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False meme image that says “bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.” with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.
Followup:
I’m glad that Linus clarified that it was High Resolution Timers. I was honestly thinking they were arguing about Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Given the demographics of Linux devs, it probably would be the latter.
I know! It seemed totally plausible! There is a very odd discrepancy between that and the general population.
Trans people are either writing kernel code or playing hearts of iron 4. Nothing else is allowed.
THE TOASTER WILL BE REPLACED.
Fucking legendary quote from Linus.
It’s a shame it’s fake.
do you have proof that it’s fake though
There is the rule number one of the linux kernel: “We don’t break userspace.” Linux has refused fixes for buggy behavior in the past because of this rule. This would most certainly break userspace.
Also the alt text of the original image states this is fake.
Well I’m not going to switch away my perfectly functional mesh routers that uses IPv4 as using IPv6 on a local net that I may sometimes need to type in manually is rather stupid. And that would also bin my routers, so I’m not doing that either.
Oh well, I guess it’s been fun guys, no more Linux for me due to potential future security issues.
Do you even DNS?
No. But if this is true (which I do doubt completely, Linus can’t be this dumb to singlehandedly cripple his OS), this should also affect every intranet address.
The current description of IPv6 intranet is just ridiculously dumb anyway. Should I want to ssh into a local device, I’ll have to type in for example
fd9e:9aa0:c00f:1::a, with only thefdpart being the same for all intranets rather than192.168.1.10with192.168generally always being the same.Edit: wait… Are you telling me to set DNS redirects on all my local devices? Yeah, that’ll work, but why the even…
Pihole automatically adds clients that get an IP from its DHCP component. All my clients are server.local, client1.local, tv1.local, etc. So I can use their DNS name everywhere.
Even if it don’t want to use pihole(why?), you can edit the SSH config and add addresses for each host so you can just type
Or I could also just edit
/etc/hostsif I’m just accessing stuff from my computer. I mean, I understand there are ways around this pain point. But, on IPv4, I wouldn’t have to do anything? Can’t really beat that, right?I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using
<hostname>.localthanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?