> In the past thirty years, I have not encountered a use-case where...
For me, the two things IPv6 does that I care about are
1) I get at least one globally-routable IP address for every machine on my LAN that I wish to have one.
2) I get multiple globally-routable subnets so that I can have networks on my LAN that are isolated from all other LAN networks, but are still able to have globally-routable addresses.
To make #2 work, you do need networking gear that's slightly better than bottom-of-the-barrel so that you can set up VLANs. If network gear vendors cared, they could pretty easily make those sorts of features standard in even bottom-of-the-barrel gear, but they do not, so they are not.
Yeah. There's a type of person who's obsessed with "cleanliness". For such a person, the goal is to have exactly one protocol on The Internet.
Such a person would lose their goddamn minds if they had to actually work as a WAN administrator or datacenter operator.
One of IPv6's purposes is to reduce pressure on the IPv4 address space. I don't expect IPv4 to get deactivated within the lifetime of any current HN reader; there's really no point in doing so. I expect the future for noncommercial sites to be "globally-routable IPv6 service, and IPv4 service by way of a CGN", which is how things are set up today in some parts of the world.
IPv6 will be the default, with v4 as a fallback for folks need to talk with others who can't be bothered to update their software or kit.
I'm not the author, but every time I've seen Night Shift (and things like it) being used, they've done a grand job of royally fucking up the colors of whatever's on screen.
> It feels a lot better on eyeballs to use warm light things.
That's, like, your opinion, man. The lights in my house are all 5000K lights, and I love it.
I expect you'd get way more out of reducing the brightness of your screen [0] than fucking with its colors. So many people seem to love having searingly-bright screens shining into their faces... I don't get the fascination.
[0] If you've got the monitor's brightness at minimum and it's still too bright, then there are software controls to further reduce it.
I respect that other people have the right to their opinion, but 5000K lights 24/7 is so completely insane to me. How? How do you get by with "dentist office mall kiosk" lighting blaring every hour of the day?
I have an adaptive Lifx bulb that changes from 5000K during the day and then shifts down to 3000K at night, before tapering down to 2700K for overnight and it's amazing. 5000K in the corner of a dark room is just so disjointed and intense and upsetting to me, if I stay at an Airbnb for more than a night or two and there are daylight bulbs installed, I'll literally buy replacement bulbs and change them out.
Yeah. It's particularly silly because OP is suggesting to replace something that everyone except for network administrators and network hardware vendors can treat as "IP with large addresses" [0] with a "modern, practically minded alternative".
Like, does OP propose that we switch away from IP to something that behaves significantly differently? Good fucking luck getting all the little bugs and behavioral assumptions baked in to just about everything squared away over the next fifty years.
[0] And -for the most part- network admins can treat it like that, too.
If you've some time to burn, write the author and/or his publisher and let them know that the guy's new ghostwriter sucks shit. If this is very seriously making your consider not picking up the next book in the series, be sure to mention that.
If folks just stop purchasing the new books, they can imagine a reason for the lost sales that's convenient for them, but if folks tell them why they stopped purchasing, there's a lot less room for that kind of nonsense.
I'm on Android, and SMS notifications look exactly like every other notification (with one caveat I'll mention below), so I don't know what this guy is on about.
> ...SMSs are just push notificatons with a worse UI...
By this, does OP mean that shit where programs can put buttons and bigass images into their notifications? If yes, I don't want that shit. That's just more opportunity to accidentally trigger unwanted behavior with one's fat fingers, and more screen space gobbled up by overly-self-important software.
The thing that's shitty about SMS is that it's "worst^Wbest effort" delivery... which means that messages can (and will) get delivered late, out of order, or never. Don't use SMS; use email. Email is also best-effort, but -based on my personal experience- far more email server operators give a shit about delivering your messages than SMS relay operators.
If your employer required the use of a smartphone for essential components of your job and provided you with a smartphone and cellular data plan, would you not use that smartphone for those components of your job?
I'd not use employer- or government-furnished equipment for tasks that the equipment wasn't provided to complete, but I'd definitely use it for those tasks.
Exactly. Bank needs me to have an official FruitPhone to access my account? Fine, send me the phone, I'll turn it on when I need to bank, and at all other times it sits powered-off in a drawer. Same for the government-supplied DroidPhone I need to access my Social Security statements (or whatever). Turn on, do my business, turn off.
Would this apply to giving you a phone plan, internet plan, computer, paper, pen, electricity, etc., because all of those are necessary to do online banking or access school chats as well?
> This “Great Uncoupling” is well underway and will take us toward a less monocultural Internet.
Gentoo's Github mirrors have only been to make contributing easier for -I expect- newbies. The official repos have -AFAIK- always been hosted by the Gentoo folks. FTFA:
This [work] is part of the gradual mirror migration away from GitHub, as already mentioned in the 2025 end-of-year review.
These [Codeberg] mirrors are for convenience for contribution and we continue to host our own repositories, just like we did while using GitHub mirrors for ease of contribution too.
And from the end-of-year review mentioned in TFA [0]
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. ... Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure and has no plans to change that.
we learn that the primary reason for moving is Github attempting to force its shitty LLM onto folks who don't want to use it.
So yeah, the Gentoo project has long been "decoupled" or "showing it can be done" or whatever.
You don't even need to get so "fancy" [0] as IR cameras. "Nightvision" by way of light amplification has been around for ages. [1] Even the cheap stuff I played with decades ago lit up the night like nobody's business if there was even the smallest amount of moonlight. The downside was that bright lights made the image useless, but if you're building a robot, or running the video feed back to an operator you'd simply have another non-nightvision camera.
[0] Is it fancy if IR camera tech has been around since like the 1980's or 1970's?
We talk about video here with requirement to have as many FPS as possible, not static pics from camera with huge sensor and lenses, fixed on tripod like in your link. Try making a night video of the same scene with that same camera, it will be grainy useless crap that any newish cheap phone can triumph easily.
Actually most real cameras had/have subpar videos to normal phones. Small volumes so hard to develop good optimizations in small teams, sensors optimized to the max for still photos. That market is basically slowly dying (I stopped using my full frame too the day my S22 ultra phone came despite lower quality of photos, tried taking it on trips few times but it mostly stayed in the backpack).
Its better now regarding video quality, but if you say travel to exotic places, more than 95% of the folks have phone only. Even those with cameras rarely pull them out unless its proper photo safari.
It is probably pretty decent since these things are effectively video cameras to utilize the eletronic view finder. Probably not high framerate but its at sensor resolution and they let you pixel peep a live view image to confirm focus.
> In the past thirty years, I have not encountered a use-case where...
For me, the two things IPv6 does that I care about are
1) I get at least one globally-routable IP address for every machine on my LAN that I wish to have one.
2) I get multiple globally-routable subnets so that I can have networks on my LAN that are isolated from all other LAN networks, but are still able to have globally-routable addresses.
To make #2 work, you do need networking gear that's slightly better than bottom-of-the-barrel so that you can set up VLANs. If network gear vendors cared, they could pretty easily make those sorts of features standard in even bottom-of-the-barrel gear, but they do not, so they are not.
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