steventhedev

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loss rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Packet Loss in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

None built in from what I recall. That was from back in 2011, so it's possible things changed since.

Reading through, it looks like retries do exist, but remember that duplicate packets are treated as a window reset, so it's possible that transmission succeeded but the ack was lost.

I remember the project demos from the course though - one team implemented some form of fast retry on two laptops and had one guy walk out and away. With regular wifi he didn't even make it to the end of the hall before the video dropped out. With their custom stack he made it out of the building before it went.

I'll need to dig through to find the name of what they did.

What comes next for Iran after strike on Israel? in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Small strikes against any IRGC personnel stationed outside Iran - they're fair game and on the table. We're already seeing this with the strikes on Damascus and throughout Lebanon.

Also - based on the saber rattling and talking heads, it sounds like there are likely to be three potential targets: the dams, which would cause massive domestic economic damage to Iran; the oil facilities, which would cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime; finally, known nuclear sites, which are in line with Israeli rhetoric about preventing Iranian nuclear ambitions.

I think cooler heads will prevail and the dams won't be targeted, and without a regional coalition committed to a ground invasion with a goal of regime change, attacking the nuclear facilities won't have the strategic impact that's desired. Which leaves the oil refineries - there's a natural bottleneck for Iranian oil production/export so there's a short list of physical areas that need to be attacked for it to be effective.

Thinking on it further, IRGC headquarters should also be on the table. I don't think it's likely, but if it succeeds (and it's likely to succeed - especially with direct US support) then it's a huge win. But even if it does succeed I don't see it leading to real regime change in Iran, so without that strategic impact it's far less likely.

Packet Loss in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

To be fair, because of window size management it only takes 1% packet loss to cause a catastrophic drop in speed.

Packet loss in TCP is only ever handled as a signal of extreme network congestion. It was never intended to go over a lossy link like wifi.

Disabling downvotes by server admins on Lemmy is dumb and does not make any sense. in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely in c/technology@lemmy.world
"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Anything using Blind as a "verified industry source" is going to be skewed to the type of person who uses Blind. Beyond that, it's low sample size, and there are suspiciously round fractions for some of the larger companies. Worse, because Blind is blind - this doesn't represent current employees, but merely people who worked at some point in the past at those companies.

Not saying it's not good - just saying not to get overly excited over a badly done survey

Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice' in c/news@lemmy.world
Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Typical intercept opinion piece - one sided with self-contradictory citations. For example - claiming that the only complaint was based on an Instagram story that way posted after the professor was informed of the complaint. It's like they started from the headline and just wrote whatever supported that conclusion.

I honestly wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this

Live Updates: Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Leader; Hezbollah Hasn’t Confirmed in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Not just Nasrallah - basically everyone in the top two or three layers of Hezbollah's military leadership have all been killed in the last few weeks.

Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire Infowars will be sold for parts to help pay Sandy Hook families in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The actual auction site: https://360assetadvisors.com/events/fssmh/

Looks like they're only breaking it down into three parts: Infowars the media company, Infowars the supplement store, and a pile of domain names. Production equipment might get sold as part of a separate auction.

I'm not loving the NDA though - open auctions should get more value.

Human rights groups: Israel's Channel 14 has repeatedly called for genocide in Gaza in c/news@lemmy.world
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Hezbollah hits back with more than 100 rockets across a wider and deeper area of Israel (apnews.com)
 

Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Kassem said Sunday that his group is now in an open-ended battle with Israel and he threatened more displacement for people in Israel’s north.

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Family confirms death of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin (apnews.com)
 

The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin announced the young man’s death early Sunday, ending a relentless campaign by his parents to rescue him that included meetings with world leaders and an address to the Democratic convention last month.

Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seized by militants at a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7. The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.

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Body of Israeli solder slain on Oct. 7 recovered from southern Gaza (www.timesofisrael.com)
 

103 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.

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An MLB first! Jansen plays for both teams in same game (www.mlb.com)
 

The game was first suspended due to weather on June 26th, and Danny Jansen was traded back in July. The game resumed on August 26th - with him now playing for the other team.

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Israeli military says it has rescued a hostage abducted in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack (apnews.com)
 

The 52-year-old is from Israel’s Arab Bedouin minority and was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen, one of several farming communities that were attacked on Oct. 7.

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Israelis stage heavy airstrikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah launches drone attack on Israel (apnews.com)
 

Hezbollah has launched 320 rockets at Israel in the last two hours, alongside at least dozens of drones, but no exact number on the drones. Those numbers are based on a single source, so please take the number with a grain of salt - this source is generally correct, but it is a single source publishing those numbers.

2 injured so far, and extensive damage to civilian homes and infrastructure.

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Iranian hackers targeted WhatsApp accounts of staffers in Biden, Trump administrations, Meta says (apnews.com)
 

The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta Platforms said Friday.

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Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of 6 hostages in a Gaza operation (apnews.com)
 

Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Haim Perry

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At least 11 people injured after projectiles reportedly fired from Lebanon into Israel | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they've backpedaled on it.

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UPDATE: 10 dead, 6 in critical, 3 moderate, 4 light, and several dozen unadmitted injured people

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Israeli airstrikes target Yemen’s Houthis day after deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
 

“A short while ago, IDF fighter jets struck military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the area of the Al Hudaydah (Hodeidah) Port in Yemen in response to the hundreds of attacks carried out against the state of Israel in recent months,” the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement.

The strikes on Hodeidah came a day after a drone attack in Tel Aviv killed one man and injured at least 10 others.

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Air attack leaves 1 dead, at least 10 injured in Tel Aviv (apnews.com)
 

injuring at least 10 people and leaving one dead

Yemen’s Houthis have repeatedly launched drones and missiles toward Israel throughout the nine-month-long war, in sympathy with Hamas. But until Friday, all were intercepted by either Israel or Western allies with forces stationed in the region.

AP for what ever reason have decided that noone has claimed responsibility, yet include several paragraphs about the Houthis.

From Reuter's coverage:

The military spokesman of Yemen's Houthi militants, which like Hezbollah are backed by Iran, said on the X social media website that the group would reveal details about a military operation that targeted Tel Aviv.

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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again (ludic.mataroa.blog)
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