icedchai

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by icedchai 10mo ago
"Just add an entry to your routing table" ... it's virtually impossible to do that for RFC-1918 addresses across the internet. It will be filtered at the ISP border or an upstream. Is it theoretically possible? Yes. Is it an
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Practically speaking, even without any firewall, NAT provides some level of security. If I can't route to your network, I can't access it. Yes, theoretically someone may establish a route to an RFC-1918 address block across the
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Setting up a firewall with an IPv6 deny inbound policy takes about 30 seconds. How is this an absolute mess?
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Don't you think everyone should have the option to be a full participant? Being locked behind cloud providers and multiple layers of NAT with IPv4 means that can never happen, even if consumers want it to. I was lucky enough to exper
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by icedchai 10mo ago
I remember watching Computer Chronicles back in the 90's! I still watch it on YouTube occasionally.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
I could see how that could be annoying. My experience was with internal apps whee we managed all the infrastructure. Some IT departments are often extremely strict about installing anything. Some won't even let you access a web site
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by icedchai 10mo ago
I worked at a couple of startups that were mostly Java based and had several CLI tools. The focus was building "fat jars" then running them with "java -jar ...", or running scripts that did that. The Java VM was a system
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by icedchai 10mo ago
It has happened, but it's rare. I let it pile up, rarely delete anything except marketing emails. Over 30K emails in my gmail inbox.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Software is much, much more bloated today than it was in 2005. 64-bit CPUs were available, but not quite mainstream yet. A "high end" consumer system had a couple gigabytes of RAM and chipset limitations generally capped you out a
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by icedchai 10mo ago
I ran a BBS as a teenager and wish I kept a backup of it. I wrote it myself. The source code I could live without. But it would've been fun to see some of those crazy posts from the early 90's.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
None of us know what will happen in the future. All I can say is that currently, it is cheaper for a hobbyist to use a RIPE LIR than to use ARIN. If this changes in the future, I'll move to ARIN. ARIN is lowering their costs gradually.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
For a hobbyist, the difference is academic. You can announce PA space with your own ASN, which is what I do. If I change LIRs I’ll have to renumber my IPv6 space.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
There are more competitive LIRs out there. Example: https://lagrange.cloud/products/lir It’s also cheaper for me because I have legacy ARIN space. All I really needed was an ASN. The LIR gives me some PA v6 space for
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Are you sure? For RIPE I see a 50 ASN plus 75 euro PI fee. ARIN is $275. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong. It’s cheaper as a hobbyist to use a RIPE LIR. Even in the US. That’s what I’ve been doing for years.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Not necessarily. Many have their RIPE registrations through an existing, “sponsoring” LIR. They’re not paying that 1800 Euro, the LIR is.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
It's not the fault of the "code editor developers." The underlying technology, GenAI, is non-deterministic. When you add input that varies widely in quality (prompts, existing code) what you describe is actually quite difficu
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Everybody in your household is already mapped to a single IPv4 address that rarely changes with most ISPs. Mine hasn't changed in over 3 years. My IPv6 /56 prefix delegation hasn't changed, either.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
It is? Those alternate IPv4 notations are all accepted by Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. I remember playing around with "alternate notations" 30+ years ago on old SunOS boxes.
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by icedchai 10mo ago
Is it really hard to remember? A hint is in the syntax itself. What's in between the two colons '::'? Nothing. In other words, all zeros. IPv4 also has a similar, though rarely documented or utilized, shortcut system. Try `pi
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by icedchai 11mo ago
The problem is many users are not experienced. And the more they rely on AI to do their work, the less likely they are to ever become experienced. An inexperienced junior engineer delegating all their work to an LLM is an absolute recipe fo
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Do I get a refund the next year when the stock drops due to an executive scandal?
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by icedchai 11mo ago
You want to tax people twice? Corporations pay taxes on profit. Shareholders pay taxes on dividends and capital gains.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Heh. I'm jealous. I'm still running a first gen Mac Studio (M1 Max, 64 gigs RAM.) It seemed like a beast only 3 years ago.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
If it was still around, it would probably still be stuck on M2, just like the Mac Pro.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I figured, but it's good to have confirmation.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Outside of YouTube influencers, I doubt many home users are buying a 512G RAM Mac Studio.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
For $50K, you could buy 25 Framework desktop motherboards (128G VRAM each w/Strix Halo, so over 3TB total) Not sure how you'll cluster all of them but it might be fun to try. ;)
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by icedchai 11mo ago
I have found value for one off tasks. I forget the exact situation, but I wanted to do some data transformation, something that would normally take me a half hour of awk/sed/bash or python scripting. AI spit it out right away.
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by icedchai 11mo ago
My experience is the productivity gains are negative to neutral. Someone else basically wrote that the total "work" was simply being moved from one bucket to another. (I can't find the original link.) Example: you might spend
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by icedchai 11mo ago
Yes, we are working on some guidelines, but there are layers of bureaucracy...

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