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usui··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Which provider are you using? I'm curious about this since there are not many OpenWrt guides for getting connected in Japan. Is your config similar to this write-up? https://github.com/fakemanhk/openwrt-jp-ipoe

I didn't need to do any configuration for DS-Lite or MAP-E, as DHCPv6 with a configured prefix got IPv6 working, although DNS is still broken when turning off IPv4 entirely.

usui··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Yeah and this distinction explains the fact that because China's Great Firewall blocks Google, this website shows 4.66% adoption as a reflection of that. I think China's IPv6 support rate is actually much higher than that, maybe a little over 50% because of its central initiative to increase IPv6 adoption?

EDIT: Apparently it's 77% https://pulse.internetsociety.org/en/news/2026/01/china-hits...

usui··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
This seems like wishful thinking. Python3 vs. Python2 seems different than IPv6 vs. IPv4.
usui··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Outside of hobbyist niche uses, sites won't start being hosted IPv6-only. The financialization of IPv4 addresses will simply get worse and be even more pay-to-play than it is now. Amazon raises the price of IPv4 and everyone goes along as a cost of doing business.
usui··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it. I thought I would see IPv6 take over in my lifetime as the default for platforms to build on but I can see I was wrong. Enterprise and commercial companies are literally going to hold back internet progress around 60 to 75 years because it's in their best interest to ensure users can't host services without them. Maybe even 75 years might be too optimistic? They are literally going to do everything in their power to avoid the transition, either being dragged out kicking and screaming or throwing their hands up and saying they can't support IPv6 because it costs too much.

Try going IPv6-only by disabling IPv4 on your computer as a test and notice that almost nothing works except Google. End users shouldn't need to set up NAT64/6to4 tunneling. It should be ISPs doing that to prepare for the transition.

Also, notice how Android and iOS don't support turning off IPv4.

usui··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
> Every manageable element in an IPv8 network is authorised via OAuth2 JWT tokens served from a local cache. Every service a device requires is delivered in a single DHCP8 lease response.

Isn't it 2 weeks late for April Fools'?

usui··on Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%
Pets announces pivot from Pets to Pets.com, stock explodes 1000%
usui··on How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live
The featured video does not explain how it uses signals to produce which outcomes and they basically just say "we use machine learning while outputting a dance". At 07:10 it looks like the person chooses between two binary options of "sad" and "relieved". Unfortunately I doubt the person has anywhere near the real-time input to the performance as much as it is implied. Dentsu is also an advertisng agency in Japan, so it seems like this is more marketing than it is technical.

Dances by physical humans are always choreographed beforehand but live performances always show physical motion that can interrupt or change to unchoreographed movement at any time. I have a hard time believing that this person's brainwaves are mapping and producing the hologram in a specific 3D space, other than instructing it which mood preset to use at a given time.

Excluding the marketing of the ALS story, I guess I'm wondering how it's different from a Michael Jackson hologram performance where someone could adjust the sliders for mathematical functions live?

usui··on Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
FYI you were not wrong, but it was on a different parody thread here https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/S38087806

"Show HN: Clitly - My API for locating the clitoris using Node.js [github.com]"

usui··on Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa
Well, I mean Japan has almost half the GDP per capita than Germany and the mentioned fee is the minimum in a rural area (a place where driving becomes essential), not Tokyo where it's considered the ultimate privilege bestowed upon from the heavens and costs more.
usui··on Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa
Japan is a bureacracy-driven credentialist Confucian scholar-boner societal nightmare, so pushes for more credentialism are never a surprise. Recently this month laws and fines for bicyclists have gotten stricter. Yes, a human-powered vehicle that almost anyone can ride without a license is deemed necessary to enforce. This is what the government thinks is worthy of its time, and it thinks making immigration harder to do with more bureaucratic entry barriers is necessary when the foreigner population is barely 3%. The process to getting a driver's license is insane. If you want to avoid the Kafkaesque procedures at the license center, you have to go to a school that costs around $2000 and takes several weeks so you can have forced participation in the bureacracy. The United States fails to prioritize anything whereas Japan prioritizes all the wrong places and thinks such misprioritization is good because it considers any centralized action at all to be inherently good. Wheels spinning in place.
usui··on Zero Days: Electric Motorcycles Are a Security Nightmare
A direct email from Zero Motorcycles to owners probably as a result of this blog post:

SUBJECT: Firmware Release & Ongoing Security Measures

Dear Zero Owners,

March 25th Firmware Update (BMU V20)

On the morning of March 25th, as part of our ongoing improvements, we released a firmware update for select 2022+ Zero models that improves the accuracy of the battery state-of-charge and range display. This update addresses a condition where, over time, the system could overestimate available charge, which in rare cases could lead to the motorcycle shutting down before the display reaches 0%. Following installation, some riders may notice a lower battery percentage or reduced range estimate. This is expected and reflects corrected, more accurate readings — actual riding range is not affected.

See details at zeromotorcycles.com/firmware.

Ongoing Security Enhancements

Separately, we recently became aware of potential issues in our motorcycles’ firmware and are taking steps to address them with your safety and security in mind. This work is ongoing, and we remain committed to strengthening system protections across our platform.

We understand how important trust and dependability are when you ride. Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

The Zero Motorcycles Team

usui··on Apple Gives FBI a User's Real Name Hidden Behind 'Hide My Email' Feature
Hilarious that someone would go to the length of creating 134 anonymized email addresses, but all of them using the same Apple account. Might as well have put in the effort for actual anonymous email addresses.
usui··on WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography
I know software developers complain about forced compliance due to the security theatre aspects, but I would like to charitably ask from someone who has technical understanding of FIPS-compliant cryptography. Are there any actual security advantages on technical grounds for making WireGuard FIPS-compliant? Assume the goal is not to appease pencil pushers. I really want to know if this kind of effort has technical gains.
usui··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
Have you seen how bad flight booking sites can get? I've had to download airline apps a majority of the time because the website failed to finish payment properly.

I don't think we should call presentations visionless or fault them for wanting to solve this UX nightmare.

usui··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
I'm with you and feel your anger. So tired of California's useless virtue signaling about housing and homelessness while no progress is made for decades. California, stop messing around and start living up to your virtue signals! It's infuriating to live in California, hear all day about caring about poor people, then do nothing at all for the bottom line and in fact endeavor to make it harder and discriminate against poor people as much as possible.

And then they'll act so surprised when the populists without a plan show up and win the national elections.

usui··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
Kagi also supports Gen Z: I hope you log out early fr
usui··on 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March
Xerxes had a victory at Thermopylae
usui··on Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
I just want to say that despite the AI negativity in other places, this highlights the positive aspect of it. I'm sure this could have been done without it, but I'm glad OP could get it out faster for a low-risk use case, shared it with us, and in the process taught a little bit of refining to others. It's a fun minigame.
usui··on Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day
What did the videos originally link to? It just shows "Sorry, this post is no longer available."
usui··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Is it really worth going after a market known for people who buy things? Do companies like money?
usui··on Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices
Why would you want "Completed" if you want to know how much an item sells for? This would be telling you how much it didn't sell for.
usui··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
Yes this is true and it might possibly be true for the rest of East Asia though I'm not sure. Software is considered intangible and thus low value that anyone can do, whereas hardware is a real "thing" that you can hold in your hands, and is therefore more prestigious. Well, this way of thinking has made things into the current state.
usui··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
Yeah this is probably downstream of the fact that if you visit any of the individual JR sites from the expandable map at the bottom, you'll discover they're all down at this time as well. Let's scrap the website and make a staffed phone line or fax machine with operating hours.
usui··on The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)
I read this piece when it came out in 2022. Maybe it should be marked with "(2022)". Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33745146

I just want to add that in addition to peculiar web design, Japanese websites have a way of assuming architectures or usage patterns where servers need to sleep or do some kind of scheduled job, which is really weird for people used to sites that need to account for a range of timezones or 24/7 availability (unless there is a pre-announced downtime that exists as a one-off thing). I know at least three websites off the top of my head that go down for "maintenance" at an exact scheduled time for hours every day, assuming that users would never want to access them overseas during those times (actually, one of those three doesn't even announce the reason, it just returns "server failed to respond" errors until it's time to "open up" for business again). Many services work fine, but at least a quarter to a half of Japanese web services are awful even though they eventually work if you can strangle yourself into making it work. The floor for Japanese web services is way below the floor for American ones. Those sites can get really mindnumbingly bad both on the front end and back end. I'm not sure what the cause is, but it must be a variety of factors. If tech-savvy users can't even make it work, I feel really bad for the struggling elders forced to use those sites.

usui··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
I can't believe there are also other people downrange who don't get it, but in case anyone has a broken sarcasm detector:

Yes, this blog post is meant to be whimsical and tongue-in-cheek because the post takes itself too seriously by pretending like one user leaving to another platform (for 2 years GASP!!) with a big scary countdown timer is a credible threat to a multi-trillion dollar company. The real part of the post is the request and complaining about the bug.

usui··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
It needs to be because the US has leaned further into individualism relative to other countries. If society's golden metric of success means being able to acquire all of these luxuries or services purely through monetary means as transactional individuals, don't be too surprised when the expenses rack up.
usui··on Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
I think you misunderstood
usui··on xAI joins SpaceX
Yeah you're right. Good distinction.
usui··on xAI joins SpaceX
Not true. China 9.6 million square kilometers, USA 9.8 million square kilometers, contiguous 8.1 million.
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