Robert7301201
@Robert7301201@slrpnk.net
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
If your ISP supports IPv6, then yes, you can use IPv6 to get a publicly reachable address when you would otherwise be unable to due to being behind a CGNAT. If your ISP does not support IPv6, you are out of luck. There are methods to translate between IPv4 and IPv6, but they require a public IPv4 address.
My friend switched to Starlink recently and was disappointed to find out he can’t host Minecraft servers and such due to CGNAT. Luckily, Starlink does support IPv6, so he was able to host his servers that way. The caveat is that we have to be IPv6 capable to join his server.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
The first and biggest reason is network effects. If nobody else is using IPv6, then there’s little benefit to switching. Corporations and governments are always resource constrained and there’s not really a business case for switching just because it might be necessary someday. Being that corporations and governments are the ones providing the vast majority of services on the internet, that means there’s not as much reason for switching for end users as well.
Part of the reason that switching didn’t end up being necessary was that NAT did a really good job of solving the address problem. NAT let you have an internal network behind a single IP address which vastly reduced the amount of public IPs necessary. Even most people in tech probably wouldn’t realize that the concept of public vs internal network didn’t exist back in the day. Everything connected to the Internet had a publically reachable IP. When even that wasn’t enough, they just did it again and had CGNAT, carrier grade NAT. Now you could have multiple households and businesses behind a single IP.
The final reason is that IPv6 is just different from IPv4. Things like router advertisements and SLAAC require you to learn new things and rethink how you do things. What doesn’t help matters is that until you get everyone switched over to IPv6, you still have to support IPv4 in some way. Dual stack, where you run both IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel, is the most compatible way, but it’s also the most complicated to administrate. There are ways for an IPv6-only network to communicate with IPv4 clients, such as NAT64, but they each have their own caveats. These differences can result in small annoyances to administrators that add up, such as like you mentioned that IPv6 addresses are just not as memorable as IPv4. The natural fix for this is DNS. But like I said, that requires you to rethink your network. DNS goes from being a nice to have to being essential even for small networks.
Despite all these issues, IPv6 adoption is still marching along. France, India, and Germany have some of the highest rates of IPv6 capable devices, at 83.97%, 78.81%, and 74.30%. (IPv6 Adoption) Globally, we’re sitting around just under 50%. (Google IPv6 Tracker) Some sectors also have higher adoption rates. Mobile carriers are mostly IPv6-only these days. A lot of residential routers also ship with IPv6 enabled.
- Comment on this is real btw 3 weeks ago:
My God, they’ve got a hammer. Somebody needs to stop them; they might start building houses for the homeless.
- Comment on idiot chess 2 months ago:
Their Twitter profile has links to their Mangadex and Pixiv accounts. x.com/Nhim_Art
- Comment on idiot chess 2 months ago:
They’re also on Pixiv. www.pixiv.net/en/users/24207001
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 9 months ago:
Well, that too. The whole CEO personally delivering a cease and desist is a pretty big hint.
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 9 months ago:
I just assumed it was fake based on the community.
- Comment on What I'm playing 🐭📖 Moss: Book II | You can high-five the mouse! 9 months ago:
I had no idea Moss 2 was out, and it came out in 2022. Instant purchase for sure, but now I have to decide if I’m going to replay the first one. Thanks for the PSA.
- Comment on Redirect to prevent back button 1 year ago:
We just got vertical align last month. There’s so many things they should be working on but are too busy trying to add more ads or monetization features.
I think the web is just too long in the tooth at this point but there’s nothing we can do.
- Comment on Aardman Animation Only Has Enough Clay For One More Movie | Aardman is the stop-motion studio responsible for 'Wallace & Gromit' and 'Chicken Run.' 2 years ago:
It’s a special nylon reinforced clay that only a single company makes. The company’s owners retired and couldn’t find anyone to take over.