I don't think running everything flat with IPv6 is going to result in script kiddies attacking everyone. I can't really. The reason is that there are just too many possible addresses. You can't scan for every address in /64 subnet because 2^64 is a really huge number and that'd take a really long time. Even if you could check 4 billion addresses a second, it'd take over a century to scan the entire space. And, you really do have to scan the whole space, because devices are supposed to be getting addresses randomly from the pool they're given, and the pools are also supposed to be given randomly. In IPv6, you don't give out addresses sequentially.

"On a storefront that goes to some lengths to bury new releases, and even buries pages where you can deliberately list new releases."

Steam front page:
Secondary heading: "Your Store"
Subheading includes: "New Releases Queue"

Secondary heading: "New & Noteworthy"
Subheading includes "New Releases"

This is just a crap article.

Now for the million dollar question: did he use AI to write the opinion piece?

Oops - it IS tiered. Still think I'm gonna cancel.

i put my subscription on pause (means don't auto-renew) and won't be renewing. I hope they get the message.

Frankly, I don't get it. Why would not not do N-tier pricing where the top tier has no ads. It's not like that's hard to do. I guess they just think more folks will put up with 'ads for all' than not.

Who knows, but you certainly don't pass the intelligence and knowledge of science tests. You've conflated three separate concepts into one and then argued on the basis of one of those concepts that the others don't exist. Way to use fallacious reasoning, there.

Now, I'll explain. There are three separate yet related concepts that you've smashed into: sex, gender identity, and gender appearance. Your sex is immutable, and by and large, a binary proposition. Not always though, there are genetic and physical conditions that make a person neither one sex nor the other, or maybe a combination. It's hard to say. Your sex is basically the configuration of your genitals and genetics.

Gender identity is how feel about what gender you are. Do you feel like a boy or a girl or neither. This is separate from sex. There are plenty of studies establishing that sex and gender identity are different things and may not align. Since it is not reasonable to ask to see a person's genitals and genetics, it is not reasonable to base your pronoun use on those things. Therefore, out of respect, one should use the pronouns a person asks to be used for them. Your do this because to do otherwise is an insult and walking around insulting people makes a you bad person who ought to be shunned as an asshole.

Gender appearance is how a person presents their gender to the world. Generally, for mental health reasons, a person is advised to align their gender appearance with their gender identity. Sometimes this is difficult. Here are the rules for pronouns: use the male or female pronouns that match a person's gender appearance unless they tell you otherwise. If there's any question on their appearance, then use they/them until told otherwise. This is purely a respect issue and find otherwise makes you an asshole.

There's plenty of science backing all this up. There's a recognized disorder called gender dismorphic disorder that people can suffer from and the treatment is too transition your gender appearance to the gender you identify as. Sometimes this may even need to involve surgery, but this is becoming less common over time for bottom surgeries and more common for top surgeries. When this disorder appears in children, puberty blockers are used for a few years just to make sure that child really suffers from the disorder before making any medical changes to their body. It makes sense when you think about and seriously reduces mortality from suicide among young trans people. Now you know.

A long time ago there were editors without plugins or extensions. I don't know if emacs lead the way using lisp to make it all extensible, but back in the day, it was a fantastic way to make your editor more of an IDE.

Once you've written thousands of lines of lisp code to make your editor/IDE just the way you like it, why would you change?

It's a standard heat pump that uses ceramics instead of compressors. Which is .. cool.

Really!? It seems like you might have been the only one.

I never even touched a windows phone. I happen to use an iphone (and have since I went 'smart') but maybe not for next phone. I'll have to talk to some reverse-switcher friends.

What did you like about the winphone? What do you miss about it?

Are they planning on announcing, or are they just thinking about it? Because if they're really planning on announcing it then that's super huge news. But if they're just thinking about it then we should probably hold off until they're really planning on announcing that there is going to be a GTA VI some time in the future.

Wow. That'd be news indeed. But only if they're really planning on announcing.

Except that China didn't succeed until eschewed Communism and became Capitalist. Today, China is ruthlessly capitalistic and less socialistic than most European nations. Even the US has more elements of command economics going on. Look at the recent problems with Adderall production, which were caused by the DEA setting quotas too low. In the US, the government literally dictates how much of certain things that can be made and by whom. That's some Communist shit if I ever heard it. China probably still has quite a few communistic elements to their governance, but nowadays, no more so than any Western country, except maybe in the areas of personal liberties like speech, but that's less of a communist problem and more of an authoritarian problem.

This isn't a No-True-Scotsman argument. That's because no one disputes that China WAS a communist country. It's just starting around the fall of the USSR, China pivoted from being Communist to being Capitalist, just like all the countries of the former USSR at around the same time. A few countries have kept their Communist roots, like North Korea and Cuba, but practically all the others saw the light and joined the dark side. To call China communist today is some serious anachronistic bullshit.

This exact thing has happened a few times now. All the previous times it's been people using UVC fluorescent bulbs because they look really cool, (they do look cool), but not knowing that they're dangerous. So, that's probably what happened this time as well. Pro-tip: If the lights are purple and you can smell ozone, get the hell out of there.

Maybe it's not a coincidence that DHH called out redis at RailsWorld.
In the keynote at the 47 minute mark he starts in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

TLDR: SDD is super fast. Maybe let's ditch redis and use disk.

For them it worked out to be better performing since you can cache for weeks instead of hours or days.

Thanks for the tip!

I've been so happy with tmobile for so many years. I'm really bummed to hear this. It looks like there is a way to push back - at least for a bit.

I'm not looking forward to finding a new carrier.