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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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I wish the industry would switch to IPv6 already, IPv4 is really outdated.
Dirty IT open secret. Lots and LOTS of IT still running mission critical workloads is outdated too, but still running.
We still had a networked DOS 3.1 server running at my last job for the intercom system in the building when I was IT that ended up blowing up in a power surge we had (it was wired into a direct 12v power rail that for some reason had no surge protection). Of course they did the obvious thing to do and spent $4k to get the exact same DOS 3.1 box second hand to replace it with
For the intercom? That’s just perfect! Not for some impossible to replace multi million dollar industrial equipment, or complex medical devices, nooo… for the fkn intercom.