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You (I) can't make this shit up. Fine, p(doom) += epsilon (p(hilarious) += lots more tho?)

That is.... Interesting.... How did the ipv6 socket address originally get decided?

summary: it wrote some hacky code to look at both /proc/net/tcp4 and /proc/net/tcp6 (but was only written to properly parse ipv4 addresses!) which magically turned out, out of all the 32bit ints it could get, to be owned by the pentagon. of all the timelines...

was the ipv6 address chosen randomly?? seems really unlikely for anything / anyone to pick a random bitstream that just so happens to be parsed as a Government IP when mangled into IPv4...

That's okay! I think what I wanna study is the model itself :) wondering if there's a J-Lens for glm yet - but probably too big for me to do anything. Was the VM IPv6 assigned by an LLM or you? Or random from dhcp?

oh! um... it was a fly.io VM, so however they choose IPs?