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Comment Re: NAT killed IPv6 (Score 1) 225

There are two ways around that.

First, if you happen to be attacking your neighbor and you share L2 WAN with them, you simply put the 10.x address in as destination IP and the neighbor MAC address as destination MAC. Done. No NAT required, the traffic will just pass.

Second, some NAT implementations look at only a three-tuple of IP, port, and protocol. If you connect from port 40000 to some random site, the NAT will translate that to a different port, say 30000, and it will allow any traffic from the entire world to port 30000 to hit port 40000 on your device. Hopefully your device does not have anything running on 40000 so it will all be fine -- but it might not be. This type of NAT used to be VERY popular, because it makes things like P2P traffic work without having to configure anything.

Comment Re:They use every CDN (Score 1) 149

That is somewhat misleading. In this case you control (more or less) the client, so you can install a root certificate on your firewall and the client and let the firewall do its MitM on all your traffic. If Windows tries to evade that, the firewall will fail to decrypt the traffic and block it, which was the intended result. If Windows does not evade the MitM, the firewall can do full L7 filtering just like in the good old days.

Comment Re:Extra Modifier Please (Score 1) 46

One great use would be as an extra modifier for global shortcuts. So e.g. Control+Copilot+G to launch Gimp, and so on. I could make good use of that.

You can't do that. The copilot is not a real key to the keyboard protocol. It sends something like Windows, Shift, F23. You cannot sensibly combine it with other keys or make it reliably control a modifier state. This is completely unlike the Windows key which is not only its own unique keycode but also typically gets non-conflicting lines on the keyboard matrix, so the hardware lets you combine it with any other key.

There are still unused keycodes available, AFAIK. It makes zero sense that the Copilot key was crippled. If it was only crippled in hardware, vendors could fix that, but the only way to fix the Copilot key is to reprogram the keyboard controller firmware, which then makes it incompatible with Windows.

Comment Re: NO SHIT (Score 2) 147

Second, the steering wheel always overrides lane-assist. If you want to stay further left or right than the car encourages, you can totally do that.

In every car except Teslas. In a Tesla, the lane assist will not allow deviations from its chosen path. If you try to correct it, it will fight you until you do it strongly enough, at which point it will turn off entirely.

There is no "encourage" in a Tesla.

Comment Entire article is misinformation (Score 5, Informative) 178

This is the kind of article I would expect in Pravda in the "good" old days of the Soviet Union.

These are some of the lies in the article:

The "ban" never existed, it was just a decision not to plan for nuclear power. Lifting the "ban" will not allow anyone to build nuclear reactors; that requires a separate legal framework.

The Danish grid has solved the inertia problem by buying commercial off-the-shelf synchronous compensators, at a far lower cost than implementing nuclear power.

The "ban" is not being lifted yet, the government is merely ordering an analysis of whether it makes sense to remove it.

Nuclear power is not being considered because it might help grid stability but because some people / politicians are worried about the fluctuating prices of electricity.

Comment Re:What does that even mean? (Score 5, Informative) 71

Indeed, it makes zero sense.

Broadcom, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to redefine the term "zero day".

"Broadcom defines a zero-day security patch as a patch or workaround for Critical Severity Security Alerts with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score greater than or equal to 9.0."

https://knowledge.broadcom.com...

So for Broadcom, zero day just means "really bad".

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