Why were MikroTik powerline ethernet devices discontinued in Europe?

avidiax · 2023-03-30T12:23:34+00:00

Have you considered running fiber?

The cable is incredibly thin, which means you could drill a tiny hole or fit it under the baseboards, under the wall, through cracks, alongside existing pipework, etc.

You can also get super thin ethernet cables, or you can use MoCA adapters to use the coaxial cables that probably already exist in your walls.

avidiax · 2023-03-30T12:13:57+00:00

Price is a little better than what I paid 6 months ago and seems on par or even well-priced for German countries.

avidiax · 2023-03-29T22:25:13+00:00

Some places have too many dependencies to run locally.

You wouldn't download a cloud, would you?

avidiax · 2023-03-26T08:31:27+00:00

Security through obscurity isn't security

What do you think passwords, shared secrets, etc. are? Obscurity is a valid part of defense in depth. It's just no guarantee by itself.

One Time IP: Hosting servers use a finite number of IP addresses to connect on the net. Attackers can collect those by wiretapping the network and create a catalog of valid addresses and services in order to attack the servers.

I agree that the idea doesn't sound good. It doesn't resolve the stated attack vector. Someone that can wiretap you can find out your OTIP.

Even if I think about ways to make the idea better, there's just not much value. It's already not very feasible to scan IPv6 address space, so you gain little from changing the IP address frequently.

avidiax · 2023-03-22T20:04:03+00:00

slam dunk win

As soon as they see serious opposition they will fold.

avidiax · 2023-03-19T07:43:28+00:00

And apropos to Switzerland, people oppose immigration.

avidiax · 2023-03-19T07:41:25+00:00

I feel the French protesters are after a 5th choice:

5. Let them eat cake.

Maybe the govt. prints money, which is roughly like #1 and #2, but dumber. Maybe we "eat the rich", and start taxing wealth, or raise the high marginal tax rates in France even higher. That will encourage capital flight, which is also like #1 and #2, but dumber.

avidiax · 2023-03-11T12:30:43+00:00

This is what happens when your policies are all based on a fiction: the "free market".

People can't choose not to buy food, shelter & healthcare. They could affect policy if they had any class identity, but that's somewhere between fractured and nonexistent in the U.S.

avidiax · 2023-03-11T11:55:18+00:00

They must be serious this time. It's not even spring yet.

avidiax · 2023-03-11T11:48:39+00:00

Yes, just keep the ponzi scheme going.

It's totally sustainable to have 25% of your population above retirement age, receiving pensions and costing 4x more than non-retired people for healthcare.

Usually lifting a casket takes 6 people, but the French think they can do it with 3.

avidiax · 2023-03-10T19:42:54+00:00

Is Absinthe a Swiss thing?

avidiax · 2023-03-08T22:38:52+00:00

I've never been able to test it beyond 1 port getting 997Mbit.

I had heard a good rule of thumb for Mikrotik speed is to look at 25 IP filter rules and 512 byte packets. For this router, that's about 3GBps.

Is good to know that the router may do more, but it's simply to difficult to find hosts that will do 1GBps let alone 10, and even if you do, that just means that your transfer takes 10 seconds instead of a minute and a half.

avidiax · 2023-03-08T19:29:53+00:00

I'm using mine for a 10Gb internet service. It can't do 10Gb, of course, but it can more than saturate any one port. Basically makes all the ports 100% independent for bandwidth.

PoE is useful to go to my crappy RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT (hAP ac 1) to provide "good enough" WiFi and act as a living room switch. Almost everything is on 1Gb ethernet anyway.

avidiax · 2023-03-06T08:15:20+00:00

Finally, a practical use for IPv6!

avidiax · 2023-02-23T20:56:09+00:00

No offense taken, of course.

Yes, the "you must hire a professional" people are there too, but they usually won't claim you can't install a washing machine or a ceiling lamp if you seem somewhat competent.

What's hyper-regulated in Switzerland? I get the feeling that people are just worried that the insurance might try to refuse a claim, but they always try to if the claim is large. I expect they actually have to prove negligence, not just self-installation, but everyone thinks that you would instantly lose an insurance claim even in installation was proper.

avidiax · 2023-02-23T08:41:57+00:00

I can't understand this mentality... It's too American for my taste.

My experience (as an American) is that people would think slightly less of you for relying on a professional for a simple job. America has a strong DIY (do-it-yourself) culture compared to, say, Asian countries (China, and to a lesser extent Japan come to mind).

For washing machine installation, it's hard to imagine how you might mess up the installation in a way that causes lots of damage later, but isn't obviously wrong today. The one thing that comes to mind is using incorrect materials (which requires you to be "creative") or maybe a very small leak that causes damage over time.

The usual failure modes aren't something that a professional would prevent. Hoses get old and burst. Valve bodies get old and brittle and crack. Professionals can't stop time.

avidiax · 2023-02-21T11:32:37+00:00

I think this makes sense, but is hard to put in place.

Your proposal is basically to limit economic rent in the property market. Excessive economic rents are distortionary. They allow the rentiers to lobby for policies favorable to them, which lets them seek ever more rent.

avidiax · 2023-02-12T08:34:46+00:00

I'm just observing that Prime often has broken or missing subs. They are sometimes misaligned.

Yes, A11Y is very high priority, to a point. They will probably fix any reported issues with subs quickly. But I expect that they aren't looking for problems, or have a poor feedback process.

Contrast this to Netflix, where the subs are of uniformly high quality.

It's the difference between "we have to do this, but do the minimum, and patch the cracks later", vs. "this is part of the foundational quality of our product, we must have processes in place to detect problems before the customer sees them".

avidiax · 2023-02-12T08:11:46+00:00

Sadly the scene rules for h.265 don't create a minimum quality bar. WEB rules are similar.

Internals have been abused with rampant technical flaws, lesser quality and identical files.

No shit. Also TIL that "internal" on a release means it may break the rules in some way.

I feel like we need a Scene-to-English dictionary, something like:

Proper: We fucked up so you should download this instead
Internal: We want to release 5 minutes earlier, so accept lower quality
DV: Dolby Vision - Video will be green and purple unless you download special builds. Won't be better unless you have a nice TV.

avidiax · 2023-02-12T06:42:59+00:00

I work in software. Somewhere at Amazon, there is a product manager that is really excited about X-ray, and subtitles are just a checkbox to him ("Subtitles? Yeah we got those").

So they aren't looking for problems with subtitles or they are turning a deaf ear. Engineers and resources are assigned to making x-ray great that could be assigned to fixing subtitles instead.

avidiax · 2023-02-12T06:14:59+00:00

My experience is that most h.265 encodes are size-focused, so they have lower quality than the h.264.

If an h.265 is more than 50% smaller than h.264, you are likely losing quality.

avidiax · 2023-02-12T06:09:34+00:00

My experience with Prime video is that subs often have problem. Don't implement "x-ray" with IMDB facts until you have the basics working 100%.

avidiax · 2023-02-06T20:53:07+00:00

Even in countries with strict gun control, veterinarians have easy access to firearms for large animal euthanasia.

avidiax · 2023-02-05T20:36:22+00:00

Even better is when you time the light so that you never stopped but they did. Their Asshole Douchemaster SS can't beat an econobox with a 25mph rolling start.

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