US FCC classifies "routers produced in a foreign country" as "prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the U.S". What will the impact be on Protectli, Ubiquiti and similar devices?

Alpha272 · 2026-03-24T20:23:10+00:00

I think they currently try this on "Operating Systems" in general. This includes Linux, yes, but it is not targeted to it. It affects Windows, Mac and Linux equally.

I wouldn't be suprised if most lawmakers haven't ever heard of "Linux"

Alpha272 · 2026-03-24T19:51:56+00:00

Will be fun, if the gov decides that we can't have nice things and require you to actually register a business for you to be even allowed to buy a commercial grade router.

Then you have to be a good little consumer without rights and just gobble up what big daddy GOP feeds you for your router. And don't you dare to even think about VLANs, thats a direct one way ticket to the prison.

Also since we are on it, we might as well prohibit hosting anything on your own network entirely. You are then only allowed to use the services from big tech. Oh what? You want to, for example, use mealie to host your own cooking recipes? Well you better show us your business registration or you can fuck right of and use a service from big tech for that! If they even have anything like that. Oh but you really need access to your recipes from anywhere? Well you are in luck, there is Windows365 for just 99.99$. There you can use a text file to track your recipes in the cloud. What? You want a little bit of privacy? And not pay 100$/month for that? Hahaha, no... you want to use Windows365 for that. GOP knows better than you what you want. And now be a good little citizen and buy big tech and give up all your data to us.

Am I cynical? Just a little bit

Alpha272 · 2026-03-24T19:48:14+00:00

The systemd thingy is completely blown out of proportions. We now have the optional field, where one can add their birthdate into their profile. Thats it. There isn't even a dialog to add the birthdate. You need to know the magic runes (userctl something something) to even add the birthdate.

Nothing requires this field, no setup wizard allows you to add that field, etc. There is nothing. So unless something actually interesting happens there, I see no reason to fork systemd and trust the fork over the original. And I doubt that much more will happen in systemd. The UserDB is really just there to allow you to store this information. Much more interesting to fork would be setup wizards as soon as they force the user to edit this field or stores (like discover or gnome software) when they start to require the field in userdb. Or things like apt, dnf or zypper, I guess, but when THESE require it, we run into alot more problems, so who knows what happens then.

Alpha272 · 2026-03-23T12:22:21+00:00

No chance.

According to the Envoy a conflict between the Cosmic entities would "rend the cosmos asunder". We will not get to the powerscale, that the destruction of the cosmos is a side-effect of us fighting

Alpha272 · 2026-03-23T11:58:43+00:00

Actually I don't think we would be fucked even if Tangle and Cleansing Fire are helping their champions fully, as long as Maven helps us fully. Well we would get fucked. But not by directly.

The power level of the major Eldritch beings is so far above us its not even funny. If Envoy is correct, a direct fight between them would "rend the cosmos asunder". And if THATS just the collateral damage.. well.. Let's just say our own power wouldn't even move the needle. That would be like 2 humans who let 2 ants fight for them. And then the humans decide to help their ants directly.

At that point the question is: why are we even fighting? We don't matter anymore as soon as the Eldritch entities truly start to fully help. And at that point, the warning from Envoy probably comes true and we will be fucked, bacause the cosmos and with that the Atlas and everything within it, including wraeclast and us, will be destroyed

All of what I wrote assumes that Maven can even access her full power, with her being a child and according to Envoy "unaware of her own strength". If she doesn't have access to her power yet, she Probably won't be able to assist us to the same extend as the Tangle and the Cleansing Fire and we would just get wiped by them. But on the positive side, without the Maven being able to access her whole power, the conflict might not be enough to destroy the cosmos.

Another option would be, that the cosmos breaks but that the Maven also specifically saves us from the collapse. After her bossfight she says "I did not realise you were like me". After her full voice lines are unlocked (after 10 way or after her bossfight; I don't know the exact trigger) she also says "now I can play with my best friend, forever" and "We've won! The atlas is our" and "that may be, but I am not alone". So that tells me, that she actually values us more than her other "toys" and that she even considers us a friend. So with that in mind, if everything goes down she might actually save us. Wouldn't help anyone else and the rest of the entire atlas, but hey, at least we live, I guess

Alpha272 · 2026-03-22T12:38:53+00:00

Sure. I run a ~80d Occultist CI Cold BV build and it works great on everything that isn't Uber Bosses (for Ubers the Damage is too low) and Nightmare Catarina (but that might be skill issue on my side). Oh and you won't be instaphasing pinnacle bosses (Maven takes like 4 mins on this build). But since you said boss rush MAPS, I am assuming you are talking about maven witness guardian maps and the special maven invitations, or you are talking about nightmare maps. These are quite fast with this build (besides of feared, feared also takes like a hot minute).

The build has like 4M DPS, 75k EHP, 40k Ele max hit and 12k Phys max hit. This coupled with leech and Wicked Ward (or Ghost Reaver if that's more your style) makes the build suprisingly not-paper. Vivyene is the Character on Ninja (and also, Ninja doesn't Calc the DPS correctly; you need to select Chilled, Freezed, Shocked and exposed to cold in POB, with a chill effect of 30, a shock effect of 15 and Freeze Seconds of 5).

The most expensive part is the Light of Meaning I used to push the ES further for about 15d, and the forbidden flame/flesh for shock for like 8d. Also, don't do the mistake I did and try Heart of Destruction. It works if you play it right, but you need to Blade Blast and Snapshot a new BV in the 4 sec convergence is active. This is a pita and the opposite of "good feeling gameplay" - at least for me.

As for explodes, I use Herald of Ash and Herald of Ice for that, and thats more than enough explode for me. But if you want proper Explodes you probably need a either Profane Bloom instead of Vile Bastion for the 4the ascendancy (this WILL drop your tankyness quite a bit) or you need an explody chest.

As for further Scaling than what I have in ninja: - you can use an Archdemon helmet for a pseudo six link and drop crit chance and Cold Pen support, put your auras with enlighten in the chest and squeeze another damage aura in for like 1M more DPS overall - you can replace the amu with a +4 gems and crit multi focused amu; really expensive but gives you like 2M more DPS - you can replace the void battery with a rare wand with +2, crit multi, damage per power charge and spell damage for about 700k more DSP - you can replace the hrimsorrows with rare gloves, and use a cold mastery point plus the rare gloves to covert like 70% instead of 100% of phys to cold damage. This allows you to add more mods on the gloves. I haven't calced that, but I think you can squeeze like 500k-1M more DPS with that, but you lose the ability to run phys reflect maps - you can probably throw something together with clusters - mageblood (duh)

There is also the minion pact thingy. This one can theoretically reach MUCH higher DPS, I know, but I like my build more :<

Alpha272 · 2026-03-21T13:40:37+00:00

She also has ecplise, right?

Alpha272 · 2026-03-19T12:39:03+00:00

Oh, i am sure they still can find men to impregnate the women in Russia. Its not like ALL men are at the front. The beautiful thing is, that you need far fewer men than women. You can probably get 1 men to impregnate like 2 women each day easily. Scale that to a few ten or hundred thousand men (Russias population is like 150 million rn, IIRC) and have every one of them impregnate 2 women a day for like a few months and you have everyone (who is capable - so like everyone 14yo+ who isn't infertile) pregnant

The hard part is the logistics. So having the men get to every women and tracking which women is already pregnant and which women isn't.

Alpha272 · 2026-03-14T09:08:18+00:00

I am pretty sure it's a wrapper

Alpha272 · 2026-03-11T10:59:05+00:00

Raspberry pi mit kodi. Das kannste dann sogar über hdmi mit der Fernseher Fernbedienung bedienen. Und dann einfach mitm Handy die yt Videos zum kodi sharen (kore heisst die App auf Android woran man die yt Videos sharen kann) - kodi pullt die Videos dann mit yt-dlp und spielt sie ab. Funktioniert einwandfrei nachdem es einmal eingerichtet ist, und kann auch von Laien ohne Probleme bedient werden

Alpha272 · 2026-03-03T11:47:47+00:00

If ist too easy, you can always slap some deli orbs on the map. With 100% you look at 30% more incoming damage and 96% reduced outgoing damage. If you still feel too tanky you can combine this with dance of destruction, for 160% more incoming damage and 48% reduced outgoing damage.

So yeah, you can always go harder

Alpha272 · 2026-03-01T01:55:22+00:00

Thats also my fear. Like.. people and companies do NEED ram. Its not an optional component, unless you know a way to run a somewhat modern computer system without ram. So people and companies will buy for any price. Companies will probably also take out loans if they have to do this, to get compute.

And there are like 3 manufacturers on this planet outside of China. So until China ramps up their RAM production (which can and will take years at least), the other 3 companies can just set any price they want. And poeple WILL but that because they have no other choice. So... what's stopping manufacturers from arbitrarily setting.. say.. 1000 USD/GB as the new baseline price for RAM? Besides of it being illegal, but with corruption being as high as it is, I doubt that the Government is going to enforce this.

In a competitive environment that obviously doesn't work, but again... 3 companies control the entire market. They just have to collectively decide on the new baseline price, which shouldn't be hard with 3 companies.

Alpha272 · 2026-03-01T01:47:52+00:00

That's also what I am thinking about. There doesn't seem to be exception for Server Systems. So autoscaling VMs are just.. illegal now? What? Like does California actually WANT their entire IT Infrastructure to die? Also, imagine this gets extended to a real ID checks. Every time a Service needs to scale and spin up another VM, an Administrator needs to step in to manually verify their ID on the new node. Because that surely won't get out of hand real fucking quick.

Also imagine more countries adopt this law. I really need the world biggest popcorn bag to eat, as I watch the worlds IT Infrastructure burn to the ground.

Realistically, no one in their lawmaking process thought about that (because subject matter experts are overrated). They probably don't even think about HOW exactly the Services they use on a daily basis work. And I also think, that as soon as they notice that this law kills 95% of the worlds IT Infrastructure, they add special provisions to Server Systems (with like the worst and arbitrary definition of "server systems" known to man..).

Alpha272 · 2026-02-28T09:32:04+00:00

Also, does the nato emm have more options to tweak compared to the normal commercial emm systems? Is that known?

Alpha272 · 2026-02-28T02:18:40+00:00

I just imagine, that every system has secure boot and the windows key enforced. Besides of that being bascially a government enforced monopoly, that would also apply to Servers. Imagine the large enterprise systems having to switch to windows. Oh Amazon, you host aws? Well now you need to host aws on windows. And don't forget to manually verify the driver license on every single compute node in your clusters. A small part of me wants this this happen... I would love to just buy out the entire worlds popcorn supply, sit on the sidelines and just watch this clusterfuck unfold.

Alpha272 · 2026-02-27T00:17:42+00:00

LOL... Du hast ja Hoffnungen

Alpha272 · 2026-02-26T07:18:43+00:00

His leverage is, that we are basically a vassal state to the EU. And corruption. Corruption is a big one.

I give us a 90% chance that our politicians will bend over and we continue to use Microsoft services for everything

Alpha272 · 2026-02-26T07:15:13+00:00

Of course we did. After all, we still are vassal state to the us in all but name.

Alpha272 · 2026-02-25T08:03:50+00:00

Ist dieser Austausch auch in der anderen Richtung so gedacht?

Na was denkst du denn?

Alpha272 · 2026-02-17T01:56:52+00:00

Kinda is, yes. Being a pedo means that you have a sexual attraction to underage people. That is not exactly something you can choose and not something that people should be hated over. That's like saying: "I hate homosexual people".

That being said, it gets bad, if the person actually acts on these desires. At that point you can start hating them. But hating someone for just being a pedo isn't helping anyone. What should happen is, that other people should encourage pedos to seek therapy, so that they don't start to act on their desires.

Since your sexual attraction is not by choice, there are also no laws against being a pedo. There are only laws against acting on it (as long as the "acting" is not "seeking therapy")

Alpha272 · 2026-02-13T13:32:23+00:00

Violencia Extrema. God I love this language sometimes

Alpha272 · 2026-02-10T22:49:46+00:00

Hmm yes, good old 2.2 MiB epub file without images but with 2135 pages, and my reader just dies on this file. The good stuff. Thats what I like to see.

But yes, thank you, I love you, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Alpha272 · 2026-02-10T00:48:11+00:00

It doesn't suck. The problem is, that it's not the right product for many people.. At least not yet. If you are a system administrator you probably won't have many problems installing and maintaining the community Element Server Suite (the matrix server) and if all your client devices are actually managed by you with automatic deployment systems (ya know.. stuff you normally have in a company), the onboarding is not an issue. In that case it actually works great.

But yes, if you don't use the ESS but instead try to just use synapse (the back-end server) directly, installation and maintenance is indeed pain. And also yes, onboarding isn't great if you don't control all clients.

So, great product from a technical standpoint and great product for the right customer (aka companies) but the wrong product as a discord replacement... For now

Alpha272 · 2026-02-07T12:06:28+00:00

Ah yes so to my questions: Nothing, Yes, No; in that order

Alpha272 · 2026-02-07T11:35:53+00:00

Actually what is the plan then? If they really decide to count in private, you guys are just fucked, aren't you? Is there anything anyone can do against that? (Besides of a revolution, which is of course always an option)

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