for our use case :)

But sadly doesn’t exist in the outside world yet :(.

Made something similar at work a bunch of years back…. :) good to see people still thinking of this stuff and making modern versions

That being said what may be more useful is a EFI binary you can push to a motherboard that does this with a tpm key

I know everyone is going to say I’m crazy

But for cabling, OS2 clear bend rated cable … pre-terminated is like the same price and currently have 25gb optics but I’m able to run over 100gb in my house without having to drill holes etc. (runs along the baseboards)

The cables are super thin… and clear/transparent

And I never have to replace the cable again I’m pretty sure haha

The bidi sfp28s $25 are awesome :)

And worst case if your service loop just … loops …. Eh haha

Gonna try using it for other things like hdmi etc too with a cassette :)

I have the opportunity to try this on some new NMR data on peptides. I’ll share everything on GitHub and show how it went :)

Curious to see how the others actually do.

this is amazing :)

i'm curious to see how it works for like linux support. What if you could toss like little raspberry pi's or something on speakers....and make your own DIY object sound system? haha

I think this might be possible with some of the linux sound projects...

that would be amazing.

Sad this doesn't work fully with atmost yet.. but it's all so young/new.

This is probably a valid use case for mythos haha

This is a common retort used to cut cost and push things out the door in tech during mvp. However, given most of the world doesn’t look like the west coast, maybe having human drivers would’ve been a good idea until a couple of seasons had passed.

Also they could’ve tested this in other places too?

Yeah… the issue might be exchange rate though between those … let’s call them crypto? Tokens and how much Llm might cost.

As a dev in a couple different opensource communities I would love a subsidized AI/Llm subscription to help create test cases and maybe find things I missed.

Might be a minority opinion though lol