Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social

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!

@staticsafe Can you do me a favor? I have a .webm file that plays fine in browser, but when I try to upload it to Mastodon I get a "500 Server Error". Can you try to upload it and report what you get in the error logs?

http://www.nivex.net/images/tmp/atest.webm

@K2FI de N8VNR, gm om :)

I got down a rabbit hole trying to create an oEmbed endpoint that Mastodon would inline. Hasn't worked yet. I should probably come up from that rabbit hole and do some higher priority things first.

I've found the media_attachment model:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/models/media_attachment.rb

Defining audio types there looks straightforward in enough. What I have no idea how to even begin doing is making it render an <audio> tag in the timeline for inline playback.

Forgive me, I am not a developer.

#mastodev

How many points of fail does your project have?
https://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html

List of #hamradio ops in the fediverse:
https://pad.dc7ia.org/p/radio_amateurs_on_the_fediverse

Add yourself if you're feeling it.
h/t @dc7ia

Hold on... we've got all these fancy gadgets now... why hasn't anyone programmed a system so when you walk into a dark room you can exclaim "Aziz, light!" and the lights come on?

QOTD: "You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served." - Nina Simone

Battleships over BGP

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-battleships

Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393

So what are my Android alternatives again? Don't really like Apple much either.