welterde · HackerTrans

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This is already a thing in IPv6 pretty much. You can write applications IPv6-only and support IPv4 via IPv4-mapped addresses (::ffff:1.2.3.4 for the IPv4 1.2.3.4). The host still needs to be dualstacked for that to work though. In case the host is IPv6-only you can use NAT64 (or similar technologies), where the IPv4-space is embedded behind some other prefix, but the application just talks plain IPv6 and doesn't have to care too much what happens in the background.

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The problem is that IPv4 has no provisions to be forward-compatible with anything with a larger address space. Thus whatever replacement you can think of will have the same problems as IPv6.

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It still looks fairly active - not completely drowned out by spam coming from google..

As for NNTP access: eternal-september.org might be an option, but there are still quite a few NNTP servers ticking with open registration.

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On the face of it that does sound even worse.. Instead of just having to fix those issues once you will now have to fix them in every desktop environment/window manager equivalent?

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Assigning an absolute number is much more difficult than assigning numbers on the relative difference between things.

Just take the use of dB in acoustics or the magnitude system in astronomy.

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The linear scale however is a physical property of the world (photons per seconds for example) and if we change the intensity in a linear way we notice that the perceived change is not linear, but logarithmic. Hence volume or brightness controls typically aren't linear but logarithmic - people want it to change linearly instead of not at all at the one end and a lot at the other end.

The root of the magnitude system in astronomy can be found in the logarithmic nature of the eye as a sensor as well.

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One would think it would be since we hear and see in log scale.

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