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There's almost certainly no future where IPv4 goes away. Not unless people abandon the Internet entirely and look for some alternative built on IPv6 from the start.

Good news is that Google is reporting that >40% of their traffic is IPv6:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Should crack 50% soon. It's been a long time coming.

Investors have created their own little Keynesian stimulus package by dumping money into AI. It's the only reason the US economy hasn't been contracting the last few months.

When this bubble pops, it's going to hurt. Bad. But it has to pop, and the sooner it happens, the better.

Sure it is. Self-hosted models aren't going to be a mass market technology any more than self-hosted Jellyfin servers are. The investment is all in big datacenters, and after three years of LLM hype, nobody has figured out how to make revenue that comes close to matching their investment. We're literally seeing $100B/year investment for returns of $10M over the same year.

You sound like the same people who said we'll all get left behind if we don't use NFTs.

Some of those "obsolete" things are outright blocked for specific reasons. For example, routing addresses through multiple servers. It was abused by spammers, so it's almost always denied these days.

Looks like this:

<@foo.example.com@bar.example.com:123@example.com>

Pizza Hut doesn't allow dashes in the domain. This prevents me from ordering Pizza Hut with the email under my personal domain. This can be considered a feature.

Two of my "favorite" features it didn't even touch on. You can have nested comments:

foo(one(two(three(four(five(six(seven)))))))@example.com

This will actually fail on that big email regex that gets copied around (originally from Mastering Regular Expressions in 1997), because it can only handle comment nesting to a depth of six. It is actually possible to do indefinite nesting now with recursive regex, but it was developed before that feature existed.

RFC822 also allows routing addresses through multiple servers:

<@foo.example.com@bar.example.com:123@example.com>

But this is almost always denied on modern email servers because it was abused by spammers.

Best answer. The more violent options miss that violence without solidarity will never work out. But solidarity means you might not have to use violent options in the first place.

Reminder that California doesn't do this just because they're a bunch of granola eating hippies. They do it because San Francisco used to have a constant yellow-brown haze over it.

Do you mean like a rar file that's been split up?

Those happen because the people doing the initial recording or rip are often using platforms with poor error detection and correction for transferring files, such as IRC. They need the built-in correction offered by rar.

They get uploaded to BitTorrents as is. BitTorrent has more sophisticated error detection and correction of chunks than rar does, so this is pointless from a strictly technical perspective.

The filled space for the bubble can be large, but the bubble itself many times larger.

The problem is that AI as a field has gone through summer/winter cycles before. The winter tends to kill a lot of progress. There aren't a lot of new people entering the field, and you almost have to start from scratch when the next summer comes around.

This time, in particular, will be really bad because of economic implications. The US economy almost certainly would have contracted hard in the last few months without the money being dumped into AI. It's going to hurt when that pops, and the sooner it happens, the better.

Write an ebook. If marketed right, it's usually good for an initial flood of sales for a few months, and then levels off over a few years until there's just a trickle.