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I think you’re making my point - someone decided to surface a very low level concept “as is” (without a suitable abstraction) on a level where people also need
by isodev 6mo ago
I think you’re making my point - someone decided to surface a very low level concept “as is” (without a suitable abstraction) on a level where people also need it for use cases that don’t justify knowledge of the arcane. Or dealing with gatekeepers for that matter.
- bluGill 6mo agoFor most people there is no UX. Most US houses are IPv6 and use it without knowing anything about networking at all (most cable internet is IPv6, as the big cell networks). The people who have to make networks work need to know how IPv6 works - but there is no getting around that - they know how IPv4 works too.
- orangeboats 6mo agoThere are already abstractions that allows you to deal with IPv6 without actually typing in the addresses. It's the DNS, but every time this topic pops up, someone rejects DNS and proceeds to continue sprouting something about how IPv6 is unusable because you can't memorize the addresses.
- wpm 6mo agoWhat happens when DNS is down
- orangeboats 6mo agoWhat happens when DNS is down (IPv4 edition)?
- DaSHacka 6mo agoYou type in the IP that's extremely easy to remember as it's just 4 numbers seperated by periods
- bluGill 6mo agoWithout checking what is the ip for hackernews?
- DaSHacka 6mo agoI'm not a system administrator for YCombinator, so I couldn't tell you, but I assure you I have the IPv4 IPs of all systems I maintain (personal and enterprise) memorized. Not even by choice, mind you, but they naturally cement themselves in my mind over time as I work on systems because they're just that basic. IPv6, on the other hand, I have literally one memorized (::1), likely because it's even shorter than a typical IPv4 address.