Melkman

On the contrary, the numbers of routes decline. Since you get a single IPv6 assignment, often a /48, you can summarize all your networks to that assignment. IPv4 is a mess in this regard. Small assignments to ISP's and businesses were made to be frugal and delay address space exhaustion. This has caused the address space to be very scattered. You can see at https://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html that IPv4 has about 900k advertised routes and IPv6 has about 150k advertised routes. The IPv4 address space will fragment further now the price for IPv4 addresses is going up fast. Everyone with enough unused space will fractures their assignment and sell the unused pieces.

That's also your business reason. The price for IPv4 connectivity will go up. At some point a startup will not use IPv4 anymore because it will be too expensive. If you don't have IPv6 access you will not be able to use the services of that startup.

Price of an IPv4 address has doubled last year and gone from about $7.50 in 2016 to about $40 now. https://ipv4marketgroup.com/ipv4-pricing/ https://ipv4.global/reports/

I think it's half Utrecht and half Amsterdam. Amsterdam also has been very busy making it's center as car free as possible.

End users have no problem -using- a Linux computer. My 75+ year old mom uses it and can do everything she wants. Mostly things she wants to do are web-based. A Chromebook would probably be fine for her too. No, she didn't install it herself. But she never installed Windows her self too. And yes I had to fiddle a bit with Wine to get her online bridge (the card game) program working. For older people things like W11 upgrade being pushed is hell. They click a button that popped up without knowing what it will do and if everything goes well the desktop has changed and the don't know where to click anymore. If the upgrade doesn't go well they are entirely lost.

Indeed, seems like a pretty clear cut violation of rfc1925 points 5) and 12):

(5) It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea.

(12) In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Vaccinations do reduce sick leave as vaccinated people get infected and thus sick a whole lot less like iamdelirium already said.

Here in the Netherlands we had a similar uprising of Covid like Portugal. You can see the distribution of vaccinated vs not vaccinated persons in the total population, hospitalized and on the IC in this graph: https://media.nu.nl/m/1nex889as0xi_wd640.jpg

The 12% not vaccinated people occupy 68% of the IC beds. Also keep in mind that those non vaccinated people in IC are mostly healthy younger people. Of the vaccinated people in IC 80% has multiple pre existing medical conditions. Like taking immunosuppressants after a transplant.

So yeah. By not getting vaccinated you are statistically a burden to your employer and society as a whole.

That's what the self destruct is for. If you are yanked from your laptop or vice versa the laptop will crypto shred its disk and wipe RAM. Your attackers can hit you till you die but you will not be able to reverse it.

Wait, what ? Mozilla is taking already more than 8 years to add SHA-2 support to mozilla::pkix's OCSP implementation ? This saddens me, the devs seem overloaded. As the only other open alternative to Chrome based browsers I hope they can stay current.

Wifi adapters are cheap and everywhere. For 5G tot surpass wifi it will have to match that. Laptops with 5G are not that common yet. ESP like controllers with 5G I haven't seen yet. One of the advantages is 5G operating outside of the ISM bands. That helps a lot with stability and preventing interference. It also means this is not for individuals in their home. If licensing is made so accessible that people at home can use it you will again get overlapping frequency use and increasing interference. If it not made this accessible I don't see the availability of cheap clients solved because the market will be limited.

Not every business is a software house. And IT departments wil not suddenly be terminated. Roles shift to different parts of the organisation. Billing is for the financial department. Filling SSO roles and identities is for HR. You still need staff knowledgeable of the used products and platforms. They are advising the business unit so why not put them there ? Most products are migrating to web based Saas. Businesses pick a platform and mandate that for SSO and office automation. Like Microsoft O365 or Google Workspace. No more need for own data centers or technical support by own staff. With shifting roles and decreasing workload there will be a time when it makes sense to just spread the remains and not have a separate department anymore.

Private cloud can be big Apex. Doesn't have to be though. The IBM's an HPE's of this world are perfectly happy to sell you PAYGO on prem solutions. Or you can lease the hardware.

Also $80 inflation adjusted to 2015 is about $600. So not far of the $700 mark of the "dramatic price increase" in the article. See https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1965?endYear=2015...

I do believe resource scarcity will become a big problem if we don't manage our population growth. Will phosphorus be one of the first ? I don't know. Switching to sustainable agriculture will negate a big part of phosphorus use.

Don't look down. Look up. That's been a navigation standard for years. Funnily enough replaced by GPS. https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/astro-tracker-... That doesn't really work in a sub though. Also compasses (especially of the 3D variety) can be a great help.

A silicon atom is about 111pm. So 90 atoms is 10nm. What is the minimum size of a feature in atoms before running in to problems with physics?

Sun didn't miss routers... The part of Stanford University Network that went to do routers used an other name: Cisco.

For DNS there is rfc6106. And for NTP and other services there is service discovery. Why would you set your own NTP server with DHCP ? Many clients like Android, iOS, Linux and Macos will connect to NITZ or predefined NTP server anyway and ignore the DHCP NTP settings.

Why would you care what address your PC is using ? If your ISP gives you an other IPv6 assignment your router should just advertise that and your PC will use it. You wouldn't even notice. If your router doesn't do that is has a bad IPv6 implementation. The protocol itself is perfectly fine for that. That is one of the big stumbling blocks for IPv6: bad implementations in networking equipment.

Causing a conflict in your LAN with address is a problem of IPv4 and the tiny address space it has. It forces you to keep a tight administration and use a bolt on address space management technology like DHCP. IPv6 does not have that problem and you'll have a service less to run.

Indeed, it's not trivial. Many parties will have to do something. I hope they'll get more motivated as the price for IPv4 addresses rises even further. When CGNAT solutions get starved of socket space and adding extra IPv4 addresses gets prohibitively expensive maybe IPv4 will get so slow and unreliable people will give up on it.

The graph of IPv4 address space pricing gives some hope: https://postimg.cc/QKKx847B

Strange that that article states "There's no single English word which is an exact equivalent of 'vorsprung'". Vorsprung is lead. Durch is harder in my opinion. Can be translate as "by" or "because of". So the translations would be "lead by technology" or "in the lead because of technology"

Indeed. Back when dialup internet was the norm I had the opinion that after the 57k6 faster access at home would take ages and require new infrastructure to the homes since the phone system was build for low bandwidth voice. With 4kHz bandwidth and 45dB Shannons theorem didn't allow for much more. Understandably I was really amazed at the first ADSL implemenations I saw. Felt a bit like they were cheating. Yeah if you just bypass the exchange and use the raw last mile sure it's possible.

Not yet. There were some hot headed debates during the height of #metoo about his communication style including calls for him to change his ways or stand down. Linus choose to change his ways and change the code of conflict to the code of conduct. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

If it were a coordinated attack then the chance of successfully countering it with a loosely knit community would have been be slim at best.

You can duplicate the artwork but you can not duplicate the ownership. If anything, you using a copy of the artwork increases the value of the ownership by signalling it is an appreciated piece. Why would a digital drawing not be valuable when some paper drawing can be sold for millions like van Gogh's La Mousmé ?

I'd guess Broadcom.See also https://www.broadcom.com/info/optics/silicon-photonics

Today people don't even remember DNS names anymore. They just use the search engine/advertisement provider of choice. DNS is of course still very useful to separate service names from physical architecture so you can move stuff around. But I hardly ever see people typing in DNS names or using bookmarks these days.

As I said before, VSCode is a nice example to see Microsofts stance on open source. The source is available under MIT license. Microsoft provides a pre-build binary of this code under the VSCode brand withe extra tracking included. If you strip the tracking out and build that code like VSCodium does you may no longer use the add-on repositories of the VSCode branded version and have to use open-vsx.org. And the standard extensions made by Microsoft like the C/C++ extension may not be published by open-vsx.org. So alternate versions can not deliver the functionalities like integration with platformIO. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518

Microsoft wants people to write code for them for free. Not for other projects to build on that code.

There is no need to indulge them: you just tell them you are not going to sort the M&M's. If you do that in advance: great. If you ignore other points and tell them in advance also great. If you ignore requests and don't communicate that fact you are in trouble. Like the 15 amp sockets which can deliver 19amps in a comment above. That's a fire hazard. If you don't start a discussion that it is a fire hazard and you will only deliver 15amps or you will use a different higher rated socket you failed the test and your work is suspect.

It would be weird if Royal Dutch Shell blacklisted the Netherlands. They might very well do a Unilever [1] and re-register as a UK only business.

But since this is also based on EU law they'd basically have to leave all their business in the EU. Which would probably reduce their carbon footprint by the requested amount. ;-)

Also BP, Exxon, Mobile and other petro companies: Better watch out since the chance of lawsuits like this agains them is pretty big.

An in an other also: EU is struggling [2] to reach reductions in CO2 emissions. This can help a little.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/11/unilever-pi...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-07/eu-says-c...

There's already PlatformIO for that. VSCode is not really open and has nasty tracking included. The source is available under MIT however if you strip the tracking out and build that code like VSCodium does you may no longer use the add-on repositories of VSCode and have to use open-vsx.org. And the standard extensions made by Microsoft like the C/C++ extension may not be published by open-vsx.org. Since PlatformIO integration with VSCode/VSCodium is dependent on this extension you can not run it without submitting to tracking. That sucks. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518

One problem I see... This movement will die out before there is a measurable effect on the planet.

In my opinion totalitarian governments willl not allow an ungovernable population to exist anywhere on the globe. Also, a majority of the population will not care as long as they're fed and amused. It's still just about food and games.

Can you move your desk to the basement ? And while you're there....