Notices by The Janx Devil (janxdevil@sfba.social)

@WarnerCrocker At this point the constitutional crisis has already proceeded into calamity. (The difference between a crisis and a calamity is that a crisis can be managed while the only thing to do in a calamity is run while you still can.)

At some point the civilizational crisis will proceed to the calamity stage too.

Jasper is angry with me because I won’t let him outside to eat all of the #h5n1 bird flu. “I’m sure it will be fine,” he says. “You’re overreacting as usual. Stop being such a panicky alarmist.”

“Dude, do you not understand what it means that the D1.1 clad has adapted to mammalian physiology in the latest outbreak in a Nevada dairy herd?” I say, and he just glares at me.

“You are not bringing that virus into this house. Just… no. Stay inside and play with your sister,” I say.

“I’m going to piss in your headphones,” he says. “You’re going to regret this.”

“I already do, buddy. I already do.”

@inthehands Franco probably a good name to consider too. Mussolini probably would have died peacefully of old age if he had decided instead not to follow Nazi Germany into WW2.

@FediTips Probably worth mentioning at some point that the design for interop between platform corporations is pure vapor at this point and there are no real efforts underway to implement it.

@inthehands Looks like a narrow majority of the whole population comprises people who were eligible to vote and yet decided that voting to stop Trump wasn’t their bag. Hard to put a positive spin on that.

@jwz Reminds me that despair.com has long been my secret inspiration. The problem, of course, is that satire has the highest signal quality at low S/N ratios, but its receivers also draw the most power per bit.

@mmasnick When do they plan to support it? What have they prioritized below it?

@mmasnick When do they plan to support automatic account migration from Threads to other ActivityPub instances. Is that on their roadmap. Does anyone care?

@cks So a reason to hand out more than /64 to a subnet is you plan to delegate prefixes to routers that connect to they subnet. Typically not with a routing protocol, but with DHCP-PD.

@cks Reason people use DHCP-PD instead of a real routing protocol is it’s mostly zero human knowledge required for deploying a router for the delegated prefixes. You just plug it into the network, and it gets a prefix and routes for it. All the headaches are with the integration of the DHCP server with the actual routing protocol. This is why CableLabs and other insisted on building it that way, and it’s also why it’s a giant headache and doesn’t work well in any kind of generalized way. (We tried to fix it in the HOMENET working group in IETF, but the effort exploded in the worst kind of IETF stupidity that I still can’t discuss without anesthesia and muscle relaxants.)

@cks That “give each customer a /64 prefix” thing was the first big IPv6 fight I remember breaking out in V6OPS, because the address architecture originally said “give each customer a whole /48, so they basically never ever need to renumber until they become a transit provider” and CableLabs / Broadband Forum / et al basically said, “Why do we have to give them a whole /48 when we’re just going to renumber them at will and never let them run their own routing domains anyway?”

Some of them compromised and said “okay we’ll give them a /60 or maybe even a /56 if we’re especially generous” and then sabotaged every possible effort to make it possible for their customers to have anything other than a single /64.