It's bizarre to me that there is still so much effort spent on resisting IPv6 implementations, we were converting some industrial control networks to it almost 10 years ago and those organizations are basically defined by ancient equipment. Rather than byzantine v4 NAT coordination we mapped entire plants and substations to V6 addresses and put in 6to4 for the PLCs that were old enough to vote, so that multiple sites that all used the same 10.x.y.z blocks because of course they did could be routed together. Had V6 available from my house to pretty much anywhere I cared about in 2017.
As a business, especially a small business, there is no financial reason to do so in the United States for the vast majority of businesses. This gets talked about on NANOG all the time.
It doubles the workload and knowledge required, doubles the security attack surface, and because of the 2nd part, doubles the security risk.
Right or wrong that's the calculation for most spots.
re: the attack surface, I will say that I see such a tiny fraction of probe attempts and common exploit scripts hitting V6 spaces that I open some services on V6 only.
At my house I've had SSH open to the V6 internet for 8 years and have the logger set up to email me for any connections, and I have never once seen an attempt that wasn't me. For popular sites with well known DNS names that's obviously different, but I keep DNS current and can SSH by name to that V6 listener from anywhere so it's not my ISP trying to save me from myself either. And that's not even a host with the normal automatic temporary addresses, it's been a fixed interface id portion with an effectively static V6 prefix for years.
For a while I had several other services open as well, at one point we even played around with using NFS and iSCSI over IPv6 on the internet just for giggles, no actual important data. I can imagine some sysadmin's face twisting in horror just reading that knowing the carnage that would have ensued doing that with V4, where we commonly drop entire geo-blocks just to curtail the log spam of all the various automatic admin portal and VPN login scans.
There are of course techniques to gather live V6 addresses but between the vast space and temporary addresses on most end-user devices it really has been a night and day difference.
It's the same bullshit everywhere it seems. There goes the CGNAT with their router where the "advanced" options are basically defining DHCP settings - through a shitty phone app. There is also the stupid TV that no one asked for but it's part of the package.
And when they do give you v6 its a /64.
I wish there might be a category of prosumer friendly ISP of sorts. Those exist but they are hard to find.
Great advice if you don’t need a smartphone. Many do, they are now an identity tool.
The alternative to Apple is…Google? How is that in any way better other than not being Apple? Sure, there are de-Googlefied versions of Android and today they work . But Google is actively working on ending the ability of those alternative operating systems to work.
In my country we have a large religious population that eschews smartphones. Thanks to this, all services - bank, government, etc - are available without requiring apps or even internet access.
The US has just proposed making the ESTA application process mobile-only.
As an example of one.
Banks requiring device attestation may be a pain in the ass, but it’s not a “requirement”; they (for now) still have websites and, usually, a physical branch.
Banks 2FA are not SMS anymore, so no banking, and because no 2FA no online card payments and no limit adjustment.
Some banks are even app-only.
IRL events where you have to open the app at the gate.
Probably no charging for your EV.
No bus tickets. No Uber. No scooters. No food delivery.
More tedious flying / immigration. No Tinder (requires live face verification on your phone)
Some modern cars you are going to have troubles.
Impossible to setup a lot of smart appliances (like home WiFi routers).
Many examples.
It’s like: can you live without a bank card ? Probably but not everywhere and you will not be able to go to all shops.
Essentially it’s great if you plan to stay at home. Becomes a great problem once you want to interact with anyone further than 1 meter from you.
None of those require smartphones if you live in a free country (1) (2).
(1) Unbanked population in Uganda or india don't have options. Funnily, it's become the same with everyone, banked or unbanked, in the USA. The USA a third world dictatorship now, so expect that and more. Please vote for the orange buffoon a third time! He will most surely try to get on a third term.
(2) No bank in the EU requires a smartphone; it's banned by law (you know, law that protects people, the type you lost). "Banks" that are app-only are not banks but financial casinos. No bus driver in the EU can refuse small coins. In some countries they cannot refuse that you get on the bus without paying. No shop in the EU can refuse cash. No EV charging requires any app; you can pay right at the charging station with a credit card. Uber is not a universal right but a trinket. Same with tinder/food delivery and all the impoverishing tech for the disowned.
Sounds like we don't live in the same EU.
Banks are required to use Strong Customer Authentication, and they consider apps to be safer alternative than SMS.
Revolut, N26 and co, are real banks, like any bank in the EU.
In many countries, you cannot pay with small coins the bus driver.
Shops can refuse cash.
https://fullfact.org/online/UK-not-only-europe-country-legal...
etc
In Northern Europe it's very common not to have cash at all or to have it rejected.
In Estonia, you can choose to login to services using... your mobile phone OR (if you are lucky and this is supported) a physical ID card reader, so realistically you want to have a mobile phone. Some services don't even have alternative.
It's more like a German / Swiss thing to have cash everywhere.
>Banks are required to use Strong Customer Authentication
Not impressed by the pseudotechnical bullshit. The law provides several ways to authenticate. I tell my bank that I don't have a smartphone and they have to send me (at 0 extra cost) a code card: a piece of plastic with numbers on it that no one is ever going to hack. I routinely transfer tens of thousands of Eur between my accounts at real banks within the EU without a problem with my plastic card. When I have used up all the numbers on it they send me another one. I don't know in which EU you live in either.
>Revolut, N26 and co, are real banks
They are collectively known as "neobanks" for a reason. The official name is "e-money institution". Those are financial casinos, not real banks, operating with non-full banking licenses, peddling all the tech-bro bullshit: trading on memecoins, pulling out of countries when the regulations that real banks have to follow irks them, with a horrible track record of IT security: customer data leaks in the millions, horrible track record of staff abuse, unpaid hours, null customer support: exclusively in-app, where your customer support is "other customers that answer to your in-app post"; the staff shows up once in every 200 messages to write a one-liner and go into hiding again. I do not do business with bullshit "lean" business that operate at cost. Look at their wikipedia pages sometime.
>In many countries, you cannot pay with small coins the bus driver
Simply not true, not gonna argue this one.
>Shops can refuse cash
No, they cannot. Many businesses don't want to handle cash and they will make it hard and send you an invoice with a surcharge but they must accept any form of legal tender, no way around it. There are exceptions like you cannot buy a car with a truckload of coins, or give a 5000 Euro note to a taxi cab but those fall under "unreasonable" and it's a very high bar. Also, there is a long tradition of countries delaying implementing EU directives for many years, and then getting it wrong several times. The EU is very lenient, but accepting cash everywhere is EU policy. The fact that some wise-ass members drag their feet for decades is not news and doesn't prove your point. If you push back at the dentist, for example, they will send you an invoice with a surcharge, and you can pay that invoice with cash at your bank.
>If you want to use the Tesla supercharger
Lol no I don't finance retarded imbeciles - incidentally, all the other charging networks allow you to pay right there without subscription, smartphone or app. It's called "drop-in" payment, and it is there because the law says it must be an option.
>In Northern Europe...
No, you confuse the EU policy of allowing cash in transactions with money-laundering directives. Those prevent you from buying a house in cash, but you can buy anything, say, under 10000 Eur or equivalent NOK/SEK
>No, they cannot. Many businesses don't want to handle cash and they will make it hard and send you an invoice with a surcharge but they must accept any form of legal tender, no way around it.
Not true in the UK. The House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has been considering this issue (Apr 25): BBC News - Shops could be forced to accept cash in future,
They may not require one, but good luck getting transactions done without one. My EU bank branches are now only open 3 hours a day, and to approve an online transaction without the app means phoning the bank during business hours…
you mean like I do all the time with my high-tech plastic code card? At any time of day or night, workday or weekend? I must be lucky because I have been doing it for decades.
Your mistake was telling them you agree to use their app in your insecure smartphone. You were not obligated to do so.
> Your mistake was telling them you agree to use their app in your insecure smartphone. You were not obligated to do so.
Must be nice to have such choice. In rural areas you generally only have one bank in the local area, and unless you want to drive an hour to the city to do your banking, them's the breaks
>In rural areas you generally only have one bank in the local area
I agree to that but I don't follow. Are you a resident of a EU country? If yes, any bank operating in that country is obligated to let you open an account with them. Notice I say "resident", wich is a lower bar than "national". Banks operating in the boondocks and banks operating in the most expensive high street of the capital city, all must give you an account if you ask, so I don't follow unless they make you do banking in person only at one office, which I don't think is the case.
They most certainly are. Large ISPs use Nokia Deepfield or Kentik for network monitoring, observability and user metrics. Both work due to volumes of metadata from net flows and DNS.
My gut tells me the broken intercept is a Nokia product.
Yes, it is tiring. In this case, not really because it is at least for me, humorous in a Doc Martin sort of way. But elsewhere and on places like Reddit where the pedantry is often at best unjustified and at worst, wrong, it has made me spend less time on the sites.
Yeah ok. Using a small purpose-built model to see if a picture has an ID in it to protect PII isn’t exactly a hype-driven “check out our brand new product — it’s exactly like our old product but with av useless chat bot” idea. You’re overcorrecting.
This term "sitting" is doing a lot of work. Have you seen the guy's posture? I guess the term "teetering on the edge of a chair president" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I had my prostate removed six weeks ago due to Gleason 8 score cancer. The pathology revealed an aggressive cancer.
My prostate was not enlarged, my PSA at the end was 4.2. Only because my doctor was overly cautious about the slope of the PSA rise did he send me for an MRI starting the diagnosis. It remains to be seen if it escaped containment.
The point here is, I don’t think enlargement and cancer are that intertwined. Cancer happens for any number of reasons, pinning hope that it can be staved off by diet and vitamins seems to ignore tons of other environmental factors.
Wow, that sounds scary. I hope it doesn't come back. Weird about the 4.2 PSA; that wouldn't have raised alarms, normally. I guess acceleration is as important as absolute values.
All the best. I had a check up for prostate cancer recently, and fortunately have been told I don't have it, but until that moment I felt the stress of wondering and worrying, so you have my sympathy.
I'm also glad you found a good doctor, the first I found did no checks at all. Told me I'm too young to have any problems (I'm definitely not) and sent me away with some herbal medicine and all that stress I mentioned. The second doctor I found was thorough and reassuring, and shocked by the behaviour of the first.
The JVM is awful. In 2025, it still arm wrestles with the OS on which it runs for memory management and still completely loses its shit should the OS decide to send any portion of its precious memory allocation to swap.
It definitely wasn't! I remember the irix 5.x and earlier days. By default, it shipped without any X11 authentication enabled. This meant everyone on the network could keylog your machine.
I guess that works for most people except gamers and people who get rate limited because of the actions of others.
Article is correct, IPv4 didn’t die hard.
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