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r00ty r00ty @kbin.life

I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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Rishi Sunak reveals his favourite meal is sandwiches in last-minute appeal to voters
  • Too late, I voted against him. If only I saw this before I left!

  • Temu has finally gone too far.
  • Everyone's hell, is a personal hell.

  • Anon learns that his grandfather dodged being drafted
  • Humans? I knew it! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!

  • Anon learns that his grandfather dodged being drafted
  • Killing for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to.

    Fixed thar for you :P

  • The Steam Summer Sale is live now!
  • So between 0 and 20. 😛

  • Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA
  • Pretty sure mine was 16399753. But, not logged in for probably 15 or more years, so could be wrong.

    No idea whatsoever about the password :P

  • Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge
  • Well good news. Because ipv6 has a thing called privacy extensions which has been switched on by default on every device I've used.

    That generates random ipv6 addresses (which are regularly rotated) that are used for outgoing connections. Your router should block incoming connections to those ips but the os will too. The proper permanent ip address isn't used for outgoing connections and the address space allocated to each user makes a brute force scan more prohibitive than scanning the whole Ipv4 Internet.

    So I'm going to say that using routable ipv6 addresses with privacy extensions is more secure than a single Ipv4 Nat address with dnat.

  • Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge
  • Weird. Ipv6 and YouTube stats for nerds shows between 140mbit and 600mbit depending on what's being watched and the time of day.

    Is it possible your isp has problems with their ipv6 setup?

    IPv6 overheads should only have a marginal impact on max speeds.

  • Networking Dilemma
  • I think people's experience with PLE will always be subjective. In the old flat we were in, where I needed it. It would drop connection all the time, it was unusable.

    But I've had them run totally fine in other places. Noisy power supplies that aren't even in your place can cause problems. Any kind of impulse noise (bad contacts on an old style thermostat for example) and all kinds of other things can and will interfere with it.

    Wifi is always a compromise too. But, I guess if wiring direct is not an option, the OP needs to choose their compromise.

  • Disk space counted twice on root folder?
  • Aha, glad to hear it.

  • Disk space counted twice on root folder?
  • OK, one possibility I can think of. At some point, files may have been created where there is currently a mount point which is hiding folders that are still there, on the root partition.

    You can remount just the root partition elsewhere by doing something like

    mkdir /mnt/rootonly
    mount -o bind / /mnt/rootonly
    
    

    Then use du or similar to see if the numbers more closely resemble the values seen in df. I'm not sure if that graphical tool you used that views the filesystem can see those files hidden this way. So, it's probably worth checking just to rule it out.

    Anyway, if you see bigger numbers in /mnt/rootonly, then check the mount points (like /mnt/rootonly/home and /mnt/rootonly/boot/efi). They should be empty, if not those are likely files/folders that are being hidden by the mounts.

    When finished you can unmount the bound folder with

    umount /mnt/rootonly

    Just an idea that might be worth checking.

  • what Lemmy communities don't exist but you wish they did?
  • Most smaller instances will let you make a new community.

    Getting people to subscribe, that's your problem.

  • It's real
  • I think it's more twitter slang. Sure it can be applied elsewhere. But I've mostly heard it used regarding twitter posts.

  • The meaning of life
  • I think we should qualify the question. I think I'd like to hear a reason for society as a whole to exist that is reasoned and has a firm basis in logic and has no emotive or circular reference.

    Because I cannot see the point of it (and I've been accused of being a pessimist, depressed and worse for expressing this opinion). So, I would really like to hear an actual reason for us all to be here.

  • CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages
  • No! Those trickle-down economics they told us about will be kicking in any time now! I'm certain!

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.
  • Yeah, but they're not. That's the modern world. But also even if it was a web server there's usually ways to advertise the IP for the app to connect to. I've seen other stuff do that. So getting an IP is easy. Once the app knows the IP and if you really want to allow connections from outside to your IOT devices (I wouldn't) it could remember the IP and allow that.

    You really don't need to give a fixed IP to everything. I think I've given 1 or 2 things fixed IPv6 IPs. Everything else is fine with what it assigns itself.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.
  • Only if you're a masochist.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.
  • Hah. But to be fair, ATM did have a specific use that it worked great for. That is the move to digital voice circuits. The small fixed cell size and built in QoS meant that if you had a fixed line size you could fit X voice channels, and they would all be extremely low latency and share the bandwidth fairly. You didn't need to buffer beyond one cell of data and you didn't need to include overhead beyond the cell headers.

    ATM was designed to handle the "future" or digital network needs. But, the immediate use was about voice frames and that likely dictated a lot of the design I'd expect.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.
  • You should only assign static ipv6 to servers, in theory you could just define a host id and use a prefix too. But, most people at home really aren't running enough servers to make that worthwhile. Everything else should just pick up new addresses fine using ND.

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  • Per 100g is quite normal across Europe too (because you can kinda treat the values like a percentage or at least compare to any other product). We usually in the UK have per 100g and either per serving size or package size.

  • www.bbc.co.uk SCO summit: Putin says sanctions making Russia stronger

    He spoke at the SCO summit which took place virtually under Indian PM Narendra Modi's leadership.

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