Discussion
sentence2IPv6
Bratmon: The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new time.
ssl-3: 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.
OJFord: 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.)
Singletail: I'm old. I can't remember breakfast.
Waterluvian: 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. :)
RedShift1: 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?
re: 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!
vel0city: 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?
vunderba: 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).
spprashant: 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.
Terr_: 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.
emilfihlman: Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.
al_borland: 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.
apitman: 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.
buttocks: The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new year.Or more concisely, localhost.
1970-01-01: 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: Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen
iknowstuff: it already happened.also I sure as hell dont remember my ipv4 address
apitman: Adoption has been flat under 50% for a year now.
boston_clone: it may more likely have something to do with the date of April Fools :) seems it got more than a few folks here haha
sholladay: 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.
paulsutter: ipv6 is for faceless hordes of cellphones, which could just as easily be NATdespite being an ipv6 skeptic, i’ve been thinking to try using ipv6 for our new company network, but make the addresses purely readable
apitman: 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.
Uptrenda: 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.
RulerOf: 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.
