<![CDATA[“but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?”]]>“but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?”

“well, that’s the thing, it didn’t have one.”

“oh, so how would you update the firmware then?”

“it had none. it was just a tea kettle.”

“woah.”

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/273405b7-7769-4176-bbcd-fdb434f97f99/but-how-would-you-know-what-the-ip-address-was-grandadRSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 10:00:35 GMTSat, 25 Apr 2026 22:54:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to “but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?” on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:38:12 GMT]]>@SecureOwl
But how did it send an alert to your phone, to tell you knod it was done?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/brouhaha/statuses/116468920660247164https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/brouhaha/statuses/116468920660247164Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:38:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?” on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:59:27 GMT]]>@SecureOwl Given the chance, it would have happily responded HTTP 418 but no one had ever asked, it had never doubted, and had no reason to declare its own existence.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/trebetheric/statuses/116468532368013083https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodonapp.uk/users/trebetheric/statuses/116468532368013083Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:59:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?” on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:54:30 GMT]]>@SecureOwl 🤣🤣🤣🤣

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pelha/statuses/116468276922243618https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pelha/statuses/116468276922243618Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:54:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to “but how would you know what the IP address was, grandad?” on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:28:01 GMT]]>@SecureOwl Chuckling!!!

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