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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • You could always get a tunneled V6 line but it’s a lot of hassle for something you should have by default.

    Us europoors may not have golden toilet seats and medical insurance, or V8 Chevvies, or American Size Mayonnaise, but we have our 2a02:7892:1234:::/64!!!

    Monopolistic control of buildings by one ISP is illegal in most Euro countries :D





  • If I showed you my WAN-side firewall logs you’d have a panic attack. I have a /29 block and about 10 scans tap one IP or another every second. It’s part of being on the internet.

    Your domestic home router experiences the exact same thing. Every moment of every day.

    Will you report every scan? Every Chinese IP? Every US IP? It’s completely common place to have someone ‘knock on the door’.

    Get off IPv4 anyway and onto IPv6. Good luck to them finding you by chance in there.








  • TL:DR patents are important, but easily abused.

    Yes, I’ll try.

    Patents can cover many aspects of design. Sometimes, these aspects are positive and deserve protection for the original inventors. Other times, the claims could be so obscure and ‘thats obvious to anyone’ that it’s a waste to protect them - but (sometimes ignorant) patent attorneys fail to do their research and award patents anyway.

    It could be that the keyboard being below the screen in that form factor was considered novel. It could be the trackball used in the centre. It could be the two combined, then attached to a phone. It could be the shaping and ergonomic aspect of the keyboard. It could be raises or detents to aid location of keys for fast typing on a handheld device.