We run a few RIPE Atlas probes and anchors - why you should too?

RIPE Atlas is extremely useful service to measure and monitor network events globally. As per their own statistics at https://atlas.ripe.net/statistics/ they cover about 5% of all allocated ASNs (not only RIPE region) and 89% of countries.

This service provides an unprecedented real time view of how the Internet is working. This data is valuable for researchers worldwide and accessible for anyone. It can help you to troubleshoot own network, look at connectivity or improve the Internet (if you are an ISP).

Participation is volunteer, however all operators of both probe or anchor get "credits". They are used for running your own custom measurements and can be shared.

More details on how it works: https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ripe-atlas/how-ripe-atlas-works/

Our probes and anchors: https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/public?search=as215467

This is pretty funny:

```py

print("Repeating user analysis again...")

print("Analysis of nostr:nprofile1qqszvsw9qc8yamyzpz0akty7hpr3ges0mhmuywsp6ucnz9ypnqlszagpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qythwumn8ghj77rdwgh82um9dehhxarj9ehhyee0fmcfpl using gemthink model:")

print("The user is a technically proficient individual who operates a VPS hosting business, Skhron. They are deeply involved in the Nostr ecosystem, offering insights, support, and promoting their services.")

print("1. Main topics: tech, servers, Bitcoin, Lightning, Monero, Nostr, relays, privacy, decentralization")

print("2. Posting frequency: frequent, multiple times a day")

print("3. Personality: helpful, informative, committed to privacy, sense of humor")

print("4. Writing style: clear, concise, technical")

print("5. Male or female? likely male")

print("6. Bot likelihood: 0%")

print("7. Spammy: 10%")

print("8. Other details: based in Ukraine, uses Amethyst and Gossip clients")

print("9. Spirit animal: beaver")

```

Tbh POW on mobile causes more harm then good - for me Nostr is pretty battery-hungry even without PoW 😂

Yes, from what I can see, it is one of the fastest implementations, and significantly faster than noStrudel (again, due to parallelism). In my case, most implementations, including wasm in noStrudel, use only one thread.

If you like PoW, gossip on desktop is better choice due to parallelism

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/ip-sysctl.html

You can change these sysctls values:

temp_valid_lft - INTEGER

valid lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If less than the minimum required lifetime (typically 5-7 seconds), temporary addresses will not be created.

Default: 172800 (2 days)

temp_prefered_lft - INTEGER

Preferred lifetime (in seconds) for temporary addresses. If temp_prefered_lft is less than the minimum required lifetime (typically 5-7 seconds), the preferred lifetime is the minimum required. If temp_prefered_lft is greater than temp_valid_lft, the preferred lifetime is temp_valid_lft.

Default: 86400 (1 day)

Wait, you can count your followers and see who have followed you when?

Every perfectionist must see this

Only about 19.69% of our customers use our #Tor onion site to manage their services. This was measured as per our nginx access_log (we don't use any kind of JS analytics).

To be honest, I have expected this percentage to be much higher.

I mean, aren't protests a thing?

Tbh it is "nested virtualization" at this point 😂

Might be so, but I am neither American or deep into their domestic politics, I would say Americans should decide if Trumps does what they want

But from outside it definitely doesn't look good, I am agreeing on that with you

I don't have to imagine that

Issue is neither Trump is interested in Ukrainian people. Don't get me wrong, he is American president and he has own nation to care about, but what he calls peace is russia continuing killing civil Ukrainians

+1 for Syncthing

When anycast bro

Keep us posted on this matter please

I am out of ⭕

Btw we offer routed /56 IPv6 prefixes if asked for free if default /64 allocation is not enough

Please share your wisdom about ⭕

This is true, intention of my post was to raise awareness of others