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.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

He's just bombing more countries than any other president.

Windows 11 is the problem.

Since humans created AI, yes, AI is part of the problem. But only because of humans.

As to what to do about it, another round of covid or something similar) should help nicely with all the anti-vaxxers out there.

If it's not safe to merge, they did the right thing. Or should they just force their way into moving traffic?

The orange guy has given out multiple pardons to people convicted of fraud, corruption, and drug dealing after they "donated" to his campaign.

The most recent example is the former governor of Puerto Rico who plead guilty in a federal corruption case. The daughter gave over $3 million to Trump's PAC, MAGA, after which the pardon was given.

The OP was merely mentioning that with all the other criminals getting pardons after paying their tribute, apparently this group didn't give theirs.

"Never lose your users' data" is kinda Rule #1.

Steve Jobs said something similar regarding Apple OS upgrades. You never touch user data.

Not sure why this is a difficult concept to understand.

We have 8 billion+ people on the planet. We can afford to lose a billion or so and not affect our ability to advance science. Having fewer people would definitely enhance wellbeing as there would be less pollution which means cleaner air and water. Less trash would be produced as well.

Clearly we had no problem with scientific advancements when our population was lower. With what we have now, why would you think fewer people would change that?

Helmets also make it easier to ID the riders if they get squished by a truck or similar. If the head is intact you don't need to resort to DNA or teeth.

Fun fact: if you blow yourself up, your head is how they identify you because it separates from the body.