Star Trek systems should use IPv6

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7

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• gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Relevant xkcd xkcd.com/865/

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• Mr_Fish@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or by that point they will have created a self scaling system

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  • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the rate IPv6 adoption is going, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They will implemented 20 layers of NAR

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