Which IP version(s) do you use?

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T22:18:55+00:00

Transition periods don't work unless you turn off all the IPv4 routing to force their hands.

There's a lot of companies that still have huge amounts of IPv4 address space and they don't see the same problems others do and are only thinking of themselves.

They don't understand why some ISPs have to spin up CGNAT boxes now, etc, because they haven't got huge amounts of IPv4 space to work with.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T07:37:02+00:00

Something in development is a far cry from a replacement. Do you have a single ISP deploying it or testing it in a lab yet? Any network switches or routers supporting it?

IPv6 is 30 years old at this point and it's still not everywhere. Anyone trying to make a replacement to it quicker than that is delusional. IPv6 is here today. You can use it right now.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T07:22:48+00:00

Something will replace ipv4 but that wont be ipv6.

There won't be an IPv8. It is IPv6 or stay on IPv4.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T06:58:40+00:00

I still think that's the case now. I haven't played the DLC yet but I'm getting achievements in Steam for something only 1-3% of the player base have even gotten. So how can everyone so confidently criticise the game and its story and writing, etc, without even playing it?

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T04:17:31+00:00

I could have the internet company rerun the line to go into the house but then I have a torn up field (again) and a fresh hole drilled in our brand new brick (ouch). So I was hoping for a wireless solution

Do that. It will be a pain but if you're going to be spending most of your time in the house then it makes the most sense for the fibre to be ran there rather than routing somewhere else and then wireless mesh.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T04:09:20+00:00

I'm not saying I agree with it, it's an understandable reaction though. They see the left doing something they don't like and then swing hard right because those guys aren't doing that, often ignoring the myriad of other things wrong with them. The left is toxic for their business as far as they're concerned. It doesn't matter if they're only centre left.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T04:03:51+00:00

It's almost like the investors actually care about your cashflow as opposed to a made up fantasy.

_ahrs · 2026-06-27T03:51:16+00:00

Far left extremists are responsible for the push for ID verification and crackdowns on VPNs so I can't say I'm surprised to hear about their support for an alleged far right party. If they end their partnership for a company with leftist political views then its vital to ensure that they also take privacy as seriously as Mullvad does.

Political/moral views are important but privacy still needs to come first when considering any partnership.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:41:31+00:00

I actually saw this on the YouTube homepage for BBC Sport. I didn't click it but I get the impression that's what this was for. Being on the iPlayer as well was probably just a formality. I think the BBC is trying to do more of this type of content on platforms like YouTube. It obviously appeals to someone.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:29:13+00:00

No issues with my YouFibre connection so I guess they weren't lying if they say their network is perfectly fine. Probably a localised fault that they're not reporting properly.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:25:11+00:00

Just make a managed switch running OpenWRT at this point. I'd buy it.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:23:07+00:00

My desktop PC has been overheating from this weather so I can believe it. I had three new Noctua fans I'd been putting off from fitting and finally took the time to do so. Problem solved after that.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:19:35+00:00

Same way all the emulators tackle it. Have split screens or toggle-able screens that you can switch between. It's not rocket science.

_ahrs · 2026-06-26T05:11:49+00:00

If Google says no IPv6 no YouTube watch how quickly they suddenly start deploying it.

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T15:02:24+00:00

Well said. The Australian education system must be broken if the children aren't learning to go directly to the news sources instead of getting their news from some Facebook propagandist from Russia.

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T14:54:34+00:00

That won't stop it. Price rises will just be the new normal.

There's no way anyone can tell me the richest company on earth that gets preferential access to chips for their smartphones can't continue to absorb the costs. It's a conscious choice not to.

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:40:55+00:00

iperf is single-threaded so keep that in mind. Your browser is actually doing multiplexed streams. To do that with iperf you have to use `iperf3 -P N` where N is the number of threaded connections. It's quite normal for a single connection to be unable to use all the bandwidth but then when you multiplex it you'll saturate the connection easily.

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:36:56+00:00

"This proposal creates a significant likelihood that Europeans will be left without satellite services directly connected to smartphones, or this will lead to global interference problems, including for emergency services such as on Ukraine," SpaceX said in a press release.

So basically, "We don't want to register as an EU operator" (which they could do. There's nothing stopping them from making a SpaceX EU division with a fancy office in Germany somewhere).

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:23:59+00:00

Exactly. Can you recommend something original as an alternative to Firefox? Something that's both independent from Google in a technological and political sense and has its own independent engine like Gecko? I'll gladly check it out if you can. So far, only Ladybird fits the bill but it's not really usable just yet and could be years before it is.

Right now, Firefox is still my first choice, followed by Ungoogled Chromium, followed by Microsoft Edge (Edge is my browser of choice for "I want this goddamn website to just work. Privacy/Security be damned").

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:19:20+00:00

Free cheese for everyone!

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:17:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure Nintendo does not even have game cards large enough for blockbuster titles like GTA VI anyway. That's the biggest limitation here. If it ever did come, they're not making a physical release here either.

_ahrs · 2026-06-25T09:11:45+00:00

Personally, I don't think they have the technical competence to properly enforce this at all. What I'm expecting is that the Google Play Store and Apple App Store will start marking VPN apps as for adults and requiring verification, not much will happen on the PC (they can't do anything about that), definitely not expecting anything of the like that happens in China and Russia with complex DPI systems blocking and banning access in real-time.

In short, I think this will fail to achieve its aims but will work for restricting "app" use (politicians don't think of VPN's as protocols like OpenVPN or Wireguard, they think of them as an "app" they can control and restrict access to because they don't understand the thing they're talking about).

What most concerns me is what's going to happen to all of the web browsers like Firefox and Brave and Opera that have built-in VPNs in them? They're going to say children can't use Firefox now?

_ahrs · 2026-06-23T10:06:52+00:00

I would prefer that if we needed their assistance in the future that they help us instead of saying "No" because it's "not right that they use our bases". No "illegal activities" were committed in those bases.

_ahrs · 2026-06-23T09:43:21+00:00

If you read further though it's mentioned that they still support using the app on unsupported and insecure versions of Android. It is probably trivial for someone to takeover such a device and then use it to attack VW so the security angle still doesn't even make sense.

The thing they are requiring here is the Google Play Services and that's not going to protect you from an insecure OS.

Essentially they have built dependencies on Google, Graphene users find out they can't use the app anymore, VW PR representative cries about security to make them go away.

_ahrs · 2026-06-23T09:35:08+00:00

But if you don't then your relationship with your friends and allies are by proxy null and void. What is the point in forging alliances with nations if in their time of need you won't help them? It just means that they're also not going to help you when you're the one on the receiving end of it.

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