Given the context, the four “Follow Us” links going to proprietary services does seem somewhat antithetical to .self ideals.
At the very least set up a Mastodon account somewhere in addition to those.
TLD’s aren’t the limitation… Public IPs are… If it wasn’t for Cloudflared, I couldn’t run half the shit I run.
in an ideal world, ipv6 would solve that problem…
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I saw the rfc for IPV8 recently… It makes so much more sense than ipv6…and is backward compatible with ipv4…
Basically they’re proposing prefacing 4 more octets into an IP address, so 172.16.5.1 would become 0.0.0.0.172.16.5.1
Any existing IPs would just assume the 0.0.0.0 in front of them…
Again…solves the problem on much the same way.
Just fyi IPv8 was written by LLM with full on hallucinated citations and references. It isn’t being taken seriously by anyone.
It didn’t even make sense. It relies on DNS for nat and the like. Deranged networking plans from the non-mind of an LLM.
I recommend taking the time to learn IPv6 properly. It’s actually quite elegant and brings back the peer to peer, endpoint to endpoint connection ability of the old internet.
Oi…well that sucks ass. A good idea, badly conceptualized I guess.
I wouldn’t even say it was a good idea. Like the end to end NAT free internet is the ideal. IPv6 was built for that.
Even if IPv8 was not slop it would reenforce the idea of nat and hierarchy.
IPv6 allows for a democratized internet where anyone can choose to self host. And anyone can connect to anyone who is self hosting.
Because of this it’s a bit more complicated. But ideology it much better than IPv8. It brings us back what made the internet great in the 90s and 2000s, but at scale.
I really like how ipv6 works; the downside is it’s way more complicated for humans to understand. But then again all of networking gets complicated fast. I still don’t really get what a CGNAT is.
How is IPv6 harder to understand? It’s just IPv4 with all the uncommon stuff stripped out and put into optional headers (which IPv4 also has), and a much longer address now written in hex.
CGNAT is just a fancy term for NAT done by a carrier. They get a special private IP address range for doing so, but fundamentally it’s still NAT.
Now IP multicast, THAT is complicated for humans to understand. Especially the whole subscriber logic.
Why in the FUCK is this a PDF?
Yeah, give me a raw TeX file, or at least a plain Markdown document. Maybe reStructuredText, if they’re feeling Pythonic.
NOOOOOOO!!! This is a website! It has text prior to the PDF, just put the damn article there! The website clearly already supports HTML, otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing anything!
(But yes, I still like those formats, I just think it should be a no brainer for a website to actually have it’s contents as HTML.)