Sure, there's no need for IPv6 ND to provide ARP-like features on a Layer 3 only point-to-point link, but it's still heckin' convenient not to have to manually assign IP addresses just to get two endpoints to communicate.

Even PPP will allocate one when IPv6 is enabled.

My captures are not near as as nice as the animated ones that GFD created, but they'll do.

web.archive.org/web/20250107...

Created a few animated ones myself using using BizHawk to capture the frames.

dcoles.dev/webgpu/snes-...

They look even better when animated, but wanted to ask first before lifting someone's GIFs (I'm sure they were a pain to create).

A little off topic, but one silver lining of GenAI is it's given me motivation to be a shitty artist. Sure, I can generate a shiny masterpiece with the click of a button, but it has zilch of me in it.

I appreciate that human aspect way more these days. ♥️

Probably one of the biggest tells of GenAI use is when I see too much content (several lengthy paragraphs, lists with dozen+ items) with too much shoe polish and/or sanded down edges.

Real things tend to be incomplete, some gaps and personal quirks. I can feel some of the person behind it.

The tendency to towards flowery weasel wording doesn't help either. Almost correct sounding is a pain in the backside to review and weed out.

It sometimes feels we've still not come much further than ELIZA—an illusion of understanding based on pattern matching.

So many people are willing to give it the benefit of the doubt or to overlook mistakes rather than call them out.

The `windows` crate has been a fascinating way to learn Windows programming (my background is all Linux/BSD/POSIX).

crates.io/crates/windows

Initially I was going to try doing so via C#, but turns out that using WinRT is nigh impossible in C# if you're not using the full-blown Visual Studio.

I figured it might have been fun to write something using the `windows` Rust crate to trigger an ATA Secure Erase on a disk, but seems that sort of low-level access isn't possible in newer versions of Windows.

stackoverflow.com/a/32804625

Oops, it's Nov *2nd*, not 9th (I was looking at Mar. 9th, the start date), thanks to infosec.exchange/@rob3/115428...