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This is incorrect in that the term was not neutral before WW2 nor was Nazi Germany Eugenics really unique. Taking these claims one at a time:

>the term was value neutral.

By the late 1930s the academic community had largely moved on from eugenics, the catholic church denounced it 1930 with their Casti Connubii, the Eugenics Office Records closing in 1935 and finally Laughlin retiring in 1939. (The leading Eugenicist)In 1930s being a Eugenics was viewed much like homeopathy is viewed today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casti_connubii - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

>Until a certain Austrian painter decided to practice eugenics in a uniquely negative way,

Eugenics in the united states saw the rise of the "Moron Laws" and mass sterilization of marginalized communities in the US. In fact, Nazi Germany's Eugenics policies were largely inspired by US Eugenic legislation and actively promoted by US Eugenicist. (Particularly California) Heck mass sterilization programs in the US didn't even die with WW2 continuing into mid 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics - https://alexwellerstein.com/publications/wellerstein_stateso...

I'm troubled by this thread because the vibe I'm getting is Eugenics was only bad because the science wasn't there yet and the Nazi's did it, this time will be different. No, the aspect which made eugenics dangerous were inherently political and every bit as relevant today than they were a hundred years ago. (Who decides which traits should be "edited" out? What traits should be "edited" in? What policies should be legislated? Who is primarily impacted by these policies? How much agency do the people impacted by these policy have in the situation?)

Re:A Unified Theory of Ego, Empathy, and Humility at Work on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:06PM (#46048685)
>I thought there was a name for this(cant find it)

Ne supra crepidam? "not beyond the shoe"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam

Re:A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany (2017) on Friday April 18, 2025 @04:33PM (#43731643)
The 22nd amendment and age. (for me anyway)

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/

Not saying he won't try to circumvent it (definitely wouldn't be shocked) but if anything would trigger meaningful civil conflict, this would be it. (in my opinion)

Re:NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices on Friday February 14, 2025 @06:42PM (#43054301)
>An IPv6 router with a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections could have just the same issues with timeouts, I'd imagine.

You'd be surprised... PCP (Port Control Protocol) implemented by large vendors such as Cisco and Apple are able to punch through a firewall for up to 24 hours in a single session.

https://github.com/Self-Hosting-Group/wiki/wiki/Port-Mapping...

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:55AM (#42551049)
He steered us to join the war which did end the depression.

Whether it be the new deal or non-isolationist policy, his direction led us out of the depression.

Re:I Sent an Ethernet Packet on Monday November 11, 2024 @07:45PM (#42111812)
It was bad engineering full stop.

Yes the root cause might stem from management but good engineering would not have the doors flying off... thus bad engineering. Regardless of everything else, engineers are responsible for their designs at the end of the day. (Yes when management only approves cheap unsafe designs)

Otherwise you are "just following orders" which is not a viable leg to stand on.

In smaller countries like Germany increasing the class size makes sense but countries like the US, it just doesn't scale. Just to give a better sense, my quick google-fu (so take it with a grain of salt) shows Germany having 2.8M people actively enrolled in college vs the US with 18.1M.

So roughly 6x the amount of students.

Just some quick fact checks:

>is father was a somewhat wealthy engineer.

At the time Errol & Maye were divorcing they had 2 homes, 5 cars, a yacht, and a plane. Most people don't own homes at the moment, let alone a private plane.

>What actually helped him more then wealth is that his mother was Canadian and that allowed him to study in Canada and that eventually allowed him a way to get to Silicon Valley.

Having generational wealth is by far the largest contributing factor. Otherwise he wouldn't of been able to move across the globe to get a better education, focus on college and network, ect. Also not sure what Canada and Silicon Valley have to do in common? It is not like every Canadian ends up working in the Valley. That said, it does seem like most wealthy people over the past 40 years has in various capacities ;)

I'm not going to argue he isn't a successful CEO, (The results speak for themself) But I don't need to refute his business acumen to think he is an awful CEO who actively abuses, manipulates, and lies to his employees whenever it suites him. You can be a very successful yet bad CEO, these aren't mutually exclusive concepts.

Re:Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard on Sunday October 06, 2024 @06:02PM (#41760704)
In the context of this thread, IEEE aren't the ones who can improve such things. WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 both make considerable improvements on connect time but at the end of the day, they deal with the "backend" if you will.

They have no control over crappy WiFi NIC cards that delay connections or how Apple displays captive portals.

Re:OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company on Friday September 27, 2024 @10:12AM (#41670734)
What's the effective difference between exiting now and if it does achieve in your words "nearly infinite value" to him personally?

Either way he is set for life, truly being one of the most wealthy humans to have ever exist... literally.

Re:Support for IPv6 on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:50PM (#41630389)
IPv4 as well as IPv6 was designed with endpoint to endpoint communication in mind so when NAT was conceived (originally intended to be a stop-gap while we moved to IPv6) we also had to re-write many other protocols and create many new ones since NAT broke IPv4's design principle (each IP needs to be unique)

This has lead to many context specific problems as many of the re-written protocols don't work as well not to mention the added complexities of protocols designed specifically with NAT in mind. As another network engineer I can attest to the problems this has caused. Pretty much everything from overlay VPN networks, VoIP solutions, security and ACLS, and just our day to day maintenance tasks are complicated by NAT. It has gotten so out of hand that many of us have dedicated NAT routers just handling NAT translation.

It's so weird to me that so many people in our industry spout scalability but then laugh off IPv6... How the heck do you guys plan to communicate to the ever increasing amount of smart devices? IPv4 literally ran out a space years ago...

Or you know... kids and/or elderly who lack the knowhow?
Germany does not mandate that TOR end-node providers are expected to log their users. Saying that not logging someone who went through your end-node is intentionally hindering the police would be like accusing a shopkeeper of intentionally hindering the police because they didn't make of record of every person who entered their storefront.
Re:QUIC Is Not Quick Enough over Fast Internet on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:37PM (#41491138)
>If IPv6 were made today, it would be tunneled inside an HTTP connection. All the new apps would adopt it, the legacy apps would be abandoned or have shims made, and the whole thing would be inefficient and buggy, but adopted. Since poking my head outside of the tech world and into the wider world, it turns out this is how most of the world works.

What you're suggesting here wouldn't work, wrapping all the addressing information inside HTTP which relies on IP for delivery does not work. It would be the equivalent of sealing all the addressing information for a letter you'd like to send inside the envelope.

Re:Just Disconnect the Internet on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:07PM (#41132459)
PLCs are explicitly considered high value targets as they control large swaths of a nation-states critical infrastructure as well as connect to high value end-points in air-gapped networks.

Now perhaps you're not working on anything someone might want to exploit, but PLCs are often found in critical infrastructure as well as high-end manufacturing facilities, which make them attractive targets for malicious actors. Whether because they're attempting to exploit critical infrastructure or infect a poorly secured device that high value end-points (such as engineering laptops) might eventually connect to directly.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa... - Water Infra

https://claroty.com/team82/research/evil-plc-attack-using-a-...

Re:The New Internet on Monday July 29, 2024 @06:00PM (#41104189)
>I do NOT miss that point. The point is, new protocol should not be very different from previous one, unless its really necessary.

>>The only flaw is too small address space.

>>>With current IPv6, you have to throw up half of the stuff you know about IPv4 for, imo, no valid reason.

ARP, DHCP, NAT, Lack of built in encryption are all huge problems that had to be addressed.

- ARP: incredibly inefficient, prime vector for abuse by malicious actors via arp poisoning

- DHCP: Man in the middle attacks, need I say more?

- NAT: Literally breaks the whole concept of IP addressing, incredibly inefficient as it requires manipulating packets mid-stream, literally designed as a temporary band aid to smooth our transition away from IPv4

- Built in encryption: You say this makes this more complicated but I believe it is the opposite, better security is built into the foundation rather than having to build it into every protocol on top of it. (ssh instead of telnet, SFTP instead of FTP, HTTPs instead of HTTP, ect) The issue I'm having with your argument is that you're saying that "you're fine with a replacement IP protocol which ditches the bad" and then go on to deride IPv6 for doing exactly what you're asking for. (keeping it as close to IPv4 as possible while ditching the biggest sources of technical debt)

>And I will tell it again to be clear. Im not fan of some IPv4+ contraption ideas like lets extend IPv4 address space and try to keep it IPv4. Thats DUMB.

But you literally did suggest exactly this when you said:

>What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done.

Did I somehow misinterpret this?

>Make new protocol, improve things that were bad in IPv4 (are they any?) and try to make it one way interop to IPv4 (IPv6 -> IPv4) and we are done.

IPv6 does provide a way to do exactly this, it's called NAT64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT64?useskin=vector

>Remember that you are building protocol for entire planet. It have to be relativly simple and easy to implement. Any extras should be layer up.

Again, this really makes me think you don't work in networking. When you abstract security from the underlining protocols you essentially leave a gaping hole in your security. The only surefire way to communicate securely is to bake encryption into the protocol itself. (and even then it is hit or miss)

This is why we moved from HTTPv2 to HTTPv3 This is why we stopped wrapping telnet into IPsec Tunnels and opted for SSH, this is why we stopped wrapping HTTPv2 in TLS tunnels and baked it into HTTPv3, and so on.

I don't want to spend a lot of time on IoT but as a network engineer I can say that they exist whether you like them or not and make up a large portion of traffic so we can't just not consider them when talking about how network protocols ought to be designed.

Re:The New Internet on Monday July 29, 2024 @01:49AM (#41098200)
>What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done.

This is literally what they did, except they made it 128 bit rather than 64.

The thing you're missing is that literally every IPv4 protocol breaks the second you change bit count. Before you change the 32-bit header you need to (a) redefine bit for bit every IP protocol so it can be understood by each IP capable device (b) somehow send a full-proof update to every IPv4 device in the world redefining how they ought to interpret IPv4 headers.

In short, the problem with using Nazi's as a comparison is the strong emotional reactions people are prone to experience. (Justifiably so to be clear)

When a person invokes the Nazi's while discussing subjects that aren't nearly as heavy (emotionally speaking) the horrors of everything Nazi related, they're leave themselves open to being perceived as hyperbolic. No matter how strongly one might feel about open source, the subject matter is just simply on a different emotional level than all the horror which is Nazi. (and therefore, ought not to used as a comparison)

And again just to be clear, I'm not accusing you of being hyperbolic personally, I just want to elaborate on why some people groan when they see Nazi's beings inserted into topics which they have nothing to do with.

Re:Scandal at America's top science fair on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:23AM (#40438230)
>there's always going to be competition for the best.

Agreed but surely we could come up with a form of competition more fair than something which heavily favors the wealthy and/or familial alumni.

Re:Scandal at America's top science fair on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:24AM (#40437892)
Love where your head is at, but assuming we're talking about the united states, we literally just have enough money and resources to subsidize every kid who wants to attend college if we really wanted to.

There are so many measurable long-term benefits to higher education both for the individual as well as the state that it's truly insane (to me any at least) with how unaccessible we've let it become.

Re:The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:55AM (#40437757)
I actually agree with the spirit of what you're saying but I feel compelled to point out that Alexander actually wasn't a king for very long. The median reign for hellenistic rulers was 20-30 years whereas Alexander's only reigned for a short 13 years.

Again while I absolutely agree with your point, he was in fact, not a king for very long.

Absolutely, I just think our time is better spent examining the source of the problem.
>It’s just you. The ineffectiveness is the point. This service is a joke, it’s surely illegal. Everyone knows it’s a “failing” system, you can’t scale free customer service forever.

Is the spirit of this service corrupt? Absolutely. Does it undercut Big Tech's checks and balances? %100. Is it morally lacking? Personally I think so. Is it illegal though... ehhhh? It might be shocking but not every term found on a FAANG's term and services agreement is legally binding.

Services like these are inevitable so long as humans are corrupt but typically only pop into public consensus when the institution has failed so spectacularly that the average consumer has completely lost faith in them to adequately address their problem. While I'm not condoning corruption, clearly the Big Tech companies have failed in providing adequate solutions to this problem and I feel our time is better spent examining the negligence of these institutions which caused the problem rather than the malicious service looking to exploit said negligence.

Perhaps its just me, but I feel like a lot of users are missing the forest for the trees here. Services such as these only pop up when legitimate solutions prove ineffective at addressing the problem.

To me, these services are more indicative of "Big Tech" failing to create effective appeal processes to meet their consumer's demand... While I'm sure there isn't a lot of money in it, it'd be great for Big Tech to examine how they could improve on this front.

Re:The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:12PM (#40431132)
>History is written by the winners. 100% of that "he led the flank himself and commanded while the other men just watched" is suspect.

History is written by the literate. (i.e. the rich for most of human history)

In this case, most information about Alexander the Great comes from four distinct sources, the most famous being Arrian of Nicomedia who famously used Ptolemy I Soter as their primary source.

Ptolemy at the time he wrote his testimony was already a king and only had benefit of grandizing his own contributions not his old King. His account was famed for how straightforward it was and seemed only to confirm Alexander's exceptional leadership in battle.

Re:The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining on Monday April 01, 2024 @08:16PM (#39900988)
Microwaves use the 2.4ghz spectrum but typically not with any real precision which means that while in use they just tank the 2.4ghz spectrum.

*As an aside, one of my favorite things I get to do at work is when onboarding new Jr. Net Engineers is getting them take our spectrum analyzer into our office kitchen and instructing them to watch the spectrum turn bright red while I make a bag of popcorn.

Anyhow to get to your question, the best answer would be to get some distance between your microwave and set-up you're using with the headset. Otherwise if that isn't possible, then you'll want some headphones that does use 2.4ghz. Replacing the microwave will likely not fix the problem since they all use 2.4ghz band for cooking and at least I've never seen one shielded well enough that it didn't impact others while in use.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"

I mean in theory, you're absolutely right but so rarely does it ever actually shake out that way. It seems like corporations continue to make the same mistakes while simultaneously being held less and less accountable.

Literally hundreds of people have died due to Boeing's negligence recently and the prevailing opinion seems to be that no one is ultimately going to be held accountable. (at least not meaningfully)

Ideals are great and all but if it results in zero accountability when hundreds of people die, maybe its time for us to re-evaluate.

The historical significance of the burning of the Library of Alexandria is absolutely overstated but not for the reasons most think. Like most Libraries today, the bulk of the collection most likely consisted of reprints of works that could be found other libraries littered across the Mediterranean. (And there was a LOT of them: (Royal Library of Antioch, Imperial Library of Constantinople, Academy of Gondishapur, not to mention local city libraries) The best analogy I've read was it would be like the equivalent of the library of congress burning; sure we'd lose some stuff but most of the collection still exists in one form or another.

Obviously that isn't to say it wasn't a tragic event, just that in terms works that were forever lost has been vastly overstated in public consciousness.

One thing that we definitely lost forever was all the notations made by contemporary scholars as the Library was a mecca of intellectual thought for hundreds of year... Truely heartbreaking to think about about all the information we could of gleaned about their worldview from the annotations they made on those works.

>I can only watch cable news on TV, am I going to call that an essential computing device too?

If that is the only way you can find out about what is happening to the government responsible for your safety and wellbeing or alerts about impending disasters... absolutely!

Phones are literally essential computing devices in modern society as it is the primary source of important information whether it be about family, government, or national emergencies for a large swath of the population.

Honest question, can you provide a single example of a company that came to dominate an industry only to then go out of business purely because people chose to stop buying and interacting with them?

I honestly can't think of a single example of a monopoly, cartel, or industry leading company which has ever crumbled due to everyone collectively deciding not to do business with them. (without some sort of government regulation or technological advancement facilitating the change)

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