top | item 46544383 (no title) resumenext | 1 month ago It’s intended to be human readable, but it’s not and its slow adoption is proof of that. A random 10 digit string would arguably be better. discuss order hn newest pphysch|1 month ago You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses resumenext|1 month ago I was thinking of ipv5. ceejayoz|1 month ago > It’s intended to be human readable…What? No.Facebook did some brute forcing to slip `facebook` into their Onion URLs, but no one's intended to be typing these things out. umanwizard|1 month ago > It’s intended to be human readableSays who?> slow adoption is proof of thatNo it's not. There are many plausible reasons for the slow pace of IPv6 adoption. Poor human-readability of addresses is among the least plausible.
pphysch|1 month ago You mean base64? 10 digits is only 10 billion addresses resumenext|1 month ago I was thinking of ipv5.
ceejayoz|1 month ago > It’s intended to be human readable…What? No.Facebook did some brute forcing to slip `facebook` into their Onion URLs, but no one's intended to be typing these things out.
umanwizard|1 month ago > It’s intended to be human readableSays who?> slow adoption is proof of thatNo it's not. There are many plausible reasons for the slow pace of IPv6 adoption. Poor human-readability of addresses is among the least plausible.
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ceejayoz|1 month ago
What? No.
Facebook did some brute forcing to slip `facebook` into their Onion URLs, but no one's intended to be typing these things out.
umanwizard|1 month ago
Says who?
> slow adoption is proof of that
No it's not. There are many plausible reasons for the slow pace of IPv6 adoption. Poor human-readability of addresses is among the least plausible.