The reason IPv6 was originally added to the DOCSIS specs, over 20 years ago, is because Comcast literally exhausted all RFC1918 addresses on their modem management networks.

My favourite feature of IPv6 is networks, and hosts therein, can have multiple prefixes and addresses as a core function. I use it to expose local functions on only ULA addresses, but provide locked down public access when and where needed. Access separation is handled at the IP stack, with IPv4 it’s expected to be handled by a firewall or equivalent.

One day…

Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.

Beir bere bey’re.

This is the sequel to the Trump pee tape.

No one who legitimately knows anything about computing speaks like this.

He’s truly a moron’s hallucination of a genius.

As an outsider, I honestly and sincerely invite anyone to explain how any of what’s going on in the US today isn’t as American as apple pie and school shootings?

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

Every number system is base 10.

Binary is base 1+1.
Ternary is base 2+1.
Octal is base 7+1.
Decimal is base 9+1.
Duodecimal is base B+1.
Hexadecimal is base F+1.

Make him to be president for life, with a strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days.

I cut my teeth with DOS and Netware, used Windows until the day 98 was released (had been using the GM for a month), and cut over to Slackware as my daily driver. Dabbled with Redhat before stabilising on Debian, which I’ve never found a need to change from for my headless boxes.

One thing I specifically remember was hand tuning my X11 config to drive my 15” Trinitron at 1024x768 @ ~68Hz.

Aversion to hypocrisy is an exclusive trait of good faith interlocutors.

Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.

It’s almost like granting a supreme veto to a single, wholly imaginary ideology, and positioning it as a monoculture for how society values activities and production, is problematic.

We apparently did away with it once before through the separation of church and state, maybe it’s time to force the separation of bank and state.

On 2001-09-12, Al Qaeda and bin Laden became superfluous, because the US and its ‘allies’ stole their playbook, rebranded and packaged it as the Patriot Act, creating the world the original authors had envisioned.

On 2024-11-05, of the eligible voting population in the US, roughly:

• ⅓ voted for Trump.
• ⅓ voted for someone other than Trump.
• ⅓ didn’t vote.

As far as I’m concerned, if you’re eligible to vote and choose not to, you’re implicitly throwing your support behind whoever wins.

⅔ of the eligible US voting population to some degree support, and are responsible for, everything that is happening in their federal government now.

The rest of the world interpreted it as the US saying it doesn’t wish to be taken seriously for at least the next 2 years. We can resume discussion when they decide to choose adults to represent them again.

Every ethical society requires a healthy and robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.

-gate is the suffix for scandals.

-a-Lago is the suffix for stupid scandals.

This one should be called Sig-na-Lago.