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IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

https://sentence2ipv6.tib3rius.com/
38•LorenDB•3h ago

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Bratmon•2h ago
The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new time.
Singletail•2h ago
I'm old. I can't remember breakfast.
OJFord•2h ago
The first (of two) examples encodes to:

> How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come.

..Nice idea, but it may need some more thought. (Even more so as 2001:db8::1 is much easier to remember than that!) (I wrote that parenthetical from memory on edit, vs. had to copy-paste the sentence when it was my intention to comment on it within seconds.)

ssl-3•2h ago
I tried it. Maybe it's easier to speak than hexadecimal is.

But I'm not sure that "How morally the enviable assistances categorize the insistent iodine beyond new time where new systems stalk" has the same memorable quality as "correct horse battery staple" does.

1970-01-01•2h ago
If you're remembering your IPv6 address you're doing IPv6 wrong. In fact, it's good practice to always use a temporary IPv6 address.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8981#name-problem-s...

idiotsecant•1h ago
Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen
iknowstuff•1h ago
it already happened.

also I sure as hell dont remember my ipv4 address

apitman•1h ago
Adoption has been flat under 50% for a year now.
msla•9m ago
A bit less than 50% of the whole Internet.

Wow. That's so amazingly unpopular. Why anyone bothers talking about something untold millions of people use every day is beyond me.

RulerOf•40m ago
I don't remember my ipv4 addresses either, but I recognize them as mine when I see them.

I've never recognized an IPv6 address or prefix used in my networks.

jorvi•19m ago
You can set your ULA to something like "fddd:192:168::/48" and then on your vlan you prefix hint, say, "66". Now, any device on that vlan will be addressable by "fddd:192:168:66::$host". For example, your gateway ('router') for that vlan would be "fddd:192:168:66::1".

If you want to be really wonky you can script DHCPv6 to statically assign ULA IPv6 leases that match the IPv4, and expire them when the IPv4 lease expires, but like said upthread, addressing hosts via IPv6 is the wrong way to go about it. On your lan, you really want to be doing ".local" / ".lan" / ".home".

sholladay•54m ago
I think the Matter standard is going to cause IPv6 adoption to increase significantly in the coming years. People will demand it, without even knowing what Matter or IPv6 are. They just want to be able to turn their lights off from their phone without any extra hardware or software.
spaqin•25m ago
They've had years to demand it, I don't see why it would suddenly change. Most users who buy "smart" appliances are not power users, don't set everything up themselves and just rely on manufacturer's servers anyway and don't need a direct connection - and are okay with it.
umanwizard•4m ago
[delayed]
re•1h ago
Not too sure of the utility of this. It's not an easy sentence to remember, because while grammatical, it's nonsense—it would take some effort. So if I'm trying to memorize a static IP, setting up a DNS name is likely to be easier. And also if I'm going to be using this to memorize IPs I'd like the algorithm to be open source.

All that being said, I think it's a neat idea and a cool tool!

RedShift1•1h ago
I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?
spprashant•1h ago
You are not supposed worry about the mapping. You trust the website to help decode it. You just remember the sentence. It's a little like what3words for coordinates.

The rationale being you are more likely to remember grammatical cogent sentence, than a random string of alphanumeric characters. Although I will agree that the generated sentences don't seem easy to remember. So I doubt it's utility.

Waterluvian•1h ago
Something that I think was probably once obvious to me but I rediscovered recently is just how intensely wired for song the brain is. If you want to memorize anything, doing it as a song makes it far easier.

I’d really love to see things like this generate little jingles along with the sentence. :)

Terr_•1h ago
It's huge when you consider all the data humans have stored and transferred orally over the millennia.

Music, meter, and rhyme are all (among other things) algorithms for indexing and error-correction, tools very suitable to the squishy hardware.

vunderba•1h ago
There actually was an attempt on HN a little while back to use GenAI to convert facts, flashcards, lists, etc. into automated melodic mnemonics. The biggest issue in that particular case was that it was also generating the motif from scratch.

At least for me, part of the reason I can still sing the countries of the world is because the original Animaniacs song was set to a tune that was already familiar: “Jarabe Tapatío” (aka the Mexican Hat Dance).

vel0city•1h ago
So just imagine if there was a service that could translate any words you wanted into the IP address instead of relying on some website to generate jibberish. Wouldn't that be cool to use instead? Some kind of name system? Based around domains of authority?
emilfihlman•1h ago
Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.
apitman•1h ago
I'm fine with 16 but they should have only used the bytes as they were needed, at least for 5 and 6 byte addresses, so those who desire short addresses could buy them.
al_borland•1h ago
What is the use-case for this? I’m trying to think of an IPv6 address I would need to remember, and then when I’d have access to this site without having access to a text file where I could have noted the address down. I’m coming up empty.
boston_clone•53m ago
it may more likely have something to do with the date of April Fools :) seems it got more than a few folks here haha
Gathering6678•1h ago
It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.
katbyte•29m ago
what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.
Gathering6678•18m ago
Care to elaborate why? I'm just curious since I didn't know (1) there was actually any kind of serious usage, or (2) there was pushback from rescue team...
ryankrage77•8m ago
W3W is very aggressive about protecting their IP, they don't want it to be a standard anyone can use like lat/long.

They advertise it as being useful for search/rescue as you can provide a precise location over an unclear voice channel. They conveniently ignore that speaking numbers is clearer than speaking random words.

I'm sure there's more I'm unaware of.

wzdd•20m ago
Kind of like what3words, except what3words uses three words which you stand a chance of remembering, whereas this produced, for an address similar to mine, "Miniature nerves eulogize gaily inside erect lion yet able stables hiss the conclusive consultation."
buttocks•1h ago
The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new year.

Or more concisely, localhost.

wowczarek•19m ago
Commented with the same without reading through the comments first; now deleted.

That is a lot of words for ::1.

Edit: there was another one below, haha :)

apitman•1h ago
Being essentially impossible to memorize is one of the worst attributes of IPv6. I memorize and manually type IPv4 addresses all the time and it's super useful.
paulsutter•58m ago
ipv6 is for faceless hordes of cellphones, which could just as easily be NAT

despite being an ipv6 skeptic, i’ve been thinking to try using ipv6 for our new company network, but make the addresses purely readable

Uptrenda•45m ago
We kind of had the same idea for ECDSA public keys (an imagined solution to zokos triangle -- human readable and decentralized) as well as private keys (BIP39 brain wallets). Honestly it still falls short of truly name-based though.
blurrybird•19m ago
Mine comes with a swear!

[…] thaw the new case beyond pure mass where flagrant toys fucken.

amstan•6m ago
Ah yes, because "How now the smart flies take the new time beyond new time where new times come." is so much easier to remember than "2001:db8::1".

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