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Comment Re:Not new. (Score 1) 114

But recent years I often met people who said "I can not read a whole book"

Would this be more honest? "I enjoy reading short stories. However, given my life circumstance, a novella about as long as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine is the upper limit before work or household interruptions inevitably break my concentration."

Comment Re:Thank you California! (Score 1) 39

How would you recommend to fund writing and hosting a website if the website operator cannot sell "behavioral" ad impressions targeted to the individual viewer's inferred interests? I'm aware that it's possible to target an impression to the context of the document in which the ad appears. This is called "contextual" ad placement. However, advertisers are willing to pay three times as much for a behavioral impression than for an contextual impression. Banning publishers from selling behavioral impressions would lead to more countdown interstitials, more paywalls, and more websites disappearing from the Internet when their operators run out of money.

Comment Re:Needing to subscribe to a relay service (Score 1) 232

Your ISP is shit.

Once there are more Internet subscribers than IPv4 addresses, then by the pigeonhole principle, some subscribers aren't going to have the sort of dedicated IPv4 address needed to accept a TCP connection. Therefore every ISP is shit.

That is not the fault nor has anything to do with IPv4.

The problem with IPv4 is that there aren't enough possible network addresses for an ISP not to be shit.

Comment Reverse SSH breaks if both sides are behind NAT (Score 2) 232

Or have the skill to set up a reverse-ssh tunnel

A reverse-SSH tunnel requires one of two things: either your local computer is on a network that can accept inbound connections, or there's a relay ($) in the middle accepting connections from both the client and the server.

"is it a good thing" that it's not easy to make something in your home visible from the outside network without having to go to some extra effort or cost? Yeah, I think it is.

I believe there's a substantial qualitative difference between "extra effort" and "cost", especially when the latter is a recurring cost payable to the rent-seekers that run relays.

Comment Needing to subscribe to a relay service (Score 1) 232

nothing about IPv4 or NAT requires the servers of "evil companies" to access hosts remotely.

When an entire neighborhood shares an IPv4 address through ISP-controlled carrier-grade NAT, how does a device on subscriber premises receive an incoming TCP connection? How would the NAT appliance even know for which subscriber's device the connection is intended?

Consider a subscriber whose home LAN is behind the ISP's carrier-grade NAT, and the subscriber wants to connect to a home NAS or remote desktop from outside the home LAN. Other people have recommended that such a subscriber additionally subscribe to a relay service such as Tailscale or Hamachi. And if they want visitors from the Internet to reach their home server, it gets even more expensive.

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