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The testing VM is specified as VM.Standard.A1.Flex (Oracle Cloud)

Is this the endpoint you tested against? https://bgp.he.net/dns/t3.storage.dev#_ipinfo

Did you test from a VM in the same cloud that's hosting the product? If so I'm not sure "neutral cloud provider" is an honest statement.

I'd just be happy if organizations stopped doing business with software vendors that still mandate disabling DEP, ASLR, and the dreaded "Please disable your antivirus before installing".

I’m currently ~6 weeks into a billing issue with CloudFlare. They typically take 5-6 days to respond, ask you for verification to do things, wait another 5-6 days, then they ask you to do it because it turns out they don’t have permission. It’s a mess.

> On macOS, I can't ping or bind to 127.0.0.2

     uname -a
    Darwin LT-JT6692XPXJ 23.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May  1 20:12:58 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
     options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
    
    ~ 11s
     sudo ifconfig lo0 add 127.0.0.2
    Password:
    
    ~
     ping -c 1 127.0.0.2
    PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 127.0.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.824 ms
    
    --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.824/0.824/0.824/nan ms
    
    ~
     ifconfig lo0
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
     options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
     inet 127.0.0.2 netmask 0xff000000
     nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    
    ~

For comparison, this is roughly the cost of a pair of coherent 400G optics used in DWDM.

He is moving from Seattle to Miami. Where did you get California from this?

No escaping is done, so you can end up with a malformed profile if your SSID or PSK includes a < for instance.

iMessage is not about the color of the bubble. While the color is what's most noticeable to the end user, a non-iMessage chat means:

  1. Unable to rename group chats
  2. Photo sharing quality is lowered  
  3. Video sharing quality is abysmal
  4. Messages traverse carrier networks in plain-text
  5. Loss of undo send and delete
  6. Loss of inline replies
  7. Loss of typing indicators and read-receipts (if enabled)

Just to name a few.

I won't doubt the fact that you know that other cross-platform messaging apps exist.

My mom, in her 70s, barely gets iMessage -- half the time I receive "text" messages from her as an email! Throwing in Whatsapp or Telegram would just confuse her.

My grandma in her late 80s managed to learn a non-iMessage messaging app just fine, and she’s the most active one in my family group. If grandmas all over the world can use something else, your mom can, too. I’m sure she wasn’t born with the ability to use iMessage.

I'm just going to say that everyone's parents have different abilities. She can quilt like crazy, but the phone isn't her thing.

I’d add that photo and video sharing might not be free as even today it depends on your carrier plan.

… So it’s an extremely useful signal to tell you to use a different messaging app with this person. Glad we sorted that out!

AWS has an endpoint for this: http://checkip.amazonaws.com

Saves a few milliseconds of transit at the expense of a few seconds of chuckling... not worth it :)