It’s pretty hard to overstate just how many addresses are in the ipv6 address space vs ipv4.

One of my favorite descriptions comes from Beej’s guide to network programming, something I first read probably in the early to mid 2000s. https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/#ip-addresses-versions-4-and-6

3.1 IP Addresses, versions 4 and 6 In the good old days back when Ben Kenobi was still called Obi Wan Kenobi, there was a wonderful network routing system called The Internet Protocol Version 4, also called IPv4. It had addresses made up of four bytes (A.K.A. four “octets”), and was commonly written in “dots and numbers” form, like so: 192.0.2.111.

You’ve probably seen it around.

In fact, as of this writing, virtually every site on the Internet uses IPv4.

Everyone, including Obi Wan, was happy. Things were great, until some naysayer by the name of Vint Cerf warned everyone that we were about to run out of IPv4 addresses!

(Besides warning everyone of the Coming IPv4 Apocalypse Of Doom And Gloom, Vint Cerf14 is also well-known for being The Father Of The Internet. So I really am in no position to second-guess his judgment.)

Run out of addresses? How could this be? I mean, there are like billions of IP addresses in a 32-bit IPv4 address. Do we really have billions of computers out there?

Yes.

Also, in the beginning, when there were only a few computers and everyone thought a billion was an impossibly large number, some big organizations were generously allocated millions of IP addresses for their own use. (Such as Xerox, MIT, Ford, HP, IBM, GE, AT&T, and some little company called Apple, to name a few.)

In fact, if it weren’t for several stopgap measures, we would have run out a long time ago.

But now we’re living in an era where we’re talking about every human having an IP address, every computer, every calculator, every phone, every parking meter, and (why not) every puppy dog, as well.

And so, IPv6 was born. Since Vint Cerf is probably immortal (even if his physical form should pass on, heaven forbid, he is probably already existing as some kind of hyper-intelligent ELIZA15 program out in the depths of the Internet2), no one wants to have to hear him say again “I told you so” if we don’t have enough addresses in the next version of the Internet Protocol.

What does this suggest to you?

That we need a lot more addresses. That we need not just twice as many addresses, not a billion times as many, not a thousand trillion times as many, but 79 MILLION BILLION TRILLION times as many possible addresses! That’ll show ’em!

You’re saying, “Beej, is that true? I have every reason to disbelieve large numbers.” Well, the difference between 32 bits and 128 bits might not sound like a lot; it’s only 96 more bits, right? But remember, we’re talking powers here: 32 bits represents some 4 billion numbers (232), while 128 bits represents about 340 trillion trillion trillion numbers (for real, 2128). That’s like a million IPv4 Internets for every single star in the Universe.

For anyone else that needs the reminder, the one on the right is Euler’s formula.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_formula

My friends Dad had this game back when I was a youngster. For the longest time we thought the trivia was the game.

My favorite one I’ve seen so far was “AI can take a junior programmer and make them a 10x junior programmer.”

At that point it’s not theft, it’s reappropreation.

I once had a startup founder tell me that “tests are a lack of confidence.” I later did a security review against their company as part of an acquisition. It did not go well…

At my grandmother’s house, it was Babes in Toyland. No it’s not a porn. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0090683/

This same person also made Captain lazerhawk: a blood dragon remix, which was absolutely one of the most unhinged things I have ever seen. An unholy mashup of random Ubisoft characters and references from over the decades, thrown into this dystopic sci-fi plot without any regard for sanity.

Yup, buddy of mine managed to get his masters and a teaching certification while working in retail. Got a job teaching at a junior highschool and then ended up quitting after only two years. He took an entry level corporate IT help desk job and started off making more than twice as much as teaching with easily half the stress.

Lost access to my OG account because I didn’t find out about this until a month after it was too late.

I was looking for another job even before this announcement was made.

Already working on it. I’m actively interviewing at other companies.

The VP of software engineering at my current company just announced that the goal is to have 30% or more of all code being written by AI by next year…

My Dad had a saying I always really liked.

“You don’t have to be a Christian to be a good person and you don’t have to be a good person to call yourself a Christian.”

This American life has some good bits on his situation.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/414/right-to-remain-silent/act-two-0

Pretty much.

Edited to add: hate is probably too strong a word. He just doesn’t enjoy it and doesn’t watch it.

Search engine optimization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization

I’ve got a buddy that worked out of the same precinct the show supposedly takes place in. He obviously can’t stand any aspect of the show.

There was also a guy who was forcibly committed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft#Raid_and_involuntary_commitment

I swear, security companies have the worst security practices.