I used to work in the arcade industry...I owned two and operated machines.

Ticket and arcade games ARE in fact regulated. Furthermore...most states have very strict laws regarding anything that can be construed as a "game of chance". The fact that Keymaster went un-noticed for so long says more about the lack of enforcement and the unethical practices of modern vendors. The minute a game has an option locking out a win based on anything other than skill, it becomes a game of chance. That makes it illegal in most states. Don't forget, pinball...an actual game of skill...was 100% illegal for many many years due to being classified as gambling machines. Why? Because that happened a lot in bars. I could go all day about the various features added to pinball over the years to counter this...at least until it was proven to be skill in court.

"Redemption games" as we call them aren't anything new? Wanna know how places got around gambling laws but still had "slot machines"? They were technically vending machines. You put your nickel in, it spun the reels. You got a pack of gum...and maybe a few extra cents. Was it gambling? Hell no. You're just buying a pack of gum with added excitement. But I bet...if you saw rows and rows of these...you'd go "wait...these are being used to gamble!" and would cry foul.

The manufactures shouldn't have put these features in the games...but one can argue the responsibility ultimately lands on the end-user to not be a dick. It's like I'm totally allowed to buy a 5kW Collins AM transmitter. This doesn't even count the fact I'm a licensed ham and could operate it within the limits of my license; it's totally legal to just buy one. Fire trucks....I knew a place where one could buy decomissioned fire trucks. Did you need to be a fire department? No. We literally bought one as an amusement rental company to drive to sites and use to fill dunk tanks; then park it there and let the kids look at it.

If you pay attention...a lot of ticket based games will always dispense at least one ticket; or they at least have the option to always dispense a ticket. It's not always turned on...but satisfies the "gives you something" requirement.

Okay...I digressed a bit. The point I'm trying to make is the problem is two-fold...and it's not good. Part of the reason I walked away from the industry was the fact it was getting far too commercial and far too unethical.

Look...you're not wrong...but you're also not right.

The cranes I operated...and even the last few I worked on; they weren't complex enough to count how long the gripper had been closed. They were far far stupider than that. Inside the mechanism on top of the gantry, where the motor lives, there are a series of switches. One of these switches measures slack on the claw's string. The machine has two settings for the claw; grip and hold. The delay is how long it takes the string to become tight. It does not know how deep the calw is. You drop the claw...it runs the motor for an amount of time; that amount of time is usually set to allow the claw to hit the bottom of an empty cabinet, plus a few inches. Grip relay fires, grip voltage is applied to claw. The motor starts winding up the slack to raise the claw. Once that line becomes tight, it switches to hold power. There's no random delay...and the trickery isn't in this operation. It's simple physics....the further down the crane is in the bin, the earlier it'll kick the hold voltage.

So why doesn't stuff stay on there? Well...when I operated them it's because that was part of the skill. Once you figure out there's less grip going up...then you should figure out it's about placement and distribution of weight. Too much weight on one tine and the claw won't hold; but you get that stuffed bunny balanced on all three and you can pull it from the bottom corner...all the way to the opposite corner...with no problem.

Again...I tested and calibrated my machines to make sure this was possible. Not every operator does...and some of them should be fined for it as I've literally seen machines that were set to not allow a win. *THAT* is unethical my friend...but it's not a fault of the machine. In fact, I was the kind of guy that if you came in and spent a few bucks letting your toddler play games...I'd let them play the special toy crane that was 100% win.

So I'm going to go off-spec here:

You don't actually have to limit your v6 splitting to /64 - that is only if you want 100% stateless configuration. If you're in a situation where you need more subnets, you can go smaller; but you lose stateless configuration. You can replace it with static or DHCPv6.

The other problem is that tunnelbroker isn't 100% reliable. I have native v6 on my main VPS, my home connection, and I have a tunnelbroker v6 on my mail server (as it doesn't have the option for v6 natively). I occasionally had to ssh in over v4 to the mail server and ifup/down the tunnel. I had a similar issue before I had native v6 and was routing the tunnel on my LAN.

I get that everyone loves the cloudflare tunnels...but in my book that's putting too much reliance on something you don't control. Their stuff goes down and your stuff goes down. We use this at work and I told everyone "you'll love this until cloudflare goes down". At that point you might as well just get a VPS and run everything that way.

I mean...the ability to work around this has existed for years. It's nothing new. The people serious about self-hosting have it in their playbook.

The people that aren't technical but want to just "run stuff" for the sake of running stuff want a one-click and go solution.

You sound like the latter; someone who wants to self-host because it's cool...or maybe you don't want to pay $20/year for a basic VPS that while not fully self-hosted...is still under a large amount of your control. There are also VPN providers that literally exist for this thing. You get a small VPS big enough to build an OpenVPN or Wireguard on; then you tunnel all the traffic you want to host over it.

But if you're going to say that these problems are new and need solutions...then you're showing your lack of experience.

Because of the way routing works. It would be hard to take another subnet to another network. Even with IPv4 there are limitations. The telephone system works a bit differently.

These guys are a dime a dozen...I swear. "Oh, it's time to modernize. You don't need IPv4 anymore..."

Yes, you do; because so many networks aren't fully dual-stack yet. Everyone I know who has had a v6 only server has regretted it.

I've been running email for a year. The only provider I have issue with is Microsoft. The situtation there is I'm on their Data Saftey thing...they know I "own" the IP...my server meets the security requirements; but pretty soon it went from "we don't know why this is happening" to someone else jumping on going "our conversation is finished. we will not do anything about this situation."

Compaies providing the walled gardens want to force you to pay them.

If you dig deep enough you will find that while there was existing work to be done; a lot of new stuff was created. The ice and milk men are no longer around; but when they were made redundant, they easily could transfer to other delivery work...which was increasing in need as the middle class grew. Alarm clocks took away a job...but the factory making likely was able to give those people jobs. In so many cases it's never that work was gone...but it's just it wasn't what someone wanted to do; or that person doesn't want to grow with the job. I recall a problem with a bunch of miners in my state claiming they were being forced out of jobs and it all boiled down to them refusing to modernize.

But ultimately.....you run out of work at some point; and a number of "replacement" industries that have popped up as a result of new technology is itself getting replaced. If AI can "problem solve" an issue on the line; why do you need people? If they can interact with customers, why do I need cashiers? If they can drive trucks, they can probably cut grass/pick up trash/etc.

Part of the issue it's hard to take into account industries that don't exist. But if you've got AI answering phones, dealing with customers, driving trucks...there's going to be a very lopsided change. "Why pay for a consultant when the AI can do it?" "AI's engineering is cheaper and better than the guy we currently pay."

Until they ban VPNs. I mean...they talked about it once. I believe in my state they didn't directly ban them...but there's language that means using one to skirt their laws can incur additional charges.

They don't care. They don't' have to care. They have no responsibility to. People think a large corporation has responsibilities to people...but they don't. They've firmly held their responsibilities are to shareholders...something that's been upheld in court. In most states...employment is 100% at-will; you can be terminated by the employer at any time for any reason with no explanation. Companies can decide to not pay you; there's no law against it. You can take them to court to get your money...but at the end of the day, there is no law or puhishment for it and they are free to continue to do so until they fire you.

Thinking a large conglormate is responsible is foolish. If you want responsible companies...start them. Don't let yourself get bought out. The actions that needed to be taken to prevent this were eliminated years ago.

Workers can protest all they want...but in the modern capitalist world; the corporation just fires the problem and continues.

did you see the /s?

Unethical companies won't want trouble makers.

Ethical companies don't want trouble makers.

Every single one of these people have never gone on to better jobs. They try to be a paid activist and crash and burn.

I wouldn't.

As an employer it's stupid to take sides like this. It's the reason why I was always one of the few businesses that *never* had political signs in my windows like my neighbors. I was there for one purpose: to make money. Politics didn't make me money. You don't alienate customers; and if you're fine with pushing away one group of customers because you personally disagree with them; then you're a horrible capitalist and I'm not afraid to say "if you want to pick and choose your customers than clearly you're fine with being told how to run your business".

If someone wants to brag about getting fired...that's fine; but that's not an employee I want in my organization. You wanna have a personal opinion, have it on your time. You don't like what the company is doing? Find another job.

But...they were protesting. Haven't you listened to any of these people? Constitutional rights override any other policies and law. /s

Procedure be damned...it sounds like this was malicious enough the government should shut down all production, lock everyone out of the buildings, and go over them with a fine tooth comb. Everyone that pushed profits over safety needs to be jailed.

These mega-corps need to fear the government and not have it's dick sucked by it. We the people are the ones to pay for this, not the CEOs, not the legislators.

Every Boeing exec needs to be detained and questioned. We the people will take pleas of the fifth as covering their ass.

People...need to pay. If our government doesn't deal a punishment...then it's proof they are 100% against us and perhaps we need to realize we're the ones being shit on.

The sad part is people will die. Americans will pay the price. We will be punished.

The bad actors will only be rewarded.