Pup Biru

so does fairy bread!

USB C is only the plug… USB 3.2 is the specification

USB power delivery is part of the specification that you can support without support for the other parts and is incredibly simple to implement by itself

credit card companies isn’t really a good term: it could cover many things

what you’re looking for is “card networks” - that’s visa and mastercard… and you’re right; payment processors are a different part of the system

not necessarily furry… puppy play is not directly related, but the crossover is not insignificant

you’re almost always in an area with lots of trackers: every iphone, apple watch, lots of airpods, and macbooks all have UWB-based tracking in them these days

ah! sorry i misread/misunderstood privacy to mean security in your comment :)

you sir/maam have not seen the netflix talk on using IPv6 for their full internal stack because of inefficiencies allocating IPv4 ranges i’m guessing

many “unused” IP addresses are unused because they’re kinda like having spare parts: if you’re planning on extending your network in the futures, your IP block kinda should reflect your end state (ie the parts you need over time to replace or “build” new hosts)

or for blue/green deployments where it’s likely that at least half the IP range will be used in terms of process, but unused most of the time in terms of reachability

and then there’s weird things with splitting up IP blocks into subnets with a division of 3 (the minimum needed for dealing with net splits etc) - eg across availability zones… there are always “waste” IPs because you can’t divide multiples of 8 cleaning into 3

Of course you can do IPv6 magic that hides IPv6 from the end device, but nobody understands how that magic works.

it’s not magic… it’s a firewall, and it works pretty much exactly the same as a NAT: a whitelist of IP and port combinations

there are duplicate machines that share programs

yes… that’s why every machine has its own IP address… so that they can both use the same port and you don’t have to connect to crazy bullshit like https://myhomerouter.example.com:8443/

no instead you yell the IP address and they spend 30min trying to debug why they can’t ping it or even get ICMP packets through and then you realise you yelled the private IP address and they were on the wrong side of the NAT

publicly addressable does not mean publicly routable… your router would still not arbitrarily connect untrusted external devices to internal hosts

NAT has the property of a firewall only as an implementation detail. replacing NAT with an IPv6 firewall in the router is an upgrade in every conceivable way

i kinda love that this explanation is so much more complex not because it adds nothing but precisely because it adds a lot of realism: NAT is actually just far more complexity and processing

in the real world we actually use distribution centers and loading docks

because we can pass packages in bulk between large distances… in routing, it’s always delivery boys: a single packet is a single packet: there’s no bulk delivery, except where you have eg a VPN packing multiple packets into a jumbo frame or something…

the comment you’re replying to is only providing an analogy: used to explain a single property by abstraction; not the entire thing

we can have staff specialise in internal delivery

but that’s not at all how NAT works: its not specialising in delivery to private hosts and making it more efficient… it’s a layer of bureaucracy (like TURN servers and paperwork - the lookup tables and mapping) that adds complexity, not because it’s ideally necessary but just because of limitations in the data format

routers still route pretty much exactly the same in IPv6 direct or NAT, but just at the NAT layer public IP and port is remapped to internal addresses and ports: the routing is still exactly the same, but now your router has to do extra paperwork that’s only necessary because of the scheme used to address

NAT is not much different to a firewall though… just because the address space is publicly routable does not mean that the router has to provide a route to it, or a consistent route

NAT works by assigning a public port for the outgoing stream different to the internal port, and it does that by inspecting packets as they go over the wire: a private machine initiates a connection, assign an arbitrary free port, and sends that packet off to the router, who then reassigns a new port, and when packets come in on that port it looks up the IP and remapped port and substitutes them

that same process can easily be true in IPv6 but you don’t need to do any remapping: the private machine initiates a connection, and the router simply marks that IP and port combination as “routable” rather than having to do mappings as well

yes someone is comparing them

that’s an analogy; not a direct comparison… they share the property that they are both demeaning to a minority group for some inherent properly of the group… the experiences are not being compared; simply the meaning behind the expression

you’re wildly out of touch and in deep in your trans bubble

perhaps you just don’t hang around enough trans people to understand their experiences

racism was still racism in the 50s - it doesn’t matter that it was considered less morally reprehensible back then by the majority… morality of the majority lags behind morality of minorities

Black people were tortured, sold and the women were raped by the house master

deadnaming is at least a form of bullying, if not psychological torture… and if you don’t think that a lot of trans people have experiences in their lives that are at least bordering on rape (sexual acts they did just to fit in; not because they wanted or enjoyed them - in a similar way to not feeling like consent can be withdrawn… again, analogy here not comparison) then i refer you to point 2: perhaps you just don’t hang around enough trans people to understand their experiences

comparable experiences? no; they’re too different to be comparable…

You think getting called she when you really want to be a he is even in the same universe of suffering?

again, i refer you to the suicide rate of trans people to argue that yes, i do: mental health is just as important as physical health no matter how much you try and dismiss it

cc companies

best to say card networks, as cc companies both include a lot of other things (like issuers), and doesn’t include some things (like debit cards, which still use the card networks)

again, that’s a choice you made… you can make your own clothes out of linen and the tools to do it are more available to you because they’re not hand crafted, but you choose not to because you want to save time

heck, you can buy a shirt that’s 5x the price that will last but you choose the cheap shirt so you can have 5 of them

this is the same argument that we don’t build the coliseum any more and therefor we’re not as good at making concrete as ancient romans… modern society is built on engineering, and engineering doesn’t build things that lasts 2000 years that’s true, but that’s not what engineering is for

engineering isn’t about building bridges that don’t fall down: engineering is about building bridges that barely stand up so you can have more of them

the same goes with clothes… modern clothes aren’t made to last your entire life because they’d cost 5x more… people don’t actually want a shirt from their 20s when they’re 70 - people don’t even really want a shirt from their 20s when they’re 30! they want 5 shirts in their 20s and 5 more in their 30s, and they want to be unique and personal and they want to spend no time to acquire them

that’s absolutely the main thing yup… in almost every circumstance where people implement blockchain, a trusted entity is involved so there’s no point to the blockchain

almost always there’s a single entity issuing a thing, and then that same entity also consuming that thing

we are absolutely right now in the trough of disillusionment with blockchain (well, among people who actually understand anything at all - as usual let’s not count trump and his base as rational actors), and at some point there will be useful solutions remain

(and side note too, we’re in the peak of inflated expectations with AI… i can not wait for that crash and to be left only with useful things)

great! the world is a shithole because of assholes, so let’s just all be assholes… what an asshole self-fulfilling thing to say

personally, i prefer to leave the world a better place than what i found it, and people better off for my presence in it