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If I don't realize how shit it is, I don't think it's a shit experience. I don't care how it was designed and what you call a "byzantine hack" I call a feature
by garbagecoder 4y ago
If I don't realize how shit it is, I don't think it's a shit experience. I don't care how it was designed and what you call a "byzantine hack" I call a feature that saved the Internet about 20-25 years ago. Having everyone on a public addressable host is not good. (Yes, I know you can do this on IPv6, but then it's like you're just applying Byzantine hacks to get the security feature you already had on IPv4.)
- lamontcg 4y ago> Having everyone on a public addressable host is not good. We had every host on an IPv4 address at the University of Washington back before 1998 and NAT was actually banned by the CAC Department since they billed by number of nodes on the network, so NAT was a way to cheat their billing system. I learned quite a lot of internet security from having 1998-era Unix servers hanging directly off onto the internet with no firewall or NAT.