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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 21:03:44 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @l @Cocoa @Moon @admin @graf @parker @sjw @verita84 If IPv6 was *just* a matter of having more address bits, that would be fine. It's a whole bunch of other stuff, a lot of it is terrible and will never be fixed and
   
   Like systemd and Rust, its proponents refuse to acknowledge (or even address) the serious problems and they will show up and yell, and I don't have the time and I don't want to get dragged off-topic. If you read the RFCs (1627 is informative), IPv6 is inextricably tied to the internet's "utopian/accelerationist" contingent, and the idea is to refuse to address the problems or fix anything until *after* universal adoption.
   
   Here's a screenshot of some of my utterances and then for a somewhat more thorough treatment from someone that actually knows what he is talking about, here are a couple of links:
   
   "The world in which IPv6 was a good idea", which is both interesting and broad: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
   Follow-up to the above by the same author: https://tailscale.com/blog/two-internets-both-flakey/
   
   (Shitposting aside, neither IPv4 nor IPv6 is going away and I will start caring about IPv6 only when I have to.)
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