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IPv6 Buddy
- zlynx 9y agoThis seems worse than using a standard keyboard. ABCDEF are on the left hand and 0-9 on the number pad.
- Navarr 9y agobut you need that double colon button
- AceJohnny2 9y agoWorking in embedded, frequently typing hex numbers... this isn't quite as stupid as I initially thought... :|
- bodyfour 9y agoImmediately reminded of http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml
- syncsynchalt 9y agoThe best secret santa gift I ever got.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- jayliew 9y agoDon't know if this is a real thing or a gag, but if the latter, I give you a 10/10 for humor and sarcasm. If the former, my complaint is that on the sysinfo page, I can't see pertinent info (i.e. the product dimensions) from my text-based browser, lynx. Update: I am able to reproduce the issue on w3m as well. Please fix your web site to be more command-line friendly.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThe FAQ specifically addresses this and states that it's a real thing that you can buy and have delivered. It is likely a great gag gift. That being said, the cringe-worthy use of female model photos on every single page certainly help make this page kinda hilarious.
- bonestamp2 9y agoYa, these things have been around for a couple years now and the website sucks but I could see some IT people buying them.
- jayliew 9y agoIt's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolution ASCII-art, the models can be made to look more gender neutral, IMHO.
- lathiat 9y agoI feel like I've seen more gender-obvious ascii art than other kinds of ascii art
- jayliew 9y agoUpon further thought, I propose a new HTTP header sent from browsers to the web servers: 1) the gender the end-user identifies with, or lack thereof 2) the end-user's sexual partner preference, or lack thereof With this HTTP header info, the web server can then display the most politically correct ASCII image, plus the most optimal sales conversion rate for this product #win-win
- dddddaviddddd 9y agoTime to make a IETF RFC
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- lathiat 9y agoThanks OP, just put a serious dent in this months budget for Christmas Presents.
- rietta 9y agoI want one of these so bad. I actually programmed a hex numpad mode, including ABCDEF, onto my Ergodox layout.
- dogecoinbase 9y agoI have one of these on my desk (got it as conference swag, use it for occasional hex typing). One note is that the colon keys are represented as e.g.: left_shift flag shift semicolon keydown semicolon keyup left_shift flag off
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- peterwwillis 9y agoI find the women as models trope annoying and creepy. I would have loved to find one page without them. http://www.ipv6buddy.com/sysinfo/kblayout/models.png http://www.ipv6buddy.com/sysinfo/kblayout/models.png ??? http://www.ipv6buddy.com/faq/model1.png http://www.ipv6buddy.com/faq/model1.png great. edit The legal page doesn't have models.
- jayliew 9y agoI am impressed by their use of a PNG with a transparent background. EDIT: I mean. I can't see any graphics from my command-line only browser.
- MBCook 9y agoWow. I was weirded at on the home page. I didn’t realize how much worse it got.
- opmac 9y agoIt's a gag. The models are part of it.
- xerxex 9y agoAnd this is just as we keep reading #metoo stories. ipv6buddy you are sexist!
- katastic 9y agoYeah, I agree 100%. The last thing we want is women getting paid for jobs they choose to apply for. Then they'll be independent and we can't have that.
- lloeki 9y agoTo me the obviously over-the-top use of models to sustain the gag and turn the thing on its head serves as useful satyre. You want real creepy? Look at this shitty RAD tool[0]. This piece of crap is terrible: there are highly suggestive ladies everywhere on their ads and documents. Even the installer and the wizard screens right in the IDE have them plastered all over! They even have a FAQ[1] trying to legitimise the whole thing. Seriously, scroll down that page and tell me how this[2] is even remotely acceptable (and it's not even the worst offender, by far!). Translating[1] (trying to keep the completely awkward phrasing because they can't even write proper french): > Plea for freedom and optimism! > Our company's marketing is bold and innovative. > Our marketing is emotional, happy, joyful, optimistic! > In a world where not every day is a happy one, we persist in our unabated optimism and our confidence in human nature! > Our ads are warm, smiling and create happiness. > We categorically refuse a world of darkness, of established conventions, stereotypes, bland ads, sadly descriptive, joyless, actionless, emotionless, smile-less, humourless, without off-beat humour. > At first it can be surprising, yet ads for technological software, do not have to look like sad and mournful technical sheets! Neither do they have to reproduce bland photos of people working (everyone gets to see these daily!). An ad has to make you dream, and has to keep being an ad! We say yes to smiles, yes to the sea, yes to the sky, yes to dynamism, yes to action, yes to emotion.... > <exhibit A> > [stock photo of busy but sexually diverse people, badged with a red no-no cross] > VS > [stock photo of a girl squarely aimed at cisgender males to provoke arousal instincts through body language, badged with a green hell-yes checkmark] > </exhibit A> > We are sorry for people who could be put off when faced with so much boldness and emotion! > Just as our software is innovative, our marketing is too. > Long live freedom, long live women, long live men, long live equality, long live boldness, long live passion, long live optimism! > The marketing team [0]: https://www.pcsoft.fr https://www.pcsoft.fr [1]: https://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/plaidoyer-pour-la-liberte-et-l-optimisme.htm https://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/plaidoyer-pour-la-liberte-et-l-... [2]: https://www.pcsoft.fr/img/2016/pub-1.jpg https://www.pcsoft.fr/img/2016/pub-1.jpg
- nimbius 9y agostill couldnt get over the font layout for the product... seeing as we couldnt put "a shiftless colon key" on one line, my eyes stopped at "a shiftless colon" and I began to seriously reconsider what this product was offering to do to me.
- syncsynchalt 9y agoIt's a $20 gag gift, don't sweat it too much.
- kev009 9y agoThe page is awkwardly sexist.. but that would be a pretty close to an awesome integrated numpad design for programmers.
- snvzz 9y agoOne of the dependencies of the page, syndication.twitter.com, is IPv4-only. Outrageous.
- epx 9y agoIndeed outrageous, it is address-sexist and ipv4-normative.
- jdlyga 9y agoWe don't need no IPv6. We just need more NATs. When we run out of space, we just add more NATs. It's NATs all the way down.
- Ascetik 9y agoOpens a NATty Ice one-handed
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- donatj 9y agoI do wish it had a shift key so I could tab backwards.
- ino 9y agoA shift on another keyboard wouldn't work with the buddy tab key, right? Don't the modifier keys need to be on the same keyboard to function? I've always wanted to map control/shift/alt/cmd to mouse buttons because I work a lot with a hand on the mouse, and some shortcuts are a bit hard one handed (ctrl+y) for example. I've tried to do this with programmable Logitech mice without success.
- somethingis 9y agoI checked and using the shift key on another keyboard with the IPv6 Buddy does work, the field selection goes backwards.
- drdaeman 9y agoHey, it's missing the "%eth0", "%enp3s0", "%eno0", "%br0" etc etc keys! Makes it useless for link-local.
- snuxoll 9y agoI mean, it's not really that useful in the first place, by the time I've typed in `set interface vlan unit 50 inet6 address` needing to move all the way to another keyboard to input the address isn't really saving me much time. It's a cute novelty, but not really that practical.
- drdaeman 9y agoJokes aside, a special "network calculator" mode when you type in e.g. a CIDR and it prints out an IP range or netmask, or when you type in a EUI-64 (MAC) and you get a link-local address would be awesome. It's all almost a no-brainer but only "almost" - I always tend to forget the exact rules (e.g. where exactly that FF:FE goes in).
- rlglwx 9y ago"As seen on Hacker News"
- SwellJoe 9y agoI love weird input devices. This is ridiculous, of course. I mean, who regularly types IPv6 addresses by hand, even if you work with them? They're too long to get right if you're hand-typing them. They're too long to memorize (except localhost, but that can be shortened to ::1). IPv6 addresses just don't make sense as a thing one would type. A hex number pad, on the other hand, has some utility! I sometimes write music in a tracker...hex is the standard way to specify numbers (historically because it made more efficient use of the display area and because trackers used to be a relatively thin layer over generated data for an assembly player routine), so having a keypad just for hex would be really neat. I dunno if I can justify having an otherwise useless dongle, but I really do find weird input devices and keyboards charming, so I'm tempted.
- MichaelApproved 9y agoWhat an unfortunate side effect of switching to IP6. It's not that big of a deal but I'll miss being able to remember and type IP4 addresses or ask someone to tell me their current IP. How are others handling this migration? What's the process for getting someone's IP6 over a phone call?
- SwellJoe 9y agoI avoid phone calls for anything technical because even without IPv6 it results in stupid misunderstandings at a rate of several per minute. I don't even want to think about the number of times I've had to explain the difference between a backslash and a forward slash multiple times in one phone call. But, I would imagine you'd want a set of auto-generated names in your DNS zone for your organization. That's how I'd handle it anyway. e.g. if I had a few thousand IPv6 addresses, I'd generate a few thousand word-based subdomains in my second level domain. If you wanted to get fancy, you could make them pronounce-able (e.g. two words could easily represent thousands of IP addresses). I dunno if people do this, but it's technically easy enough, requiring only a few lines of code to generate a zone file, and solves the problem of sharing it over the phone. I've noticed most hosting and cloud providers provide names for all of their IPs; so even if your own DNS isn't working yet you can usually contact your IP addresses using the name the provider has assigned (it's usually somewhat clunky, like "sw-48he839.pool.domain.tld", but more humanly usable than an IPv6 address). Of course, if you were trying to get it from someone outside of your org where those names don't exist, it'd be ugly. But, maybe it'll finally make people stop thinking you can solve any technical problem with a phone call. That'd be a win for my happiness, anyway. But, really, we should just accept that we shouldn't deal with addresses directly. Once we got a naming system we didn't need to remember a string of numbers, anymore, even though it was possible with IPv4 (and I'm guilty, too; I used to have several of the servers I managed IPs memorized...a dozen or more of them). And, with cloud-based infrastructure, the IP of your host might change all the time. I don't know or care what the IP of any services I have running in AWS or GC might be (except the frontend EC2 of GCE instance).
- skellertor 9y agoKeyboard companies need to ditch the "ten key" and adopt the ipv6buddy. The future is here!
- rietta 9y agoI actually fully intend to buy one of these for everyone in my company someday. As a Christmas present. Beats the heck out of just getting the company shirt and coffee mug.
- stephengillie 9y agoA tab key! After all these decades, someone is finally putting a tab key on the tenkey! (err "sixteenkey") Back when I used Excel heavily, I would have been amazed to have a keyboard with tab on the right side.
- jayflux 9y agoIs this site using tables for layout? Is that part of the gag?
- itomato 9y agoI'm not sure if a specialized manual input device helps IPv6 adoption as much as it highlights a dearth of automation in the target market.