>>1397
That's what I assumed you meant in my post here >>1395. I've had some weird behavior happen when I do that before, like it 'forgetting' placement of icons on the desktop and other minor stuff. It wasn't a big deal, but it demonstrated to me that it wasn't an ideal way of doing things. Maybe it was just my setup, though.
But, yeah, I'd try to shut it down through the operating system I think. The button connected to the case that's connected to the motherboard would be second place I think.

>>1393
Most modern OSs will do software shutdown if you press the button on the case. Unless you hold it down for a few seconds in which case it'll cut power before a clean shut down.

9 times out of 10 it isn't going to matter. The 1 out of 10th time it might bork your entire OS install. It really depends on the OS, what it's doing at the time and the particulars of each machine. I can tell you that over the years I've had many machines have power cut due to power outage or similar reasons. Out of all of those times maybe once I rebooted into a BSoD situation.

I'm also of the opinion that there is no reason to turn a machine off ever unless your reason is security and you're running full disk encryption on it. I leave all my machines on 24/7 excluding laptops. They do not draw much power when idle and I'm of the opinion that it causes less wear to internal parts than turning them off and on all of the time. I have some computers here that have been running 24/7/365 for over 30 years now. They still work fine and will probably continue working long after I'm dead provided someone is around to care for them.

These days I've invested in UPSs but for many years I didn't use those either. The power network here isn't the best and suffers from outages nearly every winter and sometimes in summer during large storms. I've never had an issue with them going down due to power outage. But you do want to watch out for pulsing. When a line is down the power company will pulse the line 2-3 times in an attempt to bring it back up. This happens automatically. Anything plugged directly into the grid will get pulsed right along with the main line. In those cases you want to yank the power cord out of the wall and wait on the pulsing to pass. The line will either come back up and run as normal or it'll go down all together until a crew can come out and fix the problem (usually a downed power line).

For the above a cheap powerstrip isn't good protection. You want a UPS with battery backup. You want it set-up correctly to send a shut down signal to the machines hooked up to it. It'll give you 5-15 minutes of power to finish up any task you're working on and to allow the OS to shut down cleanly. You want to replace your batteries every so often. If you buy a used UPS always buy a new battery along with it.

>>1403
>I have some computers here that have been running 24/7/365 for over 30 years now
Are you running servers or something? Or is the reason you don't switch them off just for longevity? Might be cheaper to just save on electricity and replace the components. I've only ever left my computer on overnight for big downloads or processing.

>>1405
You save almost nothing on electricity by turning them off. Even if you have the CPU churning away 24/7 at 100% you aren't saving much compared to them being turned off. Anyone that thinks this way hasn't personally tested it. PCs consume almost nothing compared to your dryer, hot water heater, AC/Heat and other appliances. But the ones I mentioned at the main ones in every home.
>Why do you do this?
Other than wear and tear on the parts the main reason is simple. When I want to use a machine I want to use it NOW. Not 5 minutes from now. On older machines without SSDs start up can be several minutes. Some of mine are servers, firewalls and that kind of thing. But many of them are just old desktops that I use for various purposes or just for fun.

You've seen Lain I'm sure. My living room basically looks like her bed room.

If you really want to save power you'd be unplugging everything from the wall whenever you aren't using it. Since they all draw a bit of power even when "powered off". Anything connected to the grid has a load on it.

>>1405
>replace the components
Not sure if you're aware but it's impossible to replace components for some legacy hardware. I can not replace my capture card since they don't make good ones anymore. I have several dongles using proprietary DRM that allow them to control old industrial hardware. They can not be replaced. They still haven't been cracked. They will not work with a VM. If they aren't connected to the serial ports of your old 286/386 machines and don't detect some ancient version of MS-DOS they will not work. Meaning a $10-100k+ piece of industrial equipment is now totally useless. There our bounties for some of this stuff upwards to million dollars. Still no one has stepped forward to claim them. I've personally been at it myself for many years.

A lot of my machines run 24/7 simply because they're running some task. I have one desktop dedicated purely to encoding video. It has a 12 year old CPU in it now. It has stayed pegged at 99-100% load for most of those 12 years. It runs at about 75C in summer and 70C in winter if I crack open the window next to it. It's air cooled with a good aftermarket fan. The stock fan couldn't keep it below 90C and it would constantly throttle itself to keep from burning up.

One month I compared the difference between running that machine 24/7 or leaving it turned off. I didn't encode video for that entire month. The difference in my bill was like $0.50. AC and Heat are the main things that contribute to my power bill. In summer the AC adds about $90 a month and in winter the heat adds somewhere between $120-$150. I have a split duct system and not much of a house to cool/heat. I also don't run the AC or heat that much either. I keep the place about 75F in summer and 65F in winter.

All that to say. The computers cost almost nothing to run. They only start costing a lot if you're running a proper server farm with large banks of multi-core CPUs and GPUs going at full load all of the time. Even then the main cost is cooling them. Not the actual processing they're doing.

I'm currently developing my own textboard software and I've been thinking about these issues as well. I also want to bring some features usually found on forums (even if some of them might be considered "useless bloat") but I prefer the simplicity of textboards. I don't want to introduce an account system so delegating parts of the moderation process to users might be a good idea.

Of course, any formatting/presentation feature that can help code readability (like code blocks or syntax highlighting) and code sharing is being considered.

>>1372
The issue with no accounts+user moderation is abuse. It's a nice idea. But without some kind of restriction on access it can be a pain. User accounts have a known set of problems. I think it's best to have anonymous but accountable moderation. Full transparency with the ability to roll back any changes. Karma systems don't work.

Pretty much everything else from an old school forum would be nice to have. Never understand why text/imageboards are frozen in 2004. Forums offered a lot more even back then. That's why people used them. The admincp is much nicer and so is how data is stored in the database.

A long time ago I saw someone take some forum software like php and pretty much strip out everything that wasn't on your typical imageboard. Then they modified the post layouts to show attachments in-line. Maybe disabling some stuff on forum software would be easier than building an imageboard engine up. Most of them already support anonymous posting and always have. People just rarely turned it on.

Full anonymity generally seems like a bad idea when tech stuff is involved since it's something that has become synonymous with various scams and other chicanery. The exception would be places like kissu where it's secondary, so there's already a bit of a separation.
Forums are probably a great idea and I'd love to see more people use them, but they're probably harder to establish than an imageboard these days because of the extra steps to become a poster. Well, I guess an imageboard with "accounts" would be similar, but people wouldn't feel like some unknown newbie when someone with an old join date with implied seniority has a different opinion.
Meh... it is a mystery...

>>1375
I just bit this shab.

>>1375
I was suggesting you used an existing forum and strip out all of that kind of stuff. It isn't very hard. On most all you have to do is click a button and delete some stuff from the templates.

Do you know HTML? Most of the time templates are just HTML+pseudo-code. You don't have "join date" and "post count" listed by posts since you just have to delete that portion of the template to hide it. Log-ins are strictly for moderation tasks and/or spam prevention. Anonymous posting can either be really open. Or you can require an account log-in but not reveal the poster's identity to the rest of the board. Or you can do both.

The imageboard engines I've worked with seem very basic and not scripted as well in my experience with them. Every owner is forced to add a lot of stuff and basic features like multiple images per post seem to always be either hard, broken or missing all together. Where as with forum software you can upload multiple attachments by default with a post. Putting the image beside/above the post itself instead of listed as a file underneath is a simple matter of editing the template and maybe some original CSS. Forums typically have more spam prevention tools built in. The moderation system for mods is more robust. Roles are clearly defined along with permissions. Lots of other stuff.

You could take the average forum software. Turn off half the features. Edit a few templates and have a basic imageboard in an afternoon. I don't understand why more people don't take advantage of them instead of using the same few imageboard scripts. Forums typically have better integration with other scripts than imageboards to. It's very easy to take something like mediawiki and share log-ins with the forum. There are already tons of pre-made solutions for things like hosting media or real time chat. Forums usually have integration options with CMSs.

The thread management options are much much better to. The only thing you'd be missing is auto-thread deletion. But that's as easy as adding a cron job with a simple SQL query.

I was surprised by how bad most every imageboard script is until I installed them myself. But I suppose a medium designed for anonymous-first doesn't need the kitchen sink when it comes to user and thread management. So it makes sense.

>>1365
Some customers want to aggregate metadata about what users are doing with their web app and do this with some sort of cronjob that uploads logging output to some sort repository for later use. Usually for consumption in some dashboard like https://matomo.org/ It's for the bean counters to count beans and security guys to audit the systems.

>>1366
the group im working for has only internal users and one developer, so I've been wondering if logs are pointless or not. Kinda sounds like it is because I don't do a lot of been counting and just want to cover my back in case of problems

>>1367
> want to cover my back in case of problems
You may still want to generate logs, my understanding of the industry "standard" for "DevSec" advises "meaningful" activity logs are kept for your applications. Even if no one uses them or requires you to upload them somewhere, it still would be a good idea to generate them. Mostly for cover your ass purposes but if the customer doesn't want or care about the feature maybe just put it in the backlog for when you need an easy day.

>>1368
it's what i've been doing for a lot of the analytical tools, but since the most recent features are going to handle multiple digits of money flowing I'm trying to make sure I don't "therac" my way into a problem. Client doesn't have a good idea of software risk so have to insert my own best practices.

Wise old men at two different jobs in two different fields told me the same thing
>99% of this job is covering your own ass
Both were right.

>>1351
>We see companies like google and netflix leasing so-called edge servers in ISP data centers all over the world. This allows them to avoid this problem. But it's a p2p for me and not for thee type of situation.
That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.

>On a free internet those edge servers would host everyone's content.
No. They host the contents of the ones who pay for it. The internet doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's backed by physical hardware and electricity, which cost money. No one can host significant amount of content for free. Big tech can afford to do it because they sell your data, exactly the article's point. Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.

>>1351
doggy

>>1353
Energy would be free is nuclear power and other sources of power were not demonized on purpose. What you have to understand is it's a system of control. Money IS control.

We don't have to have communism to have good for the common man. We just have to not let a few people treat us like we're less than people. They stifle innovation to retain control over the population. That's the only reason things are like this.

What we need are laws that say things like:
>All data is free
>Transporting data over the global common network is a human right

If the Constitution of the USA was written today it would say DATA instead of SPEECH.

>Common persons don't have any capacity to do this, and they don't want to pay either.
I pay hundreds of dollars a month to host several TB of content on my home network that I can access anywhere in the world. Even with the current situation it's more than possible for each and every home to have its own little home server. Which churns away hosting and serving content. Both content you put on it yourself and a small datastore where you're hosting content for others.

Hell most ISPs now already let other people access the bandwidth you're paying for. They call it "mobile wifi" or whatever. It allows other customers to log-in to their accounts via the router/modem in everyone else's home.
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>>1350
ZERO reading comprehension ZILCH NADA

>>1353
>That's the entire point of the article though. Big tech companies can lease a large amount of servers because they have the money and political capital to do so, something which the common don't have. Even though the internet protocol is decentralized, it's a system where every node has equal standing; so whoever can pay to control the largest amount of them have the largest control over the entire system, which in turn gives them even more money and control.
whats the point of the OP then? because this sounds entirely political.
It's not inevitable.
It's ABSOLUTELY something that should be corrected.
It's not at all inherent to the internet.

I think the general assumption is that there's so many people doing illegal things on discord that people feel secure that the authorities would go after the more severe people first. Stuff like loli is against the ToS but it presumably doesn't stop people from posting it there because there's millions and millions and millions of people across hundreds of thousands of channels. Sure, discord could easily wipe it out by just searching for basic terms in their compendium of harvested data, but I don't think they actually care as long as the people are there to provide said data.
I think it's pretty rare that anything happens. Privacy stuff? Well, no one cares about that stuff any more.
Many internet companies aim to be fulfill many roles and discord aims to replace stuff like forums and imageboards alongside other programs or services. Think of what an older internet person does. He uses a browser to browse a forum/imageboard, a filehost to upload large files, an IM program for quick chat (with names for organizing), and optionally maybe something like ventrilo or teamspeak if he wants to use a mic and I guess Steam if he wants to do some multiplayer stuff. (Steam itself seeks to eliminate some things and is a bit discord-like since it wants to monopolize people's attention the same way)
It used to a normal part of having a computer capable of multitasking (hooray for multiple CPU cores and RAM) to make use of it, but these days many people would prefer just to one one single program for everything, even if it makes sacrifices.

Discord sucks and I hate the damage its done and will continue to do to the internet, but I understand why lazy, tech illiterate people would use it. I really like the idea of having a plethora of programs specialized for different things, though.

>>1335
>no images and filesharing directly
This is a big inconvenience when working on visual media where quick screenshots are common for reviewing stuff. But even more damning is losing out on all the kids who are already on Discord and want to use it. Knowing Japanese is not a trait limited to the privacy paranoid and giving them up out of fear of the feds coming after your 1000 download piracy operation that already exposes itself with torrents is pretty stupid. That's even more true if you're looking for donation money or popularity with people who will actually show gratitude. There are alternatives, but you're not going to invite someone to your fucking Element server to follow your chinese cartoon releases. At least not until you find out she's 15.

>>1335
It's mainly a combination of two things. Kids and newer internet users are pretty stupid. They do not understand how to properly set up an application or use anything that isn't tied directly to their cell phone number. Discord and similar services cater to these people.

On the other side; Modern "fansub" groups (using the term lightly. Ripping group is a better description) want to monetize other people's content. Their primary goal is to make money from their so-called hobby. This requires attracting the maximum amount of eyeballs and "donations" possible. So they cater to platforms where idiots with cash are in abundance. Which is Discord and other social media outlets.

Discord and other social media outlets also exist to make money. They claim they do this from advertising. This is false. They make their money from spying on the users and data mining them. So they allow certain "illegal" content on their networks so they can monitor these people more closely instead of being forced to follow them around the internet like they used to. It's move convenient is the users come to them instead of them having to seize and re-purpose existing services and networks while hoping no one involved in the bust talks.

IRC is still the better platform for things like file hosting anyway. On IRC you can operate a bot linked to any server (or network of servers) in the world that you can directly interact with. There are even easy-to-use GUI applications to interact and search the contents on those bots. On Discord the best you're getting is some base64 encoded links to some DDL server on http that can be taken down at any moment.

The main issue is that the modern internet/computer user has no real idea what they're doing. They think things like VPN and base64 encoded links actually protect them and the other users. They think encryption over a mainstream platform is real. Hence why they promote crap like Signal and other "apps" running on compromised devices like cell phones.

If you want to see a real network for warez that's been operating for decades and is impossible to shut down look no further than USENET. This network has been in operation in one form or another since the late 70s. It's impossible to censor. It's impossible to prevent the spread of data over it. But it has been slowed down. Mainly by claiming users of itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>1339
(cont)

There is also a lot that can be said about the so-called "prosub" groups (people working for CR and other streaming services). The reason their content floods the usual trackers isn't the fact that it's high quality or that people want to view it. The reason it floods all those spaces is because these people have control over such places and prevent independent people from releasing stuff. This serves two primary purposes. The first; It ensures even those "stealing" the content are viewing the same content that's approved for distro by the publishing houses. 2) It prevents anything that might outshine that content from appearing during the first months-years when the content is first being release. Which is when profits are maximized. They don't care as much once you're outside of that window of time. Plus anything released outside of that window is likely to never be seen or forgotten entirely.

As an example take nyaa. You can easily find batches of CR rips for most anything released in the last 10 years. But finding an old high quality fansub release for something from 2005-2010 is hard and likely not seeded anymore. People claim that such stuff is only available on so-called private trackers because it ensures it remains seeded and protects the users of that tracker. But this is not true since those trackers dox everyone connecting to them and history has proven people will seed content for free anyway. In a sane world (so pre-2010 or so) this was never an issue. You could always request a re-seed on a public tracker and usually the request would be filled. If not the community would come together to fill it. Now this is impossible. You aren't even allowed to leave comments anywhere. Again, they claim this is to protect the end users from "spam" and we see the same old "people were posting pizza" as an excuse. Somehow a small torrent tracker is impossible to moderate despite them having hundreds of moderators. Yet every other larger website on the internet doesn't seem to have a problem does it? Again, it's a control thing; They want to content what can and can not be posted. They want to control who and who can not post.

What we've been living through over the last decade or so is the slow death of the internet and free speech (and freedom of data) itself. Most likely, in another decade you won't be able to publish contenPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

There used to be a lot more variety in the earlier web. I think it's just that like the famous fax machines and website design out of 1998 they haven't moved on. I remember stuff like www2 and uhhh.... man I think my brain finally got rid of that useless information. I remember there was one specifically used for the "virtual reality" exploration stuff like uhh... huh. Yeah, I forgot.

>>1325
i've come across some www4.asdasdasd.com in a couple govt websites and they're actually like from the last few years

It's a primitive form of load balancing. One subdomain = one IP.

should've used gentoo

I just use jellyfin.

Oh, Plex has a self hosted option. I didn't see

Deleted my post because I think I figured it out.

>>1316
deletard

>>1316
on topic sager

I remember this site was a pretty useful resource when I was implementing A* for the first time:

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

>>351
Well, more presentation slides than paper

>>353
Djirska a shit

While A* is one of the fastest algorithms to find a path from A to B, it doesn't guarantee that it is the shortest path. Dijkstra on the other hand guarantees the shortest path, but takes much more time to find it.

>>384
This isn't true, the path found by A* is guaranteed to be optimal so long as the heuristic used is "admissible", meaning it never in any case over-estimates the distance to the goal. In practice, in-admissible heuristics are often used as they produce good-enough paths faster than using the equivalent admissible heuristic.

f.lux
https://justgetflux.com/

This is something I've been using for a few years and it just exists passively in the background so I forget about it. It's a simple program that automatically reduces the blueness of your screen dependent on your set sleep schedule and/or time of day. This is important for reducing eyestrain and supposedly it helps you sleep, but I can't confirm the latter. It's based on the reasoning that blue light is artificial and new whereas the sun in the evening and even fire is orange and that's what our eyes have adapted to process.
There are other programs that do it (and newer OS versions have their own version I think) but this is the one I've used. I wonder if there's better stuff out there, but this is free and it does exactly what it's supposed to do so I haven't bothered looking.

https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp

Been thinking about this ever since I got my Bluetooth headphones. They support LDAC, but Windows has no real bluetooth codec support like Android does. Found this which replaces the Bluetooth driver and adds support for LDAC, AptX LL, AptX HD. It works too. I was skeptical at first, but I tried it out with my Fiio BTR3 which has a little LED indicator that changes color based on codec used, and it absolutely works. I seriously appreciate being able to use LDAC with granular settings. My headphones used to cut out whenever I would walk to the kitchen and stand near my fridge, but now it just cuts down to a lower bandwidth and maintains the connection.

It's paid, but with a week-long trial period. If you buy it before the trial expires, you get a discounted price. Only gripe is that the license is hardware-tied, meaning you need to buy additional licenses for any additional computers you have. The price is discounted for additional purchases, but it still is kind of annoying. Still, I think it's well worth the price.

Nice, a software thread.

Does anyone know any script that blocks users or tage on pixiv? Either that or filters posts based on region? I'm trying to block gaijin on my feed. Some bug man and worse koreans are okay I guess, but western posts I want them out of my feed for the most part. Too much crappy art from them.

somehow AG Grid has become more intuitive through their latest maj. vers update. Everything gets set through a single ```setGridOption``` function that uses a string key to act...

>>478
Oh, I didn't see this until now. I remember using a Pixiv Toolkit script thing, but I don't think it had anything like that. You're probably out of luck.

$config['allowed_ext_files'][] = 'webm';

...........

// WebM Settings
$config['webm']['use_ffmpeg'] = true;
$config['webm']['expected_format'] = array('webm' => 'webm', 'mp4' => 'mp4');
$config['webm']['video_codecs'] = array('vp8', 'vp9', 'h264', 'av1');
$config['webm']['allow_audio'] = true;
$config['webm']['max_length'] = 90000;
$config['webm']['ffmpeg_path'] = 'ffmpeg';
$config['webm']['ffprobe_path'] = 'ffprobe';

Have ffmpeg , ffprobe installed on your server device

also you probably need google's webm package that likely is installed by apt install webm-dev

how to disallow webp?

>>381
by not having it in the allowed_ext

It's quite well documented in the config.php file (that you're not supposed to edit, use instance-config.php to overwrite default valuse). There's comments everywhere and what it does. Just mess around with it.
Why disable mp4 and allow webm? mp4 has highest support.
I thank you greatly for using vichan. It's far less of an eyesore as a user than all the newer ones.
Wakaba is pretty decent too in terms of being a pleasant user experience, but it's a lot more hassle for the admin.

I don't really get it. Seems kind of fun, I guess? No one actually wants an OS that takes extra time to do stuff, though. It's like how movies imagined the future internet as a VR world in which you would take 5 minutes to 'walk' to another website through a polygonal street with a colorful avatar, which looks cool in a movie but would be dreadful in real life because you want things NOW as soon as you can click them.
At least it's not Lain again, although some kids do have a strange fascination with Azumanga due to algorithms or something. I actually replayed Day of the Tentacle a few years ago and it still held up.

>>371
The Azumanga Druglord Game got me curious.

The idea that not all AIs are the same is pretty old. So I don't see a problem with the denomination of AGI as a lofty ideal.

>Robot maids with free will?
Free will is a bit of a myth, anyway.
You cannot choose your primary wants. If you choose wants, then you do so according to higher-ranking wants. But there is nothing that ranks higher than the highest rank. Those wants are therefore not of your choice. They are what defines you.
If you build a robot maid's AI from scratch, you might be in a position to directly write these primary objectives after which everything else in her personality must follow.

Well we probably won't get AGI anytime soon since ChatGPT has entered us into an arms race for the best LLM and that's all anyone is going to chase after for the time being instead of working on other models that could progress us towards that goal of AGI.

>>20
Well, in this case I meant something like you could have a robot maid that obeys the command to watch paint dry for 5 weeks straight. The "AI" I'm imagining would have enough knowledge of humanity and the world to find that command ridiculous and she would have the "choice" to reject it, but she doesn't have to understand the deep philosophical implications of why. If she's sentient then she's going to do something else other than being my cute robot maid because that would pretty lame for any intelligent creature instead of idealized artificial personalities.

>>367
Seems like the arms race has been slowing down, though. The money is starting to dry up since all the investors throwing money around wildly without any plan have yet to get their short-term profits and that's all they care about.

>>368
It's not that the long-term doesn't matter, it's that exasperated tech guys and business analysts are actively combating the marketing push to have """AI""" everywhere and helping people understand that there aren't actually many good ways to use generative LLMs that aren't just slight improvements on things they already had bots doing, like customer support. The money is in selling the idea of AI, not in anything they will actually accomplish.

>>346
>If they would release these for public use we'd have more than enough to go around.
Most of them did. Only 5 companies are still on "class A" legacy assignment and 2 of them are ISPs, so that leaves 3. The US military reserves far more IP addresses than any of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
>>345
>they control all the servers and end points
Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.

>>347
>Only end points really matter because of encryption which is the part they have the least control of.
I have some bad news for you...

>US military
Private company. Just the blocks companies like Google and Microsoft are sitting on unused would keep things going for many years to come. IPv6 itself is a garbage standard for many reasons. Mainly because it isn't readable to a human like v4. They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.

The default config for most IPv6 ISPs is hilariously bad. My ISP has been converting over lately and forced my LAN on to IPv6 one night with a fireware update. Within minutes I had bots from all over the internet attempting to log-in to every device on my network. My home media server was sending data over the internet and then back to my set-top device under a television in the same room. All behind my back.

After that experience I invested in a proper router and bought my own modem to. ISP wiped out my entire config behind my back for no reason because I got lazy and used their router instead of my own. Now my LAN is segregated from the rest of the world as much as humanly possible. ISP just straight up by-passed my firewall with one simple config file that they didn't disclose to customers. They had backdoor access to everyone's network even when it was supposed to be turned off and they promised to never do anything like that.

I'm worried they will take away my ability to use my own modem soon. Their latest modems do not allow you to log-in and they've already removed 2 of the former 5 approved devices from the list of modems you can run on their network. Just getting my modem approved took multiple calls to the ISP and no one was trained to deal with the request. If I change the MAC address of the modem I'll have to go through that all over again. Last Christmas they "forgot" I had my own device and sent a tech out unannounced to install their new modem. I wouldn't let him in the house. He claimed they shut off my service if I didn't but in the end I won that battle. But I fear I'll be losing the war.

>>348
>I have some bad news for you...
You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
>They could have extended the address space by simply adding another decimal point and things would have been fine for the foreseeable future.
This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
The rest of your post is the usual technobabbling typical of /g/ spinoffs. Comments like
>The move to IPv6 is mostly about being able to track each device on each LAN.
Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.

>>344
>Tor is much less popular than VPN that it's possible to monitor all connections to the Tor network
Ok? All Tor browsers are configured the same though so it's easier to blend inside a Tor user swarm. Remember that all Tor nodes IP adresses are public though.
>I remember there was a news article about a college student who was caught this way.
Don't spread FUD please. The guy was convicted because he confessed, not because of Tor itself.
>You want at least VPN+Tor.
You can do that if you want but it adds another layer of complexity

>>349
>You're saying they have less control over routing devices directly in the hands of ISPs than the endpoints? Bullshit.
I'm saying your encryption doesn't matter when you're using a CPU known to have multiple backdoors and a random number generator that isn't truly random.
>This just shows you don't have a dime of knowledge about computer programming and system interoperability, and you have zero understanding on why IPv6 adoption is so slow. Your idea is no better than IPv6.
I'm pretty sure I've spent more time in a class room and the real world than you. But I didn't insult you like you chose to insult me. Which is pretty much your M.O. any time you disagree with someone.

Any system that is not both readable and easy to quickly transverse by a human is a flawed system. Which is exactly why we told everyone IPv6 was a bad idea over 25 years ago. It's also why we're 25 years past initial roll out and it's still not being used anywhere that matters. Maybe if you dealt with IPv6 -> IPv4 networking regularly you'd understand why it's stupid and not deployed widely. You'd also understand why having every device in a customers home _DIRECTLY CONNECTED AND PINGABLE FROM THE GLOBAL WAN_ is a _really_ bad idea. Hence why ISPs continue to rely on NAT. Since it's a cheap effective firewall that the customer doesn't turn off without going through multiple steps. Access that's being taken away from most customers now because 99% have no idea what they're doing. Which is making the lives of the 1% that know much worse in the process.

>Shows you have less than a shallow knowledge of networking. Public accessible LAN is not a unique property of IPv6, and I have personally use such IPv4 network before.
Yeah you can expose a computer directly to the WAN on any IP network. The difference is in IPv6 it's the DEFAULT.

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Again. If you expect privacy and security on a network controlled by the Government and some "private companies" known to hand over information without a warrant you're in for a bad time. You are no more protected on VPN/tor than you are directly connecting from someone. The only difference is now instead of your ISP knowing everything you do Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

analogies always fail when computers and humans try to intermix terminology

anything higher than your refresh rate is just unnecesarry strain on your hardware

This is stupid, you have two eyes so what you see are two frames _all_ the time.