Comment on Star Trek systems should use IPv6

• 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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