Eventually NetZero forced you to use their own dialer to ensure you kept the ads running… but you could spy on the ppp connection by just opening the COM port of your modem in terminal and watching. The password was encrypted (xor?) but you could just copy and paste the value into a regular dialer lol
There’s little value in software and no value in annual recurring subscriptions to people.
If you solve a large enough problem that a person can use to make themselves money, then you can become an overhead cost of doing business. My household has zero recurring subscriptions now.
Two things jump out at me also
1. The first thing I see is “it’s free”. Then further down the page buy credits. I really don’t want to buy credits in your walled garden that I don’t understand yet. But what the heck I’ll try, next click my only option is to continue with google. Nah I’m not looking to login to a completely unknown product with my google account credentials.
It feels painful on top of I don’t know what I’m buying or why I’d buy it. It’s a canva clone? Or ?
Huh
A single prefix is easier on the router than a dozen..
I should hope so?
Isn’t this kind of like saying the grade 1 math test is easier than the grade 12 math test ?
The thing is that the abundance of IPv6 addresses enables fewer prefixes to be used, by allowing addresses to be allocated in much larger chunks.
For instance, Comcast (AS 7922) owns about 2^26 IPv4 addresses, distributed across 149 different prefixes. Almost all of these prefixes are non-contiguous with each other, so they each require separate routing table entries. Comcast can't consolidate those routes without swapping IP address blocks with other networks, and it can't grow its address space without acquiring new small blocks. (Since no more large blocks are available, as this article discusses.)
In contrast, Comcast owns about 2^109 IPv6 addresses, which are covered by just 5 prefixes (two big ones of 2^108 each, and three smaller ones). It can freely subdivide its own networks within those prefixes, without ever running out of addresses, and without having to announce new routes.
It’s fairly easy to decrease susceptibility to this attack. #1 run your own node #2 monitor the nodes you are connected to with “sync_info” #3 ban nodes that aren’t up to current block height, strange port connections, and connections from typical spy IP addresses. There could still be a spy node connected when you send your transaction but it won’t have a very high probability of originating from any particular place
My grandfather built that railway in a supervisor capacity in Labrador. My dad was born in sept illes because of it. It was once very important but now a footnote. It moved iron ore in the 60s / 70s
Charging at home is part of the problem. They need to separately meter power for cars and increase the rate and add a road maintenance tax based on vehicle weight.
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