We still doing BGP update typos?

Meanwhile my Wordpress blog on DigitalOcean is up. And so is DigitalOcean.

My ISP is routing public internet traffic to my IPs these days. What keeps me from running my blog from home? Fear of exposing a TCP port, that's what. What do we do about that?

> What keeps me from running my blog from home?

Depending on the contract it might not be allowed to run public network services from your home network.

I had a friend doing that and once his site got popular the ISP called (or sent a letter? don't remember anymore) with "take this 10x more expensive corporate contract or we will block all this traffic".

In general why the ISPs don't want you to do that (in addition to way more expensive corporate rates) is the risk of someone DDoS that site which could cause issues to large parts of their domestic customers (and depending on the country be liable to compensate those customers for not providing a service they paid for)

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It's not down for you, but for others.

Yeah, DigitalOcean and Dreamhost are both up. I actually self-host on 2Gig fibre service, and all my stuff is up, except I park everything behind Cloudflare since there is no way I could handle a DDoS attack.

Not even 1%

I was reading up on home lab server racks, and every single site is down with a Cloudflare error. So much for DIY!

I live by myself and "charge" calories to an account whenever I buy raw foods at the store or eat out. Then, whatever is in my house, I have already "accounted" for in my caloric budget. The strategy comes in figuring out what foods / combinations of foods leave me feeling satisfied. Beans (another great living-alone food, haha) are an allstar. I weigh ingredients for a lot of cooking only so I pace the consumption of rice, beans, etc.

The error in estimation of foods eaten out I treat as a constant factor baked into the daily caloric budget. If I'm gaining weight, the budget just needs to be tightened, i.e. rescaled to account for an error factor that was larger than anticipated. The problem basically becomes estimating one's own estimation error, then adjusting.

None of this would matter if there were real competition in the insurance market, instead of people having to change jobs to change insurance, and not getting a direct say even then.

As it is, this is a dumb law, and prejudiced against decisions made in silico rather than in vivo.

There are plenty of people who get their health insurance through their state's ACA healthcare marketplace or through HealthCare.gov if their state does not run its own ACA marketplace.

Some of those marketplaces do have competition. For example in the county Seattle is in there are 9 different insurance companies offering marketplace plans.

If lack of competition is the problem, should we expect to see less of those problems with insurance purchased on ACA marketplaces?

They claim one resolution to the Fermi paradox is that civilizations tend to evolve toward a state that resembles nature (non-industrial or non-civilizational, I'm not sure).

So the idea of a highly advanced civilization requiring so little resource extraction, or even being able to entirely synthesize all its resource needs from energy, and manage global resources in a non-destructive way, while letting the natural ecology revert to as close as possible to a pre-civilizational state.

So you see small hubs of super-high-density cities, and vast expanses of "nature". Harder to detect from space that way, thus it could resolve the paradox?

You can see our own time moving that direction with urbanization and re-greening happening simultaneously, population growth falling, and a huge effort to abolish the use of one particular variety of extracted resource.

Media profit from our outrage. And we go along with it. Politicians derive power from our outrage. And again we go along with it. We must befriend our political rivals. Consider their viewpoint long enough to appreciate it. See that the other, is really ourselves. If we aren't doing that, then we are part of the problem, and we are creating the atmosphere that moves people to take such horrible and drastic actions. We have noone to blame but ourselves.

All it took was one person with one gun.

I don't know why people are trying to make this a sign of a big societal trend about media outrage, etc.

That person is (was) a product of our society, which is shaped by our media.

If one could, say, solve this problem, which is apparently quite difficult, then it could be the basis of a premium product?

Chinese manufactured microcontrollers can be had for <$0.10, bought in bulk.

I used to work on an FIRST robotics team in high school; every year we had to fundraise ~$20,000 for the component cost (not labor for software or hardware) of our USA-made robot chassis. Our robots were bigger, but that really only amounted to a larger aluminum frame. And just so you know, our assembly period took around 6-8 weeks (and we didn't have to miniaturize anything).

If you insisted upon making everything here in America, I legitimately would not be surprised if you ended up with a multi-thousand dollar component bill for each model sold. The reason why China beats us is because they can mass-produce everything needed for the supply chain of these machines, and we cannot.