2026-10-23 00:13 UTC
@mcc@mastodon.social I'm also stuck on my hobby horse that floating IPs and home routers fucked up the internet.
It's like we had a telephone system, then lots of people wanted to join and bought a dodgy plan where their number kept changing, so they all got used to making calls and never receiving them. To talk to a friend you have to both call the same exchange, and running an exchange costs money so value has to be extracted.
Only making calls meant we could go ham with multiplexing, locking it in.
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@Farbs@mastodon.social 2026-10-23 00:24
@mcc@mastodon.social *tightens chin strap on tinfoil hat* *gestures at IPv6 adoption timeline* *glares at IPv6 addresses still being dynamically allocated even though they really don't need to be* *raises an eyebrow at Google for nerfing the shit out of P2P browser communication by changing their WebRTC data channel implementation to ask the user for microphone permissions?!?!*