Comment on Star Trek systems should use IPv6

gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are

  You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6

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  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6

    Holy shit this is such an insane number

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    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now I’m curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People don’t think about it cause my ipv4 still works. Well fuck ourselves when we get to that bridge.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t see it not working any time soon. Just pile on the NATs

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.

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