What is the use case for 0.0.0.0
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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Just in case you want to do nothing, nowhere in particular.
I didn't even realize 0.0.0.0 was a valid address to enter into a browser! TIL.
On Linux it is just a catch all address (listen on all interfaces)
Elsewhere it doesn't do anything since I don't believe it is part of the networking standards
Yeah I'm familiar with that part, I just meant in context of a browser being able to connect to it.
I just wish they'd stop blocking http requests on lan addresses honestly.
Pretty sure you have an addon doing that, because Firefox doesn't.
Firefox doesn't block http at all
Could you share a link for me to read up more on this?
Fine by me. I self-host a lot of stuff but never used 0.0.0.0 for browsing, so I just disabled it here to try it out.
seriously. I like the federation but people way overuse the spoiler tag or nsfw or whatever. I usually skip over but had to vent. Oh uh. ankle in this one. better make sure no one gets fired over it.
wrong post?
Did you mean to comment on this post? It's not showing as NSFW to me
It shows an 18+ tag for me too, and the image is blurred. I assume it's because of our host software. I'm on kbin.melroy.org (Mbin), and the original commenter is on moist.catsweat.com (also Mbin).