I don't know, Stephen King could write anything that matches the horror that was the management of UK car companies in the second half of the 20th century. British Leyland was a disaster from start to finish.
Unlike the EU and the US, the UK doesn't have any major car companies anymore, so there's less of an incentive for them to apply tariffs on Chinese imports.
No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spare.
So if I wanted to annoy GitHub, I could connect to them without ever using the same IP twice. Their response would have to be banning my /64, or possibly /56.
> No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spare.
No, as it's supposed to be implemented a single internet-routable /64 is used per *network* and then most devices are expected to assign themselves a single address within that network using SLAAC.
ISPs are then expected to provide each connected *site* with at least a /56 and in some cases a /48 so the site's admins can then split that apart in to /64s for whatever networks they may have running at the site. That said, I'm on AT&T fiber and I am allocated a /60 instead, which IMO is still plenty for a home internet connection because even the most insane homelab setups are rarely going to need more than 16 subnets.
> So if I wanted to annoy GitHub, I could connect to them without ever using the same IP twice. Their response would have to be banning my /64, or possibly /56.
Well yeah, but it's not like it's exactly rocket science to implement any sorts of IP rate limiting or blocking at the subnet level instead of individual IP. For those purposes you can basically assume that a v6 /64 is equivalent to a v4 /32. A /56 is more or less comparable to /25 through /29 block assignments from a normal ISP, and a /48 is comparable to a /24 as the smallest network that can be advertised in the global routing tables.
It is because the IPv6 rollout has not been consistent. Some assign /64 per machine, some assign /64 per data center. Some even go the other way and do a /56 per machine. We've had to build up a list of overrides to do some ranges by /64 and others by /128 because of how they allocate addresses. This creates extra burden on server operators and it's not surprising that some just choose not to deal with it.
What can you do to get a new IPv6 network that is easier than getting a new IPv4?
Stuff like bouncing a modem, getting a new VPS, making a VPN connection I would expect to be pretty similar. And getting a block officially allocated to you is a lot of work.
Why are we pretending that you are checking logs and adding firewall rules manually. Anything worth ddosing is going to have automatic systems that take care of this. If not put an ai agent on it.
I, for one, have never needed AI for anything ever in my life.
AI has, however, made my life noticably worse. Especially when dealing with braindead robot driven customer "support". But also in making it financially impossible to buy more RAM or upgrade a GPU.
I think we'd be better off without yet another bubble.
Were you born yesterday? Phone AIs being dumb didn't take LLMs at all. They were always stupid and frustrating to deal with substitutes for customer support.
This is so unhelpful. What has happened in the last 5 weeks has hugely escalated the violence in an already difficult situation. It's not wishful thinking or naive to think that deliberately inflaming a difficult situation is a bad idea.
The approach is fundamentally different: in Europe it's organized by where you want to go (or do), in the US it's organized by cardinal directions.
In the US, if you're on 89th Street and 5th Avenue, and you want to visit your friend on 10th and 1st Avenue, you'll know exactly which direction to drive. Need to go to another city? Take the highway following the direction the other city is. Americans are typically good at knowing where the sun rises, or are always getting lost.
In Europe, you know your friend lives by the main hospital, so you follow the signs indicating the hospital, and then (if you're lucky) signs to your friend's neighborhood. From there you need to know how to get to the street they live on. Need to get to another city? Follow the highway signs indicating that city, if it's close by, otherwise you'll need to know what cities are on the way to it.
When we lived in the US, I could easily find any address in most cities. My wife was always getting lost, sometimes going to the complete other side of town.
We've been in Europe for over a decade now. She has no problems getting around to most places she needs to. I'm always getting lost going someplace new.
I'm personally convinced that the road systems of New England were of some influence on Lovecraft in his conception of cosmic horror. A map of Boston roads does tend to evoke the concepts of non-Euclidean geometry and tentacle monsters
Typical case of short sighted capitalism.
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