geekwithsoul

Why would anyone switch off IPv4? That makes no sense and isn’t commonly done. You run dual stack in most cases – NAT v4 and straight v6. A lot of folks are using v6 on mobile phones without even realizing it because telcos ran the numbers years ago and realized it was cheaper to push v6 at the end user layer than run NAT and/or try to find v4 addresses on the transfer market. There’s been no unallocated pool of v4 space for almost a decade.

What do you imagine the “cost” is?

Have you ever heard the phrase “You can’t reason someone out of an opinion that they didn’t reason themselves into”? If they’re objectively not fat, than what they’re really saying is they feel like they’re fat, not they they think that they’re fat. That can be for a whole host of reasons, but arguing facts with them won’t help. Far better to have discussions with them about why they feel that way and why they’re focused on it. Ultimately it’s an issue they have to resolve themselves and not something you can convince them of.

None of the age verification services respect privacy - that’s baked into the whole push for it. Because it’s not just about “verifying” people’s ages at a specific point in time, especially in the US, it’s about being able to prove you have in case anyone tries to sue you.

Headlines like this really need to put the emphasis on the cause, e.g. “UK Government Forces Bluesky to Roll Out Age Verification”