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A group of Singaporean researchers who studied a cohort of 168 children for more than a decade found that those exposed to screens in infancy (before two years of age) showed accelerated maturation of brain networks involved in visual processing and cognitive control. That faster specialization, the researchers suggest, was associated with slower decision-making in childhood, and in turn, higher anxiety symptoms in adolescence.

"During normal development, brain networks gradually become more specialised over time," according to the study's lead author Dr. Huang Pei. "However, in children with high screen exposure, the networks controlling vision and cognition specialised faster, before they had developed the efficient connections needed for complex thinking."

The result, Huang said, is limited brain flexibility and mental resilience, leaving children less adaptable later in life, as evidenced by higher anxiety scores in cohort kids who had more screen time before age 2.

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Let’s take a look at how to setup a basic local Minecraft server both with and without mods.

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Not sure why they thought that would be a good idea.

Actual I think multiple addresses is a good idea.

1. The FE80::/7 is the former 169.254, always active, used for "same link" things, to some extend it replaces ARP, prevents ARP storms by design. Has the MAC coded into the address.

2. The FEC0::/10 (usually subnetted in /64 packets), similar to 192.168.x.x, but no "default gateway" for Internet desired, only clear other LAN destination routes.

3. The FC00::/7 (usually subnetted in /64 packets), similar to 10.x.x.x, but no "default gateway" for Internet desired, only clear other LAN destination routes.

4. The FD00::/8 DO NOT USE (usually subnetted in /64 packets), similar to 172.16.x.x, but no "default gateway" for Internet desired, only clear other LAN destination routes. This got removed from the standard somewhere in the last 20 years and replaced by FC00::/7 which included FD00::/8, therefore better avoid.

5. The FF00::/8 is multicast, similar to the 224.x.x.x

6. Finally the actual internet address, usually 2001:whateverfirst64bits:your-pseudo-static-part. Depending on the provider your prefix might be /56 /48 as well. The yourpseudosstaticpart is, on many devices, optionally with privacy extensions, so they are random and change over time even if your provider does not force-disconnect-reconnect. How much "privacy" that offers is a discussion for another decade.

Normal homes have 1 and 6. Über-Nerd homes or companies with somewhat clean ipv6 adaption have 1, 2 or 3 (not both please!), and 6 to organize their WAN/LANs. Enlightened Nerds include 5 too.

2 and 3 have the advantage that they are DEFINETLY not to be used for internet, no gateway to the internet, and therefore safe for LAN. I am nerd, but don't give a s, so I have 1 and 6, and my fd address is there for historic reasons since I played with ipv6 over a decade ago but not active in use.

My gripe is a lot of the things around it which makes ipv6 a hassle, especially when your prefix from 6 changes, all you adapters, and I mean ALL ACROSS YOUR WHOLE LAN, have to automatically follow suit. Which means: When connected to the Internet a lot of formerly static ipv4 configuration cannot be static any more - unless your provider gives you a fixed ipv6.

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My gripe is a lot of the things around it which makes ipv6 a hassle, especially when your prefix from 6 changes, all you adapters, and I mean ALL ACROSS YOUR WHOLE LAN, have to automatically follow suit. Which means: When connected to the Internet a lot of formerly static ipv4 configuration cannot be static any more - unless your provider gives you a fixed ipv6.

This is one of the worst parts of it. And even if your provider gives you a static assignment, what happens when you change provider? Or if you failover on a multi wan connection? Or even try to load balance on a multi wan connection?

The only way IPV6 can be used with the same (even better) flexibility of v4 is when you own you v6 addresses and use a dynamic routing protocol, which is not what a small business usually does. A home user even less.

Then there is the security nightmares v6 can give you. I can't even imagine how many ways of abusing it are simply yet to be discovered, apart from the obvious ones like the fact that even if you don't use v6 to connect to the internet, you LAN has FE80 addresses all around and you have to firewall the hell out of it unless you want someone that penetrated the LAN to use them to move laterally almost for free.

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fec0::/10 is long deprecated, and it's a bit odd to tell us to avoid fd00::/8 in favor of fc00::/7 when the latter includes the former. fc00::/8 is intended for /48s assigned by some central entity (but none has been set up, since there doesn't seem to be a pressing need for one) and fd00::/8 is for people to select their own random /48s from, so if you want to use ULA then you'll be picking a /48 from fd00::/8.

It's not exactly hard to hand out a new prefix to everything. Your router advertises the new subnet, and every machine across your whole LAN receives it and automatically configures a new IP from it.

Anything that assumes your IPs are never going to change is already broken. Maybe we should focus a teeny bit of the energy we spend complaining about it into fixing the brokenness?

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Most of your first questions can be broadly answered by a mix of "you advertise a /64 from the prefix that the provider gives you" and "you can use multiple addresses". And it doesn't sound like your use of v4 is very flexible if it can't handle your IPs changing sometimes.

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There are two ways to make a Minecraft server allow list only. The first is through the chat box in-game, using the command "/allowlist on" (Bedrock edition) or "/whitelist on" (Java edition) and then "/allowlist add username" or "/whitelist add username" depending on which edition. The other way is to make a whitelist.json file at the root of your server, and add the username and UUID of a player to the file. //

This is one step that I forget far more often than I'd like to admit. Becoming an op on your server is crucial. With op powers, you can do just about anything in the Minecraft world.

To make yourself an op, simply type "/op username" in-game, or edit the ops.json file at the root of your Minecraft server.

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less than half of all netizens use IPv6 today.

To understand why, know that IPv6 also suggested other, rather modest, changes to the way networks operate.

"IPv6 was an extremely conservative protocol that changed as little as possible," APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston told The Register. "It was a classic case of mis-design by committee."

And that notional committee made one more critical choice: IPv6 was not backward-compatible with IPv4, meaning users had to choose one or the other – or decide to run both in parallel.

For many, the decision of which protocol to use was easy because IPv6 didn't add features that represented major improvements.

"One big surprise to me was how few features went into IPv6 in the end, aside from the massive expansion of address space," said Bruce Davie... //

Davie said many of the security, plug-and-play, and quality of service features that didn't make it into IPv6 were eventually implemented in IPv4, further reducing the incentive to adopt the new protocol. "Given the small amount of new functionality in v6, it's not so surprising that deployment has been a 30 year struggle," he said. //

While IPv6 didn't take off as expected, it's not fair to say it failed.

"IPv6 wasn't about turning IPv4 off, but about ensuring the internet could continue to grow without breaking," said John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN).

"In fact, IPv4's continued viability is largely because IPv6 absorbed that growth pressure elsewhere – particularly in mobile, broadband, and cloud environments," he added. "In that sense, IPv6 succeeded where it was needed most, and must be regarded as a success." //

APNIC's Huston, however, thinks that IPv6 has become less relevant to the wider internet.

"I would argue that we actually found a far better outcome along the way," he told The Register. "NATS forced us to think about network architectures in an entirely different way."

That new way is encapsulated in a new technology called Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), that doesn't require client devices to always have access to a public IP address.

"We are proving to ourselves that clients don't need permanent assignment of IP address, which makes the client side of network far cheaper, more flexible, and scalable," he said.