I always buy hardbacks when possible. I don’t care about hardback part much. But I found that paper quality is often better jn hardbacks.

Of course, French books get it right, first edition is softback but with really nice paper, and not too sodding big. Portable.

I use mitmproxy outside of agent vm

interesting, how do you use mitmproxy for calling openAI llm ? or what exactly you use it for ?

Mitmproxy it to avoid giving model access to secrets.

My assistant lives in ubuntu vm. When I ask it to “check email” it uses imap with password “xyz” and fetches emails.

But my mail password is actually “abc”. Mitmproxy outside of vm replaces all “xyz” to “abc” for outgoing requests. And reverse for incoming

I can’t understand benefits of having ipv6. The only one is public ips but rest is just headache. In my home network I specify disabled v6 everywhere.

Where I live, the benefit of IPv6 is it's a lot faster than IPv4. All of IPv4 goes through various centralized tunnels and CG-NAT which adds bottlenecks and latency.

IPv4 pricing isn't a good enough reason? If all of my devices had nice ipv6 connectivity I could ditch the public ipv4 addresses, but I have to keep them so that my ipv4-only devices can still reach them.

For home use biggest advantage is that it avoids NAT, which breaks end to end connectivity. Lot of services use hacks to try to mitigate broken connectivity.

video games

It doesn’t matter in home networks, it’s a major pain in the ass if you are a Fortune 500 company and want to set up more intercompany vpn links

A site-to-site VPN of two previously unrelated local networks is a pure gamble with IPv4. It would be almost straight forward with IPv6.

Yes but these days overlay networks are a way more common practice for that, with their own benefits (overlay IPs are always encrypted)

imo one huge benefit is that ipv6 is much easer for hardware to process.. ipv4 headers are messy and change size.

ipv6 headers are 40 bytes! routers have less thinking.

this visualisation might help to dive deeper - https://vectree.io/c/ipv6

Public IPs are a huge benefit and are enough to justify the switch. And there really aren't any headaches in this day and age with IPv6. Once you set it up it works just fine.

Public IPs is a huge huge huge benefit. Your connection is also faster because your IPv6 packets don't have to be processed by a centralised CGNAT.

That's only if you are behind CGNAT though. My fixed ISP doesn't use it.

Even without CGNAT you'll only get one IPv4 address forcing a absurd amount of workarounds to be usable, that are mostly hidden in firmwares but sill there.

Yet.

Many ISPs are pushing v4 users into CGNAT so they're easier and cheaper to manage.

This is a big reason why Netflix and YouTube are on v6. To avoid the cost of service over v4.

Ipv4 is the headache. What are you talking about, ipv6 is simpler in my experience.

IPv4 is pretty simple and good for LANs. Nothing wrong with sticking to it.

> IPv4 is pretty simple and good for LANs.

Until the place you're VPNing to happens to use the same RFC1918 network address as your LAN (that is, your LAN is 192.168.10.x and the network on the other side of your work's VPN is also 192.168.10.x). Or either of them use the same RFC1918 network address libvirt is using for its virtual network. Or you want to route between several LANs (for instance, after a company merger) and some of them (but not all) were using the same RFC1918 network addresses.

All of this is avoided by using public addresses for LANs, but address scarcity makes that hard with IPv4 (unless it's a legacy LAN from the 1900s which happens to still use public addresses form the pre-NAT era).

Don't confuse "simple and good" with "flawless" :-)

There are indeed only a few private-reserved IPv4 ranges, and almost everyone prefers to keep things memorable and easy to type; you get a lot of 10.0.0.0/24, 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24 as a result. That, and common household routers tend to default to one of these three /24 subnets. (Hardly anyone seems to remember that 172.16.0.0/12 exists, feel free to use that if it happens to work for you.)

IPv6 does solve this issue in a few major ways, one of which is the greater expectation to rely on globally routable addresses, of which every one of your devices will have at least one such address. There's also fc00::/7 which is fairly equivalent to the IPv4 private ranges, though to avoid conflicts in random VPNs you should generate a random /64 prefix inside of this, otherwise you run the risk of everyone picking fc00::/64 because it's easy to remember/type (I'm guilty of this myself, but the VPNs I've configured just go into a random 172.16.0.0/12 subnet and no v6 assigned. I have the liberty that I currently don't need/use any VPNs that I haven't personally configured, and that may not hold true in the future.)

Matter requires IPv6

Huh, I have matter devices working here and IPv6 is off on my router and DHCP. And on home assistant too which does the matter router. Does it use link local or something?

What vendor? My understanding is that they replaced one piece of software with similar one that allows them to simplify system and save a lot of money. And looks like they are happy with quality and have a good test coverage. In AI era not everything should be npm dependency or 3rd party. Small things are easier to make in house and tailor to one’s needs.

Are there any?

I imagine Ubiquiti (unifi) is really happy with how this is going.

Yep, providing front line comms to Russia in the Ukraine war as well as being gifted a virtual oligopoly by the US government is quite the win for their profits.

Google says they are not made in usa

Cisco?

Snowden already denounced USA gov spying using Cisco routers

I wonder if that was AI answer when model didn’t get access to source and just hallucinated comment

Nope, an AI probably would have written a better comment. I misunderstood the link. Tinnitus has been getting worse, so this subject has literally been on my mind lately.

It has a hard-paywall (and should be flagged) but you can catch that it's about creating (not listening) from both the image and:

> Several studies have found that professional musicians have more grey matter (the neural tissue involved in thinking, movement and memory) in some regions than non-musicians.

Which you might need to visit an ineffective bypass to see that: https://archive.is/F67Gf

Solution is not to reduce demand. Solution is to create supply.

How it’s related? It will be taxed as income. No? He could get cash instead and proceed to buy stock with it and later capital gains are the same.

No. Stock is taxed when it is sold. Not when he receives it from Google.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc427

Statutory stock options If your employer grants you a statutory stock option, you generally don't include any amount in your gross income when you receive or exercise the option

Filepath is just unique name that model can identify easily and understand grouping. Uuid solves nothing but requires another mapping from file to short description.

UUID solve oh so very, very much.

You can have several versions of the same set of data object at once - an entire source set for a build, all the names duplicate but tagged with 'revision' so they can be distinguished.

Hard to do that without a UUID at root, to use for unique identification of the particular 'particle' of the particular data set.

I was very enthusiastic about helix since it rethinks some of vim complexity. But lack of plugins makes it just an editor for small files only that I can quickly start on server and doesn’t not make it suitable for serious work.

Agreed. But very useful for quick editing, and easier to install than vim on Windows.

That’s a perfectly fine usecase. But all systems I work with have vim installed by default anyway. And vim handles big files better than helix (not sure why)

why? There is LSP support included. Pretty usable. Of course this is not fully IDE, but I don't expect this from "editor"

Just to be clear: it’s not suitable for me to do work using this editor. There are many features lacking that makes me more efficient. In case of vim that is solved by a few plugins. It’s not about being IDE but rather about being well fitted tool. I wish I would only need LSP but it’s not enough for my work.