Post #2334815

2026-04-18 13:30 UTC

@ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io At some point, human beings have to communicate information to each other verbally, whether during implementation or a troubleshooting incident later on. IPv6 is many good things, but human friendly is not one of them.

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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2026-04-18 13:35

@katharta@quietzero.net @ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io What's not human friendly about IPv6? Please don't answer: "address format", because that would demonstrate lack of understanding on two fronts: 1. If you want more address space you don't get around having longer addresses. There's no point in unfounded frugality. 128 bits are the right choice. 2. If you're dealing with numeric IP addresses you're doing it wrong anyway. There's no good reason to touch a raw address whatsoever, even before IPv6 was a thing.

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@ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io 2026-04-18 13:36

@katharta@quietzero.net True… but it’s still friendlier and less complicated than IPv4. We’re just used to the complexities of IPv4 and take them in stride because we do it all the time. (And no, we should •not• be communicating IP addresses verbally… whether IPv4 or IPv6. We should have stopped that nonsense years ago. It’s not like we didn’t have better and more secure options.)

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