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oh god what is thisquote:Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. is planning to offer approximately $206 million in secured IPv4 address revenue term notes through a special-purpose entity. These notes, backed by the company’s IPv4 assets, aim to raise funds for general corporate purposes. The offer targets qualified institutional buyers in the U.S. and certain non-U.S. persons, adhering to specific securities regulations, and will not be publically registered. The company cautions that this offering and associated forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and there is no guarantee the sale of the notes will be completed.
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shackleford posted:oh god what is this thats land too if its land, it sucks. ordinary dirt land, electromagnetic spectrum, space orbits, ip space, oil / mineral rights, logging rights, fishing rights. all land, and it all sucks
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FMguru posted:yeah, the issue is that none of them became zillion dollar economic engines the way that the pc did in the 1980s (giving us microsoft and dell and apple and compaq and lotus and boosted intel and ibm and hp) and the internet/www did in the 1990s (giving us netscape and amazon and google and ebay and facebook and boosting cisco) and digital media (ipod, itunes, netflix, spotify) and the smartphone (apple again and uber and airbnb and instagram) did in the 2000s yes, welcome the "tech bubble" thread, enjoy lol i kid. good analysis
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if bitcoin can be valuable just because there's only 21 million of the entirely useless things, imagine how much the only 4.3 billion of *actually* *useful* ipv4 addresses, properly securitized, would be worth proof of stake already implemented in rfc 792
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shackleford posted:oh god what is this all of the ipv4 addresses have been exhausted, it makes sense that someone would want to sell them. they've become commodities
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cogent must be looking for some bag holders, then, cause we've already hit peak IPv4 address
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i for one predict only good things will come from this speculative investment opportunity built on the back of a public good vital to modern society
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Shame Boy posted:i for one predict only good things will come from this speculative investment opportunity built on the back of a public good vital to modern society mortgages and dirt land will continue to do 3-5 orders of magnitude more damage. perhaps they'll get to within 2 orders of magnitude of oil rights
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its also worth pointing out that the new new tech ideas from the last ten years (like nfts and crypto/defi) have also been complete duds but im sure that a spicy autocomplete system that requires burning ten acres of amazon rainforest to hallucinate an invented answer to a simple question will be the trillion-dollar path forward
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Hey thanks for posting this, this was super interesting
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FMguru posted:its also worth pointing out that the new new tech ideas from the last ten years (like nfts and crypto/defi) have also been complete duds it could become the next big thing who knows, but i think it’s fair to be a hater and think it’ll fizzle at being the next big thing because the odds are good of that. of course if i could accurately predict the future i would not be posting on forums.somethingawful.com
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Cold on a Cob posted:used to be one could just feel inadequate sometimes. now they've got the lack of likes on their latest tiktok dance video to prove it. i've been shadow banmed because my latest video about my thoughts on a local political issue hasn't gotten a million views yet
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nrook posted:it's very funny to imagine oracle running a social network for teens
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shackleford posted:oh god what is this lol my isp still doesn’t offer ipv6 which is contributing to poo poo like this
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Apr 24, 2024 22:42
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:lol mine got half way through rolling it out, then decided it was too expensive or something and they didn't actually care so scrapped the whole project and have just been coasting on their old infrastructure for the last 8 years
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yeah well if you want money from the government you gotta do nothing until it’s a crisis.
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:lol nah consumer ISPs just do CGNAT if they run out because their consumers dont know better enough to care, or have no competitors to turn to if they do. business ISPs cant really do the same when selling to people that want to run internet-facing servers my ISP "can" do IPv6 but it's all manner of hosed and will do some combination of refusing to delegate a prefix no matter what you request and not sending a router advertisement when they need to half the time, which makes it functionally unusable. idk why google cant get their poo poo together on ipv6 for their consumer networking offerings, it's not like they dont have people that understand ipv6
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digitalocean load balancers still don't support ipv6
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i like how angry the turbonerds get when they try to run an IPv6 only DNS resolver and learn the hard way that not every zone has dualstack nameservers
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:nah consumer ISPs just do CGNAT if they run out because their consumers dont know better enough to care, or have no competitors to turn to if they do. business ISPs cant really do the same when selling to people that want to run internet-facing servers lmao did not know google fiber couldn't do ipv6, but i am in no way surprised they half-rear end implemented it and then probably laid off the team responsible
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:nah consumer ISPs just do CGNAT if they run out because their consumers dont know better enough to care, or have no competitors to turn to if they do. business ISPs cant really do the same when selling to people that want to run internet-facing servers amusingly wireless carriers were some of the first (and only?) to mandate ipv6 and its all behind cgnat anyways
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you still need to be able to reach IPv4 only content, CGNAT boxes are expensive and the more of your traffic is on IPv6 the less of 'em you need
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:nah consumer ISPs just do CGNAT if they run out because their consumers dont know better enough to care, or have no competitors to turn to if they do. business ISPs cant really do the same when selling to people that want to run internet-facing servers i meant in the sense that ipv4 addresses still are so valuable to other businesses because large swaths of the internet are still v4 only, like all of my ISP’s customers, contributing to that demand. not that my isp itself needs more v4 addresses i can actually pull down up to four separate v4 addresses for free if i want, no cgnat on their network thankfully
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I came to see if someone had already posted this. It's a real good tech bubbly read. The irony that the person who was in charge of search at Yahoo! (And was so bad at their job Yahoo replaced search with bing) was put in charge of search at Google explains so much. Google sucks now to find anything useful, and after reading that article it's so obvious why: the more time you spend sifting through poo poo results, the more ads you see, the more revenue Google makes this quarter. The person in charge of search also pulled this today: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/google-search-boss-raghavan-warns-employees-of-new-operating-reality.html quote:Raghavan had some tangible changes to announce. He said the company plans to build teams closer to users in key markets, including India and Brazil, and revealed that he’s shortening the amount of time that his reports have to complete certain projects in an effort to move faster. Google is going to be so much shittier in the next few years.
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let's see if they can entice mayer back.
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What if they bring her back to Google in like 5 years to revitalize its dead husk
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Sagebrush posted:most of these tech bubble technologies are perfectly valid and useful in their niches. the problem is they don't continue growing infinitely forever, which makes them worthless to the investors that drive all this idiocy. all they're looking for is the next tortilla chip i like tortilla chip
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:Google sucks now to find anything useful entirely untrue. google is by far the best reddit search engine and p decent for stackoverflow inb4 Raghavan removes the site: operator
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all the blockchain wankers on LinkedIn have now added "AI" to their job descriptions because "blockchain for business" is basically dead as there was zero real world use case so now we're onto the next griftCarthag Tuek posted:holla holla get dolla oh god lmao but also shameful lack of john madden speaking of which my wife's lock screen message needs some additional John maddens adding but I don't remember how the gently caress to change it on android which is why she hasn't managed to remove it either
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:all the blockchain wankers on LinkedIn have now added "AI" to their job descriptions because "blockchain for business" is basically dead as there was zero real world use case so now we're onto the next grift I still see a surprising amount of NFT gaming companies who are hiring.
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:The person in charge of search also pulled this today:
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:I came to see if someone had already posted this. It's a real good tech bubbly read. there will be more and it will be worse
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probably excessively simplified to blame one guy to that extent though. like, article wants to make him out to be a big business guy but his credentials are actually ridiculously good, and it seems to try to make it a pattern that he was head of search at yahoo when his bosses cut a deal with bing instead, with him pressuring the head of search at google with business deal things. like, i expect he's a shithead and plenty to blame, but no way its quite this simple. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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it shouldn’t be surprising. google has simply reached homeostasis alongside the dumpster fire that is the rest of the world. wallow in brine, goblins be thine 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:probably excessively simplified to blame one guy to that extent though. like, article wants to make him out to be a big business guy but his credentials are actually ridiculously good, and it seems to try to make it a pattern that he was head of search at yahoo when his bosses cut a deal with bing instead, with him pressuring the head of search at google with business deal things. i think the claim is that he was asleep at the wheel at yahoo, focusing on the wrong things while the product declined into irrelevancy around him, and he's doing exactly the same thing as google's search product declines into irrelevancy
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Jabor posted:i think the claim is that he was asleep at the wheel at yahoo, focusing on the wrong things while the product declined into irrelevancy around him, and he's doing exactly the same thing as google's search product declines into irrelevancy except it seems to me that the claim amounts to doing kind of the *opposite* thing while trying to pass that off as a pattern.
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idk man any outsider looking in is gonna notice that the dude was around for both yahoo and google going to poo poo and put two and two together
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