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Comment Re:Zigbee sucks... (Score 2) 44

Addressable does not mean accessible.
IPv6 has link-local addresses which are unroutable outside of the local segment. Plus firewalls and VLANs exist so you can limit access however you want.

This is a _LOT_ better than the typical device that connects to someone else's hosted server that you have absolutely no control over.

Comment Re:Not surprising it's more toxic (Score 4, Interesting) 85

The problem is operating on a blacklist approach...
One chemical gets a bad name and there's a campaign against it, so it gets replaced with something that hasn't attracted so much negative publicity yet. The replacements are often worse, or the side effects are not so well known and once use becomes widespread the side effects are found to be worse.

You've seen this with legislation that pushed vehicles from gasoline to diesel, reducing co2 while increasing other emissions.
You've seen this with food where fat/salt/sugar (that we've been consuming for thousands of years and which are perfectly safe and even needed in moderate quantities) has been demonised, leading to worse replacements where new negative side effects are regularly emerging.
Micro plastics, coolants and various other things are also getting worse.

Comment Re:It's hard to draw an audience for laptop conten (Score 1) 29

Exactly this... Nowadays everyone already has a portable device capable of reading up to date content anytime anyplace. Buying a paper magazine or newspaper from the few places that still sell them and then carrying it around is massively less convenient. The only people doing this are generally the elderly who dont know how to use the newer technology, and obviously those people become fewer every year.

Comment Re:Arrrrrr (Score 1) 185

You don't have a 90ft wide screen at home with dual laser projects in a perfectly dark room and a real Atmos (as opposed to the gimped consumer version) sound system.

No i have a smaller room so i sit closer, so i have no need for such a large screen.
Plus i can sit in exactly the ideal location for the sound system and screen, whereas most of the theatre audience are sitting outside of the optimal seats.

Also theatre experiences differ significantly. Some of them have much smaller screens, lousy sound systems, dirty, smelly, crowds of kids, uncomfortable seating etc. There isn't a decent one around here, i have to travel a significant distance for a decent theatre experience.

Comment Re:The push is ongoing, but the general consensus (Score 1) 68

These notions of hierarchy are mostly BS in the real world. /64 assignments are typically allocated to LANs not companies and in any enterprise of any size TE overrides attempts to logically organize address space into neat hierarchies.

A company will be allocated a /48 or larger, and will allocate /64 blocks to VLANs themselves, so you do have a hierarchy.

Comment Re:ISP efforts have been embarrassing (Score 1) 68

It's the same in a lot of places - legacy traffic is through CGNAT unless you pay (sometimes a LOT) extra. If you want any kind of home server you have to do it over v6. Also makes it much easier if you have more than one device since you can access them directly rather than having to mess with non standard ports or proxies etc.

Vodafone are a mixed bag - depends what country you're in. They have v6 in india, portugal, germany etc while in some other countries they don't.

Comment Re:So... How is this an "arm waving" problem? (Score 1) 54

Unless you want to physically go to the printer and plug in a cable, you'll probably network it, not that it's a huge problem really because you have to go to it to collect the paper anyway.

Creating an isolated airgapped network for the printer means you have to disconnect from your existing network first.

Putting the printer into its own isolated VLAN with limited access from wherever your user devices are works, but is more complex to set up.

If you're operating a perimeter based security model where you rely on perimeter security rather than each individual host then any compromised device inside the perimeter can be a serious problem. A printer will have an embedded computer and there's nothing stopping an advanced attacker from loading new firmware containing additional functionality.

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