Supermariofan67

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The article on theregister stated

Also inside the uploaded source code was some GPL 2 source code, which renders the not-very-open WCL moot.

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 52 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Winamp published their code as "open source". Problem is...

  1. It wasn't open source, it was proprietary but you can see the source code.
  2. Their custom license didn't even allow forks, which is against GitHub TOS
  3. The codebase apparently contains proprietary code from third parties that they don't have the right to relicense.
  4. The codebase apparently contains GPL code from third parties that they probably didn't have the right to make proprietary in the first place

This is a standard feature on any IPv6 enabled network if you enable IPv6 Privacy Extensions

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Huh, I misremembered then. I stand corrected.

Notable though that there are specific countries (such as India) where adoption is far higher at 72%

Huh weird that it would be removed, that's a fair comment.

For Web scraping and other activities by so-called "legitimate" companies to varying degrees, this may be the case. But for general bots, they are generally attempting to scan and probe the entire IPv4 range, since it can be exhaustively checked in a reasonable amount of time and the majority of IPs have hosts on them. Enumerating the entire IPv6 space is quite literally impossible without some external list of hosts known to exist, due to the number of hosts. This happens, but it's a much higher hanging fruit for an attacker so far fewer will bother. So you generally see few to no continuous probes on things like sshd over IPv6 unless you have a domain name. I'm guessing a lot of bots (in botnets) are dumb old technology that doesn't even have IPv6.

NAT was always a hacky workaround. And although it effectively ends up functioning as a firewall under normal usage when combined with a typical "drop invalid incoming packets" rule, it was not designed to be a firewall and shouldn't be assumed to always function as one. A simple accept established, default drop firewall rule should do the trick and should be used on both v4 and v6 regardless of NAT (and probably is on your router already).

If your goal is privacy in the sense of blending in, you can still use NATv6 and this is a good use case for it. This is what VPNs like Mullvad use. If your goal is privacy in the sense of being more difficult to track across sessions, you can enable IPv6 privacy extensions which essentially generates a new IPv6 address for every connection your device makes. So in this sense it's more private than IPv4

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Or you could just... learn to use the modern internet that 60% of internet traffic uses? Not everyone has a dedicated IPv4 anymore, we are in the days of mobile networks and CGNAT. IPv4 exhaustion is here today.

Best to set a firewall rule with nftables to block non-vpn traffic from leaving (you should also do the save for IPv4 traffic to prevent leaks in case the tunnel disconnects)

Wait till you hear about the idiots who unironically make that argument for banning Bitcoin too

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It seems like the headline is deliberately written to be funny (I did get a good laugh out of it) and the actual event isn't quite as nottheoniony. My understanding is that the court faced the question of whether the lawsuit could proceed against the doctor individually, or against the insurance company. It's bizzare but rather unsurprising and understandable that the lawyers of a doctor faced with such a claim would try, even if it's likely to fail, to have it pushed via the insurance company.

The court made the right decision of course, but this just seems like business as usual for lawsuits.

[–] Supermariofan67@programming.dev 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Copying is not theft. Letting only massive and notoriously untransparent corporations control an emerging technology is.

This should be the default systemwide.

Is your IPv6 behind NAT (like on a VPN)? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mullvad#Preferring_IPv6_inside_the_tunnel

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