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.

"Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes" doesn't need to be interpreted in an anthropomorphising way, any more than "Strong winds are still blowing people's roofs off". Just because a verb is used doesn't imply anthropomorphising.

To add a detail to an earlier comment. I often naively assume that humans are still largely adapted biologically to living in small isolated tribes, as we did for many many millennia prior to the growth of civilisation. When civilisation kicks off, we start helping each other survive, and the actual nature of civilisation often presents too fast a moving target for evolution to accurately track. So I assume that many of our innate traits, especially when it comes to basics like food, sex, and survival in the face of threats, are still largely those we had as pre-civilisation humans.

I know this is naive, but I wonder just how far from the mark it is, why, and what the scientific evidence actually shows about this.

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.

While the four hottest days on record have occurred in the last seven years, with one of them just reaching 40 degrees, it's a bit of a stretch to say that the "UK now routinely sees 40C summer peaks".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's also a bit of a stretch to claim that there are "long stretches above 30C". Last year was considerably above average with 14 days, which came in two or three periods at least (I don't remember, but it wasn't one go). It certainly feels hotter than that, especially with buildings that are insulated for winter and don't have A/C or if you're down on the Tube.

https://www.extremeweatherwatc...

I do agree with you though, that person did write a lot of drivel!

I always thought that since we help people survive who would have died out in pre-civilisation conditions, that this effect would blunt the edge of natural selection. (I stand corrected.) But if only we could breed out traits like selfishness and greed.

I know software estimation for even small to medium projects can be bad, but what is it about government projects that makes it so hard? Low balled estimates to win contracts? Lack of appropriate project management experience and oversight?

If you think that is bad, see the estimates to restore the Palace of Westminster (UK's Victorian parliamentary building): £15-40 billion and up to 60 years. I saw somewhere that they expected the costs to balloon by 40-60% before VAT and inflation. It's currently costing nearly £1.5/week just in maintenance.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Wasn't Crossrail something like 30% over budget and several years late? Maybe that's not bad for the construction industry ;)

What? You're not going to advocate for it??? I thought you were invoking some kind of principle or something.

You're down with Russia killing far more Ukrainians, whom they claim are their own people?

You're down with what China's doing to the Uyghurs, whom they claim are their own people?

And while we're on the topic, how many Iranians should we be willing to kill to save them from their leaders? Nuclear extermination would surely do it... do you advocate that?

But maybe it won't take that much. Regime change in Afghanistan only cost 2000 American lives, 175,000 Afghan lives, and 2,000,000,000,000 dollars, but we sure got rid of those sorry... What? They're back in power?

Only the simplest minds think intervention automagically yields the intended result. In fact the current sorry situation in Iran is a direct result of us trying to "fix" things more to our liking in the middle of last century.

So... Should we attack every country that slaughters its own people?

It will be a case of scroll for the legal limit of pages (say 4), and then there'll be a "due to UK legislation you need to refresh to see more content" as a clickable link, so they click that and, yay, 4 more pages to scroll.

How do you do that?

Surely if the CEO can't be bothered to show up for meetings then he ought not be paid so much?

You can run x86 builds of Windows in Parallels on Apple Silicon? I didn't know that. I didn't think that was possible because it just offers virtualisation, not emulation. I thought you had to let Windows on Arm do the emulation to run x86 Windows apps. Also, isn't Parallels just a wrapper around Apple's virtualisation framework these days anyway?