If it's a server app, I almost always have to switch to Postgres eventually so now I start with Postgres.

I think settled law may be that it applies to everyone in the US, but the settled reality is that none of the amendments apply to anyone, and more generally, there are no human rights in the US.

There is no trace from a dead body back to the original act of killing, but police regularly manage to link them anyway (at least when the body had a large enough bank account).

They do this by means such as "questioning people" and "finding evidence". For example, if you have a file on your computer describing your plan to use XOR to infringe copyright, that would be considered "evidence".

This steps over the fact that the first crime is considerably messy while the other is extremely clean and can be committed where the law cannot see without a warrant.

Important note: Only if you already know which one was corrupted.

Why do people keep proposing alternatives to IPv6 that are no easier than IPv6 but still require the whole world to start the deployment over from 0%?

I'd say it's either because they're just having fun, or because they're dumb.

I am rather infuriated that it's impossible to disable IPv4 on my devices, so does that make us even?

Yes I believe so!

I recently purchased a brand-new LaserJet printer, and since it needs nothing to do with the Internet or a WAN outside my home, I thought it'd be great to simply disable IPv4 and stop doing the DHCP dance.

Well it immediately fell off the net completely. I couldn't figure out how to expose its IPv6 address or contact its management interface.

Hypothetically, Bonjour and mDNS should make this a no-brainer. Hypothetically, disabling IPv4 shouldn't even prevent it from connecting to the Internet. But I was ultimately forced to factory-reset it.

IPv6-only LAN makes a lot of sense for most people, and perhaps reduces attack surface a little. If you have the means, I highly recommend setting it up!

Ignore all the excuses like longer addresses and incompatible hardware. The actual reason is that everyone hates change.

It could be that they don't want to implement IP bans in IPv6.

How does IP bans work in IPv6 case? One just blocks whole /64 or /56 address range?

I have not had a deal with this, but if I was going to, I would start at the /64 and move up by nibble (4-bit) boundaries: /64, /60, /56, /52, /48.

/56 is often recommended as the minimum as for a (residential) customer. /48 is considered a "site" address prefix, and is the smallest allocation that can be advertised in BGP:

* https://blog.apnic.net/2020/06/01/why-is-a-48-the-recommende...

* https://www.infoblox.com/blog/ipv6-coe/a-48-for-every-site-a...

You get 65k subnets with it, which is what you get with 10/8.

Yes, /64 is a reasonable starting point for blocking outright, but /48 is the right unit for scoring reputation.

Or the most likely more expensive rate limiting (computational wise)

I mean, given how the site performs on average I don't think they've optimized so much that the extra cpu cycles of ANDing with the fixed constant of 2^64-1 and then looking up or hashing a 16 byte integer - whatever they do - rather than a 4 byte one would increase the load significantly. Let's be pessimistic and say it's 20 extra cpu cycles, that's not gonna be much of a problem if their load balancers were made in the past 20 years.

> Web Serial

why in the absolute fuck would I want random web pages to be able to control all the devices connected to my computer?

It's essentially for programming microcontrollers, ESP32's and the like. It's really handy. You have to confirm the connection every time.

I have an idea - what if a webpage could just run arbitrary code? With a confirmation every time. Then you wouldn't need a WebX for every X.

It's completely legal to ignore a DMCA notice. These notices set up a procedure where you're definitely not liable, but it doesn't mean it's the only way to not be liable. You can also not be liable if you - for example - didn't do anything illegal.