IPv6 Based Canvas

(canvas.openbased.org)

74 points | by tylermarques 15 hours ago ago

16 comments

  • uncircle 6 hours ago ago

    Web devs: please, PLEASE, learn the difference between History.pushState() and History.replaceState(). It's the latter you want. Please do not spam my browser history just because I have interacted with your app; it's rude.

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...

    • remram 2 hours ago ago

      I get this issue on YouTube every time (well, other way). On mobile, go to front page, search, hit a search result. Go back and you're on the front page...

      If Google can't get it right (or don't care to) I think it's a lost battle.

    • gryn an hour ago ago

      I have the opposite problem with twitch when raids happens. please for the love of god keep a history of who was the previous streamer.

  • blueflow 5 hours ago ago

    Its safe for work until you get to the coordinates where they placed the yaoi porn. Obligatory trans flag and Lain are also present....

    • tempaccount420 2 hours ago ago

      In your comment's context, I think "yuri" is more common and fits the next sentence better.

      • blueflow 20 minutes ago ago

        You are right, what i was looking at was yuri, but wouldn't know because i went the other way before seeing the genitals.

  • remram 2 hours ago ago

    It would be fun to go the other way, make a giant canvas that you draw on based on the sender's IPv6 address.

    Obviously it would be a really really big canvas but you could strip some leading or trailing bits.

    (If we give 8x8 pixels per /64 and considering that only 2000/3 is used, that's 2^67 pixels)

  • hobofan 3 hours ago ago

    The "no drawing over others people drawings" rule seems kind of pointless, or is nobody supposed to use the website anymore, now that the whole site is covered with a drawing of cat and a lady in a pond?

  • litbear2022 8 hours ago ago

    This reminds me of the IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree[1].Unsurprisingly, the original address has been offline. When I checked the archives, I saw the archives from January 7, 2017[2]. Could it be that some guy is celebrating Orthodox Christmas? :)

    - [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186051 - [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20171201000000*/http://ipv6tree....

  • imrejonk 6 hours ago ago

    Reminds me of the Pixelflut LED display. The hacker camp SHA2017 had one above a bar, 36C3 had one as well. Their traffic peaked at 4 Gbit/s and 30 Gbit/s respectively.

    https://hackaday.com/2020/08/01/playing-the-pixelflut/

  • Thom2503 6 hours ago ago

    They also had something like this at TU Twente in the Netherlands, https://pings.utwente.io/ with open-sourced software :)

  • Rendello 11 hours ago ago

    Cool project. I thought the empty canvas was the galaxy but if you go right, you see a lot of other images. Warning: mostly NSFW.

    I wanted to complain, but then I remembered the ol' Hacker News guideline:

    > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. [...] back-button breakage.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    • globular-toast 6 hours ago ago

      I thought I was just looking at a landing page and you had to use IPv6 to view the canvas yourself. I think someone just put Hubble deep field at (0,0), though. It looks different now.

  • globular-toast 6 hours ago ago

    In case somebody is a second class Internet citizen like me and has no IPv6 support yet, you can set up a tunnel courtesy of Hurricane Electric if you want to play around: https://tunnelbroker.net/

    • remram an hour ago ago

      This is often tricky because not all home routers will let you set up the protocol forwarding you need.

      Another option is to use a cloud provider that supports IPv6. For example Google's GCP gives you a completely free VM, the drawback is that enabling IPv6 is a bit of a puzzle. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compu... (create a dual-stack VPC with a dual-stack subnet in a region, add firewall rules, create dual-stack VM)