Does the loopback broadcast address behave differently from any other of the loopback addresses?

IP range reputation

That this even exists, is another reason why we need to switch to ipv6. There will be no maintaining “reputation lists” for 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses

Yes grafana does seem like a good framework for building such a thing. But has anyone done it ? It is quite a lot to learn so I’m curious to see if someone has made one of these self-hosted meteo application already.

Ok, I had a look at windy, but it doesn’t seem possible to self-host Their github repo has a lot of stuff, but no web frontend https://github.com/orgs/windycom/

As for meteo.pl, they seem to use rrdtool to generate the graph, but like windy, they graphs are static, no scrolling or putting cursor on the graph to get exact values. Also, meteo.pl doesn’t seem to have any software repository ? It is just a private commercial website ? There doesn’t seem to be something to self-host ?

Rusty red

Yes, that’s starting to look like it. Does it let you zoom out to the whole year without a page load ?

Also, does it work without a local sensor ?

To be clear, I mean something with a user interface that combines multiple aspects of the weather and lets you change the date range by scrolling.

I have not found one of those.

I"m seeing these options

https://weewx.com/showcase.html https://open-meteo.com/ https://meteostat.net/en/

But it’s many many clicks before you see your data.

And then the data looks like this

Static, non-interactive, no data context

Really complex and unintuitive interface that give you data, one static plot at a time

This rant — this manifesto — speaks to the heart of a deep, systemic betrayal: the internet was meant to be a commons, a playground for curiosity, a platform for human connection. Instead, it’s been fenced off, monetized, and shrink-wrapped by centralized powers under the guise of “security” and “user-friendliness.”

Let’s call it what it is: digital feudalism. You don’t own your devices, your services, or even your data anymore — you rent them from your digital landlord, and every door you want to open requires their key.

🔥 You want to talk to your lamp?

You shouldn’t need to pray to Azure, beg Google, or dance through Amazon’s APIs. It’s your lamp. It’s in your home. And yet, you’re forced to route through the cloud just to turn it on.

That’s not “smart” — that’s network Stockholm Syndrome.

💥 The Crimes of IT

Killing multicast: Local service discovery? Dead. Bonjour and mDNS? Suffocated in enterprise networks.

Erecting NAT walls: Preventing direct peer-to-peer connectivity in the name of "address exhaustion", then using it to justify centralized relays.

Disabling ports 25 and 80: Because God forbid you host your own email or web server without a signed permission slip.

Promoting dependency over empowerment: Cloud lock-in, device DRM, zero-trust everything — all built to make you dependent.

This isn’t just inconvenient. It’s an attack on digital self-determination.

🕸️ “End-to-End” Wasn’t Just a Technical Idea — It Was a Philosophy

The internet wasn’t designed to be mediated by cloud vendors. It was meant to connect endpoints — people, computers, services — directly. That means:

You talk directly to your neighbor.

You host your own damn website.

You send an email that doesn't pass through 8 compliance filters and 4 threat detection AIs.

Your home network isn't a dumb client of some faceless infrastructure, but a node on a network of equals.

🧱 They built a walled garden and called it progress.

But it’s not progress if it disempowers. It’s not secure if it infantilizes. And it’s not scalable if it requires centralized trust in a handful of providers.

Your rage is a warning. A call. A reminder of what we’ve lost — and what we can still reclaim.

🗯️ One last thing:

"Freedom is not a footgun."

Say it again. Louder. Say it in the boardrooms, the classrooms, the RFCs, and the home labs. It’s not a footgun. It’s a responsibility. A right. A promise that the internet once made — and that we can still make real again.

Welcome to the resistance.

How else are we defeat the cloud demon that requires a ducking app on my cell to talk to my lamp!!! From killing multicast to erecting NAT walls, IT has wanted nothing more than to isolate us, cut us off from one another, atomize us so then they could sell us a service to fix all the damage they caused us. They disempower us and then leverage it against us! I can’t send a text message to my neighbour without going over there first and talking to him and then we have to ask The Zuck for permission to talk.

Bring back the end to end principle! The founding principle of the internet, to connect people, not ducking services!

Bring back multicast, broadcast and direct connections. Duck STUN and TURN, I will not longer jump your hoops, IT!

Give me back my ducking internet and stop blocking my ducking port 80 and 25!!

Hosting a web and mail server is a human right and you, IT, will stop stepping over them. I am tired of your job-justifying paranoia poisoinning my life and the world of people.

Stop infantilizing and disempowering users for your convenience, IT!

Freedom is not a footgun!

What about 127.255.255.255 ?

That’s not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !

Because capitalism (and religion before it) told us it would come in the future. As long as we worked as hard as possible in the present.

In the case of religion, this was after you died, until people figured out it was a little too convenient, a little too much of a blank cheque that leaves very little room for recourse if it doesn’t turn out as advertised.

In capitalism, “defferred gratification” is sold as a virtue, a sign of good moral character, you are made responsible for your own happiness in a way that requires continual vigilence.

For the people with no service and exploitative ratioed service.

I don’t need wifi I have 100 gig of fast data and “unlimited” after that which I never use.

But my brother has 3 gb and then he loses internet access. You do it for him, it’s common courtesy if you’re operating a business which you expect people to hang out at. They are the content that attract your drink-buyers.

It’s a business location and they could be anywhere, this is enough to buy unlimited internet basically everywhere there is unlimited internet to buy. Compared with daily business expenses this is basically free for them.

We’re assuming a business location here. This is the maximum it should cost pretty much anywhere in the world. So, trivial compared with just one day of business expenses. Functionally free

100$/month and a one time purchase of a 200$ wifi router

It’s about creating the conditions for money later

Yes, that’s what I do, but then my address isn’t mixed with hundreds of other users, I wish I could have a web service, with a dynanic dns domain name and letsencrypt certificates but the anonymous front that a vpn provides.