r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 2 months ago

This is my biggest bugbear about a lot of UK isps. They are dynamically allocating ipv6 prefixes for absolutely no good reason.

I've only ever done ipv6 using Linux directly as a firewall or a mikrotik router. So cannot help with pfsense I'm afraid.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 2 months ago

You start by adding ipv6 and serving both. One side needs to move first. Content providers or isps.

The big tech companies are using ipv6. In the UK the isps are mostly offering it too.

Host both and help us move towards dropping Ipv4 some day. It's not going to happen in a day.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 2 months ago
[–] r00ty@kbin.life 32 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Don't be so sure. Piers Morgan will do whatever he thinks makes "good television" and especially good sound-bites that can have his ugly mug displayed ad-nauseam.

He saw a weakness and exploited it. I doubt he's "chosen a side" at all.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The OneUI update? You can undo most of the annoyingness. But the overall look change is downright annoying I'd agree.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whenever anyone asks if I use AI. My answer is that, so far it hasn't ever delivered working code. However the majority of times I used it, the code it did provide sent me in the right direction.

So it's not useless. And I know tools have gotten better. But when I see companies seriously talking "AI first" and wanting vibe coding to be a main development strategy. I do really worry.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 2 months ago

When I was at school we had rulers that had both inches and centimetres on. 1-12" and 1-30cm. Now they didn't perfectly line up. But as a good rule of thumb, 6" = 15cm and 12" = 30cm.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 2 months ago

It worked best with alarm clocks because the outline of the clock was likely 100% only picked up by rods, but the display is visible clearly by the cones. So if you picked it up and moved it, the display would seem to move independently of the case it was part of.

I think the second link does suggest the difference between response times varies between people. So, maybe it's just more noticeable by some?

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the effect produced by the strobing due to DC rectification is markedly different. That produced a gapping when moved (since the LED is off during some parts of the movement and on for others). The effect when there's a somewhat brighter light source around a darkened room is very different where the lighter source seems to move independently of the object it is attached to, with no stuttering/strobe effect present.

The independent movement effect is much more likely due to response time differences. I thought I'd take a look and see. This https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34073-8 article by nature does mention there is a response time difference. However the vast majority of the paper seems to be about the effects on cone response time due to lack of calcium and other cone specific testing.

This https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2063471/ article seems to imply that there's a 20ms lag for rod reaction time. Where they tested people's reactions to both kinds of stimuli and measured the response times.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 64 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Windows is a strange game. It seems the only winning move is not to play.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Same thing happens with those old alarm clocks with LED 7 segment displays.

I think it's the difference between rods and cones on the retina. Rods are more sensitive to light but do not see colour. That's what you use in the dark. I suspect they are also slower to react to light (probably because they need to gather enough over time to make an image). So since the lighter text is bright enough to be seen by the cones, the reaction time is quicker so it looks like it's moving independently.

Anyway that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. :P

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 2 months ago

The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it's actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.

In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.

So, really not sure why it's so slow going elsewhere. There's really no reason for it now in 2025.

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