Posts by neilalexander@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AB1VSIw2VQ3XitKsbY by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-09-04T10:58:38Z
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@alejandrobdn Let us not misrepresent this — it's the price of being the default, nothing else. If privacy is important for you, change from the defaults!
(DIR) Post #ABvb3DiuhBHVscEuNU by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2018-06-13T19:23:41Z
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A quick primer on the Yggdrasil #meshnet:▶ End-to-end #E2E #encryption between nodes, always, without exception.▶ New routing scheme based on a globally-agreed spanning tree.▶ Adapts quickly to changes in network topology.▶ Works on a range of platforms - including Windows!▶ Works over existing #IPv4 or #IPv6 networks.▶ Written in #GoLang. ▶ Should be familiar to anyone who has used #cjdns or is a part of #hyperboria.https://yggdrasil-network.github.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17305885All testers welcome!
(DIR) Post #ABzJS16C1go5m1VpFw by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T12:51:08Z
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@inference @opal@pl.wowana.me > I want internally logged and permanent auditing Allow me to introduce you to DHCPv6, est. 2003.
(DIR) Post #ABzJd2CWGkh6NQj1RQ by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T12:53:10Z
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@inference @opal@pl.wowana.me > I want internally logged and permanent auditing
Allow me to introduce you to DHCPv6, est. 2003.
(DIR) Post #ABzJllBUuCKUCvPLSS by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T12:54:44Z
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@inference RFC3315, plus various updates since.
(DIR) Post #ABzK3kQyQyDr5oDwsi by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T12:57:59Z
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@inference It’s a distinct protocol from DHCPv4, but allows you to do the same things — ephemeral ranged addressing, static leases etc.
(DIR) Post #ABzKpPh6qZwGfZV3my by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T13:06:37Z
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@inference Well if your ISP gives you a globally routable prefix then you can use DHCPv6 to assign addresses from it in a more predictable fashion and audit assignments etc. IPv4 *will* be left behind one day and it is mostly shooting yourself in the foot at this point to disable it. Security concerns are, as always, addressed with firewalls, which can continue to log even without NAT. In actual fact, NAT is really no security at all.
(DIR) Post #ABzKtsqwNVOKGHEK4O by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T13:07:26Z
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@inference You can have private and public prefixes and machines can even have both. For friendly naming you should really use DNS. Remembering addresses doesn’t scale.
(DIR) Post #ABzL3rUKJ66KvOPVGC by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T13:09:14Z
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@inference I don’t think anyone is asking you to “move away” from IPv4 entirely, but today’s world is dual-stack to enable a slow transition and that’s OK.
(DIR) Post #ABzLGQn2sgwVt29x5c by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T13:11:29Z
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@inference Yes, DNS on internal networks is a thing and multicast DNS is convenient if not :-) Also you can assign private prefixes within the ULA range but probably not much benefit to doing so if all of your machines also have a public prefix — you’d still be only one-hop routing either way.
(DIR) Post #ABzLcWTaQ9PJtPakxk by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T13:15:30Z
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@inference Don’t really understand the question. DNS has distinct record types for v4 vs v6. There’s no translation happening there. I was just pointing out that DNS is more convenient than trying to remember addresses of any kind.
(DIR) Post #ABzdPUa5xBBpQSZYBc by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-10-03T16:34:47Z
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@inference You would add both an A and an AAAA record for the name in DNS pointing to both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of a given machine, so that the DNS request for a given name returns *both* IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Then a dual-stack or IPv6-only system can access via IPv6 and an IPv4-only system can access via IPv4.
(DIR) Post #AD25yee7asaubjR9ZA by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2021-11-03T18:41:07Z
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Yggdrasil Network v0.4.1 is released! 🌳This version fixes a couple of nasty crashes and it is highly recommended to upgrade.Release: https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/tree/v0.4.1Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#yggdrasil:matrix.org#yggdrasil #meshnet #meshnetworks #decentralised #e2e #decentralized #network #ipv6
(DIR) Post #AFLUVNNSK9PzdAEk0u by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2022-01-03T22:24:08Z
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Seriously, who is buying all of these NFTs? Who is spending thousands of dollars to “own” copies of URLs to some of the ugliest JPEGs known to exist? Make it make sense?????
(DIR) Post #AFRg9G2TIBQAtlOtxA by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2022-01-14T22:53:13Z
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@cjd @lain That’s pretty much right. Yggdrasil is aiming to build a network that will scale as far as possible *without* needing complicated configuration and without needing to defer to centralised knowledge from route servers. We’re trying to make it very robust even when the network topology changes quickly (like mobility scenarios). We consider it being written in Go as a bonus because it’s super easy to cross-compile for all sorts of platforms/architectures.
(DIR) Post #ALNc5gL0DZcLsO51o8 by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2022-07-10T21:49:22Z
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"TikTok is the most successful espionage operation of the 21st century so far, and it is based on a simple idea - people will happily give away their data and privacy if you consistently entertain them."— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049381
(DIR) Post #AOhNEcvW8dGRTwyTZo by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2022-10-18T17:24:50Z
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@cjd @sn0w @SuperDicq @fluffy Dendrite is still rough around the edges in places but it’s very usable and has most of the Matrix APIs implemented, as well as all of the currently supported room versions. Quite a few community users running it now without too many issues and also dendrite.matrix.org is open for registration.
(DIR) Post #AYx7W4980KQDqI3LzU by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T18:20:57Z
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The Web Environment Integrity proposals are concerning but I don't believe we have an open web today either.The whole world is pretty much powered by three rendering engines that are insanely complex and constantly moving targets. Even a company the size of Microsoft couldn't keep up with IE and was forced to abandon it. How on earth is anyone else supposed to do it? The belief that the web browser needs to be a do-everything application platform has created a mess that no one can unpick.
(DIR) Post #AYx7W80PefpLoQ0Rxg by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T18:27:19Z
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This isn't really intended to be just another "arg web apps are bad" rant, but the constant need for everything to be implemented using browser technologies is absolutely by far the largest contributor to this issue. The second biggest contributor, of course, is advertisers, who would happily show ads to us in our sleep if they could figure out how. Failing that, they'll just settle for the next best thing of making sure they are just about everywhere else, on every page or in every search.
(DIR) Post #Ack7swldJWgakPc7Y8 by neilalexander@mastodon.social
2023-12-12T17:49:43Z
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#xmpp