Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/865/
this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are
You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
Holy shit this is such an insane number
Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.
Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.
Now I'm curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?
We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.
Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
People don't think about it cause my ipv4 still works. Well fuck ourselves when we get to that bridge.
I don't see it not working any time soon. Just pile on the NATs
Or by that point they will have created a self scaling system
At the rate IPv6 adoption is going, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
They will implemented 20 layers of NAT
The big websites are operating on ipv6. If you want to run your own website it's actually trivial to host it on both ipv4/ipv6 now and most good hosting providers will give you a /64 allocation.
In the UK broadband providers also are quite commonly providing IPv6 as standard (albeit the scummy ones dynamically assign a prefix, for absolutely zero reason aside from annoyance). My provider uses PD to assign a /48 even.
So, really not sure why it's so slow going elsewhere. There's really no reason for it now in 2025.
They ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7