Every HackerNews post about IPv6 has some of the worst, most privileged, idiotic, vibe-coded, proprietary, ignorant, 16bit, capital-guzzling, unicorn takes I've ever known on the subject:

- IPv6 addresses are too hard to remember.
So? You're not meant to remember addresses, that's why we have DNS, write it down, literally a non-issue.

- IPv6 is confusing and I don't want to learn something new.
That's a personal issue buddy, either start reading or get left behind, that's what you said about AI right? More things that you depend on this transition.

- NATing has solved the IP limit problem so there's no point.
NATing is a plaster slapped onto brain bleed, easy and cheap, but ineffective, it causes a wide range of usability problems, such as blanket IP bans, restrictions on self-hosting, connectivity issue for VPNs both private and corporate.
To make matters worse, the effects are significantly worse in poorer countries, while Europe, China and the USA have a bounty of IPv4s to use (though China's still aren't enough), India has been on critically short supply for a while now with reports of multiple NATed network layers being issued. Imagine if you got banned from Valo because your neighbour 4 districts away got caught cheating.

- We've been trying for 40 years and it hasn't worked so let's give up.
OK, we're going to give up on solving world hunger too then because that's clearly not getting anywhere, and the energy crisis too while we're at it, just shut it all down.
Just because you personally haven't seen the progress or felt its effects doesn't mean its not happening, people smarter than you have been working on this before you were born, and at this rate might continue to work on it after you switch careers to Goose Farming.

- IPv6 hasn't worked so let's just make IPv7.
Insane take, despite how it looks, IPv6 support is extremely widespread and ready to go, the reluctance of big tech and ISPs is purely due to the cost implication and lack of enforcement, creating a brand new spec now would enforce another 40 year delay just to assuage your own personal opinion.

- IPv6 is a security risk because the router isn't NATing.
Misunderstanding of what NATing does. Even with a public-facing IP on every device, ports are still protected by the router's firewall.

- IPv6 is a privacy issue because now you can easily identify every device in a home by its public IP.
A valid concern, if it hadn't been identified and resolved with the Privacy Extensions to SLAAC that randomises your IP address after a set time period, mitigating the problem to that of your NATed IPv4 Public IP, if not making it more private by muddying the telemetry waters.

#ipv6 #networking

holy shit you can have the same document open in multiple windows at the same time… and they stay in sync!! this is useful because those windows can have different scroll positions or zoom levels!

decided to install AbiWord just to try it out (on Debian; it's basically Linux-only these days alas) and just look at this. this is pure and soulful. i'd so much rather use this than LibreOffice next time i gotta write a Serious Letter

Obviously if you ever get an account notice from a different instance than your own there's no way it's legit, and even if it does come from your own instance it won't look like this

@woozle Screaming running down the street "It's a texinfo manual!!!"

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@cwebber
On the other hand, you can one-up any Rust developer by saying "Memory safe? My language doesn't even know what memory is."

There was once a post I saw on Hacker News that said learning Lisp and Haskell was a bad career move. Not because you couldn't use other tools, you could use them with relative ease. But the author said learning them left them bitter when using anything else, because they were forever bitter that they weren't writing Lisp or Haskell.

It's a bell curve, isn't it?

@cwebber Kudos To Mark for trying to replace himself, this should be easier to do than for any other human on this planet.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/

You know what, I'm trying to comment on this but I just can't think of anything funnier to say than how this is sure to turn out

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