good morning (2)

@kemona_halftau good morning!

nini fedi (it's 5am)

@pomagarnet if any component of my computer dies other than the SSD itself, I can move the SSD to another computer and transfer the data (and depending on what died there's a chance I can relatively easily replace it and get it working again). if any component of my phone dies, I have no idea how I'd get the data off of the eMMC (and I can't even open it up to replace any components because it's all glued together)

To all furries who think that fops is just a cute version of fox, here's the truth:

it's actually the file_operations structure in Linux

int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
              unsigned int count, const char *name,
              const struct file_operations *fops)

it is really frustrating to spend an entire day trying and failing to do something (get serial port output from this thing)

does anyone know what the pinout is for the 8P8C serial port on IBM Power System servers (specifically it is compatible with IBM part number 46K5108, which is absurdly expensive for a passive adapter so I don't want to buy it)? it does not seem to be the standard EIA/TIA-561

idk anymore

@niko @kemona_halftau I have the itch.io release so this being the steam release would explain the difference (but it's still weird that it includes ncurses, presumably it's a dependency of python or something and not actually used)

@kemona_halftau apparently the chinese ipv9 has variable length addresses up to 2048 bits so that fits (it's unclear how long the addresses in TUBA or the joke ipv9 are (except that the joke ipv9 has 42 "routing levels"))

good morning

good night it's almost 5am

@kemona_halftau awawawawawawawa

@kemona_halftau what IP version would that be, with 512-bit addresses?

if IPvx has 2*2^x-bit addresses (which fits for IPv4 and IPv6, but not for ST (the Internet Stream Protocol, which is assigned version number 5 and reuses IPv4 addresses) or TP/IX: The Next Internet (RFC 1475), which has 64-bit addresses and is assigned version number 7)), then it should be IPv8

but the actual protocol that is assigned IP version number 8 (Pip (RFC 1621)) has 64-bit IDs and variable length hierarchical addresses consisting of one or more 16-bit FTIFs (Forwarding Table Index Fields), the recent IPv8 Internet-Draft has 64-bit addresses, and Jim Fleming’s 1990s IPv8 Internet-Draft has 43-bit addresses apparently (I can’t actually find a copy of it anywhere, but it seems about as crazy as the 2026 draft)

interestingly RFC 1621 doesn’t explicitly state the version number it uses, but according to the IANA version number registry it is version 8 and it does say:

The Version Number places Pip as a subsequent version of IP.

from which it can presumably be inferred that it is version 8 if 7 (TP/IX) was the previous assigned version number

@kemona_halftau I hope you sleep better tonight

@kemona_halftau why were there fireworks the night before last night?