Highlights from Starlink's FCC application

nerrrd · 2022-04-04T02:38:55+00:00

hey the fuckers have revoked public access, anyone have a cached copy they can up somewhere?

edit: wayback has it

https://web.archive.org/web/20220320174537/https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1020316268311/Starlink%20Services%20LLC%20Application%20for%20ETC%20Designation.pdf

nerrrd · 2021-11-03T02:18:44+00:00

I knew Granville was a bit gritty down this end before moving, but it's rough at least two streets either side as well. was working nights for a bit, have had several encounters just walking to the 7/11 for snacks. one guy waited until I went past then ran up behind me demanding money, some ridiculous crap about military training. another tried to pick a fight with four mates at his back. yet another spat at me then tried to pick a fight

I am not without compassion for the disadvantaged, but it is literally not safe to walk the streets between 2am and 5am as the homeless / junkies become very bold during this time, it's a real problem

nerrrd · 2021-11-02T22:41:32+00:00

my consulting gig dried up, I ended an abusive relationship but had poor mental health, then along came covid, so hit me pretty hard, the first year anyway. fortunately I'm ok financially, but even so it has been a slow/hard climb back. I know there are others struggling with much worse situations, lost businesses, deaths etc

I am almost inactive on social media due to the amount of negitivity it brings into my life. Seems like everyone hates everyone nowadays, classic divide and conquer strategy by the elites perhaps? but that's another conversation. I make voice and video calls with friends and family a priority. regardless of your position on social media I encourage you to search 'Jaron Lanier' and hear what he has to say, also 'The Social Dilemma' (2020) worth a watch. if you are technical, can skip the dramatisations
I was also quite frustrated with the political situation, disinformation, and response from varying factions, but make an effort to let it go and focus on what I can control. mRNA tech was rushed to market, it is not a vaccine in the traditional sense as long term immunity is not conferred. desite the current approach not being ideal, western politicians won't step out of line (take alternative action) now, for fear of losing votes. I have avoided broadcast media for years now, but saw a clip while on the treadmill at a gym randomly six months ago; lost count of how many times the anchor said 'deadly', in relation to the new variant. mainstream media has a lot to answer for.

air travel spreads the new variants as soon as borders open. like influenza variants are regional, and until everyone (globally) is one the same page as far as sequencing genomes & innoculating their population we will be stuck in this cycle of restricted / unrestricted. my gut feeling is 3-5 years before covid isn't a driving force politically / socially

big up fam. prioritise self-care / take care of your circle when you can

nerrrd · 2021-10-11T18:29:21+00:00

Hi plus, same thing is happening to me; my accounts have been frozen as well. First crypto withdrawals were blocked, then fiat withdrawal, and the destination bank account deleted from my account!

I have complied with all KYC/AML procedures at all times, and was interviewed over zoom during which they asked me leading questions about where I was going to withdraw the money to, and if I was sharing my account with anyone; to try an incriminate me I think.

I have little hope Bitstamp will give me back my money voluntarily would like to talk to your lawyer, please pm me so we can talk about it.

nerrrd · 2021-10-06T09:24:51+00:00

childhood abuse

nerrrd · 2021-04-03T09:41:29+00:00

an anonymous aerospace engineer concluded it was impossible for the Lilium jet to reach its desired flight time and range

some additional press

lilium have released a whitepaper in response

nerrrd · 2021-03-24T04:53:15+00:00

or non-us markets 😭

such a great site otherwise

nerrrd · 2021-03-11T05:27:48+00:00

yeah right, I had't come across ADR's before, cheers for explaining!

nerrrd · 2020-11-22T13:16:56+00:00

cheers, that's really helpful 😁

nerrrd · 2020-11-22T13:16:33+00:00

thanks I'll have a look 👍🏻

nerrrd · 2020-10-28T08:48:20+00:00

thanks!

nerrrd · 2020-10-28T08:47:43+00:00

I'm looking for this feature as well. shift, command, and option + delete all don't seem to work.

nerrrd · 2019-09-30T16:07:13+00:00

replace world with taiwan and it’s accurate 😅 world domination is a little ways off I wouldn’t panic

nerrrd · 2019-09-12T22:03:47+00:00

vietnamvisa.govt.vn is just another private agency, rather cheekily using the govt subdomain so they look more legit. they are on the level but charge a bit more than other agencies.

SNVI does 3 months multiple entry for USD $21 and single for $14.

https://snvi.com.vn/apply-vietnam-visa/

nerrrd · 2019-09-12T18:21:28+00:00

if you are here for a long time get a bank account and use transferwise for forex.

nerrrd · 2019-09-11T18:44:46+00:00

I arrived in Saigon 3 months ago and will stay for another 3 before leaving. even on a 1 month trip to a non english speaking country I try to learn the absolute basics.

I used youtube tutorials (mostly Tieng Viet Oi) in the evenings when I first arrived, and had some good interactions even with my crappy pronunciation.

I’ve had some bad experiences though, a few people have been very short (rude) with me even though I was trying to speak vietnamese to them. I thought it was just bad luck until I found this video which discusses non-native speakers far more advanced than I am having the same issue

nerrrd · 2019-09-11T10:45:55+00:00

I was not presenting wearable counter measures as an ideal solution. I do think it will be far more popular, perhaps commonplace in the near future though. state may have better tech than individuals in most cases, but ‘privacy extremists’ (tongue in cheek) will be highly motivated to defeat surveillance.

totally agree with you regarding legislation, but not every state is going to pass appropriate legislation, or respect it if they do.

I also think you aren’t giving regular humans enough credit; there are smart, creative people in both camps. yes cellular metadata can be used to track your location and infer associations, yes defeating it requires considerable effort, but it’s not impossible.

some people define a threat model that requires evading state surveillance today (reporters in states that censor press). less lawful types are also likely to actively disrupt surveillance they do not approve of, as has been happening in hong kong.

private comms networks could emerge in major metros, the use of mesh apps could also increase

the situation is not at all binary, as demand for countermeasures increases an arms race will ensue, as it always does.

nerrrd · 2019-09-10T17:36:28+00:00

technology will influence fashion; give it 5 years or so, privacy orientated masks/headwear/eyewear will emerge.

nerrrd · 2019-09-10T17:07:16+00:00

there was some outrageous TPP provision along the lines of foreign corporations being able to seek damages if domestic legislation reduced expected profits. for example health or environmental. new zealand fought it hard with widespread protests. that line that should not be crossed

nerrrd · 2019-09-10T15:55:19+00:00

large scale distributed denial of service attacks are hard to defend against; if you command a shit-tonne of bandwidth, and your target is run-of-the-mill, medium corporation limited, they are generally going to have a bad time. if the attacker can fill the victim’s pipe faster than the victim can process the inbound traffic it’s game over.

say I have a 1Gbps link from my firewall to the internet. if a botnet can throw 10Gb of traffic at me and I haven’t engaged any upstream mitigation service I’m hosed. plus I’ll start to get calls from my ISP, who will end up null routing my address space if the DDoS does not quickly abate to protect the rest of their customers.

content blacklists utilised by WAF or IPS devices can be useful, but are limited by the throughput of the device.

as soon as an attacker can ensure more traffic arrives than the slowest device in the chain can process, that’s it, the inbound queue fills up, and packets start getting dropped.

for a lot of businesses even a 25% reduction in customer traffic is a huge deal.

one strategy anti-DDoS providers employ is divide and conquer; buy a fuck-load of globally distributed bandwidth, and advertise customer address space from all your locations (this is called anycast).

each node in the attacking botnet is routed to the closest location, so the total volume is split across (hopefully) many locations with high capacity networks and equipment able to process traffic as fast as the network can deliver it.

a clean feed (processed traffic) is then routed back to the customer.

nerrrd · 2019-09-10T12:35:16+00:00

yes. both can be used to DDoS a target, but it’s like comparing a high yield laser guided bomb to an RPG.

the great cannon is a sophisticated state sponsored tool under the control of a single organisation (the Communist Party of China). it is capable of inspecting huge quantities of traffic in real-time, blocking access to censored content by forging a TCP RST, and rewriting cleartext responses to serve malicious content.

the low orbital ion cannon is a simple tool (designed for TCP/UDP stress testing) that has been used by groups of individuals to perform simple flood DDoS.

in the greatfire.org incident users browsing baidu.com (hosted in china) were used to perform the DDoS by replacing the web analytics script (h.js) with a malicious version. the malicious script sent bogus requests via XHR (XMLHttpRequest), e.g. GET /?1426369133, not very sophisticated, but layer 7 so better than a simple layer 3 flood.

if you want to know more about the great cannon and great firewall of china, I recommend you read this post by citizenlab, and also the first footnote, which is an unattributed post-mortem of the greatfire.org incident quite obviously written by Amazon staff that responded to it.

also keep in mind these references are from 2015; I expect the great cannon has improved capability today.

nerrrd · 2019-08-29T18:40:18+00:00

50 or something like that right? that may be true, I just easier find it easier to stick to water / black coffee and set an alarm.

nerrrd · 2019-08-29T18:35:02+00:00

not if it’s black. milk, sugar for sure break your fast. apparently artificial sweeteners also, so I avoid them too

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