The Barenaked Ladies have a song that mentions power lines in a somewhat romantic way: https://genius.com/6365258
In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were transmission towers that went through about 200 meters away from my house. During the winter when we got freezing rain I could hear them crackle slightly. All the other infrastructure was buried, the transmission towers were the only overhead lines.
One of these games involves assembling the perfect office layout for a RTO. A friend of mine works for a major corporation that recently enacted a 100% RTO mandate.
I used to work there too, and knowing what I know about their operations, I am willing to bet that probably 75% of the workforce in their offices are going to spend 100% of official work time on Zoom calls. They own offices all across the company and operate on the principal that every corporate office gets a piece of every corporate operation, so almost every team has only one or two members in the same physical location.
RTO's are almost always soft layoffs nowadays, so it will be interesting to see if the RTO achieves the desired effect or if they still have to reduce headcount in the future. Right now all they're doing is introducing their water, power, and auxilliary staffing costs without any corresponding increase in productivity.
I know I'm in the minority, but WFO works great for me.
My office is in walking distance of my home. I get great office perks (lunch, coffee, quality meeting rooms, good desk and workspace). And having a second space for work that is not my home is great for my mental health and WLB.
All of my meetings are still video conferences. Doesn't move the needle for me.
I choose to be in office 5 days a week even though only 2 are required, and it's been great for my productivity.
WFO in a shitty office is still a shitty experience, but an actually good office space is a productivity boost IME.
I got incredibly lucky at my first job. The first office we had was a five minute walk from my apartment. I could literally walk home to grab lunch, or to enjoy a private bathroom break. The second office moved to a 10 minute bike-ride away (5 minutes by car, 20 walking - which wasn't pleasant in the Texas heat), and was on the top floor of an office building, and I got my very own office with a door.
That was nice.
Sitting at a shared desk, one row away from twenty sales people who were on their phone all day, that wasn't.
> almost every team has only one or two members in the same physical location.
I was in a similar situation. I wouldn't mind coming in because in person discussions have their their benefit but I resented being made to come in just to sit on Teams calls all day. It was open plan (of course) and everyone else in the giant space with hard surfaces were also on team calls. Even my line manager was in a different physical location.
I am as critical of Big Pharma as anyone else, but you can't seriously imply that our society places a certain amount of social stigma on people who take medication for mental illness. Some US insurance companies make it more difficult to get medication for mental illness because they often argue against the need for the medication.
Is there a similar diagnostic that can be run on a Playstation 5? I generally have good download speeds on my network but it seems to take forever to install games on my PS5.
Take a pcap on your router while you're downloading things and it should be enlightening.
If you don't have a router you can capture pcaps with, setup a box with two nics, bridged, between your ps5 and your router and take pcaps on that.
I'd expect slow downloads to be either a pMTU problem (but I over index on that), the tcp window is too small, or the download server is far away/high latency. Too small window and far away download server combine to make it worse. Sibling's suggestion of adding a squid proxy likely helps because squid is highly likely to have large tcp windows. Other sibling's suggestion of disable ipv6 is likely to help if Sony didn't bother to do happy eyeballs and their ipv6 infrastructure chooses far away mirrors or is otherwise partially broken.
Could also be using a download server with high path loss, that would show up in the pcap as lots of out of order packets.
If it's anything like the PS4, you might be able to fix this by running a HTTP proxy using Squid and configuring that on the PlayStation. There's something really funky about Sony's networking on them, and configuring a squid proxy for my PS4 vastly sped up my downloads.
I tried to find an article covering this but I've had no luck, so I'm just going off memory here, but I'm pretty certain that's all that was required.
I had problems where the download ran at max speed for about 3 seconds and then practically idle for a minute, over and over. Took forever to download games. The solution was to disable the newfangled ipv6 in my router; now I get full speed at the ps5.
Very much agreed with you that IPv6 is indeed fine. I think it’s even good, even beyond the necessary feature of providing an appropriate number of prefixes.
But I do narrowly agree with GP that CLAT should’ve been a goal from the beginning. Dual stack is such a losing proposition for any org that doesn’t substantially benefit from deploying IPv6. Adding in CLATs with a plan to go 464XLAT from almost day one would have massively changed the calculus.
Dual stack is the problem, we've still got devices which are ipv4 only. I've never seen anything that's ipv6 only.
Even on my standard linux laptop, and corporate windows laptop, with the hack of DNS64, I still have issues with my ipv6 subnet. Yet I have no problem with my ipv4 subnets.
So I don't bother with ipv6 - it's a toy. There is no benefit at all to me, but I can't get rid of IPv4 because some devices won't work with ipv6, and others will work but have bugs.
The ivory towers felt "we know best, everyone will move to us, we don't need backwards compatibility". That arrogance put ipv6 back probably 30 years, maybe more. Building in backward compatibility at the protocol level (so 464 etc) would have removed the need for other hacks (dns64) and allowed a trivial transition.
Yep, agreed on pretty much all counts. The end goal is obviously the same for both dual-stack and translation technologies. But the latter makes things so much lower risk and gives you (the network operator) actual progress and a chance to simplify along the way. Providing IPv4-as-a-service is an actual plausible thing, compared to dual stack's now-draw-the-rest-of-the-owl vision.
Since I can't edit my other comment: I don't agree with this. I agree with the challenges of v6 that wouldn't be there if translation had been prioritized from the start, and with your characterization of DNS64 as a hack.
At work I can't see being able to drop ipv4 for at least 20 years due to applications and hardware which still relies on ipv4 (I've got some endpoints which don't even support igmpv2!)
I still haven't had a single failure for someone who can't reach an ipv4 endpoint.
I'm not suggesting dropping v4 connectivity altogether. I'm suggesting migration to a v6-only core by providing IPv4 as a service via 464XLAT, IPv6-Mostly, or only offering IPv4 to select network segments using SIIT-DC-2xlat: https://nicmx.github.io/Jool/en/intro-xlat.html#siit-dc-dual...
No. Just no.
If ISP would have deployed IPv6 early enough in time, like deutsche Telekom had a properly IPv6 network ready in 2012 or even before. And dual stack is no issue. But as always the ISP does need to not fuck up and you operating system should follow RFCs.
All these transitions methods are far to expensive and an unnecessary overhead.
> If ISP would have deployed IPv6 early enough in time, like deutsche Telekom had a properly IPv6 network ready in 2012 or even before.
I think you forgot half a sentence here. What was your point?
> And dual stack is no issue.
How can that possibly be so? Having enough address space to comfortably architect gives you room for far superior topologies, meaning that running dual stack at the bare minimum means that either your IPv6 topology is being compromised to map cleanly to your v4 topology, or that you're running two different topologies altogether. You need two times the sets of firewall rules, two times the number of address configurations...everything in your infra roughly 2x.
> All these transitions methods are far to expensive and an unnecessary overhead.
How so? Running 464XLAT on a device with a proper CLAT has minimal overhead, and the PLAT is no worse than running a NAT for IPv4.
Running nat on ipv4 is no worse than running a stateful firewall on ipv6 only, I don't get the complaints about it. Modern firewalls do far more with deep packet inspection, SSL unwrapping etc. NAT is a hardware function on enterprise access switches let alone firewall layers, any home router would have to do firewalling at their router anyway.
Well performance really isn't something I would point to at all. While I believe it can become problematic with great scale (e.g. those expensive CGNAT boxes), it's more the architectural and connectivity aspects that are problems:
Architecturally, dealing with two different address spaces is a complication. A flat address space is easier to reason about and more flexible. This is amplified by the fact that IPv4's RFC1918 address space is very small. Have you ever had to merge IPv4 networks from different companies? It's rarely the case that they don't have overlapping ranges.
Connectivity-wise, stateful IPv6 firewalling is very different from NAPT in IPv4 because the applications cannot reason about the ports being used (without rendezvous servers).
I'm not advocating dual stack either. Like I said in my other reply to you, I am suggesting IPv4-as-a-service using standard translation technologies and architectures.
My guess would be that this has more to do with disk speed if your download speeds are decent. Especially if it’s wired to the internet rather than WiFi. It’s always easy to spot the console user in cross-platform lobbies because of the loading times.
The write speed of the PS5 SSD is indeed quite bad but it's still way faster than gigabit ethernet, it can't be the bottleneck. It also can't be the bottleneck with load times, it still reads at 5000MB/s even though it writes at 1/10 that on a good day.
Playstation's networking capabilities are an absolute mess.
In anticipation for GTA6 I actually bought a PS5 Pro 2 weeks ago. I had to create a separate IPv4-only network because it would not complete the user-sign-up on the device on my IPv4/IPv6 network.
I don't have a link but I recall that someone did a study that revealed that there was no safety improvement from loud exhaust and the only way to improve motorcycle safety was increasing visibility with high-visibility vests.
In my state there are no helmet laws so I always find it amusing that the "loud pipes save lives" crew are the same who wear no helmets or any other protective gear.
When I commuted I wore full high viz motorcycle specific textiles (jacket/trousers), proper boots and a helmet with the highest safety rating (on the SHARP system), as with everything in life you can mitigate the risk (in the case of a motorcyle by riding sensibly and appropriate equipment), you can't remove it and riding a motorcycle is inherently more risky compared to other forms of commuting not least because you are sharing the road with much bigger/much heavier vehicles and you are rare enough that a lot of drivers just don't consider Motorcyles - hell one of our road safety campaigns literally had the slogan "Think! Bike".
Never had an off (riding on the road, many times offroad but that's different), had two near misses - one was sand/crap on the road and the front end started to go and the other was a lady pulling straight out into the road from a blind exit (literally a hole in the wall completely blocking her view), I'd gone past that many times on the way home from work and I always slowed down because I'd flagged it as a "yeah, that's just dangerous" so I had time to stop just, she was very apologetic but that wouldn't have helped me much after I'd ploughed into and over her car.
I enjoyed riding motorcycles but they were always fundamentally a tool to me to get from A to B, my friends who ride strictly for pleasure and much less safely have way more crashes (in one case one of them wrote off two bikes in six weeks...).
I disagree with the way they ride and didn't ride with them even when I had a bike, there are literally track days for that stuff, keep it off the public highway where you risk hurting other people for your "fun".
>the only way to improve motorcycle safety was increasing visibility with high-visibility vests.
Mind you, that's also putting the blame on bikers partly. Of course it helps, and not splitting lanes like a dumbass at high speeds makes you safer, but the core threat to bikers is, fundamentally, cars & trucks. Being better drivers and being safer is the best way to protect others.
UHaul is the only app I've ever encountered that is less efficient than talking to a human being behind a counter. I have tried multiple times to pick up a reservation via the app and it has taken so long or failed at some point that I had to walk into the store anyway.
And it wants a photo of my license EVERY GODDAMN TIME. And no I can't store a photo of my license on my phone and just upload it - it has to take a photo directly. And boy does it not like to take photos in bright sunlight. You know, when I'm outside in a parking lot beside a white truck.
That's funny, I've NEVER, not even once, encountered ANY app from any company, in any business, that is easier or more efficient than talking to a human being behind a counter. (So long as the human behind the counter is not also hamstrung by dreadful Indian crapware...)
Seriously, like most people, I have dozens of apps on my phone, forced on me by various needs. The ONLY one that makes anything easier or better is my password manager, which I have to have to safely keep and lookup the logins and passwords for all the damn apps...
I dunno. It's so hard to get a plain ordinary brewed coffee at Dunkin these days, the kind of coffee I used to get there back in the 1980s. On the app I could actually pick one out, in person I'm likely to have a teenager give me something else and then have a nervous breakdown when I point out the one thing I care about on their digital signs: "If we get your order wrong we'll re-do it"
I pretty much exclusively drink black coffee or plain espresso and I’ve yet to encounter any issues getting it.
I have seen lots of complaints and memes to this effect, but never has it been my lived experience. I’ve also never had an issue with politely saying “excuse me, I actually ordered X and I got Y by mistake.” No nervous breakdown at all
I grew up in New Hampshire where it is almost as much as a religion as it in Massachusetts. We had one in Ithaca for a short time when I was in grad school which didn't last very long, I remember sitting there while a schizophrenic woman told me that the mob ran absolutely everything in New York, it was closed a long time, then a Thai restaurant moved in and then, decades later, a Dunkin moved in next door.
Early on I learned that the P&C supermarket made better donuts so when a dunkin opened across the street I wasn't so interested. And of course Dunkin used to be known for good coffee but now you can find good coffee anyhwhere except for a Starbucks and Collegetown Bagels.
The car rental desk at airports is one of the worst customer experiences I've ever seen. It's sometimes worse than what seems possible. It's sometimes bad in ways that don't even make sense.
Their scheduling software is also blatantly broken. I understand the difficulty in monitoring a large distributed fleet, but their software loves to say trucks are unavailable where a quick phone call reveals they can accommodate the exact request.
People are against progress when they don't see a clear benefit to themselves. Medical progress, for example, is often widely embraced.
The thing about data centers is that some are being built in this gold rush manner and people can't see the through line to how they will benefit from them. Data center infrastructure companies are making deals with town councils in rural areas that include restrictive NDA's so the voters can't inspect what the deal involves. Combine this with AI fatigue where every time you use a website or app and some new AI feature is being pushed on you and a lot of people just feel like completely overwhelmed by the situation.
If the data center companies were smart, they would be open and cooperative with the communities they are trying to build in. But they are impatient and think they can just throw more money at the problem and shove it down the community's throat.
The PBS Nova episode about Stoll was the literal starting point of my discovery of the internet.
Because of the show, my next year in university I signed up for an elective CompSci course (I was an English Literature major) about threat assessment. Part of our course involved browsing the RISKS Forum newsgroup on the Sparc Stations at the University of Toronto Engineering Annex.
That episode was also the beginning of my fascination with telecom equipment, which I got the chance to use professionally for about a year in 1998-1999. There's a telephone museum about an hour from where I live that still has a working mechanical switch that you can dial on and see it working.
In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were transmission towers that went through about 200 meters away from my house. During the winter when we got freezing rain I could hear them crackle slightly. All the other infrastructure was buried, the transmission towers were the only overhead lines.