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Google is no better here, I would say they are even worse since they are scanning your files actively. Remember story of Father who was asked by doctor to send his baby son private parts photos due to covid and Google not only locked him out but also notified Police. Even after getting statement from Law Enforcement there was no crime they didn't restore his access. Guy lost 20 years of live history due to algorithm.

I feel the narrative on these kind of issues should be updated. We've been using their framing of "algorithms" but it is taking away all responsibility from the US tech workers who are actually designing and running Google.

The guy lost 20 years of life history due to US tech workers at Google wrongfully blocking his account and then ignoring his pleads for reactivation.

When US tech workers can show up to take cash and bonus payments from Google, they can also show up to take responsibility for Google's impact.


It's already in use at least it automotive. If you are not working with safety critical systems (ADAS type) Rust and to some extent embassy is already in the wild. Companies like ETAS (https://www.etas.com/ww/en/) or Ferrous (https://ferrous-systems.com) are working to certify Rust and some crates (embassy is there) to be used with safety critical components. It's not question if but when it will be used. Volvo, Renault and some Chinese brands already ship cars with Rust embedded components in non safety critical path.

Do you have any (soft) evidences, that actually embassy is used in safety-critical applications? I think that is quite more difficult to qualify the whole of embassy with the HAL, executor and the other components used. Ferrous is just the qualified toolchain incl. core std. and some other libraries. Additionally a question is how well it integrates e.g. with ARM self-test libraries for the platform safety.

I know that sonair [0] is actually using Rust in the safety critical path. Toyota Woven [1] is for now just using it in infotainment and non-safety applications.

I am closely monitoring the space, as I am currently evaluating to use Rust and potentially embassy for a safety-critical embedded product myself. I hope to this way also contribute to safety-critical Rust usage. If anyone has further information or just wants to exchange ideas, I'd be super happy to! [0] https://www.sonair.com/journal/leading-the-way-for-safety-ce... [1] https://filtra.io/rust/interviews/woven-by-toyota-nov-25


A handful of companies participated in this. It seems they all are working already with it or working towards it: https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-safety-criti...

You have an option. Starlink. If you are not FPS player you will be really happy. There are service interruption, but they are very rare (at least for me). Just drop single ping here and there.


Calling them "competitor" is eufemism. Cheapest plan (Anchor) is $625/month for 40 GB, with 10/2 Mbps speeds.

Greenland decision was political not technical to pay x5 more for x10 slower service.


> Greenland decision was political not technical to pay x5 more for x10 slower service.

I dunno, is "bus factor" a political or technical thing to consider? How about "did the country of this business threaten us before?" a technical or political consideration?

Personally, I'd try to stay away from entities I can't rely on, on a technical basis. Based on the article, it seems like Greenland traded stability and resilience for performance and price, doesn't seem political.


And terminal costs will be through the roof in comparison.

Who else out there is making full-on beamforming capable satellite terminals under $1k? Kymeta's over $20k+ for a single dish.

People may hate the company and the man behind it but there's something special about being able to grab specialized satcoms hardware for like $300 at Best Buy.

10 years ago a BGAN terminal ran me $5000+ and a 384k connection several thousand bucks a month. Now you can get ~512k for $5 a month in Standby Mode on a $300 dish.


There's no terminal costs. Eutelsat uses bog-standard 5G.

The company and the man behind it cost $300 more per terminal.


No it doesn't, not for me and millions of others.


How do you know Greenland are paying consumer prices?


You're right, they're most likely paying more!


no fucking way you pay 600+ usd for 40gb data


For us who experienced satellite internet and phone networks before Starlink appeared and tried to push down the prices, that doesn't sound so outlandish for internet that goes through space and is accessible literally everywhere on the planet. If anything it sounds cheap.


Kanidm made some weird decision that ruled it out in one of big organisation I try to deploy it. Separate Radius password. For telco that’s half its use cases, and there is separate random password. Whole Network engineering department was like WTF ? You can’t have single password which is one of important reasons to have SSOA.


You are right. Polish Head of Police had one in his office[1]. He launch it in his office without violent interracion.

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/polands-top-cop-accidenta...


Why on earth you choose product so expensive where dryer is basically fan with heater ? With that price range you can buy Miele hardware with heat pump dryer that is basically non-breakable and an order of magnitude more energy efficient.

Really - I would like to know how you came to purchase decision :)


With bigger appliance purchases like that the way often/should (clearly not always) work is they should be more robust and effective. A cheap drier needs to be babysat or it becomes a fire hazard. It also can just door a poor job of drying your stuff.

I have the cheapest Costco drier. It’s fine, but I do have to keep an eye on it.


Parts are another story. I have miele Washing Machine. It has brushed motor so after ~8 years I need to replace brushes. Miele ones cost 60$. That's 20% price of cheapest washing machine I found on market. Im' sure 40$ of that is handling those spare parts across many years. Other, more complicated components cost more than cheap, other vendor washing machine.


Add e-sim so I can use it as my all-around planet travel phone and I'm sold.


Pretty sure it has eSIM (at least my FP4 has it...)


Bureaucracy at it finest in terms of user ease of use. 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, 8.8.8.8 and they came up with IP's that can't be more random.

Perfect example how one can destroy whole concept with bad user experience.


> Bureaucracy at it finest

I truly don’t get this. Is it a Europe = bureaucracy take?

> they came up with IP's that can't be more random

Came up with? I imagine those novelty IPs are extremely difficult and expensive to acquire.

That said I 100% agree memorable IPs is very useful for DNS config.


1.1.1.1 was initially a joint research project between Cloudflare and APNIC: https://labs.apnic.net/index.php/2018/04/01/apnic-labs-enter...


In a lot of use cases you only need to change the host name. https://dns0.eu/ or dns0.eu is not that difficult to remember.

The ip addresses are indeed not memorable, but users who change the settings of their routers won’t have too much trouble copy and pasting an IP address once or twice. Save it in a password manager and you’re done.

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it, it’s a matter of resources.


Curious if 127.127.127.127 passes or fails the "ease of use" or "bad user experience" tests.

For example

   cat > rinetd.conf <<eof
   logfile rinetd.log
   logcommon
   127.127.127.127 53/udp 95.130.17.218 53/udp [timeout=3]
   eof

   rinetd -c rinetd.conf

   echo nameseserver 127.127.127.127 > /etc/resolv.conf
   
   drill example.com 
https://github.com/samhocevar/rinetd


As I understand it, dns0.eu is run by a french non-profit and has no actual connection with the EU.


I totally agree. When you go into that much trouble of creating an alternative (safer) EU DNS, try at least to make it user memorable by using easy IPs. I don5 understand why other HN users have downvoted your comment.


Would be cool, but it's very very hard to get such a memorable IP. And it costs a lot of money. Those who own such IPs wont give them away so easily. So unless you get a donation of such an IP address (actually more a block of IPs, like Quad9 who got 9.9.9.0/24 from IBM, see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/llqd7h/quad...), or have a lot of money... you'll probably be out of luck.


Because I set DNS approximately once per LAN that I build, when I configure its DHCP. The pretty IPs are cool, but this isn’t something I type more than once per year or so.


... a small non profit doesn't have eithe Google's or Cloudflare's money.

Could you afford 4.4.4.4?


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