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ULAs are standards compliant but tbh it's a layer of complexity I rather not have.

Just give me GUAs and be done with it.

How do you know what it spat out is correct though?

If it’s beyond our ability to review and we blindly trust it’s correct based on a limited set of tests… we’re asking for trouble.

Usenet is a distributed policy from the ground up.

It’s centralised in the way you describe now that it’s only used for large files / piracy, but it used to me much more diverse.

Every major browser except Firefox is Chrome

VP9, AV1

C’mon it was worth a shot.

Remember how amazing the original NFTs were?

You can opt-in to encrypting those backups so Apple have no access.

So funny to think about this now.

Our email systems are mostly mediated by giant hyper-scale companies (Microsoft, Google etc). The location of mail servers being where the recipient is seems quaint (and wonderfully decentralised).

And even if we do manage our own servers they are automated, and apps often containerised. Nobody ends up with older MTA due to an OS upgrade.

Remember reading this like 20 years ago nice to see it again.

Thing is there is no reason Microsoft’s Linux distro wouldn’t be just as horrible to use “out of the box”.

Just like with browser rendering engines it’s much better if there is variety out there in the ecosystem.

That’s not to say you’re wrong.

I wonder if the eradication of the heroin supply from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover has had an effect?

Possibly re-directed some of the fentanyl to other markets where addicts could no longer get heroin? Thus reducing supply elsewhere?

iPhones regularly do these queries before / in addition to to A/AAAA. They’re used for more than ECH.

Agreed the author here just dumps data but nothing that seems to be designed to disrupt comms in Venezuela is really mentioned.

Joseph Fourier enters the chat…

You need to take care of them though. Scratched CDs don’t play good.

Love me some old school goat ball

For me there is no point storing digital music on optical discs. Easier to steam it or listen from a hard drive.

On the other hand the larger format of vinyl and rather peculiar way it works scratches the “tactile” part of what makes physical attractive a lot more.

Each to their own of course but that’s me.

Nah. There are lots of things you’ll need to know.

Does it use SLAAC on the WAN side or DHCPv6? How do I get a range for my lan then, DHCPv6 prefix-delegation? Or maybe it’s statically assigned somehow. Some carrier’s just use link-local ok the WAN, with no public v6 just RAs for the link-local, and a GUA block via IA_PD.

Regardless there are too many ways this is done, and this hampers adoption as it’s not just the “switch it on” operation you suggest.

Probably the largest barrier to IPv6 adoption is the myriad ways IP allocation to clients can be done and the various options that exist.

It’s fine for mobile providers, where the client activation defines what’s needed and the carrier essentially just needs to support two OS’s (iOS and Android).

Also mostly fine for residential when the carrier provides the CPE, and can set it up to work with how they have the network built.

But if you’re managing your own router it can be complex to know exactly what to use. And most ISP support aren’t very good either.

If you happen to be an expert it’s fine, but if you’re a power user not a full time network guy there is still way more complexity than there ought to be.

No, because unfortunately the need for v4 hasn’t changed. In other words many sites and parts of the internet remain only on v4.

Until nearly everything is on v6 too it won’t be realistic to ditch the mechanisms that provide v4 access.

Dual-stack with a public IPv4 address is by far a preferable way to access the v4 internet than being stuck behind a provider NAT64 box.

Totally understand why carriers may want IPv6 mostly and a v4-free core. But as an end user dual stack just seems simpler.

Dial-up suggests he knows that many orders of magnitude of performance increase will happen, like with internet connectivity.

I’m not sure that’s a certainty.

The computer from Star Trek is always correct though.

We created something close, and yes that is amazing, but it’s highly fallible.

I think the issue is more there is a cloud over their future. There is much more scrutiny on them and who they are selling to, whether they will be able to continue as they have been doesn’t seem so certain.

By asking random people on the internet what to do?

Perhaps it’d go that way.

But the chat control proposal specifically involves forcing the makers of messaging apps to scan the contents of messages.

PGP remains very relevant under those current proposals.

I’m amazed to see this.

I’d have assumed the way to spam SMS is having some sort of dodgy SS7 connection somewhere?

Wild that the radio interface is the way to connect to the network for this.

And spoofing caller id is easy you shouldn’t need local SIMs?

I mean it’s not hard to predict. Inevitably they will as their parent companies won’t give up such a big market.

How well a ban on signal would be enforced if they don’t comply would be interesting.

I still feel like this will fail to come into effect like all the other times. But we gotta keep eyes on it.

It won’t.

It makes no attempt to outlaw encryption. We can still legally use PGP and completely avoid eavesdropping.

What it does mandate is that messaging providers who they will name (think WhatsApp, Signal), will be obliged to have people reviewing the content of all messages sent.

All but the stupidest of criminals will thus work around it, encrypting themselves over the top. While the average Joe gets all their messages read.

If you read it closely they are not mandating backdoors in encryption.

WhatsApp could still have messages end-to-end encrypted. What they would be mandated to do is for the app to send copies of the messages to WhatsApp for their staff to review the contents.

This obviously breaks the point of end-to-end encryption. Without actually making it illegal for them to use encryption, or add any “backdoor” so it can be reversed.

It’s a weasely way of trying to have their cake and eat it.