Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/Jazz/Classic [2] are two great ad-free ways to discover new music. There are probably tons of others out there.

[1] https://www.radioparadise.com/ [2] https://www.radioswisspop.ch/en

There was a palpable sense of nearly unlimited potential for a brighter future, powered by technology.

As someone who experienced those decades, present day feels like a dystopia in comparison.

To put it very simply, radios communicate with a central Key Management Facility (KMF) using a special key (UKEK, Unique Key Encryption Key) to securely transport the new key material. There's more to it than that, of course, but these features are heavily used by the feds and also by larger state and local systems -- because manually re-keying each radio is a huge pain.

Using DNS to resolve everything solves part of the problem, but firewall rules are another issue. The router would need to have the capability to update everything dynamically when the prefix changes. I think this in the works for pfSense, but I'm not sure if its actually supported yet. It looks like you might have to mess around with some 3rd-party script to make it work.

I guess I'm just generally disappointed that the whole process seems unnecessarily messy. I don't have a v6-compatible ISP right now anyway. I was thinking about trying a tunnel, but I'm not seeing the benefit in it right now.

When I was reading up on everything, I also learned that your router can request a bigger prefix, but I ran across several posts from various folks stating they could only get a /64 from Comcast no matter what they tried, so I'm not sure how universally supported DHCPv6-PD requests are.

So I started digging in, and there's definitely a lot to like.

But I see two big problems that are showstoppers in my opinion, at least for my home network (not even considering the fact that very few residential ISPs even support v6 at this point):

1. Generally speaking, the IPs of your LAN are based on the prefix assigned by the ISP. Most residential ISPs don't offer static prefixes. This means that every time your prefix changes, the IPs of all your devices on your LAN change. Seems like this "feature" was developed in a more idealistic era when people probably thought everyone would be getting static IPv6 addresses, since shortages would never be an issue. Unfortuantely, they failed to foresee the fact that most major ISPs are terrible, greedy organizations that either outright refuse to offer static assignments, or continue treating them as if they were scarce IPv4 resources, charging a premium or requiring business-class service to even get them.

2. The ISPs that do support v6, like Comcast/Xfinity in the USA, are only allocating one /64 prefix. This means you can only have one subnet (VLAN) on your LAN! Why are they being so stingy?

I would love to migrate to IPv6, but these two issues alone make it feel like a clown show for home users.

I personally think it is absurd that the ISPs that do actually support IPv6 are being so difficult and stingy about assigning static v6 prefixes.

Also, I hope this site doesn't disappear if/when the rather unpredictable .tk TLD operator decides to do something dumb.

And we can't talk about music streaming on the Internet without mentioning one of the originals -- https://somafm.com -- still going strong.

I support both of these stations because their "business model" is so refreshing, very much in the spirit of the "Old Internet," which I miss dearly.

Previous, an emulator of NeXT boxes.

https://previous.unixdude.net/

The fact that so many seem to tolerate "low-res" or "mid-res" displays on the current M-series Macs is really puzzling to me... maybe my eyesight isn't as bad as I thought it was and everyone else's is a lot worse!?

This new M4 mini is tempting enough that I might try a Mac again... but this time I am definitely going to have to budget for a 4k/5k display.

The delegated manager system truly represented the distributed, decentralized nature of the old Internet. That said, it is not completely dead; there are still a handful of delegated managers out there, and you can even convince some of them to "register" a new domain for you in the locality namespace!

Two big isues:

- Fastmail pays taxes to the Australian government. By supporting Fastmail, you are supporting this lunacy indirectly.

- Their rebuttal revolves around requiring a warrant for any of this, but what good is that if the process if flimsy and there is basically no friction/verification involved in obtaining a warrant?

I am a long time customer and I love Fastmail's service. But Australia has just gone nuts, and I think this is the last straw. I'll be working on a plan to slowly migrate elsewhere.