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False meme image that says “bad news ipv4 fans. linus torvalds has announced removing ipv4 support from the linux kernel after the maintainers of the network stack got into a fight over WHAT KIND OF HRT gives the best results. this incident will impact 5 billion people and will make 95% of all network equipment on Earth binnable.” with fake screenshots of the linux kernel mailing list a girl calling another one a slur from 4chan over HRT choices and Linus Torvalds saying he will drop IPv4 support and asking the maintainers to learn to shut the fuck up.

Source: https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032302416832519

  • coherent_domain@infosec.pubEnglish
    47·
    10 days ago

    Linus have stated multiple times that he does not break user space, thus this quiet clearly cannot be real.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      15·
      10 days ago

      The kernel has never committed to a guarantee that userspace have IPv4 available. Hell, I’m sure that you don’t even need to compile it into the kernel.

      goes and runs make menuconfig

      Yeah, CONFIG_INET=n and you’ll have no TCP/IP in your kernel.