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• Post #2882957

  @countdracula I've got plenty of modems :D Well, I've got a few laptops with built-in modems like a PowerBook G3 and a nice Toshiba Tecra Pentium II. I was thinking about doing something simple like using a Cisco ATA configured so you can dial any number and it'll ring the other port on the ATA.

• Post #2882956

  TIL my ISP will let me have as many static IPv4 addresses as I want, even in a continuous CIDR block, as long as I pay for them at €2/IP/month. Not bad! I really don't need it but on the other hand, having a /29 or so would be handy to have a few extras. Do I need it? No, not really...

• Post #2882955

  @countdracula Nice tip! I was just checking them out and saw they also have 4 ports...even more tempting. It'd be fun having a retro analogue phone and some modems going on... I smell winter project :D

• Post #2882954

  @mixdup lmao what are they "installing"? What's the venn diagram of users that order a block of static IPs and don't know how to use them?

• Post #2882953

  @mixdup Oh yeah I've seen some YouTube videos about bypassing AT&T's fiber router and how it's not really straight forward. IIRC it's cloning some SFP+ module config? Where they went wrong was putting the ONT into the router to make one piece of CPE. If they had a separate ONT they could just say "our responsibility ends here".

• Post #2882952

  @mixdup One of if not the largest ISPs used by businesses here charges €200 to "setup" IPv6 which is just allocating you a block. I don't know if that's a hangover of the IPv4 scarcity midnset or if they're just greedy or have some vendetta against IPv6 or they're trolling or what their problem is. Meanwhile my ISP at home assigned me a /48 which I can hardly believe lol

• Post #2882951

  Our office here is in a shared space with some other FinTech companies. The guys next to us are having an after-hours whinge session about how their company's business model is dumb and they're brainstorming their next moves. One of them goes: "Let's start our own company. Fundraising is relatively easy if you're doing AI. So lets do an app where we use AI to advise on how to fund-raise for an AI startup. Boom". He said it as a joke but honest...

• Post #2882950

  @mixdup That's so much complication for a problem that doesn't need to exist. Is this all in the name of trying to prevent service theft? I don't even know how you'd steal service on a fiber network. I'm real curious how it works here where we have an infrastructure operator and they provide the ONT and you can have up to 4 different ISPs on the ONT. Maybe that's also XG-PON? I gotta do research or pick the brain of my ISP.

• Post #2882949

  @mixdup This is an area I know very little about but find totally fascinating. It'd be pretty cool if Verizon and AT&T were forced to become wholesalers so anyone could use their network though eh. The lack of competition in fixed line broadband is rough

• Post #2882948

  Interesting that the US went metric with banknotes. Each note is exactly 1g. So a kilo of $1 notes is $1000. Super useful!

• Post #1822750

  @thomasfuchs So we’re going to have AI lawyers arguing with AI lawyers to build a nuclear power plant designed by AI so we have more power to run AI. We deserve an asteroid.