TIFU by telling my friend about finding her pictures online

DHCP

It is incredibly different between the two protocols and isn't even close. They share the same name, but that's about it. I know your MAC address gets appended to your IPv6 address (or an equivalent...I think Apple was working on making this a temporary / rotating address for security...which is the last technical document I read on this subject a few years ago)...but all in all, it really doesn't help SYSADMINs...if the only thing holding you back is identifying a machine, you have a LOT more problems.

As for Macintosh address? I have heard the nerds say shit like this. I work for a major university these days, the nerds have no clue to my background, they come in and snort that I use a Mac (not realizing that I use terminal more often than I do anything else as I was raised in a unix environment)....one of then called me a few months ago trying to identify a rogue server that was plugged in and somehow identified to me (I think it was from an ethernet card that was in one of my old servers and a techie parted it out -- we have to register the MAC addresses with a username to identify machines and the registration is SUPPOSED to only last a year, but in practice I have a few machines that haven't been re-registered in much much longer). I tell the dude to cut to the chase, here are the MAC addresses on the machines I have running. And the guy tells me ITS A FUCKING PC, CAN'T YOU MAC USERS EVER TELL COMPUTERS APART...WHAT PC ADDRESSES DO YOU HAVE.

So yeah...there are idiots. And that guy ended up getting fired soon after. Apparently not everyone took to being cussed out the way I did!

It's Reddit, I don't take people too seriously on here.

Generally when people say this, it is my experience that someone wants to be taken very seriously. In fact, it is the rule, not the exception. You cared enough to try to write what MIGHT have been a believable story and it was interesting. Enough so that I read it. Until you started trying to defend yourself. That is where it fell apart. The best TIFUs are the ones where the reader doesn't quite know if it is fiction or not. Or even a mixture with an exaggeration of what happens (we all gotta church up our stories a little!) If you take the time to do something, take the time to do it right! It isn't like finding someone's photos online isn't a thing. I've found friends photos online...hell, I found an ex's photos where I had to ask myself was I the blurred ass in the background? Probably not, but I still asked myself this! And this will probably be a LOT more prevalent in the future. Seems like a perfectly good fuck up and a perfectly good writing task. So write...and don't try to tech your way out of it.

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