Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:
1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.
This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K" 
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Reach into your pocket and take out your little black distraction rectangle. Open up the camera app. Point it at this page. Press the shutter button. Congratulations, you've just committed copyright infringement. See you in court.
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(You can delete the photo now. Or better yet, post it to your group chat or social media account with a note telling people how much you're enjoying this book! Here, I'll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemned to the scrap heap of history.)")
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Our ns1 network has 11 locations on Vultr (Piscataway, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, São Paulo, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai and Tokyo).
Our ns2 network has 8 locations on Misaka.io (Ashburn, Miami, San Jose, Seattle, London, Berlin, Singapore and Tokyo).
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Vultr and Misaka.io both have very good transit and peering for anycast due to having matching transit providers within regions and globally.
Both anycast networks needed a lot of configuration with BGP communities for traffic engineering and are working very well.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Our anycast networks are deployed with 2x IPv4 /24 obtained we quickly obtained for free from ARIN via NRPM 4.10 + NRPM 4.5.
We could use our own IPv6 space everywhere we have BGP if we wanted to do that since we have a /36 which can be expanded into more space reserved for us.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •Why does GrapheneOS need its own AS?
Genuine question. This isn’t obvious to me.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •will you open the "server" side of the way you do "time" via https.
so we can use similar tech on our project (and maybe allow a "pool" of public time server using the same tech (reduce burder on your server, and allow us to have our own one) ?
(i ask only because DNS and Time is the two piece i always want to control inside my network myself (have my own stratum 1 server (run GPS time receiver))).
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in reply to LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 • • •@lexinova We plan to eventually make it more configurable. Setting it up on the server side is quite simple since it simply involves setting the time in milliseconds in a header. It falls back the second precision standard date header if that's unavailable but it should be provided.
We use HTTPS rather than NTP with NTS because HTTPS is precise enough for end user devices. In fact, we made network time much more precise by lowering the permitted clock drift from 2 seconds to 50 milliseconds.
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in reply to GrapheneOS • • •@lexinova Using HTTPS is much simpler and essentially doesn't add any attack surface since it's already being used for so much other functionality. HTTPS also nearly always works while NTP does not including via Tor which doesn't have UDP.
Bear in mind non-military GPS isn't authenticated and GPS is being widely spoofed especially in warzones. We use 6 different upstream sources with NTS for our servers where a minimum of 3 sources need to agree on the time in order for it to update the clock.
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in reply to Die Welt ist • • •@dieweltist ARIN, RIPE, etc. are Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and then there are many organizations holding IP space with those which assign that space either directly to customers or to provide services to those customers.
> A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an IR that primarily assigns IP addresses to the users of the network services that it provides. LIRs are generally Internet Service Providers (ISPs) whose customers are primarily end users and possibly other ISPs.
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