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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)

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[–] 0x0 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

On one hand, we have a literal ip spacing crisis

I've been hearing about the IPv4 shortage for ages... hasn't happened yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And IPv6 exists. If even a portion of large orgs switch to IPv6 for their internet exposed interfaces, the "problem" goes away.

(I've been hearing about the shortage since 1995...and it hasn't happened. Large orgs will always find a way to resolve issues like this that affect them).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

AWS lightsail just increased prices for ipv4 instances, while ipv6 only is the old price

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Gamblers fallacy exists, but yes ipv6 exists. Now getting archaic systems to use ipv6…