slazer2au
@slazer2au@lemmy.world
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 4 days ago:
I can’t think of one large acquisition that benefited consumers
Because consumers are not thought of when acquisitions happen. Shareholders and maybe regulations are thought of.
- Comment on Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Anon plays with his sister 5 days ago:
Or Kenshi.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 days ago:
Because it will be an ungodly thing to manage. The national phone databases are already a nightmare to manage. it would be far worse if we had a global one.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 days ago:
You seem to have be missing a fundamental thing about tech but I can’t pin down what it is. So I will respond to your edits.
but I can’t buy a static address that will persist across networks endpoint changes
You can. It’s called Provider Independent Space and it a pain to go with as an individual.
Yes, it would be a privacy nightmare, I want to know why it didnt turn out that way
Because people smarter than you, I, and everyone else in this post said 'Yes EUI-64 is a good idea in principe but the problems on a privacy perspective outweigh the advantages. So let’s build a system called MAC randomisation so people can get multiple address to access the internet with. ’
The good news is you can turn off MAC randomisation.AFAIK IP addresses (even static public ones) are not equivlent to phone numbers. I don’t get a new phone number every time I connect to a new cell tower
In some parts of the world or before 2000 if you changed mobile providers, say from Vodafone to Telstra you had to get a new number. Since that change number routing has become a nightmare and it makes the BGPv4 table look sane in comparison.
Even if a static IP is assigned to a device, my understanding is that connecting the device to a new uncontrolled WiFi, especially a router with a NAT, will make it so that people who try to connect to the static IP will simply fail.
This is a complex one due to NAT in the ipv4 space. NAT exists purely to allow devices to have the same private IPv4 address and hide behind a public v4 address.
No, MAC addresses are not equivalent phone numbers. 1. Phone numbers have one unique owner, MAC addresses can have many owners because they can be changed at any time to any thing on most laptops. 2. A message can’t be sent directly to a MAC address in the same way as a phone number
- MAC do have unique owner blocks. Cisco somewhat owned the 0000.0C block.
- Yes you can. That is literally how it works down the TCP/IP stack.
Yes, IMEI is unique, but my laptop doesn’t have one and even if it did its not the same as an eSim or sim card. We can send a message to an activated Sim, we can’t send a message to an IMEI or serial number
If your laptop has a regular Sim slot it will have an IMEI. True we can’t send messages via IMEI or serial because those systems were never designed for message routing.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 days ago:
In that case it is the IEEE who allocate Mac’s to orgs
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
I hate to break it to you but MAC randomisation has been around since 2007. Fuck we are getting old.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
If you tried to route everything with a MAC address, (which isn’t possible, but for arguments sake we will pretend it is) the problem is that when you take your phone with its MAC address off your wifi and on to your work wifi, Where would the registry be? How would the Internet know how to find your phone? Do you just log into one giant global registry so that everyone can find your phone when they are trying to communicate with it? That would be a giant fucking database and everyone would always be trying to use it.
This is a solved issue called EUI-64 IPv6 addressing. It is a privacy nightmare.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
There kinda is IANA . They assign addresses to regional registraties like RIPE, APNIC, LANIC who in turn assign addresses to ISPs and large corporations.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Yep. See EUI-64 IPv6 addressing.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
What makes you think all phones have unique numbers? Some have no direct dial numbers.
As for each device getting a unique IP address this is somewhat in the spec for EUI-64 IPv6 address. Your IP is based on your interfaces MAC address but this becomes a privacy nightmare.
If the MAC address’s of the wifi chip in your phone is 1122.3344.5566 your IPv6 address at home can be 2001:0db8:0000:00000:1122:33ff:fe44:5566 but when at work your address may be 2001:db8:1000:0000:1122:33ff:fe44:5566. No matter where you connect to the last 4 sections of the address is the same and companies will use that as one of the data points of your digital profile.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 1 week ago:
- Comment on How well can an employer be certain of a remote employee's geographical location? 1 week ago:
Most places will use IP based location services so if you use a router based VPN to appear in another place it will hide you well enough for the initial glance.
Conditional access policies may out you though. Several places will deny known VPN endpoints from logging in. But if you get a VPS hosting server and run your own endpoint you will be less likely to get nabbed by that one.GPS in laptops is almost unheard of. Sure there are specific models built for specific use cases that have them but a regular corporate laptop is not.
- Comment on How many songs are about Courtney Love? 1 week ago:
Somewhere between two and eleventy billion. I have no idea what those songs are or who that person is but that doesn’t seem relevant to the question.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 1 week ago:
Would depend on the visa.
- Comment on Checks out to me. 1 week ago:
Oh Wikipedia, pease never change.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 1 week ago:
Wow a 30% drop in revenue is quite something.
- Comment on Political shitposting please 1 week ago:
Like this post?
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 2 weeks ago:
Bike key or coins. We call them coin pockets for a reason.
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 2 weeks ago:
More like pain rather than an apology.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 weeks ago:
Firewall migration for a customer from PFSense to FortiGates.
- Comment on You've messed with the wrong bird 2 weeks ago:
Do it again, but replace the penguin with an emu and go post it over in auzzie.zone
- Comment on I just want to play my game... 2 weeks ago:
I see you fell for Ubi blatant lying that the game is single player when it should be classified as Live Service.
It truly does suck that there is no offline mode just like The Division.
- Comment on Passwords and 2FA at a small business 2 weeks ago:
You can also do SAML with Google Workspace as an Identity Provider
- Comment on 7 Days to Die is leaving Early Access 3 weeks ago:
No way?
- Comment on Got the gloomies 3 weeks ago:
Is it still clinical if you haven’t been professionally diagnosed?
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 3 weeks ago:
As a FortiNet admin I am feeling a lot of sympathy to PA admins.
- Comment on Bypassing problematic captive portals. Cafe gave me a red padlock; transit svc has broken TLS captive portal, etc… 4 weeks ago:
I still have to investigate what limitation my browser has and whether I can update this whilst being trapped on an unrooted Android 5.
Wait you are still using Lollypop? Your first priority should be to get on an android version from this decade. Lollipop came out in 2014 and went eos in 2016.
As for your liability comment. I highly doubt the vendor had any liability or or requirement to support such on old os.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 4 weeks ago:
Do you plan to take a flight at some stage?
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 4 weeks ago:
I reached out to Ubisoft and was told that an internet connection is required to install the game no matter which version you are playing. However, Ubisoft did confirm that you’ll be able to play Outlaws offline once you’ve installed it.
Am I missing something here. How big is the game because online install has been a thing some 2008 because games are larger than DVD and Blu-ray disk’s.