I've been thinking about starting. My current ISP (Comcast) has native IPv6 but you can't get a static prefix (maybe if you are a business class customer, IDK). It would be nice to have a prefix which is statically assigned to me for stuff that I host at home, so I've looked at doing an HE tunnel instead. The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.
> The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them so not everything is reachable.
A bigger drawback is that you end up in a bad neighborhood. 20 years ago, most traffic from tunnelbroker users were people excited about ipv6 with isps that didn't care about it. In 2026, nobody is excited about ipv6 anymore and tunnelbroker traffic is mostly abuse or trying to circumvent georestrictions... Expect to fill out so many captchas if you set it up.
Comcast has a very strict peering policy as well. They, like Deutsche Telekom, like to hold their proverbial customers hostage to make other networks pay to peer.
You don’t need your ISP to assign a static prefix just to have static addresses on your home network. Instead choose your own prefix inside the fd00::/8 block. There is a procedure using hashing that you can follow to help guarantee that your prefix is unlikely to be shared with anyone else, but you don’t actually need to use it. Configure your router to advertise that prefix in addition to any prefix assigned by your ISP and all of your computers will give themselves an address in both prefixes. If you set your servers to base their address on their mac address, then every one of your servers will have a single unique address. Your client machines can keep their privacy–aware addresses that change frequently.
> You don’t need your ISP to assign a static prefix just to have static addresses on your home network. Instead choose your own prefix inside the fd00::/8 block.
I do have a ULA network I chose for myself. But when I'm not at home I would like to be able to reach things I self host (e.g. my Navidrome server), and I need routable IPs for that. My /60 from Comcast is stable but not guaranteed to be static, and it would be nice to have a truly static allocation so I won't run into the need to redo my DNS records if Comcast ever changes my prefix. I know I could script something to do that, but static is a bit nicer.
Ah, of course. They probably want you to pay extra for that. :)
An HE.net tunnel has advantages, but they’re also quite bandwidth–constrained. If you need anything more than ~1MB/s then you should build something yourself instead.
I don't have statistics on that, but I can say that Verizon FIOS NG-PON2 service in the US (which is what I have) does not offer native V6, so yes, sadly I am forced to use a tunnel broker in 2026.
At home, my ISP gives me native IPv6. At work, we don't have IPv6 (or it's just disabled on the router), so I sometimes use one to test stuff (I use 6Project).
My wife and I always make a grocery list at the end of the work day. About 1/3rd gets autocorrected in something that is wrong, was not the case a few years ago. Also, selecting text is an absolute pain now (also used to be ok).
At this point I'm wondering if program managers at Apple even use it, but then what else would they use?
Is it possible to disable Safe Browsing AND also not have to manually click to confirm that "yes, I actually do want to keep the file I just downloaded, thank you" every. single. time.
Can we please have some calm, stable, boring years please, before I'm dead? The last 5 years have already been "wild" enough. The world is unrecognizable. I'm unprepared for further wildness.
Excluding the batshit insane political side, I don't actually think it's been as nuts as people think, or at least not uniformly so.
I have a lot of friends in the tech sector, but outside the FANNG/silicone valley/startup bubbles. It's been largely business as normal across the board. Twitter and social media warps our perspective I think.
It depends where you lived. In my city (harshest/longest restrictions in the world), we were not allowed to leave the house for more than 30 minutes a day for 2.5 years unless we were out buying groceries. No large gatherings allowed at our homes. Mask usage enforced everywhere in public.
In the city in my country reknowned for having a much higher level of hypochrondria before the pandemic, imagine the mental health issues my city is going through now.
Stow the propaganda. 1) it's not over, the pandemic continues and will likely continue for a long time 2) it's already the fifth deadliest pandemic in known history. "Quarter pandemic" is an insane thing to think let alone say out loud.
1. It is pretty much over. Covid has become (for me at least) indistinguishable from a common cold.
2. Gemini says covid-19 killed 0.086% of world population (over several years). That's about as mild as it gets. More than sharks, but less than anything that usually kills people, like air polution (estimated about 0.095% yearly), cancer (est 0.12% every damn year) or cardiovascular disease (est 0.25% a year). Peak covid was still killing less than business-as-usual cancer or cardiovascular disease.
As far as pandemics go, the deadliest ones kill double digit percentage of people who contract them. That's two orders of magnitude more than covid. Even the single-digit percentage pandemics must be extremely rough. We were lucky[0].
[0]: Not the ones who died or have lasting consequences, but "we" as humanity, were rather lucky with covid. It could've been something much worse.
Ringing up expensive grocery items as cheap SKU at Whole Foods self checkout...
Going on shopping sprees and then calling the credit card company to report it as fraud...
Buying a fancy dress to wear for a few nights out and then returning it...
All things people close to me have done, or continue to do on a regular basis
Talking about a relatively "privileged" class of people here- multiple homes, multiple cars, kids in private school- not struggling single moms working double shifts to put food on the table.
> Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about microplastics in the past 10 years.
> You will be outcompeted if you waste your time reinventing the wheel and optimizing for stuff that doesn't matter. There is some market for safe, environmentally-friendly products, but you can clearly see that the companies that make them are struggling.
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