xkcd #3150: Ping

xkcd #3150: Ping

Title text:

Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.

Transcript:

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3150/

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8 Comments

Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 45 pts · 308d (4 replies)

Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still...

"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."

"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

IHawkMike@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 308d (3 replies)

I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 308d

That’s so baud

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 308d

Or you might, we just would have no way of knowing.

Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 308d

You wo⌧ld ⌧nly ge⌧ a f⌧w pa⌧ts h⌧re ⌧nd the⌧e.

nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev · 13 pts · 308d

64 bytes from ocean: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3726d

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 307d

I don't get how this relates to icmpv6. Can someone explain? I read the explainxkcd and didn't get it. It seems to make fun of icmp requests in general by pointing out the absurdity of pinging across an ocean using a message in a bottle but this joke would work for both ipv4 and ipv6

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d

A reminder that all packets are delivered on a "best effort" basis, and some packets will be simply dropped en route.