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byamorsen
026 @08:00AM
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Attached to: 'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
Corrupt government officials? WTF? Is this really Slashdot? Show your evidence.
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byamorsen
026 @07:56AM
(#65900849)
Attached to: 'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
There are two ways around that.
First, if you happen to be attacking your neighbor and you share L2 WAN with them, you simply put the 10.x address in as destination IP and the neighbor MAC address as destination MAC. Done. No NAT required, the traffic will just pass.
Second, some NAT implementations look at only a three-tuple of IP, port, and protocol. If you connect from port 40000 to some random site, the NAT will translate that to a different port, say 30000, and it will allow any traffic from the entire world to port 30000 to hit port 40000 on your device. Hopefully your device does not have anything running on 40000 so it will all be fine -- but it might not be. This type of NAT used to be VERY popular, because it makes things like P2P traffic work without having to configure anything.
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byamorsen
026 @07:46AM
(#65900833)
Attached to: 'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
So you are saying that the firewall on the ISP device is going to save you from the attack that NAT failed to save you from? Why don't you trust the ISP to get the firewall right for IPv6 then?
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byamorsen
026 @07:31AM
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If there ever was a comment to show Slashdots decline, this one is it.
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bygarcia
2025 @10:50AM
(#65850943)
Attached to: Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.
That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.
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byamorsen
2025 @10:48AM
(#65835187)
Attached to: Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll
Reading all these comments makes it clear that we on Slashdot have become who we used to ridicule: Science-denying zealots.
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bygarcia
2025 @03:07PM
(#65803325)
Attached to: Google Launches Gemini 3, Its 'Most Intelligent' AI Model Yet
I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.
That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:
It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.
It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.
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bygarcia
025 @10:16AM
(#65785732)
Attached to: Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
No; it's absolutely a terrible idea. It may be great for the businesses; but, it's absolutely fucking terrible for the consumer.
This is absolutely fucking insanity. Imagine having to carry 6 different cards and wondering which one a particular store is going to take.
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bygarcia
2025 @04:58PM
(#65778496)
Attached to: US Software Firm SAS Exits China After 25 Years
SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.
We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.
I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"
Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.
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bygarcia
2025 @08:19PM
(#65763026)
Attached to: Google Shows Off Prototype Android XR Glasses From Extended Magic Leap Deal
1. There are a lot of empty seats; a lot.
2. The demo wasn't live, likely due to the huge failure of an event that the Meta one was.
3. They noted that you do all of this 'hands-free', likely an intentional knock at Meta's offering.
4. The examples were...odd. Who the fuck is going to be using this to shop for a fucking rug? Come on; give some real-life examples that are IMPORTANT. None of these were.
5. The entire presentation's style, across multiple different presenters, was...exhausting...halting...jarring...and...really undergraduate level. It was almost as if they were being fed what to say in their earpieces, not from memory and not in a fluid and practiced way.
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Personally? I love the idea of AR glasses that work well. I want to have live subtitles for humans talking to me as I'm hard of hearing and hearing aids do not work well for me, particularly in public spaces.
I want it to give me important information, respond to my environment in ways that are useful (telling me where I am really isn't that; I know where the fuck I am--tell me what I should be doing or where I should be going next, perhaps?)
I know these are early adopter level devices, but they're just fucking ugly due to their bulk.
I strongly prefer this option to Meta's simply because I don't have to do stupid fucking mime-style hand gestures, but I want this technology to be useful, now, not in 5 years. We're going to see this largely flop just like so many other AR/VR toys out there unless they make this something more than a gimmicky piece of shit.
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bygarcia
2025 @10:22AM
(#65761312)
Attached to: Mother Describes the Dark Side of Apple's Family Sharing
You clearly do not live in the US. The legal system does NOT do anything about anything (other than child support and alimony) as outlined in a divorce decree.
And, even if they MIGHT do something, you have to wait 12+ months to get on the court's docket, paying thousands of dollars to glorified expensive secretaries in the process while you wait.
The entire system is fucking broken.
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bygarcia
025 @05:59PM
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Attached to: Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era
I didn't say I had a problem with it; I was just stating that it's very commonplace and it has nothing to do with 'renter's mentality' as it happened when purchasing a home (this is the 4th home I've purchased in my lifetime).
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bygarcia
025 @08:29AM
(#65755412)
Attached to: Amazon Says It Will Cut 14,000 Corporate Roles To Remove Layers
A person with a 'management' title has no theoretical limit to the top end of their salary. Everyone else does.
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bygarcia
25 @05:44PM
(#65754418)
Attached to: Real Estate Is Entering Its AI Slop Era
I just bought a house in March. Any listing where the home was already vacated (95% in my case) the listing was AI-augmented with furniture that would not exist when I went to tour the home.
This has nothing to do w/renting; it's everywhere.
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bygarcia
25 @12:32PM
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Attached to: Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite
I was playing on a 53K USR Courier at 185 ping and that was a bit laggy when compared to the LAN at college (even if it was 4xT1s for 25K students). I really want to know how the hell you were able to do anything useful at 500+ms.
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