If they're providing a proxy service to bypass NAT then it makes sense they charge for it. Providing this proxying has a direct ongoing cost for them, so providing it free or for a one off fee is is totally unsustainable.

No they have a proper IPv6 implementation, but legacy IP is tunnelled over the IPv6 core and has a reduced MTU.
There are a _LOT_ of ISPs out there which are IPv6-first and have some second class setup for backwards compatibility with legacy sites.

Is reserved for approximately 8,000 people worldwide out of 8 billion. This creates a lot of bizarre situations like the problem you're describing.

So basically we need lots of young people to work and drive the economy forward and generate economic activity in order to support the old people in their old age when they're physically incapable of work.

Basically line must go up. The economy has to grow because if it stops growing the people at the top take it out on us and we enter a permanent depression. It's like how you are running from the dragon hoping he eats The Hobbit. That's our economy.

On the other hand AI is taking jobs needed to make the whole system function. We need people to be working but we also need them to be constantly exchanging the value of their labor again in order to keep the economy driving forward and functional.

As the population of young people drops and there is less economic activity you will also have Ward drop offs in the number of available jobs due to automation. The entire economic system we have built will break down and we do not have any replacement for it.

Meanwhile we still have to take 70% of everything we do and use it to satisfy every single conceivable whim of those 8,000 people because they earned it and because clearly God wants them to have all that money and power or he wouldn't have given them all that money and power.

Also if you take away Elon musk's billions leaving him with only tens of millions then the next step is somebody's going to break into your house and steal your toothbrush in your car and probably fuck your wife. That's just logic.

Basically the systems we put in place are not capable of addressing either of the two problems you're describing and the two problems you're describing are going to put different pressures in different places on the system we live in. And we are not capable of reforming or changing that system because we are a nation of 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds don't like change.

All it's going to take is a subpoena and that's that. Writing reviews can be dangerous because businesses will cheerfully sue you if you write a bad review. Free speech is nice and all but you're still going to spend thousands of dollars depending yourself in court.

Everyone is. The economy is collapsing exactly as anyone with half a brain would have predicted when we put Trump in charge. Which is why Trump is hiding all of the reports showing how bad the economy is.

America is a failed state. When your leadership starts to hide report data that's when you know it's over.

We normally get 8 years of Democrats fixing the disasters caused by republicans. We never fully recover and the voters inevitably blamed the Democrats for that and go back to the Republicans because voters are dumb. But we usually get 8 years of relative stability with a little bit of Republican sabotage after the midterms and we didn't get that this time. Like absolutely everyone who isn't either an idiot or a paid shill predicted it's an absolute disaster.

I think one of the major problems is we have too many retirees who are completely insulated from the economy and who really do not give a fuck about their kids and grandkids. The kind that find Fox News entertaining for reasons that I do not fully comprehend. Like the kind of twerp that voted for brexit in the uk. People that can set fire to the whole world and get away with it. Probably anyway.

If you're under 65 though I don't think you're going to get away with it. The damage is too extreme and too fast. We are so fucked and the worst thing is is I don't think anyone has learned any lessons from this.

The internet is filled with idiots who have lost their livelihoods because of Trump's idiot policies and asserting that they will vote for him again given the chance. I do not know what you do with people like that but I know there are a bunch of them here and they like to keep their mouths shut when they're not in safe spaces.

You think a Large Language Model is largely independent of human language?

At least they work reasonably well as search engines.

He openly attempted to overthrow the US government. He is also a convicted felon and a rapist. Never mind that he is an incredibly incompetent buffoon who is bankrupted every single company he has ever been in charge of without exception.

And all it took for him to get another term with a shitload of propaganda, the news media being owned by billionaires and the Democrats running a man far too old to be running and a woman.

There was also a metric fuck ton of voters suppression. Literally millions of illegal challenges to signatures and voter registrations. Not to mention multi-hour waits to vote. There's a reason that a state like Missouri that is almost 50% black is a red state and it's not conservative family values.

Every single institution designed to protect you from psychopaths and rapists has failed. Or rather it has been systematically dismantled going back to when Barry Goldwater lost.

So yeah Donald Trump is absolutely going to run for a third term if he is physically able and the corrupt supreme Court that struck down Roe v Wade by citing a literal witchfinder general is going to rubber stamp it.

And I don't think the voters who are allowed to vote are going to stop him because about 30% of them think he is the second coming of Christ about another 10% think he is a business genius and about 5% are so confused they don't know what the fuck and then all the Republicans have to do is stop about 6% from voting and Bob's your uncle third term of trump.

All that for a man who has 28 credible rape accusations eight of which involved children.

If we can elect a rapist who bankrupts every company he touches president twice we can do it a third time.

The problem with this line of thinking is that you are ignorant of the fact that we CAN say what is not thinking, and we've narrowed down the problem quite a bit.

It is generally agreed that chocolate bars do not think. Rocks do not think. Pocket calculators do not think. We know what thinking is not, even if we can't define it fully.

AI can think. The article is wrong.

AI hasn't been invented yet. LLMs are weak AI.

in America. You can chart a direct line from when smartphones and the internet got cheap and widely available and the decline of religious extremist churches in America. Specifically the hyper-political mega churches that were created and built up by billionaires in order to trick people out of their property and jobs.

That's a good example of something like a one laptop per child having a direct tangible effect in a positive direction. Albeit not as a charity case but just as a consequence of cheap electronics. You went from people having a single source of Truth in the form of a corrupt preacher to being able to Google everything the corrupt preacher tells them.

It also means that all the rape and pedophilia the churches have been actively hiding gets around really fast. I suspect social media has a impact there too.

SSDs do automatic scrubbing, i.e. a sort-of self-refresh when powered. They do it only for cells that have gotten weak. No idea how long that takes though.

You should be able for force a full test cycle by either reading the full SSD or by running a long SMART self-test.

Depending on the data, that is a perfectly valid approach. Example: Root CA secret key. Make sure to use pigmented, non-acidic ink or laser.

Probably low-stability dye. CD-R can be made very cheaply.

It depends on the quality of the dye layer, the quality of the coating and other factors. For DVD recordables, same thing. The exception is DVD-RAM which use phase-change and can theoretically be archive-grade. But everything has to work for that. I tried with some and apparently disk and drive need to be matched for it to work well. At the time I tried, there were no current drives and disks with that information available.

It is a matter of luck. Better not depend on them. Some DVD-RAM were archive grade, but only when written with the right drives.