FoolishOwl on Nostr: So at some point the standard for IPv6 address assignment seems to have changed so ...
So at some point the standard for IPv6 address assignment seems to have changed so that it changes randomly, eliminating the primary purpose of IP addresses, so IPv6 has been rendered useless.
It's like we're so used to technical shortcomings of IPv4 being treated as security features, that we've effectively disabled IPv6, despite the problem of IPv4 address space exhaustion.
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2025-03-16 20:05:16Event JSON
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