There was a cool project that converted hexadecimal numbers (or IPs) to pronouceable words. I think it was also more dense, and of course faster to say / easier to remember.

[–] axus@lemmy.ca 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of Name System?

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 12 points 11 months ago

Perhaps organised into some sort of domains for clarity?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But you're limited to a-f. I wonder if anyone's figured out how many addresses are actually possible with that system.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

throw some 1337 speek in there and you're all set!

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's just 6^32, no? (Amount of options^string length). Which is 7958661109E24.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, calculation of the amount of possible strings containing only a-f is trivial. But the idea is for addresses to be memorable. So I'm wondering how many strings which are valid IPv6 addresses are possible if you are limited to actual English (or, pick a language) 4-letter words containing only a-f. As someone mentioned, this could be expanded with 1337-speak.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Ahh right, that would be a bit more difficult to calculate.

I guess you could make a script which just bruteforces all combinations of a-f against an English dictionary. I might try to do that tonight.

[–] feannag@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of three word location.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's cool, but I'm sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

maybe they could be sorted alphabetically to give you an idea, but yeah, it'd be harder to know for sure without a mixed format like

worda:wordb::f1

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago

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