I want to like smart glasses. And wearable tech in general. Too bad it’s all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain.

Remember when datacenters were cool?

Yeah, there’s nothing in that article to back up this claim:

If your initial reaction to reading that and seeing that is some variation of “ughhh” or rolling your eyes or “fuck this guy” congrats. You are normal. If it wasn’t I cannot stress to you enough that you are an outlier.

I suspect I (we) just surround ourselves with people that are likely to share our opinions on AI. But I keep hearing anecdotes about Facebook boomers, children, and corporate types just eating that shit up.

We’re talking about huge companies with unfathomably huge codebases written by tens of thousands of people. They control significant chunks of the world’s code. It would be stupid not to at least include it in an internal model.

That’s not true at all. People were screaming their heads off about the looming crisis.

The only way I’ll look fondly upon this era is if the Web somehow gets worse so that everyone is doxed and needs a license to build a Web site.

The small bright spot of the fediverse is maybe the only good thing going on right now.

Is it so hard to believe that people would do something with little regard to comfort?

Not much to this article, but I do miss that old Web culture. Now there’s so many people. Even the slightest idea you have to contribute is usually already done by someone else. The only stuff available are really tiny niches or require some esoteric knowledge.

Damn, you got that hard R domain?

Title disappointment. The hate is not over it being a MAGA event, but it being poorly managed.

True, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of it being a flow battery, I think.

“We will be able to inject or absorb up to 1.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity in a few milliseconds,” FlexBase co-founder Marcel Aumer told Swiss public broadcaster RTS earlier this month.

Does this make sense? How the hell do you transfer that much energy in milliseconds? Especially with a battery that requires the flow of liquid?

That’s a bit over 1k/drones per day. Presumably that’s only a fraction of what was sent. That’s a lot of fucking drones.

Some of us like the precise stuff.

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As far as privacy is concerned, v6 allows a much broader scope for protection than v4 and NAT, as the IA portion (second 64 bits) can be changed at will by that endpoint. EUI-64 is still common with basic v6 stacks, but SLAAC will rotate every ~24 hours.

Oh that’s cool.

One of my favourite features of v6 is it explicitly permits, and caters for, multiple addresses on an interface. This means you could theoretically have a unique address per application, within multiple prefixes if they’re available.

Couldn’t you do that with v4? Or maybe that was only with bridge interfaces. hmm

I personally have all my internal services accessible only on addresses under ULA prefixes, which intrinsically prevents them from being accessed outside of my network, no firewall required. Using WireGuard permits remote access when needed.

This is… interesting. At first I thought it was just like the v4 loopback range, but like you mentioned it opens up the possibility of routing between two on-machine networks. I’m gonna have to digest that idea for a while.

What’s a useful way to manage clients identities? Like before, static MAC would allow the assignment of a static IP, then that device could be handled by the firewall using that IP. But with these random addresses is there any way to use targeted firewalling/monitoring for specific devices?

From the perspective of the internet, and any properly configured routing infrastructure, they should only ever be interested in the first 64 bits when routing, the second 64 should be exclusively the domain of the last segment.

Interesting. But routers don’t actually strip that, do they? So the endpoint I’m communicating with will still get the full /128 address? I’m concerned about the privacy implications of MAC addresses being sent to everybody and their mother.

I’m a bit concerned about SLAAC’s metadata leakage. Sending out many of my devices’ MAC addresses to the world isn’t exactly the best for privacy. My key devices like laptop and phone use MAC randomization, but I have a ton of other stuff that doesn’t.

That leaves DHCPv6, which won’t work with any android devices or chromebooks.

Damn, that’s a straight WONTFIX, too since 2014. Lots of religious argument in there, maybe I’m reading all that tonight.

Thanks for answering my questions.

You can’t subnet below a /64 at all? Or it just makes things like SLAAC/auto-addressing using the MAC address unusable?

Doesn’t a /64 already give me more than I’ll ever use?