>both cases some models were used to justify the decision, with wild extrapolations

Happens often. Just look at the climate change discussion.

I don't really understand. Do you have anything to hide from you government?

I have a lot to hide from your government if that was the question

You don't have to install my government's software.

It's 2026 & we still have people saying this ..

Poe's Law is in effect when the thread is a hair away from getting political. I thought it was obvious that the commenter is joking based on the oblivious tone, and because this is HN.

I'm probably way too new here then.. whatever

Fwiw, it is also possible to make a Pi boot from usb.

It's ready, nothing to enjoy.

ICMP packets can be arbitrary length, and there are plenty of tcp-over-icmp tunnels.

Not what I meant, I meant icmp as storage, not as communication.

There was this article a long time ago about using packets in transit as storage/memory, mischeivously for free.

Turns out this is how early memory worked, i think it was called delay line memory, made of mercury, i think PDP and DEC era

>They are not a file storage system. They were not designed to be a file storage system. Nobody at the IETF was thinking about them being used as a file storage system when they wrote RFC 1035. And yet here we are.

That's plain wrong. DNS was specifically designed to store arbitrary data, cf. the Hesiod name class.

I'm baffled each time people re-implement stuff from scratch instead of contributing to existing mature projects.

Why creating a new program instead of contributing to an existing mature one?

Also, I cannot open your website, does not seem to work without JavaScript.

Yea, this is a React application.

Alternatives are not that better :(

Also Google search degradation is partly due to the web becoming infested with AI slop and most content moving to chat apps, which are walled gardens by default.

Please don't use imgur, it blocks off half of the internet. Use catbox.moe or imageban

China Southern is okay if you speak Chinese.