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  • Just because it looks okay for you, it doesn’t mean you’ve used commonly accepted markdown. When I view your comment as original text, I can see a single line break after the end of the quoted parts, and if you go to edit your comment, I think you will, too. Many markdown renderers interpret this as a continuation of the quote so one doesn’t have to keep inserting greater than symbols when manually quoting. Putting an extra break in disambiguates the end of the quote, so will display correctly in virtually every renderer.

    Also, not how instances work, they federate the exact text. The difference is in the many clients available to use.







  • That’s generally bad advice. Only some flaws get CVEs & livepatches. There are plenty of other kernel changes that bring stability, features, and fixes for less severe flaws, which can only be utilised with a reboot. Some systems have onerous uptime requirements and that trade-off is worth it. Most servers are better off rebooting as soon as practicable. If you cannot afford reboots, your problem is more likely insufficient redundancy.






  • So the onus is on every individual user, to pick a random ULA prefix, bind specific addresses from it to the loopback interface, which is a different procedure for different OSes, probably requires root or elevated privileges, can have hard limits on, document it, etc. Greeeeaaaaaaat design. IPv6 gives out /64 like they’re about to turn bad, but can’t spare a /104? Gimme a break.

    I can dig a hole with a spoon, too, but if someone made it so that no one was allowed to dig holes with shovels unless they build their own (and have permission to build the shovel), when previously everyone was allowed to dig with shovels, I would not think highly of that person’s wisdom.

    Maybe you think G. Huston of APNIC and W. Kumari of Google don’t really know what they’re talking about?



  • lawks@aussie.zonetolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•IPv4 is hard
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    IPv6: Fuck you, you’re only allowed one, now. Yeah, yeah, I know there are about 340 undecillion addresses in the space, but I know better than you, no one in history has ever needed to bind different services to the same port on the loopback interface, and if they did they were doing it wrong. Oh you made an RFC draft? Well I let the one from 2015 2012 expire, so good luck with your current proposal, pleb.