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My IPS changes my prefix once in while. I consider this a privacy feature, not a bug. Now I find myself in a situation that my devices are not reachable anymore as when the IPv6 ad…

Let's say when your ipv6 prefix changes it is almost the same situation. Only that ipv4 bundles all traffic of all devices on one ip which obfuscates a bit. But having the ipv6 pre…

Never checked. But it does change once in a while. The router has a dyndns function which updates a DNS entry, but only for the router itself. But this is sufficient for the NAT po…

My ISP changes the prefix on a regular base (and on request)

"IPv6 is the next generation of the Internet Protocol (IP), the successor to IPv4." This is a misconception. It is not the successor to IPv4, it is an alternative. Maybe the altern…

Router has a DynDNS function. I am using a reverse proxy for multiple services, but this only sets up router IP and IPv4 NAT port forwarding to the reverse proxy. So what would be …

Currently my IPS provides IPv6, but I set up my firewall in the access router of my home LAN to block all IPv6 in both directions. - I don't want to have a permanent global unchang…

Arguably lots of UIs getting worse with every iteration of redesign. - Windows GUI went downhill from Windows 7 (or even XP) with every release. - Outlook went from good over fair …

> Why would smart people care about denim vs. trousers? Mostly it's about the sponsors. It's much more difficult to get sponsors for an event if the participants are dressed like t…

Before OOP became popular the usage of global variables was discouraged in procedural languages because it was the cause of many bugs and errors. In OOP global state variables were…

"...connect to the Windows experience they know and love.." I am not in that target group.

Here in Germany you can see how this argument evolves. For the Green party everything which disagrees with their position is declared nowadays rated as "hate speech" because the on…

Yet another article about problems you'd never have if you wouldn't use object oriented paradigm.

Quick test: Try to imagine the following and then answer the questions beneath. Imagine a table with a ball on it. A person is approaching the table, pushes the ball gently, and th…

Russel Hurlburt differentiates between - Inner Speech: Inner speech is the experience of speaking words in the person's own voice, with the same vocal characteristics (timbre; rate…

> Per capita Is this a good metric? For a potential drug consumer it is more relevant which health/social risk is involved if taking a certain drug once/sometimes/regularly.

What do you need the email for?

Was Vice a thing? I only occasionally visited the site, mostly after having link to a presumably interesting story. Most of the content I found mildly interesting at best, but my m…

Buttons without any visible frames - do not provide optical lines to be aligned with other screen elements (look more chaotic on the screen) - are visually more difficult to find o…

This. I still keep IPv6 turned of in my local network at home.

After Minecraft was acquired by Microsoft I had to create a Microsoft account for my 9 year old elementary school daughter so she could keep on playing her beloved Minecraft. After…

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Because of the we did not like the taste of our tab water and we were concerned with plastic in the water when buying bottled water, we bought a reverse osmosis filter for home. We…

Let's face it: IT is the bureaucracy department of modern times which can keep itself 95% busy with self inflicted problems and has 5% service orientation. Processes are opaque for…

I don't program myself, but I do manage developers for 20yrs+. I normally don't care about what paradigm programmers use, but what I do empirically observe is that time spend on (a…