imrejonk (u/imrejonk)

imrejonk commented on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023) apalrd.net/posts/2023/net... · Posted by u/mahirsaid

> I spent a WEEK without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms

> NAT64 - the method I’ve setup for this test

> IPv6 is absolutely ready for prime-time and has been for awhile

So... No, you spent a week effectively using both v6 and v4 with extra steps. If someone said "Linux is ready for primetime" but their setup only worked because they ran a bunch of applications in a Windows VM, I'd call that strong evidence that it really wasn't. Same here.

That said... This is from early 2023. Any chance it's better now?

imrejonk · 3 days ago

My former colleague Marco Davids from SIDN Labs (the R&D department at the .nl TLD operator) did an experiment in 2021 where he actively disabled IPv4 support on all components in his test network, even disabling the complete IPv4 stack in the FreeBSD kernel (not possible on Linux, at least not at the time). So far, his test is the only thing I know of that came close to an authentic simulation of an IPv6-only world.

https://www.sidnlabs.nl/en/news-and-blogs/can-we-do-without-...

imrejonk commented on How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me anniemueller.com/posts/ho... · Posted by u/wonger_

rtodea · 3 months ago

This reminds me of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator[1]. I understand the frustration.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

imrejonk · 3 months ago

I was thinking about the same thing. Such a classic!

imrejonk commented on Strange CW Keys sites.google.com/site/oh6... · Posted by u/austinallegro

imrejonk · 4 months ago

I fully expected the smoke alarm CW key to work by picking up smoke signals: https://sites.google.com/site/oh6dccw/smoke-alarm-cw-key

imrejonk commented on IPv6 Based Canvas canvas.openbased.org/... · Posted by u/tylermarques

imrejonk · 5 months ago

Reminds me of the Pixelflut LED display. The hacker camp SHA2017 had one above a bar, 36C3 had one as well. Their traffic peaked at 4 Gbit/s and 30 Gbit/s respectively.

https://hackaday.com/2020/08/01/playing-the-pixelflut/

imrejonk commented on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own ssp.sh/blog/self-host-sel... · Posted by u/articsputnik

anotherpaul · 7 months ago

Glad I am not alone in this. Old laptops are much better than Raspberry pies and often free and power efficient.

imrejonk · 7 months ago

And: they have a crash cart (keyboard, mouse and display) and battery backup built-in. An old laptop is perfect for starting a homelab. The only major downside I can think of, and as another commenter already mentioned, is the limited storage (RAID) options.

imrejonk commented on Long Term Software Development berthub.eu/articles/posts... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

dijksterhuis · a year ago

> Keep it simple. Simpler than that. Yes, even simpler. You can always add the complexity later if needed!

This. A thousand times this. Be grug brained, not big brained.

imrejonk · a year ago

https://grugbrain.dev/

imrejonk commented on Charset="WTF-8" wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.co... · Posted by u/edent

account42 · a year ago

It's only insulting if you want to be insulted. You'd do better learning to understand that its a computer system and not a personal attack.

imrejonk · a year ago

While I agree with you that an error message like this should not be taken as a personal attack, it still causes a horrible user experience. It’s not like the developers of these systems had no choice in the wording of these errors: they picked the insensitive computer-says-no option, while they could have went with an apologetic “Sorry, our system does not support special characters” instead.

imrejonk commented on Charset="WTF-8" wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.co... · Posted by u/edent

imrejonk · a year ago

A system not supporting non-latin characters in personal names is pitiful, but a system telling the user that they have an invalid name is outright insulting.

imrejonk commented on IPv6 networks do apparently get probed utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

cassianoleal · a year ago

> Not if you disable your IPv6 stack.

The same technique can be used for IPv4. Disable both and become invulnerable to probing!

imrejonk · a year ago

Why stop there? Probes traverse the whole TCP/IP stack, best to stop them early at layer 1: https://www.bit.nl/news/115/88/Cut-here-to-activate-firewall...