That's only because your ISP won't have routed that packet to you if someone gave it to _them_. However, if someone was able to get to the ISP-side of the connection that you have with your ISP, and send a packet down the fiber/copper line from the ISP side towards your router, and that packet has a dst of your internal network (192.168.0.1 or whatever), your router will happily route that straight on to whatever internal network you have.
This means that if someone decided to be a bad actor and start tapping fiber lines on the poles in your neighborhood, NAT would do literally nothing to protect you from all the packets they start sending your way.
If somebody is wishing to tap fiber optics lines to the ISP or to hack the ISP just to get to your router, then you probably are not going to be saved by a "default deny" firewall anyway.
Yes, physical tapping of lines / ISP attacks were outside of the threat vector I was discussing. At this point, I think any discussion of NAT starts to look a little orthogonal.
Sure, but any competitor is looking at their competition maintaining level productivity w/ 10x headcount reductions and wondering "if I use AI and the staff I have without firing them, I can provide 10x the product as the idiot cutting off their own nose over there."
More product more problems. Can you get 10x the sales? If you can't then the headcount reduction looks pretty compelling. If you can get 10x the sales, why aren't you already scaling labor?
If Plex is "just file sharing" then I guarantee you'd find Tailscale "just WireGuard".
I enjoy that relative "normies" can depend on it/integrate it without me having to go through annoying bits. I like that it "just works" without requiring loads of annoying networking.
For example, my aging mother just got a replacement computer and I am able to make it easy to access and remotely administer by just putting Tailscale on it, and have that work seamlessly with my other devices and connections. If one day I want to fully self-host, then I can run Headscale.
Kids are at least as interesting as having to take care of any other living things. As strange as it may seem, if you can ask questions about someone's multiple aquariums, their cats or dogs, their horses or cows, then there's at least, probably more to ask about their children. I don't understand how raising a child can be anything but interesting. Every parent I speak to about having kids has such different philosophies, values, goals, and they're so interesting to learn about. Once the kids can talk, they themselves have so much to say!
Raising kids has to be one of the most interesting things someone can do.
Eh, to an extent. But on any given day kids are usually in some phase where they only want to talk about dinosaurs or Micky Mouse or something. It gets repetitive after an hour.
I like playing with kids for a while but I won't pretend it is intellectually stimulating. Sometimes you can find something new to blow their mind though.
When they get to teen years they are capable of more interesting conversations but then often don't want to hang with adults. There is a pretty limited sweet spot of ages.
I recommend downloading the executable-in-a-tarball form of Firefox and running that. I personally do that with Nightly, and I find it works quite well.
Politicians wouldn't know who has which "adult code", so they wouldn't be able to get a singular "adult code" banned/early expired by the (supposedly corrupt) code-keeping company. To know which code a particular Youtuber has, they'd need to be able to get that info from Youtube, and if they "have a man on the inside" of Youtube then they can just ask that person to ban the Youtuber in question.
Per the article, Apple does do attestation. By default attestation is off unless you have enterprise management turned on.
But the existence of attestation means Apple could at any time in the future make attestation on by default and suddenly our devices control our secrets more than we do.
No, Apple can't suddenly start doing attestation in the future by default because that would instantly kill all the passkeys that have already been created on Apple devices without attestation. It would be as if a home security company went around and changed all the locks they had installed on their customers' front doors. It would be instant suicide as a trusted vendor.
Complaining about the UI color and button layout of an game _engine_ is a bit like comparing aircraft carriers by the color of the rug in the control room. What about the built-in tools for organizing and connecting assets, format support, how user input is handled, the batteries-included ways to model game state, and all the ways of interconnecting all those things in the code the engine provides? Does anyone have interesting comparisons/notes around those subjects as it relates to the S&box engine?
- Run a 1500W USA microwave for 10 seconds: 15,000 joules
- Llama 3.1 405B text generation prompts: On average 6,706 joules total, for each response
- Stable Diffusion 3 Medium generating a 1024 x 1024 pixel image w/ 50 diffusion steps: about 4,402 joules
[1] - MIT Technology Review, 2025-05-20 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energ...
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