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Comment · 1 day ago
The reason why this very very silly article can continue to exist is that Reliable Sources have deemed this to be notable by repeatedly writing about its subject. If you want to complain about it, you should complain to them.

Wikipedia is a mirror of the world, not an authority that defines it.

Comment · 1 day ago
This is one of these circular relationships. You and your friends can experience true, free, cooperation exactly because you don't have to be on guard 24/7 against enemies, because you live in a civil society that has rules, and people to enforce those rules - ultimately by coercion through violence.

Peaceful anarchy evaporates when bad actors arrive. I wish it wasn't so. A structured civil society is the nearest we've managed to get to being able to live in relative freedom almost all of the time. It's the least violent, least coerced option we've been able to find.

The other way would be to go live in a group by yourselves off the grid, and as long as every one of you is good and decent that will be fine, but the moment one of you goes bad, you either have to choose violence or they will do whatever they want to you.

Comment · 1 day ago
Your greedy ISP won't provide you with IPv6 for financial reasons - it's cheaper not to change or upgrade systems. This won't change until they start to provide you with IPv6 for financial reasons, as they reach the point where going to IPv6 starts to be a cost saving for them rather than having to run two different networks at once, with a whole bunch of CGNAT to keep the IPv4 part of it going.
Comment · 1 day ago
The US is already 55% IPv6, and this figure is only going to go up in future as ISPs decide to migrate their network cores to IPv6 for financial reasons, making IPv4 a lower-performance edge protocol riding on CGNAT on top of IPv6. Similar selfishness elsewhere will start to drive other parts of the ecosystem to IPv6, and the problem will solve itself.
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At which point they might as well use a database to keep track of the money, like banks do, and drop the cryptocurrency aspect, which was only ever a fig-leaf to keep regulators away.
Comment · 1 day ago
This is absolutely what true anarchy looks like. Before you can blink, someone else has taken over, and now you have a new boss, only worse.
Comment · 4 days ago
That is an excellent way of looking at things - if a distillation attack against a model is bad, so should be a distillation attack against mankind. I'd argue that this suggests the former should be legal, rather than the latter becoming illegal.
Comment · 4 days ago
Copyright maximalists would argue that even making a copy in RAM would be copyright infringement.
Comment · 4 days ago
Perhaps if those logs were streamed to a non-compromised machine and stored there
Comment · 4 days ago
I'd be interested to hear its opinions about the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Comment · 8 days ago
I'm glad to confirm your suspicion. I like to have both a walled-garden phone and several open-platform computers. They do two completely different things for me.

To be honest, I'd like my open computers to be even more open and hackable, with a secure boot path that doesn't involve any mysterious unpatchable embedded firmware or auxiliary CPUs, but we are slowly getting there with RISC V.

Comment · 10 days ago
The very most you can say for Drupal is that it is better than Wordpress at its worst. All the goodwill for Drupal was burnt years ago.
Comment · 12 days ago
> Close to 3 decades and we are barely scraping 50%

That's what I'd regard as a success.

With majority IPv6 in most leading economies, and getting close to or just over 50% worldwide, the tipping point has been reached and IPv6 is now the dominant IP protocol. The future is a long slow slide of the public use of IPv4 into oblivion, just as envisaged in the original IPv6 planning, and IPv4 support will eventually become a compatibility layer tunnelled over all-IPv6 networks, just as IPv6 was originally tunnelled via IPv4. In the longer-term future, once public IPv4 traffic has reduced to only a couple of percent, ISPs will start to turn it off as an irrelevance, leaving v4 as a legacy protocol for LANs and private networks. Expect this sometime in the late 21st century or early 22nd. Some very old IoT devices may stop working, but everyone who cares about any important use will have replaced them long before.

Meanwhile, the Internet will continue to operate seamlessly for everyone else.

Comment · 15 days ago
Trivially, all finite neural networks can be represented to arbitrary precision by implementing them with digital logic. All digital logic can be represented by computer programs, so at this point we can pull in the entire apparatus of abstract interpretation, program proving and so on.

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