Digital butterflies - Oliver wells

Because sometimes you don't have a choice, you can only do what you suggest it there's enough free swap to do so. Otherwise you have to kill processes.

Eh, if you use the API, I just go up a size and use bitwise operators, the JIT is fast enough that it's usually not a problem. Definitely not 100x slower

Historically it used to be running on my local router/firewall and the pure v6 was just between my devices and that firewall. However my setup has changed considerably since then and nat64 has been moved to a VPS out of my normal network path because I got my own public v6 space. So my current setup is basically firewall -> VPN -> VPS with BGP for normal(v6) internet comms. That whole path is pure v6 and then in the same datacenter as that BGP VPS is my NAT64 VPS. Beautiful thing about NAT64 is you don't actually need it local if you don't want. There's even a fully public service for free if you don't want to setup your own and don't mind the tradeoffs (bad latency, shared IPs, low bandwidth) https://nat64.net/.

If it goes down for some reason I just lose access to websites that don't normally have AAAA records, which sounds like a big loss but honestly I've been running NAT64 in some capacity since 2019 and so over time I have sort of black balled services that don't have v6 in favor of ones that do so very little of my normal online activity normally needs v4. I actually have packet counting on my firewall tracking the amount of data exchanged with various large services, Google, Cloudflare, etc, my NAT64 VPS is one of the things it tracks and compared to my total traffic the NAT64 traffic is a very small <10% of my normal internet usage at this point.

I had to give this a really good think because I can't remember the last time I've seen a car with a manual transmission so I was fully like

What do you mean? The brake is the left most pedal?

I'll have to test that, I have 16C/32T so I'll try dropping my compiles down and see if I do get diminishing returns. Never really considered that. Also I do not use CCache, I'll have to check it out though because it does sound really useful.

Wow this is a tad controversial, can't remember the last time I saw something with an even 50/50 vote ratio

This reminds me of prop 65. It's so broad that everything is labeled as causing cancer to the point of being a worthless label. I suspect this will have a similar problem on top of the privacy ones

Ah, I wasn't aware they were using existing projects. I hadn't done a lot of research and was under the impression they were building utilities.

I don't care WHAT the data protection rules are. That's what you're missing. I DO NOT want services I use collecting my personal data outside of email. End of story. As it is I will NOT give services my phone number except in very specific circumstances. What you're missing is I DO NOT CARE what the rules are, the policies, the protections. They are collecting my ID and that in itself is INEXCUSABLE regardless of anything else.

ObjC has always been a language that's interested me in the sense that it's very unique and it just seemed interesting. That being said I've never been involved in the apple ecosystem, not open enough for me so I got my mobile start on Android with Java...then realized I loved java, hated android development and never went back to mobile platform stuff LOL. I still haven't moved to kotlin and with modern Java as it is I don't currently plan to. Maybe I'll give it a try if I ever try android development again but for now I'm just a user on the mobile side.