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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
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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'
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
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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'
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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byamorsen
2025 @10:48AM
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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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byamorsen
025 @05:27PM
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Attached to: Windows Power Users Frustrated as Microsoft Forces Automatic App Updates
That is somewhat misleading. In this case you control (more or less) the client, so you can install a root certificate on your firewall and the client and let the firewall do its MitM on all your traffic. If Windows tries to evade that, the firewall will fail to decrypt the traffic and block it, which was the intended result. If Windows does not evade the MitM, the firewall can do full L7 filtering just like in the good old days.
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byamorsen
2025 @01:03PM
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Attached to: Kodak Says It'll Figure Things Out and Won't Shut Down
It is wild that companies get to manage pension funds. That kind of thing is not legal around here...
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byamorsen
25 @04:39AM
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Attached to: KDE Calls Microsoft's Copilot Key 'Dumb', Will Let You Remap It Soon
One great use would be as an extra modifier for global shortcuts. So e.g. Control+Copilot+G to launch Gimp, and so on. I could make good use of that.
You can't do that. The copilot is not a real key to the keyboard protocol. It sends something like Windows, Shift, F23. You cannot sensibly combine it with other keys or make it reliably control a modifier state. This is completely unlike the Windows key which is not only its own unique keycode but also typically gets non-conflicting lines on the keyboard matrix, so the hardware lets you combine it with any other key.
There are still unused keycodes available, AFAIK. It makes zero sense that the Copilot key was crippled. If it was only crippled in hardware, vendors could fix that, but the only way to fix the Copilot key is to reprogram the keyboard controller firmware, which then makes it incompatible with Windows.
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byamorsen
25 @08:49AM
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Attached to: Microsoft's $30 Windows 10 Security Updates Cover 10 Devices
Not the only one. My laptop and all my virtual machines (other than appliances) run Fedora, and the 6-month upgrade does not break anything.
Normal updates are automatically applied every morning.
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byamorsen
@02:11PM
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Attached to: Why Your Car's Touchscreen Is More Dangerous Than Your Phone
Second, the steering wheel always overrides lane-assist. If you want to stay further left or right than the car encourages, you can totally do that.
In every car except Teslas. In a Tesla, the lane assist will not allow deviations from its chosen path. If you try to correct it, it will fight you until you do it strongly enough, at which point it will turn off entirely.
There is no "encourage" in a Tesla.
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byamorsen
025 @05:19PM
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Attached to: Boeing 787's Emergency-Power System Likely Active Before Air India Crash
Steeeve has been spouting nonsense, blaming the pilots without having any concrete evidence. Then his next video suddenly comes up with "oh, new evidence, the RAT deployed" even though there had been reports of this within hours of the crash.
He has zero credibility at this point.
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byamorsen
5 @02:27PM
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Attached to: Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
You can't shield that well. Navigation signals are ridiculously weak.
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byamorsen
@08:18AM
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Attached to: Danes Are Finally Going Nuclear. They Have To, Because of All Their Renewables
This is the kind of article I would expect in Pravda in the "good" old days of the Soviet Union.
These are some of the lies in the article:
The "ban" never existed, it was just a decision not to plan for nuclear power. Lifting the "ban" will not allow anyone to build nuclear reactors; that requires a separate legal framework.
The Danish grid has solved the inertia problem by buying commercial off-the-shelf synchronous compensators, at a far lower cost than implementing nuclear power.
The "ban" is not being lifted yet, the government is merely ordering an analysis of whether it makes sense to remove it.
Nuclear power is not being considered because it might help grid stability but because some people / politicians are worried about the fluctuating prices of electricity.
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byamorsen
25 @03:26PM
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Attached to: VMware Perpetual License Holders Receive Cease-And-Desist Letters From Broadcom
Indeed, it makes zero sense.
Broadcom, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to redefine the term "zero day".
"Broadcom defines a zero-day security patch as a patch or workaround for Critical Severity Security Alerts with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score greater than or equal to 9.0."
https://knowledge.broadcom.com...
So for Broadcom, zero day just means "really bad".
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byamorsen
5 @03:06PM
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Attached to: Pope Francis Has Died
So, who will they elect as the next Pedophile-in-Chief?
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