Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social
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Linux, #IPv6 geek (http://flyingpenguintech.org/). Amateur radio (#hamradio) operator N8VNR. Air and space fan. Favors the White Lotus gambit.
Joined May 2017
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"...they're looking at how to monetize internet service, and of course the idea is maximize the number of users you can put up with the IP address space, and so NATs are a ... natural outcome of a business motivation for increasing total amount of service that you can give with one IP address." -- Vint Cerf
There you go folks: NATs are a tool of capitalism. Cast off your NATs and deploy #IPv6 today!
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"And I realized, when you go through any endeavor, any journey, whether across town or to the moon and back, all that matters is that you share the experience with people that you love. That’s what makes life special, ‘cause ultimately, that’s all there is. That’s really all there is."
-- Alan Bean, fourth man on the moon
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Litany against NAT
apologies to Frank Herbert
I must not NAT.
NAT is the net-killer.
NAT is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my NAT addiction.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the NAT has gone there will be a proper firewall.
Only IPv6 will remain.
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I have my phone set to auto-deny any number that is not in my contact list to combat the ever increasing amount of spam I've been getting. Unfortunately there is one insurance scammer that has taken to leaving voicemails. Multiple VMs a day for the last two weeks.
I contacted my provider about disabling my VM box altogether. They do not support this. You can, however, redirect missed calls to another number instead.
I now send missed calls to: https://github.com/pjf/rickastley
Eat Rickroll, spammers!
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OSes
I've lost count at how many I've used. Consumer, industrial, minicomputer, mainframe, high concept to complete toy. Pre-release, beta, half broken dev builds. I've cut my teeth on so many UNIXes and Linuxes they all look the same.
So, what's the best?
The one you have, and the one that feels like home.
There is no ultimate OS. Prefer to crack code on bog standard Windows? That's cool. MacOS? Sure, if that works for you. I don't care if you're on a mean and lean Arch build, a Haiku Alpha, or some patched monstrosity running in a VM on top of Qubes.
Your home isn't my home, and shouldn't be.
That's what makes it beautiful.
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US Hurricane season PSA
If you have have any reason to be worried about a hurricane, remember, TV (and lots of YT/etc) are just Doomscrolling LIVE. Skip all of that and head to https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ and click on the storm in question. That's going to bring you to the Key Messages section, and miniature versions of some important infographics. If you know a specific location where people live, click on "Local Products" (center below the storm name, but smaller print) and then the nearest local station most recent "Local Statement". This is all of the facts that are being Doomspun by everyone else.
It's not just IPvFoo. I tried migrating to the Server Status extension. Trying to bring up its info window also crashes the browser.
Trying to bring up the IPvFoo information window will reliably crash Firefox 105 😦 #ipv6
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openid had some very good ideas very early and guess what. nothing. of course google prefers to make you log in thru your google account and would like that to work everywhere
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We’re watching DART! If you don’t wanna miss a thing with today’s deep impact, you should watch too!
Cats on Synthesizers in Space
https://www.etsy.com/shop/KieranHeather
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"You don’t solve problems by cooperating with people who want the problems"
QOTD: Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches, and not those who burned them alive?
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The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global Warming
https://www.noemamag.com/the-disappearing-art-of-maintenance/
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Transition to usrmerge has started https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/09/msg00001.html
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From the WTF public license FAQ, on profanity
«But profanity is offensive!
You know what? Fuck your stance on profanity. Fuck your priorities in life. The WTFPL is about fucking freedom and we mean it. Freedom means freedom to copy and modify and share works of art and science with the rest of mankind, but also freedom to be gay and marry and have crazy gay sex, freedom to have tattoos, freedom to say there is no God, freedom to take the pill, freedom to have an abortion. People die for being gay or atheists. Don’t tell me that there is something sacred enough that it must be protected from the mere existence of the word “fuck”. If the F in WTFPL offends you, then fuck you and your beliefs. Triple fuck you.»
http://www.wtfpl.net/faq/
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Has anyone started a site/database to track electronic components within commercial products? I think this idea has been mentioned before, I'm definitely not taking credit.
Like you need chip "abc" but can't buy it new or get it today, you can look it up and then go find/scrounge/buy a used toaster or whatever that has the chip.
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An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland (artemis.sh) https://lwn.net/Articles/908561/ #LWN
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when decision makers in the US say "we strongly recommend masks indoors"
it means "we know that COVID-19 is airborne, we know it's not mild, we know the pandemic isn't over, but our courage falls short of mandating protections because the loud and dangerous people will direct hate at us if we do."
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TIL about permacomputing?
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Everything is a fuse when the current is high enough.
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Linux, #IPv6 geek (http://flyingpenguintech.org/). Amateur radio (#hamradio) operator N8VNR. Air and space fan. Favors the White Lotus gambit.
Joined May 2017
