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    bad news ipv4 fans (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
    submitted 2 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    TranscriptFalse meme image that says "bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable." with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.

    Source: https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032302416832519

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    [–] folken@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Can we just treat this as real? Post it everywhere. You know in a sort of "alternative facts" / flat earth sort of way. So maybe the planet finally moves on from ipv4.

    [–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago

    Good news is that Google is reporting that >40% of their traffic is IPv6:

    https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

    Should crack 50% soon. It's been a long time coming.

    [–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

    I have a feeling, a lot of people willing to move to Linux are already open to trying out IPv6 when they get the time.
    Pity my old router only bridges IPv4 and only does IPv6 with NAT (or maybe I just couldn't understand the interface).

    [–] Marzanna@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 9 hours ago

    I tried IPv6 only (with NAT64) and Steam didn't work because it had IPv4 addresses hardcoded :(

    [–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'm ignorant enough that I didn't realize this wasn't actually happening until I read the comments. My networking knowledge is piss poor haha.

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

    Don't worry about the network side of things. It's open source. Before they turn everything on its head would be forked and it would be replaced.

    [–] vga@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

    I wish.

    [–] MissingGhost@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If you don't use IPv6, you are behind. For me the transition was so hard, it's a big step behind me, wouldn't want to do it again.

    [–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 22 points 23 hours ago

    I still remember my network lecturer telling us how IPv6 was the future and how we were running out of IPs back in... 1997.

    That same year, during my work placement, I was introduced to Squid and all sorts of network fuckery to compensate for those supposedly disappearing IPs.

    [–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    A major ISP in the UK still doesn’t have any IPv6 support :( https://www.havevirginmediaenabledipv6yet.co.uk/

    [–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

    They give 2 options: "Sign the petition" and "Tweet them!", but you could also just en-masse "Switch providers" and make them rethink their strategy.

    [–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

    I wonder if that site pings an IPv6 address on the virgin network and updates the output automatically based on the ping result.

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I still don't have an IPv6 address over 4G with Vodafone. I want to run a web server on my phone, isn't this a normal use case? Nat444 makes that pretty difficult, just let me use IPv6!

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

    That's impressive

    Scaling NAT is complex and expensive. They are literally making it harder

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    [–] zululove@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

    Honestly I need an AI to protect my data.

    It’s too much atp

    [–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 25 points 1 day ago

    I believed it for a moment

    [–] Centaur@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

    You got me in the first half 😁

    [–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Ipv4 is simpler and therefore easier for my brain to comprehend.

    I deliberately disable IPv6 on all the devices on my home network because it's really f**n annoying when some service tries to bind to localhost but picks up the IPv6 localhost instead of the IPv4 one

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    IPv4 is very much not simpler. You just as used to it.

    [–] Honytawk 4 points 9 hours ago

    Just remembering an address alone is much simpler.

    4 numbers > a combination of numbers and letters in 8 groups

    [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 56 points 1 day ago (24 children)

    I've encountered way too many administrators and network admins who swear that "IPv6 does nothing but cause trouble" but the truth is, the trouble it's causing is because you can't half-implement IPv6. You either roll it out to the whole network or you don't, and the longer you kick that can down the road the harder it's going to be.

    Basically too many professionals who haven't learned a new technology since 2005 and refuse to try new things keep holding the world back

    [–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I will happily enable and use it once doing so doesn't break any of my connectivity.

    I'm not managing an enterprise network, it's just my home, but my ISP doesn't support IPv6 so that's one extra layer of complexity right off the hop. On top of that internal services switch which previously required no manual configuration just seem to randomly not work.

    IPv6 is not going to see widespread adoption unless it can be implemented completely transparently for the end user, full stop.

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    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 231 points 2 days ago (30 children)

    Followup:

    [–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 192 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    I'm glad that Linus clarified that it was High Resolution Timers. I was honestly thinking they were arguing about Hormone Replacement Therapy.

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