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.

>>...and their societies haven't fallen prey to dictators

Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France (in times past), Germany, Italy might disagree with you on that.

are words that do not go together. I await the news that Google has the keys to this and use it for...whatever nefarious purposes...very soon now.

The original APK guy finally got banned (and his IP range blacklisted) many years ago, which is kind of sad because he had the right idea(s) just went about advertising it the wrong way

To steal a line from someone else (I think on this very site)-

"The magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask it about Exchange next."

Yes, first they put in a feature few want, then offer a kill-switch. Seems like a lot of extra steps instead of making it an optional add-on.

In any event, it can be turned off....for now.

AI...whether we want it or not. Thanks Mozilla, you could be spending your money on fixing your browser rather than....this.

Hey! I have an M1 Garand, you insensitive clod! (Also a Mosin Nagant and Italian Carcano, both of which use clips, but that's neither here nor there...)

It is a mathematical certainty there is life on other planets. If it can happen here, even at a 1 in 1 billion chance....there are, as far as we know, an infinite number of planets, therefore, it'll happen again, elsewhere. Now whether we will recognize or even meet that life, remains unknown.

But that's not sexy.... (and yeah, I'd switch out of FF as well, if I could find anything that wasn't Chrom* based that didn't suck and was actively maintained....)

for ruining this country for decades to come.

I clearly missed this interview, would you be so kind as to post a link to it? Thank you kindly

Does Windows 10 onwards still respect the hosts file? Genuine question, because IIRC modification of it triggers windows defender to freak out