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there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. (feddit.org)

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[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Subnetting and the difference between /8 and /24 or /32 and how you allocate IP addresses between them has always been crazy for me to grasp.

I feel like if I could finally understand that after 20 years … I’d be happy but no here I am, effectively ignorant to it and looking at networking wizards as true wizards

this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026

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