Tesla's own stats, which I don't believe for a second.

And those stats are for managed "Full Self Driving", where a human has to monitor it all the time. Competitors have had actual self driving cars where there is no full time human monitoring, for years.

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.

It's possible that cetaceans have a true language. They certainly have something that seems to function the same as a "hello, I am (name)", where the name part differs between all cetaceans but the surrounding clicks are identical. The response clicks also include that same phrase which researchers think serves the purpose of a name.

But we've done structural analysis to death and, yes, all the results are interesting (it seems to have high information content, in the Shannon sense, seems to have some sort of structure, and seems to have intriguing early-language features), but so does the Voynich Manuscript and there's a 99.9% chance that the Voynich Manuscript is a fraud with absolutely no meaning whatsoever. Structure only tells you if something is worth a closer look and we have known for a long time that cetacean clicks were worth a closer look. Further structural work won't tell us anything we don't already know.

What we need is to have a long-term recording of activities and clicks/whistles, where the sounds are recorded from many different directions (because they can be highly directional) and where the recording positively identifies the source of each sound, what that source was doing at the time (plus what they'd been doing immediately prior and what they do next), along with what they're focused on and where the sounds were directed (if they were). This sort of analysis is where any new information can be found.

But we also need to look at lessons learned in primate research, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, to understand what ISN'T going to work, in terms of approaches. In all three cases, we've learned that you learn best immersively, not from a distance. If an approach has failed in EVERY OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCE, then assuming it is going to work in cetacean research is stupid. It might be the correct way to go, but assuming it is is the bit that is stupid. If things fail repeatedly, regardless of where they are applied, then there's a decent chance it is necessary to ask that maybe the stuff that keeps failing is defective.

Have you considered hiring someone on a contract basis to maintain ufraw? If you depend on it, surely it's worth investing in.

My experience with Debian is similar. Much less broken stuff than Ubuntu or Mint. But also the usual problems with things changing in breaking ways between versions, which makes instructions on how to do things outdated within a year or two, 3rd party software stops building and so on... Like you, I have VMs with obsolete versions of Debian and Ubuntu, just to keep certain bits of software working. Meanwhile on Windows I can still install a version of MPLAB from the 90s to build some old firmware.

Out of interest, how do you discover the IPv6 addresses of your IoT devices, so you can connect to them?

I looked into IPv6 for home use a while back, and basic stuff like adding new devices to the network and finding them is a bit of a nightmare.

On IPv4 with DHCP it's easy enough to just scan the entire subnet looking for the new device, if you don't know its IP address. With IPv6... There are three of four different ways devices can make themselves discoverable, and Windows support for them is a bit limited.

IPv4 works, it's familiar, it's easy. That's why there hasn't been a big migration. There just aren't big benefits for most people, and there are considerable downsides.

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.

That's the problem. Luls you into a false sense of security, then when you aren't paying attention it fails and you die.

It's easier to capture the emissions of gas electricity plants. Everything else can be electric.

To an extent, but nobody in Europe is building nuclear at a reasonable cost. It's worse here, but once France is forced to replace its reactors, if it goes for more nuclear I expect we will soon find out how little doing lots of them really helps.

Maybe you don't understand what 95% renewables means. It means that over the course of a year, 95% of electrical energy is generated by renewables.

Interconnects allow us to buy renewable energy from other countries.

The UK's current goal is 95% renewables and nuclear over a year, by 2030. What will probably scupper us is Hinkley Point C, the new nuclear plant, being delayed.

The trains are so reliable, not just the bullet trains, that if they are delayed by more than a few minutes they have a bit of paper you can collect and show to your boss so you don't get into trouble.

The bullet trains operate on a 15 second interval timetable, but the drivers typically try to arrive within 1 second of the advertised time. They have a system where they make up time by accelerating a little harder, so they never need to exceed the speed limit. They do the calculations in their head to figure out how to arrive at exactly the right time.

They have been trialling driverless Shinkansen (bullet trains), and one of the parts they had trouble with was replicating that system in software. The new maglev ones are driven by humans, but because the trains are so fast they can't really see things like signals and speed limit signs, so the communication systems with the train have to be extremely reliable. The stopping distance at 500kph is 6.6km, although even the conventional railed ones need 4km.

Even in the conventional Shinkansen, the human drivers are not allowed to do too much themselves. If there is a fault, they are required to open the fault resolution manual, look it up, and follow the instructions precisely, similar to aircraft pilots. There are very few "memory items" that they are supposed to resolve without consulting the book.

The way it is supposed to work is that it allows the site to do a cryptographic challenge and response. The site can't tell which device was used, or even if the same device is used each time. There is not communication with the government after the initial confirmation of ID.

That is assuming that all the crypto works properly, of course. Hopefully they have some experts involved.

I'll still VPN into a country that doesn't have such laws as a matter of course, but given that most people seem to think this is a good thing, and we live in a democracy, it's probably the best possible outcome. The current situation in the UK, for example, where you need to prove your age to each site individually, and they all get your real ID and then abuse it and it gets stolen, is close to the worst.