1. NAT and a firewall are 2 different things
2. With IPV6 you can have so many IPS that unwanted users can't guess your IP. This isn't true security but see 1 for that.
Exactly. Which is the issue with saying, as the article does, that NAT is the reason most people don't have an Internet visible server, when the real reason is that their computers need to be behind a firewall and once you're behind a firewall, safely opening up just little pieces of it for an Internet visible server is something most people aren't going to want to deal with.
Perhaps a server run by a large corporation could do this. Perhaps.
But an ordinary person? I don't see it. If it's tough for an ordinary person to handle safely opening a port in their firewall for forwarding, it's tough squared (or perhaps cubed or an even higher power) for an ordinary person to handle auto-creating a separate IPV6 address for every other person that wants to communicate over the Internet with them.
Not to mention, how does this work with DNS? If Ordinary Person wants to put an article up for others to read, how do the others find it? Surely not by Ordinary Person sending individually crafted IPV6 addresses to anyone who wants to read their article. (And how do they even find those other people if they are also creating new IPV6 addresses for everyone else?)
Agreed. I’m on my 4th Garmin and the charging cable last about a year or two at most. That said, for me it has always just been the cable and the watch is self last forever. All 4 of my old Garmin’s still work if I get them out of a drawer and charge them up. Now I just small USBC -> Garmin adapter's that normally get lost before they wear out.
I would love a standards based wireless option here.
which "just works", like I plug the watch in and it charges... just like that! It's amazing though that Garmin has normalized "it just doesn't work" for its own charging cables.
(2) As for @Cindy HN is boring. I mean, people on Mastodon often assume there has to be something wrong with HN (like there are white people there? somebody cis posted there once? there are people there who care about making money?) but never seem to find the smoking gun. I mean, I could write about salacious things on HN but nobody would believe it. Like one reason I post a lot less to HN these days is that I am doing other things!
The software side can probably go many years without new features. Nobody picks Oracle in 2026 for the features.