I vastly prefer CGNAT to IPv6, because CGNAT preserves my privacy by default, and IPv6 eliminates it by default. It’s that simple.

While it’s possible for an ISP to unmask me on CGNAT (Verizon and AT&T did in the early smartphone days)- and it’s possible for an ISP to NAT/Wildcard my IPv6 address for privacy - it’s the default in 99% of the cases; and I prefer default privacy to the ability to be directly addressable at home.

Phone cameras can see in IR. A classic trick to test if your TV remote is working is to look at the LED through a digital camera while pressing a button. Try it right now if you don't believe me.

What's missing is screens which can display meta information in the IR channel. I say we call the image format IRGB.

I've been in disagreements with SEO people quite frequently about a "Noindex" directive for robots.txt. There seem to be a bunch of articles that are sent to me every time I question its existence[0][1]. Google's own documentation says that noindex should be in the meta HTML but the SEO people seem to trust these shady sites more.

I haven't read through all of the code but it assuming this is actually what's running on Google's scrapers this section [2] seems to be pretty conclusive evidence to me that this Noindex thing is bullshit.

[0] https://www.deepcrawl.com/blog/best-practice/robots-txt-noin...

[1]https://www.stonetemple.com/does-google-respect-robots-txt-n...

[2] https://github.com/google/robotstxt/blob/59f3643d3a3ac88f613...