Oh true, happy 30th birthday, IPv6!

[cr@chaos.social]

Oh true, happy 30th birthday, IPv6! 🎉

#IPv6

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@cr "what's the rush?" I always say. Everyone needs time to get up to speed on new technology. I expect to be retired before I need to know how to use IPv6.

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@swelljoe @cr I know how to use it but I definitely don't know how to do bin to hex masking things.
it is not that different from IPv4, and it removes need to break brain with NAT, so that is something.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@peteriskrisjanis @cr I was joking about the fact that after 30 years we're still at under 50% adoption. Fantastic work all around. (I work on quite a bit of software that supports IPv6 and I do know how to muddle through with it, but rarely need it.)

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@swelljoe @cr yeah, sorry, did now want to mansplain :D I have same state - I need 50% of it, but not mandatory usage yet, albeit we run out IPv4 quite fast.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@peteriskrisjanis @cr I think it's just a matter of design-by-committee making a thing that nobody wants to use. I understand some of the reasons for the decisions that were made, but it is very complicated. (So is the pile of workarounds you have to use to make IPv4 work, admittedly.)