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Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • I know that people often find IPv6 confusing and that’s fine, but at the very least you need to explain that you’re specifically talking about IPv4 IP and Subnetting configuration and that is very much how things used to be done. IPv6 is finally gaining real adoption and can make a lot of things confusing.

    For example, until I got a handle of IPv6, my Android phone never had proper ad-blocking from my Pi-Holes because Google would make Android auto-configure an IPv6 DNS address that would bypass my IPv4 DNS addresses. Even if I filled every IPv4 DNS slot, my phone would still automatically make a slot for the IPv6 DNS and fill it with a Google-chosen DNS. There were two ways to fix this, and I’ve done both: Set up IPv6 and fill that slot with my Pi-Hole IPv6 DNS address, and/or setting up a VPN that hands out the Pi-Holes as DNS and bypasses Google’s auto-configurations entirely. I ended up with both because I also use the VPN to keep ad-blocking functional on my phone while I’m away from home.

    Especially in keeping with your “Zero trust” idea, you can’t have rogue IPv6 traffic all over your network unless you’ve managed to disable IPv6 on every network interface and the traffic is just being dumped since it’s disabled. (Also, personal opinion, subnetting on IPv6 is so much more elegant and straightforward than on IPv4)

    Finally, you mention “bytes” (it’s actually bits) and CIDR notation, but that’s probably more confusing than illuminating if someone has no idea that an IPv4 address has four sets of octets (eight bits) for a 32-bit addressing scheme. You might consider expanding on how IPv4 addresses function to make that a little clearer.




  • Chomsky was born in 1928. This doesn’t justify him being a sexist piece of shit, but it certainly can explain him being a sexist piece of shit.

    He was well into this forties when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was made law which essentially stopped discrimination against women for getting checking accounts and lines of credit, which were hard to come by at many banks prior to that.

    Until 1976, nearly every state had a “marital exemption” for rape, at this point Chomsky was pushing 50. It wasn’t until 1993 that marital rape was codified into federal law as being a crime nationwide, at this point Chomsky was in his sixties.

    He was 17 when World War II ended in 1945.

    Chomsky is a massive piece of shit for this, but I mean, are we really that shocked that a motherfucker from the beginning of the Silent Generation, literally on the edge of being from the Greatest Generation, is a sexist pig who thinks women are the devil? In two years he’ll be a 100 god damned years old.

    Not excusable, but I mean, I’m just… not shocked, honestly.







  • Nah but Biden also didn’t make sure to choose an AG to actually put the motherfuckers in the Epstein files behind bars, either. It’s not like the Epstein information magically appeared when Trump became President, he literally ran in 2024 on the fact that Democrats hadn’t released the files. This information was available when Biden was President. Epstein was (very likely) murdered while Trump was President the first time.

    So, fuck Biden anyway, he was focusing on all this “decorum” shit when it comes to a fucking network of pedophiles and rampant corruption and oops didn’t want to make it “lOoK PoLiTiCaL” to go after criminality. Now the same people they didn’t want to look political prosecuting don’t give one single fuck about looking political in prosecuting their perceived enemies.

    Fuck, Biden was literally handed a free pass when the Supreme Court ruled that when a President does it, it’s not a illegal. He could have done any number of things to prevent this with the backing of a Supreme Court decision that was tailored to support Trump but technically applied to any President.

    Democrats may not be in the files, but they sat on their fucking asses writing strongly worded letters and throwing up their hands going “but it’s too hard to make sure they go down! Gears of justice turn slowly, so slowly that Trump can be voted back into office even with all this hanging over him!”

    It’s a crock of shit, Democrats are culpable for not taking this fight to the mat and instead being wishy washy limp dicks who handed over the reigns of the government to corruption twice in a row.


  • Oh gee shocker it looks like those of us who tried to sound the alarm during the Bush and Obama years that these laws and these surveillance systems could be and would be turned on us were right all along!

    It fucking sucks being right all the time. I can’t even get any enjoyment out of being able to say “I told you so” because most don’t even remember being told fifty fucking times.

    I think a lot about the day I argued with my coworkers that if we allowed Bush to give Hank Paulson a cool $700 billion to bail out the banks no strings attached that we were just kicking the can down the road and the economy for regular folks would suffer over time because we enabled bad behavior and taught banks that as long as they were too big to fail they would be bailed out by taxpayer money. I wonder if any of them even remember being told what obviously has come to pass as the lower classes have been increasingly hollowed out during the time since then.

    I just can’t even anymore living among all these fucking dimwits who aren’t even paying attention and just drifting through life like none of this even matters. I’m not smart enough for everyone else to be this fucking stupid.