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by growse 2y ago
I imagine the threshold of org size where they stop taking their prefixes from their ISP and just go get their own from the RIR is .... Not big. Sure, some network engineers will try and design v6 networks as though they're v4, but eve
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by growse 2y ago
Pretty much any system that's capable of handling IP traffic is also capable of firewalling. Not sure what that's got to do with address rewriting though.
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by growse 2y ago
shrug at work we use NAT to let two different networks with overlapping addresses talk to each other all the time. No firewalls there. NAT wasn't invented for the home-broadband user, you know. But I'm at least glad we've c
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by growse 2y ago
> It _was_ possible to create an address space extension that was IPv4 backwards compatible How? People keep claiming this, but I've yet to see a coherent design (either back then or today). Do you think they broke backwards-compati
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by growse 2y ago
> If that's the only benefit of IPv6, it doesn't sound worth it to me. It's not the only benefit, as anyone who's tried to build a large network or merge two networks with overlapping address space will tell you.
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by growse 2y ago
Well, they also junked useless un-scalable things like broadcast and ARP.
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by growse 2y ago
No... it's not? It's simply a widely-used technique to rewrite the addresses of IP packets that transit a router. It inherently makes no policy decisions on which packets should and shouldn't flow over and above what a router
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by growse 2y ago
Ah - fair point!
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by growse 2y ago
NAT does not, in any way, "force" the use of a firewall. They're entirely separate concepts.
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by growse 2y ago
Private companies' interest in what Wall Street thinks is generally not very large.
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by growse 2y ago
I hope you get to a happier, less angry place in your life where you no longer hate an inanimate piece of software.
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by growse 2y ago
The projection here is fascinating .
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by growse 2y ago
Good luck using software you don't like, I guess. Each to their own.
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by growse 2y ago
People hate it because one part of it is designed to run as pid 1? I don't follow. (People hate systemd? They hate a piece of software? Eesh)
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by growse 2y ago
They're not the one whining about how systemd's stolen the "good old days". As they say: working code or gtfo. Complaining about someone else's software project is so passé . No-one's forcing anyone to use sys
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by growse 2y ago
> Exactly. So why is it part of your init system? Is it? Systemd is not an init system. One component of systemd is an init. There are other components.
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by growse 2y ago
Anyone who tries to use complex software without really knowing what they're doing is going to have a bad time. I'm not sure that's the software's fault :-)
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by growse 2y ago
Or maybe the people who think it's a good idea have a different perspective and value system to you? Labelling a technical decision that was made about a system design (that a lot of people agree with) as "not sane" makes you
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by growse 2y ago
> Which we somehow did not have for the last few decades. I wonder why. Speak for yourself. Lots of us spent many man-months over years engineering around crusty 80s abstractions that no longer worked.
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by growse 2y ago
And yet, some of us manage to successfully run critical national infrastructure on stacks that include Linux distributions running systemd.
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by growse 2y ago
Isn't MacOS a UNIX?
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by growse 2y ago
Maybe someone should port smf or launchd to Linux?
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by growse 2y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by "finance". I'm talking specifically about technology & engineering in financial services. But mostly, in a resume, I'm looking for 1) evidence of competence (do you know what so
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by growse 2y ago
I have a chemistry degree and an entire career doing software / system engineering in financial services. I've also hired a boatload of people with STEM degrees. In fact (massive generalisation warning) I prefer hiring them to tho
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by growse 2y ago
The usefulness of that depends on whether you think academic higher education is vocational ("I'm doing a chemistry degree so that I can be a chemist") or inquisitive ("I'm doing a chemistry degree because it's
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by growse 2y ago
> If you start telling lies about me online and try to incite a mob to threaten or harm me and the people who do opt to socialize with me (despite or maybe even because of my opinions), Both of these things are already well-litigated lim
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by growse 2y ago
My point is that "cannot say" is pure hyperbole. Your freedom to say whatever you want is not impinged, and my equivalent freedom to shun you based on what you say is similarly unimpinged. Usually when people complain about what y
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by growse 2y ago
But not arrested. Freedom of association is a thing.
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by growse 2y ago
A passkey is a resident webauthn credential.
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by growse 2y ago
And why do they do it? What are they trying to achieve? I'd guess that they most likely want multiple people to be able to access a single account. Passwords are forced to be shared because a password is typically implemented as a sing

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