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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

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.

#ipv6

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!

I have a cross-band repeater now, using an RTL-SDR as the receiver.
#hamradio

From the "I really should have done that sooner" files: I got svxlink working as a simplex node with my SignaLink USB in fairly short order.
#hamradio

The Internet is, in fact, a series of tubes. We call them "tunnels".

I put my SBC up on the web because hey why not?
https://donatello.home.nivex.net/
(Your browser will probably complain about the cert. I was too lazy to install LE.)

Ahh, feels good to clean up accounts. Just deactivated my account on two dead Slack workspaces.

Why are people?

The resistance will be monetized.