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.

I voted game changer because I've noticed something similar in my recent usage. This is probably old hat for experts in AI, but I've noticed that the agentic AI brags about having millions of tokens worth of context. I think that context is what makes some AIs better at not getting into those idiot loops where you tell it not to do it one way, it thinks, then later it does it the wrong way again. I've compared the big guys with the little models you can run on your own GPUs and the context seems to matter the most. Although the free hobbyist AIs are also much worse at getting facts right!

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

One of our guys said something to the effect of "Copilot is Corporate Chat. It knows all the useless filler of management-speak, but lacks the competence of the people in the trenches.

Ouch.

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

Do any of them have sound that doesn't sound like it is coming through two in cans and string?

Back in 2019 I bought a Sony TV that solved this problem in a very intriguing way. It uses the whole screen as the speaker and vibrates it imperceptibly to generate the sound. I took a look just now to see if they're still doing this and they are. Sony calls it "Acoustic Surface Audio+" and offers it on their Bravia line. Check it out. I recommend it just for the coolness factor but it works well for providing full sound as well.

AI is still so bad at it that it makes for a great test. It's interesting too, because you can see that it sort of gets close, but it's still WAY off!

I just tried my standard "draw me an ASCII middle finger" and it flat-out refused to generate it for me! Grok still sucks at it but at least it tried. And it gave me the finger through emoji afterward. Gemini needs more work, I think.

Here in Minnesota, we have a law that says that when you drive, you can only use your phone in a "hands free" fashion. CarPlay and Android Auto let us move the functionality of the phone into the dashboard of the car, so we can then legally control our phone while driving. It's a convenience thing that goes hand in hand with the large touchscreens that got installed in cars around the same time. My car's too old for that and just uses Bluetooth like you're talking about, so my options are more limited when it comes to making adjustments while driving.

Seriously. I agree with the author, but the writing was atrocious. Also, at least one of his examples of problems was with beta software. It's built to have problems like this, not really an issue for me if my known beta software doesn't work right. I'm glad someone else noticed this too.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

In California, illegal immigrants qualify for state aid. There are other states which have done likewise, such as Minnesota.