I’m the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.

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  • With IPv6 for most use cases there’s actually more security. With privacy extensions (pretty sure it’s enabled on windows by default), when you make connections from your device, it uses a “private” IP. That is a randomly chosen address inside your network’s prefix, that changes regularly.

    These addresses don’t accept incoming connections. You have a main address that doesn’t really change that you accept connections on. Firewall that for ports you want to allow and then hackers need to port scan 2^64 or 2^80 address space to find your real IPs in your prefix. If they capture your IP from a connection to a web server etc, they won’t have luck scanning you.

    Again as per my post above, the biggest risk right now is bad default configurations on many home routers.











  • I do use postgres but only as an rdb provider. I thought while it supports json data as a type, does it provide for all of the other advantages of nosql databases for their use case?

    Ultimately I feel like the best solution is to have a single database provider that could do both fully. I’m not sure it’s really there yet. But halpt to be told I’m wrong. I’ve not really needed that myself for my projects.