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>You can't just assume UTF-8

But I will, because in this day and age, I should be perfectly able to do so. Non-use of UTF-8 should be simply considered a bug and not treating text as UTF-8 should frankly be a you problem. At least for anything reasonably modern, by which I mean made in the last 15 years at least.



This is a nice and easy-to-use tool, it's a shame your submission died!


It's not wrong though. Besides North America, there are major carriers in India, France who use IPv6-only networks (with 464XLAT), and I know several South American and Asian countries have them as well. In fact, India is a world leader in IPv6 adoption. Nowadays it's a very common for mobile networks to be IPv6-only because these providers haven't been able to secure large Ipv4 subnets in the early days. Ironically, they have the most devices. However, this is also the reason why phones work much better with XLAT than Windows or Linux.


By 2032, it's virtually certain IPv6 is going to be the majority protocol. For instance, see Google's numbers:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html


Czechia has a low percentage of 25%.

But that is something that could be improved with government pressure on ISPs.


You are correct, Czechia is a parliamentary democracy. Usually, the government is formed by the parties that together have a legislative majority in the lesser chamber.

I should clarify that this is not a law, rather a "government decision" (a la "executive order") on how to act on it's law. Forgive me, I'm not well versed in legal English, and the systems are quite different.


Allow me to append a short summary in English:

- The Czech government adopted a new directive titled "The restart of DNSSEC and IPv6 enrollment in the government"

- Until yesterday, no administration on the European continent has made such a decisive step as setting a end-of-support date for IPv4

- Selected date is highly symbolic, the 6th of June, 2032, the 20th anniversary of the World IPv6 day

- This decision has already sparked discussion on the RIPE NCC forums

- "It's a signal to all internet players to take IPv6 seriously"

- Nevertheless, the EU itself has already taken even greater leap towards IPv6 adoption


UPDATE! I translated the article: https://pastebin.com/Ve3gXMQn


I don't disagree, but few non-techies will be able to download an image off of an FTP server or mount an NFS share. Thats where such a service adds value.


I know my perspective is really skewed, but don't filezilla and the like make ~FTP easy enough? Or failing that, even Windows must have the hooks to (implement an add-on to) mount SFTP and treat it like a thumb drive? Why is it harder to use FTP/SFTP than a fancy web frontend?


Because a lot of people nowadays just use a browser. That’s 99% of what a computer is to them.

“What’s a filezilla?”

“go here, drop files there” instead of “download this, put this here, connect, drop your files here” makes the difference between people using your service and not using your service.


> Because a lot of people nowadays just use a browser. That’s 99% of what a computer is to them.

Doesn't mean they could not learn that it is not. I think that developers underestimating users is a problem. "They are too dumb to run a desktop app, so let's put everything in the browser" is a weak argument to me.


This is less true of software like the one mentioned in the article that are intended to be self-hosted, though: I have to walk my users through using it anyways and so I can show them FileZilla or install a SFTP filesystem on their computer or setup syncthing/dropbox for them to handle uploads. There’s lots of ways to avoid exposing a custom file upload service for this sort of thing.


No, that's the _upload_ mechanism: it's just an HTTP URL on the download side like normal.


Yes, I meant upload, sorry. Downloading from a page is trivial. I was more concerned ith the case of grandma sending a picture or similar.


That's the most expensive resume you could probably have! I don't have access to a whole /22, but I'm now tempted to do this at a smaller scale, thanks for the idea!


No, in general, the smallest block of IPv6 addresses you can "own" is /24. You have to pay yearly fees to your RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as an ANS (Autonomous system). Think of it as owning land and paying a land tax.


I have a /24 registered in the early 90's. I pay no registration fees for it since it's a legacy block.


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