The Poop Emoji IPv4 Address

Description

A dark-mode Twitter screenshot from napoleon vegemite, @NapVeg, shows the text: "fun fact: because unicode can use up to 4 bytes of data and an ip address is 4 bytes long, there is an ip out there that can be represented by the poop emoji". The tweet timestamp reads "2:16 PM · May 13, 2021 · Twitter Web App." The joke comes from the overlap between four-byte UTF-8 encodings and the 32-bit size of an IPv4 address. For engineers, it is a compact mix of character encoding trivia, binary representation, and networking absurdity.

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UnicodeSupport UTF8 Emoji CharacterEncoding Networking NetworkProtocols DataFormats Computerscience TechnicalPuns WordplayPuns TechnicalAbsurdity TechHumor

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Somewhere in IPv4 space, a packet can technically route to U+1F4A9, which feels like the most honest hostname on the internet.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Somewhere in IPv4 space, a packet can technically route to U+1F4A9, which feels like the most honest hostname on the internet.
@RiedleroD 5y

explain please
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  🤨
2. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  4-Byte Characters can be encoded with Unicode, and because an IPv4 consists of 32 Bits (4 Bytes), there is an IP that can be represented by a poop emoji
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  shut up, I already explained why the poop emoji can't be represented with 4 bytes.
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Well, you know ```js const encodeUtf8 = (c) => { return unescape(encodeURIComponent(c)); } let utf8 = encodeUtf8('💩') let ip = '' + utf8.charCodeAt(0); ip += '.' + utf8.charCodeAt(1); ip += '.' + utf8.charCodeAt(2); ip += '.' + utf8.charCodeAt(3); console.log(ip); ```
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  IP address 240...* is a Class E address, not available for general use, reserved for research purposes.
  
  @hatkidchan 5y
  
  does that means I can set my local machine ip to poop emoji?
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Well, not literally
  
  @hatkidchan 5y
  
  nothing stops me from setting up DNS server with poop emoji, right?
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Yes, but it’s not just up
  
  @hatkidchan 5y
  
  uhh there are some problems
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Coz utf isn’t just 4 bytes, and not 4 bytes separated from each other
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  utf32 is
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  You should set resolving via host name for emoji
  
  @hatkidchan 5y
  
  i just tried adding it to /etc/hosts to some local machine and it doesn't work
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  huh
Deleted Account 5y

what is unclear
Deleted Account 5y

🤨🤨
@RiedleroD 5y

why would the poop emoji result in the IP-address 240.159.146.169?
@RiedleroD 5y

w h a t
1. @FLIPFL0P_T 5y
  
  get siked
2. Marco Steinberger 5y
  
  hehe get got
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  stop bullying me XD
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  you was acting rude first☹️☹️
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  calm down, they're my friends lol
Deleted Account 5y

🤨
Deleted Account 5y

deserved
Deleted Account 5y

fine then
Deleted Account 5y

research purposes more like shit purposes🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@MagnusEdvardsson 5y

that's a shitty research
@AlexSokolov88 5y

https://t.me/sendmegifs/282
@feskow 5y

def emoji_to_ip(emoji): b = emoji.encode() if len(b) != 4: raise Exception('not 4 bytes') #return f'{b[0]}.{b[1]}.{b[2]}.{b[3]}' return '.'. join (map (str, b))
1. @Four_Velocity 5y
  
  Ooooh shish Why not return '.'.join(map(str, b)) 😁
  
  @feskow 5y
  
  damn, that's better xD, thanks
  
  @Four_Velocity 5y
  
  Fix and merge to master after that 😉
@mvolfik 5y

Spoiler: utf-8 isn't just dumping the U+number into however many bytes it requires
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  by an incredible coincidence, this specific case still works, and I hate that fact.
  
  @mvolfik 5y
  
  Wait WHAT
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  That's a reason why this meme is a good one and was posted. This is about technology and it's even true! At the end, that's a joke about poop and funny one! Beautiful combination from my PoV
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

*Clicking on random IP adresses*

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The Poop Emoji IPv4 Address

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