Just proves that 16 bytes was too much, and we should have just gone 8 bytes.
IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
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Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#12Something 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. :)
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.
Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#13I 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?
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.
Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#14Something 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. :)
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).
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#15What 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.
Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#16If 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...
Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen
Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#17It reminds me of what3words, using three words to describe any location on earth. I really hoped that could catch on.
Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#18If 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...
Yet another reason why ipv6 will never happen
it already happened.
also I sure as hell dont remember my ipv4 address
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#19Re: IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember
#20The new times take now beneath the new time while new times take the new year.
Or more concisely, localhost.