I don't have mod points but I enjoyed that joke. Thanks, good one!

Thanks. I seriously felt retarded reading that. Glad to know I wasn't the only one lost there.

This sounds completely believable to me. The problem is, I don't know whether to compliment you on a nice bit of forecasting or perform a massive Picardian facepalm!

It's in the same place as NCSA Mosaic. Why should Apple support all of these platforms? They sell phones and computers. If you want Safari, buy something that runs Safari. I don't see how not writing a port for your favored hardware is the same as restricting the software that can run on particular hardware.

Google saying that Russia is making malware is the sort of thing that happens monthly, at least. What makes this newsworthy in 2024? Does it use AI? Does it target that gigantic orb in Las Vegas? Why should I care at all about this? Russia has created numerous malware programs. That's pretty standard info these days.

I don't think the scooters are designed to be used how you're describing. I live nine miles from my office. I once looked into how much it would cost me to use a scooter to commute to the office and it was like $15 a trip. The bus costs $4. These scooters are for getting across town, not traveling to the suburbs.

That said, I totally agree with you that a two-way trip is risky. However, if you limit things to just "downtown" then you can usually find another scooter for the return trip since there are more scooters around to choose from.

I RTFA this time and it looks like it's more like how your devices' validity is based on a chain of trust. Like Git basically. Keybase was doing this to exchange/validate PGP keys for a while now, so I wonder if their owners Zoom will get involved? I guess it's a pretty common idea now if you think about it.

That's very useful. Where did you source their blocks from? I see a lot more than those blocks looking at their ASN.

That's me watching my router's logs and loading up stuff on Netflix, then running whois on IP addresses and blocking routes until it works. If I recall correctly, Netflix owns their own IPv6 ranges so you can see their networks pretty easily from whois. Honestly, if you've got their ASN then I guess you could just block the whole thing and let the browser/client/whatever fall back to IPv4.

First off, it's great to find a person on Slashdot who appreciates IPv6. We are now "friends" on this site.

I also use HE's tunnel service. I'm not sure if your router has this ability, but what I do with Netflix is I find their IPv6 ranges and then I blackhole those routes. That'll make Netflix fall back on IPv4 and then I can stream without disabling IPv6.

Here are the ranges I've blackholed:

2a00:86c0::/32
2600:1f14:62a::/48
2620:108:700f::/48

That's worked pretty well for me for a year or two. Hope it helps.

I just read in the WSJ today that our bungled Afghanistan withdrawal left a lot of weaponry there, and it's made its way to Hamas. I wonder how much we'll learn about this as time goes on.

I should start doing that. Lately, when I dip into -1, there's a lot of interesting things. Sure, lots of copy-paste crap and ASCII swastikas, but also some contrarian gems.

That was when AOL started letting its users connect to the regular Internet, thereby flooding it with users who weren't familiar with netiquette or that the Web isn't the same thing as the Internet. Wikipedia's got a pretty good synopsis of the "eternal September" of 1993.

When the Switch 2 comes out, Microsoft should just go all in. Port Fable, port Gears, port all of the XBox One and below Halo titles.

This is a really good idea that hadn't occurred to me. You're basically suggesting they pull a Sega back when they stopped making Dreamcasts. I like this idea! Sega back then is sort of like Microsoft is now.

I use OpenBSD as my mail server. Patches and updating are done by running "syspatch" which applies patches, much like "apt update" does on Debian. Note that it only updates the parts of OpenBSD that are considered part of "base," not packages from ports. If there were a major update to my mail software that I just had to install ASAP as opposed to waiting for the semi-yearly OS release, I could build from source I suppose. It's never come up as an issue for me.

I use OpenBSD because I like how all of its components are designed to work together, as opposed to Linux which felt more pieced together for me. I also like being able to run "ps ax" and getting a list of processes that I can identify and understand. Linux, particularly since systemd has come into vogue, has become far too complicated for me. I like to have a mental model of how the OS works, and with OpenBSD I can do that. I picked OpenBSD instead of another BSD because it still has the offensive fortunes in it, which seems trivial but it is a good indicator of what's important to the project. There's no code of conduct crap, just a focus on making things work well. It suits my needs very nicely.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the author conflating the lending library part of the Internet Archive with the Wayback Machine, Prelinger Archives, etc. that are not part of the lawsuit.