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  • Saw the title and I already knew IPv6 was still gonna be “not enough adoption” lol.

    The overly aggressive lockdown from NAT is not entirely misplaced though. Windows is already notorious for default hosting an atrocious level of protocols that are anywhere between “I can get your NetNTLMv2 hash for free” to “gg ez RCE as SYSTEM user”.

    Linux and Unix were also not magically protected either, like every FTP server implementation has had several RCE vulns and it was so bad that Linus himself pointed out how easy it was to abuse buffer overflow vulns even after the addition of NX mem protection with return to libc, several years before ASLR finally landed in Linux and Windows.

    Seriously, the early 2000s was the wild west of vulns because everything was still written in C++ so you could just waltz into any binary, find some stack/heap overflow, and you’re on your way to an RCE.

    NAT (and firewall) most definitely did prevent millions of users from getting rekt by a metric ton of malware that operated on the ability to connect to those services.



  • People are forgetting the AI hype train is reliant on the fact that businesses and individuals can’t host the AI themselves, which is rapidly changing.

    All that insane power that OpenAI and Anthropic have harnessed is suddenly completely useless when you can just spin up a competing model at home, with HF hosting a crap ton of finetuned models like uncensored/abliterated to do whatever you want with it.

    Even Deepseek released their full size models if you happen to have 400Gb (or 1.5Tb) of VRAM lying around.

    When the bubble (hopefully) pops, AI will just continue to be a tool that devs use where applicable, and likely not on a massive data center cloud as it migrates into consumer electronics.




  • About the only instance of massive piracy I’ve seen that was significantly driven by cost factor was, rather ironically, the Nintendo DS flashcart era.

    And even then, you can easily make the argument that the reason it was so popular was because of the ability to store games digitally on a single card, which was superior service than buying each game separately.

    Had Nintendo adopted digital game releases as standard, piracy likely would have fallen quite a bit.

    Never seen anything else come even close, everything else was always because it was a higher quality service or product from the pirate.