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False 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.
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THE TOASTER WILL BE REPLACED.
Fucking legendary quote from Linus.
It’s a shame it’s fake.
do you have proof that it’s fake though
There is the rule number one of the linux kernel: “We don’t break userspace.” Linux has refused fixes for buggy behavior in the past because of this rule. This would most certainly break userspace.
Also the alt text of the original image states this is fake.
Truly a Solomonic decision.
Is the raccoon gif real?
none of this is.
A highly nuclear option. I hope that those developers get their act together in time.
this is a joke btw.
I noticed. But sometimes, LT can be a bit explosive, and we all know that devs can be bitches about their code. I would not put it past Linus that he actally threatens some fully nuclear option to bring some boneheads to reason.
Truly a legend, if true
Maybe this is the push that finally makes IPv6 go mainstream!
I need to inflict this reply upon others. It is so gloriously cursed out of context. And in context too.
I’m kind of weirdly horny for Torvalds making unilateral decisions about long running controversies? Tell me what standards are best kernel daddy.
Maybe next he can ban tabs and ‘\t’ from Linux? Everyone indents with spaces now, debate over.
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.
Maybe you shouldn’t treat random images you find on the internet as factual until you can verify the content.
I would have looked it up if the comments didn’t speak about it already. Don’t worry, I’m not a troglodyte when it comes to actually having critical thinking skills.
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
In a local network there is no point in using ipv6.
It is interesting when you run out of ip addresses for the amount of devices you have.
So in the open Internet.
Unless I am missing something.
A couple of things that IPv6 does better for local networks is link local addressing (fe80::). and multicasting.
In IPv4, they kind of hacked something out of 169.254, but if you have more than one NIC, it pretty much becomes useless.
If you have a service designed explicitly never to be accessed over a router, then you can live in fe80:: a lot more easily than trying to do the same thing with 169.254.
ipv6 is great for public networks/ wan or extreme large nets. but for a small local net, ipv4 is so much easier if you need to access a single device. if ipv6 is parallell too, great but I hope ipv4 wont be disabled/ non existens in the future bc of this
I need to make sure you know this is a joke
There’s almost certainly no future where IPv4 goes away. Not unless people abandon the Internet entirely and look for some alternative built on IPv6 from the start.
You got me in the first half 😁
Please, at least 85% of that network equipment hasn’t been updated in 30 years and they’re not about to start now.
Something needed to happen here, we’ll see if even Torvalds has the power to kick massive telecom and consumer electronics conglomerates in the butt. It’s been too long.
- My fiber provider started an early rollout of IPv6 like a decade abgo, and it’s been stalled out ever since.
- I’m still seeing new consumer electronics being sold even though they’re IPv4 only.
Do you want to play a game?
My dream. IPv6 adoption would skyrocket to a degree unimaginable and those who don’t want to, will fall behind unless they move their asses and learn.
Maybe this will move my ISP to provide IPv6.
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.
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.
I still miss IPv5
For real, what the hell happened to IPv5?
We don’t talk about IPv5.
The same as winamp 4.
It was a little experiment in streaming that never went anywhere. It can be safely forgotten.
