henfredemars

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henfredemars, (edited )

100%! The arguments I heard against building the station were asinine. The logic just doesn’t follow. For example, the train is dangerous to children? Well how about the actual highway that runs next to the track? Clearly that’s not a threat or dangerous to residents in any way. As we all know, cars are perfectly safe. One little girl gets hit by the train and we ignore all the deaths of the children from auto accidents. The rail is overwhelmingly safer.

I’ve lived in this town for quite a long time and it’s a common occurrence to see cars stopped on the train tracks. While we have plenty of idiots, I can hardly blame the train if a car gets hit. It should always be the fault of the vehicle.

henfredemars,

My stupid town hasn’t even succeeded in preventing the train from passing through. They just don’t want a station here so no one can benefit from the train. What a stupid stupid policy.

henfredemars,

90% of traffic engineer stop adding lanes right before traffic is solved.

henfredemars,

I know I’m preaching to the choir but we need to do more and yesterday.

henfredemars,

I can offer you worse. Rolling coal is legal here. It’s considered cool to put out lots of black exhaust.

henfredemars,

We are so fucked. I focus on enjoying the time we have.

henfredemars, (edited )

To be clear, it’s legal and common especially because we don’t have any emissions standards enforcement. In my state, there is no test whatsoever, and even if you’re blatantly belching clouds of smoke it is 100% tolerated. It’s a bizarre badge of honor among some hyper conservative residents to pollute as much as possible.

I think operating a motor vehicle should entail a certain degree of responsibility including environmental responsibility.

henfredemars, (edited )

All consumer and enterprise equipment made in the last 10+ years natively support IPv6.

I object to this statement. You can buy name brand routers today that don’t implement it properly. Sure, they route packets, but they have broken stateless auto configuration or don’t respect DHCPv6 options correctly, and the situation is made worse because you don’t know how your ISP implements IPv6 until you try it.

God help you if you need a firewall where you can open ports on v6. Three years ago I bought one that doesn’t even properly firewall IPv6.

I tested a top-of-the-line Netgear router to find that it doesn’t support opening ports and once again doesn’t correctly support forwarded IP DHCPv6, which even if that works correctly, your Android clients can’t use it 🫠 Decades later there’s no consensus on how it should function on every device. This is a severe problem when you are a standard.

The state of IPv6 on consumer hardware is absolute garbage. You have to guess how your ISP implements it if at all, and even then you’re at the mercy of your limited implementation. If you’re lucky it just works with your ISP router. If you’re not, it’s a PITA.

EDITs: spell corrections and clarification.

henfredemars, (edited )

That sounds awesome.

I really like stateless, but it bugs me that the router has to snoop on traffic if you want a list of devices. The good ones will actually do this, but most are blind to how your network is being used with IPv6.

And it really bothers me that Android just refuses to support DHCPv6 in any capacity. Seems like a weird hill to die on. There are too many legitimate use cases.

henfredemars, (edited )

The problem is mainly that IPv4 port forwarding is network address translation, but on IPv6 it’s instead IP forwarding with a firewall rule.

The latter is conceptually simpler, but it’s a different mechanism and one that most home routers don’t bother to implement. This is quite ironic because IPv6 was intended to restore end to end connectivity principles.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m quite happy with the standard. They are very few good implementations of that standard, and given the momentum of its predecessor, implementers just don’t care.

henfredemars, (edited )

Right, that’s how it should work. Unfortunately that’s not how it actually works most of the time in consumer.

Many devices don’t provide an option in the UI to open an inbound port on IPv6. For example, the latest and most expensive Linksys gaming router blocks all inbound connections and there are no options for different behavior. It doesn’t support opening any ports for v6.

The most recent TP link device I tested for my dad doesn’t even have a firewall. If you know the global IP, you can connect to any port you want.

henfredemars,

It absolutely can be DHCP. There’s two main ways to do it: stateless auto configuration, and DHCP. Super briefly, you can assign IP addresses the same way you used to if you want, or you can let devices pick their own.

I’m afraid I can’t recommend a great resource, but I really like the Wikipedia article because it’s very precise in its terminology. I appreciate that with learning a new subject. I’m not even that precise here. For example, I use the term IP forwarding more liberally than what it actually means.

henfredemars,

I’ve never tried ASUS or UDM. I might have to give that a go. Alas, I can only speak on the selection of what I have tried in the recent past.

henfredemars, (edited )

Sadly it’s not an option for example you want WiFi 6. A good chunk of really awesome hardware doesn’t support it.

Of course, it’s always possible to use bridging and multiple devices. That’s what I have now.

Lastly, the original statement supposed that all recent hardware supports IPv6 by default. OpenWRT doesn’t typically fit that description.

henfredemars,

Ever received a Slack or a teams message that’s just your name but no context as to what’s actually needed? Like they need to confirm you’re there but don’t want to reveal why they’re asking.

“John.”

Problem is whether or not I’m present has a lot to do with the question.

henfredemars,

Consider that I’m free to use either of these, and that we are having this conversation here, on Lemmy.

Nevertheless, the thread has been interesting.

henfredemars, (edited )

We cannot make old communities, but the second best time to plant a tree is today. That’s why I’m here, commenting and posting.

henfredemars,

I believe it’s an ancient proverb. Nothing is truly original, but it applies to many areas such as self improvement.

henfredemars,

Taking cars off the road by reducing vehicle reliance seems like such a cost-effective solution that we just don’t want to consider.

henfredemars,

I had a guy lay on his horn because I chose not to run over the old lady crossing the street.

henfredemars,

You are sweet. Thank you.

henfredemars,

Such a great game. I love the dodging mechanic.

henfredemars,

Marine biomes are also enormous heat sinks. As expected, soaring global temperatures are putting them under incredible stress. But last year, the oceans also experienced a spike in warming that outpaced even the most pessimistic predictions, bewildering scientists. Who knows, then, just how extreme these compounding catastrophes can get.

henfredemars,

Pretty sure an airline was forced to pay out on a fake policy that one of their support bots spouted.

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