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Please no. I used to have a Dutch ISP a few months ago that did not support IPv6 yet. (Odido. Same ISP that leaked my data in a big hack.)


Odido is the cheapest ISP for a reason. They refuse to implement anything that isn't strictly required.

Perhaps implementing an Odido tax might actually make Odido care enough to throw the switch on IPv6. They bought 2a02:4240::/32, they just refuse to make use of it.


> They refuse to implement anything strictly required

This describes a lot of businesses ngl.

Bell in Canada is one huge head scratcher. They are one of the largest ISPs here and I can even buy 8 gig internet to my house if I want but they don't support IPv6.


Apparently (according to techs) a lot of ISPs are like that - they said they have everything up and running and even tested to turn on IPv6 but they haven't received the go-ahead.

He mentioned this because marking my connection as a "business" one without changing anything else would allow it to get IPv6 (a /64, bah).


they do use it in their speedtest server.

  curl -v https://speedtest.ams.t-mobile.nl.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net:8080
  ...
  * Connected to speedtest.ams.t-mobile.nl.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (2a02:4240::e) port 8080


Probably a requirement from Ookla, so again "They refuse to implement anything that isn't strictly required".


Canadian ISPs are also extremely far behind on IPv6. Bell is the largest ISPs in the country and they still don't have IPv6. I'm with one of their wholly owned subsidiaries (EBOX) which offers static /56 allocations, but good luck trying to find anyone in tech support who understands WTF you're talking about.


We don’t even need to see scientific evidence to see that we’re probably using too much plastic. Most stores and especially supermarkets are full of plastic. Most clothing contains plastics. It’s just hard to avoid even if you want to.


That just means we use plastic a lot.

Whether the balance of how much plastic we use is leaning towards too much depends on the upsides and downsides, and this article is pointing out that one downside we thought was significant is less significant than we thought.


Even if you exclusively buy plastic-free at the store, the ink on the receipt transfers a particularly toxic plastic to your hands.


Small correction: it’s not the ink that is toxic, but the chemicals added as a coating to help the ink develop. Still pretty bad for you though. Some stores have bisphenol free receipts (especially those that are all about natural and plastic-free goods), but they are rare.


And even if you refuse the receipt, the cashier still contaminated your food.

Also, line cooks.


> which doesn't allow branch protection for private personal projects.

Time for a personal Forgejo instance? Mine has been running great for more than a year. Faster than GitHub even.


What's the point that incompetence flips over to malice?


I'm running Forgejo for years now and I spend almost no time on it. I just host it with my other services. Backups automatically with Syncthing and I manually check in on the server and run apt-get upgrade once every two weeks.


You mean you upstream those changes or are you running your own fork?


I have moved to self-host Forgejo a few years ago and I can also highly recommend. It's working great. I have posted a tutorial [1] (verified last month that it still works), and recently moved from Hetzner to 2 Raspberry Pi's for hosting the server and the runner [2]. It's great. Really rock solid. Has been more reliable and faster than GitHub.

[1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separ...

[2]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separ...


After Marx’s philosophy caused a famine that led millions to die, you think he has useful agriculture knowledge to teach us?


You should maybe do a bit more reading on what Marx actually said and promoted versus what the USSR actually did in practice. Farming co-ops have been growing consistently since from before you were born, and is the most direct example of Marx's economic ideals in practice.

The USSR and Maoist China did nothing to follow Marxist principles, that was just their leadership's political scape goat to do whatever they wanted because they knew people weren't going to actually read Marx's works. The actual communists that followed Marxist principles are the ones that coined the term "tankies" to call out their leaders and their supporters for abandoning Marxist philosophy. You might as well talk shit about democracy and point at North Korea because they obviously must represent democracy, its in the name of their country and they talk about how awesome their elections are every year.

Also, what someone's overall economic ideals and philosophy amount to has fuck all to do with what are the best farming practices.


Not a nice timing by the treasury to post this at the same time that many companies fire employees, war is going on, and fuel is running out. Everything is piling up it seems


The good news is that a currency issuer cannot become insolvent. This is literally just semantic libertarian scare propaganda. I strongly urge you to watch Stephanie Kelton's interview on The Daily Show a few years back to calm your mind a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JpZZcD8C4M

Meanwhile, let's step back a bit... if we pretend that the US is insolvent - a repo man is going to come take it away with a big truck - do you really think that the US treasury is structured in a way that allows them to hold back something that significant because the national mood is anxious and they don't want to make people feel extra sad on a Monday? Seriously: wth.


When other countries historically went insolvent they too pretended it meant nothing.


I would be genuinely interested in discussing MMT with you in good faith.


When do we cross the barrier from incompetent to nefarious?


They're orthogonal, so there's no barrier. They're all nefarious, and most are also incompetent.


Getting yourself installed as president while knowing you are incompetent (I mean, look at all those bankrupt businesses, he should know) is nefarious in itself. His entourage is nefarious for supporting the incompetency for their own gain.


If people are giving you money, are you truly incompetent?

I think we're using different scales to measure competency.


Competent enough to receive money, not competent enough to run a country well. But now we're getting into very subjective stuff, I'm sure his handlers are quite OK with what he's doing. It doesn't matter it all looks super suspicious, they are confident they won't face any consequences.


If you're incompetent maybe you don't know you're incompetent? I think probably a lot of people told him, but he's also very stubborn, so. He's been rocking that god fucking awful spray tan for decades now.

I mean, Christ, we have good spray tans, I know we do.


One of the few conspiracy theories I kinda believe is that Trump's 2016 presidential run was a grift and he expected to lose.

Everything since has just been an inability to admit he was in over his head, plus trying to get out of trouble for all the crimes he did. He (and Clinton) just underestimated how susceptible the US was to a demagogue. If you look at his face after the win was announced on election night, and after the first meeting with Obama for the transition, I think it shows plainly on his face.


And they are not nefarious and competent while pretending to be incompetent?


The Nazis were hilariously incompetent, but it didn't make them any less dangerous.


It's not an either-or question; they're very transparently both nefarious and incompetent.


they are incompetent at running a successful government and maintaining hegemonic domination for western interests.

they're doing a fine job of screwing the world for their own gain, and/or working as sock puppets of foreign governments.

at no point was there ever a true belief, except for the "idjit" demographic, that trump would ever do anything meaningful in a governance sense.


So what does that say about their opposition who lost all three branches of government to them?


Populist evil polls better than technocratic evil.


this is cyclical in america by design. see 2016 then 2018 than 2020 etc…


Not nefarious enough?


it says that playing by the rules means losing work when the other party doesn't.


Probably January 6th 2021


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