To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Renaldo noted that the essence of food trucks is market place agility. If you can roll a burrito you can vibe code .

Anyone who knows 3d printers would recognize the sheer absurdity of suggesting a printer infer it is making a part for a gun. By the time a model reaches a printer it has been sliced and turned into GCODE from hundreds of parameters and there is NO WAY that any printer could tell what the hell it is printing. Nor could the software which does the slicing, since parts could be oriented any way making it extremely hard to recognize a part. And even if there was a database to search against matching shapes in 3d space is hard. And even if there was some code which attempted to align and check a part it could be easily circumvented - wipe the DB, alter the source code, negate the test, alter the part etc.

If states want to ban ghost guns then make the penalties for doing it so severe that it discourages people doing it. And start improving ways that ghost guns can be forensically matched back to the printers that made them so that if someone was suspected of making parts, that it could be proven in court.

I also suspect that "interacting" with this AI is a surefire way for an employee to get flagged for a follow-up conversation with their manager or HR.

Metaverse was such a predictable failure that there is no way anyone with a creative or gaming head on their body would have shat out what Meta produced. It is the product of market studies, and demographics, and committees with final say by Zuckerberg. Something so boring, and without reason to exist, that people who Horizons rarely ever went back. They didn't even need to spend billions to know it was a terrible idea because Sony had already proven the point with Playstation Home which was arguably better than Horizons but still boring and pointless.

If Meta had instead chosen to make a fantasy RPG where people can make interesting characters and go out into the world and progress, explore etc then it would have had way more success. Or a Battle Royale style game. Or a bunch of well formed leisure pursuits - tennis, chess, sailing, arcade shooters, racing, pinball etc. Or all of the above over time. But they didn't. It was complete intellectual bankruptcy and lack of imagination.

Even if everything had gone "well" by their own intentions who on earth would enjoy that? It's bad enough when a company does a day long team building event but being trapped on an island with coworkers doing this shit, is an ordeal.

You could just look it up if you want - "hydrogen global warming potential"

It'll leak all over the place. Hydrogen under pressure is too bulky to use in aircraft. It would have to be liquid cooled and it would leak all the way from the plant to the plane. Because as hydrogen warms up it evaporates and that gas has to be vented. Now perhaps we could vent / burn it safely, or perhaps we can't.

But the real question is why chase hydrogen at all when more viable alternatives exist - battery and synthetic fuel. Hydrogen is a precursor to making synthetic fuel and it requires more energy but at least it can be captured in a single place and not bleed out continuously.

It's merely 12x over 100 years, 37x over 20 years.

And "basic logic" is doing some heavy lifting here. To carry the amount of hydrogen necessary to power a flight of any length would mean liquid cooling it. Which in turn means off gassing as it evaporates. Not just in the aircraft but where it refuels. Not to mention leakage. Or the need to dump hydrogen in certain circumstances where it instantly heads into the atmosphere - as opposed to fuel vapour which is heavier than air.

If people are desperate to replace fossil fuels in aviation then synthetic fuels would be a safer alternative, where the fuel is carbon neutral to produce and stays mostly in liquid form. Or use batteries where possible. Or eliminate flights entirely where viable alternatives like rail could be used (like France does).

Off gassed hydrogen has ~ 37x the warming potential of CO2 on the climate. Not because hydrogen causes warming itself, but because its presence in the atmosphere extends the lifespan of methane by bonding with radicals that would otherwise break down methane sooner. It's not something we want to see any country or industry adopting.

How about we tax the hell out of OpenAI and other companies who have ingested and profited from IP and disburse it via a compensation fund. Artists, academics, scientists, journalists, authors, photographers, philosophers, theologians, statisticians, bloggers, movie makers, forum posters etc. etc. Anyone who has produced content that is hosted on a website or physically available that was used to train AIs should be able to claim compensation. And require these companies to disclose every single public source of information they've scraped, with what frequency and how they store the information so we know exactly who they've been ripping off.

Do you work for Samsung or are you just performatively being a contrarian?

You're right that PCs are just as bad but at least you can uninstall that garbage and even reformat the entire PC if you like. This is like Lenovo, Dell etc baking actual malware into the firmware that you cannot get rid of, only disable.