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donor20··on IPv6 Is Hard
The big issue I've seen is that there are not clear wins for all the pain of IPv6. And the failure to provide a much much better ipv4 interop story out the gate (vs just trying to yell at everyone to switch) was a big big loss. So that means folks ended up having to run ipv4 to end devices in many cases and we have dual stack hell across the network.

For the 90%+ of network clients on-prem that play by the rules you are often supporting both DHCP and SLAAC on IPv6 networks (unless android has figured out DHCP).

Dual WAN redundancy on IPv6 in SMB settings is actually worse relative to a NAT and ipv6.

The subnet size /64 is stupidly large, and the number of available subnets you can easily get annoyingly small from most upstream providers.

Firewall filtering has to be modified or you get weird errors. People don't always like ICMP coming through the firewall.

It's does lots of things differently, but for what? We do prefix delegation with DHCP but can't use DHCP to assign address (we are supposed to use SLAAC) but still need DHCP for lots of other stuff? It's nonsensical - you end up with just way too much garbage.

The privacy extension stuff hits IPv6 hard. You have lots of auto-rotating addresses.

The number of times turning of IPv6 fixes weird glitches / timeouts / stalls etc is still crazy too me.

ATT (massive corp) requires end user devices request /64 subnets one by one - which most end user gear does not support.

Getting static ipv6 IP's (despite claims there are lots of them) is seriously hard from upstream providers in many cases - but IPv4 is trivial by comparison.

The list goes on.

I would have made the subnet size 32 bits. Expanded the network part. Maybe even reduced the overall size - 128 bits feel dumb with /64's as the smallest subnet? Then just go super high interop / overlay to IPv4 with great suggestions so folks could ship ipv6 only stuff (even with on device bridge to ipv4 so outbound interface is ipv6) and no new concepts unless clearly justified.

donor20··on Apache DataFusion
And the thing is - single node can still scale ridiculously high without the orchestration overheads of distributed stuff.

You can do dual AMD 192 core CPU's (384 cores / 768 threads) with 9 TB of memory and a 24 disk SSD array in a 2U box.

donor20··on Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses
I think fine to order blocking in Italy - it's an italian court after all. But if they start doing the sort of global blocks folks have tried with X, then just withdraw services.
donor20··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
This is their somewhat muddy response to the “trolls” who might say

“Changing the license was a mistake, and Elastic now backtracks from it”.

We removed a lot of market confusion when we changed our license 3 years ago. And because of our actions, a lot has changed. It’s an entirely different landscape now. We aren’t living in the past. We want to build a better future for our users. It’s because we took action then, that we are in a position to take action now.

donor20··on Fake job interviews are securities fraud
This might move hiring to friends / network type hiring. If you were in a good network awesome. If not could be tough
donor20··on Just Use Postgres for Everything
I thought unlogged was used so crash recovery would truncate / dump the table on a crash with 100% Dataloss but this let you put stuff on a tempfs / ramdisk?
donor20··on NASA Updates Coverage for Boeing's Starliner Launch, Docking
NASA launch coverage has really improved. YouTube access is great especially as SpaceX has moved off YouTube quality also has improved. It seems the last year regardless what I think about SLS and some other NASA programs this is very nice to see. telemetry and video back, though still a bit weaker
donor20··on School choice programs have been successful
School funding is diverted from classrooms but still goes to education. State superintendent level takes a cut down to county superintendents and programs down to local school district superintendent / admin / consultants.

If a private school did 35 kids in a class paying 35K (that's 1.2 million per class) they'd have teacher aids and amazing everything .

State budget act in CA is 23k per student. Wealthy areas for another 5-10k.

We have an amazing teacher fighting insane classroom ratios and requirements. At 1m a class it shouldn't be like that.

donor20··on Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave
https://archive.is/2024.05.03-225107/https://www.sfchronicle...
donor20··on Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers
This is false. For profit companies clear and custody billions per day successfully.

Brokerages, banks, title and escrow companies, clearing companies.

Crypto/web3.0 - for some reason I always end up trusting these folks LESS not more

donor20··on Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers
"In 2017, the project was purchased by the cryptocurrency company CanYa, and in 2020 it was sold to The Blockchain Group."

Does the article need to say more?

donor20··on Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team
Scame plug is dead dead - how is NACS ccs type 3. The whole point is that it's is NOT ccs type 3 - which is actually largely dead everywhere anyways
donor20··on APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
Even worse - isps give different prefix lengths - I am curious how you are running npt -i spent WAY too long trying to get basic ipv6 failover working - what vendor / etc. Ipv4 failover is basically flawless and internal network doesn't renumber as routes flap
donor20··on Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
I'm in the bay area and literally nothing they've designed around here is going 220mph unless they a going to be banking the tracks 40 degrees and doing a TON of ground breaking engineering around safety to run at 220 mph safely while sharing with Caltrain and other users.
donor20··on Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds
Sugar is listed as an ingredient at least in India
donor20··on CISA Emergency Directive: Nation-State Compromise of Microsoft Corporate Email
This is really not true. Googles security posture is much more modern.

Microsoft had its signing key taken by the Chinese. That simply shouldn't be possible. They have repeatedly had breaches and in some cases comically bad holes in azure / email products / internal corporate products etc etc

donor20··on How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope
A lot to this - marriage with no kids. Kids flips this though - you want to be done with the bigger push at that point
donor20··on School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere
They absolutely do at least in CA starting in kindergarten
donor20··on TikTok is finally on the decline
Is it really dying? At least on apples App Store it and temu are the top apps still being downloaded
donor20··on The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions
But isn’t the Java version unrolling loops? This seems like some effort on the Java side.
donor20··on Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]
My understanding was more that the machine was not reliable and he basically had to piece the piece together / so each shot was the perfect run of potentially a number of attempts
donor20··on Nokia is replacing Huawei at Deutsche Telekom sites in Germany
The us already has a full blown military base IN Germany - there is likely plenty of intelligence sharing already and similar interests around security. Not sure US needs to back door too heavily for most info
donor20··on TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
In terms of getting things done under dems environmental reviews can literally take decades. I donate to dems, but in many areas of development dems are focused on slowing / blocking for lots of reasons
donor20··on McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
If it’s credit / criminal the credit part is very cheap vs the criminal and much quicker. It can also help feed the criminal because the credit side has addresses if you do county searches. There is bad credit and then BAD credit
donor20··on PySimpleGUI 4 will be sunsetted in Q2 2024
Does it have autocomplete on inputs?

Keyboard bindings for keyboard shortcuts?

Microsoft has made a bit of a hash out of windows gui app development so a small opportunity for alternatives.

donor20··on Implementing system-versioned tables in Postgres
RDS is 50 cents or less a day for postgresql on a three year term for a small instance.

I use AWS / RDS - I’ve got to believe RDS is spinning money for AWS because of all the parts I want to be reliable this is way up there.

donor20··on Apple's punitive compliance will burn its political and developer goodwill
Apple exists to serve customers not developers, theyve made that clear. If you want a force installed unremovable app deployment work with the android folks - plenty of ways to ship stuff there in nasty ways
donor20··on Apple's punitive compliance will burn its political and developer goodwill
You look at developer behavior on the larger internet and you realize the value Apple provides their customers precisely by “screwing” over developers. Tracking, bait and switch trial offers, impossible cancellations etc etc
donor20··on The blogger who spotted problems in Dana-Farber cancer papers
Doubly so because comments on some had been out for a while. My guess is nothing was actually going to happen prior to the blog post.
donor20··on Apple's reluctant, punitive compliance with regulators will burn its goodwill
This undervalues I think what Apple has delivered vs Microsoft and Samsung/android et so.

With windows you will be spammed in various tailored experience ways through notifications and search, random apps come pre installed on windows pro and the list goes on. Android comes packed with blostware and remote managers backed in from others to force / silent install crap. Cancelling payments can be a nightmare.

Apple is playing in part a long game. Dial back the crap to dial up the trust. Long support periods. Easy subscription cancels. The list goes on. Then they squeeze folks hard cost price side to make up for that for sure.

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