Nivex 🐧 📻 @nivex@octodon.social
Linux, #IPv6 geek (http://flyingpenguintech.org/). Amateur radio (#hamradio) operator N8VNR. Air and space fan. he/him.
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.
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!
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-06-01 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2ss1CH4
FreeDV 1.3 with new 700D mode released
http://www.rowetel.com/?p=6103
Check out some of the real-world samples. Crystal clear signal when analog is just about all noise. Most impressive.
namecheap: Privacy protection will soon become FREE for life
thanks gdpr
Happy World Otter Day to my otter friends and family <3
"You haven't decoded our message?" the alien said. "Your GalacUnion invitation, RSVP today?"
"Er..." said the human. "No."
"We only sent it once we knew you had enough computing capacity to do it."
"We didn't know!"
"What did you use those computers for then?"
"Mining bitcoin..."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
And now I've had my first QSO on FT8. #hamradio
Finally installed an FT8 decoder so I can listen in on all the hype. #hamradio
[Hidden Almanac] The Hidden Almanac for 2018-05-28 - The Hidden Almanac https://ift.tt/2IPMpuC
it's wild how many IPv4 /8 networks were given out in the early days of the Internet
Further on @CobaltVelvet 's thread on iproute2:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ReplacingNetstatNotBad
QOTD: "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing everyday." -- Winnie the Pooh
Has anyone gone ahead and upgraded Xubuntu 16.04 -> 18.04 with "do-release-upgrade -d" ? I'm trying not to be impatient, but...
This is how NASA writes software:
https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
I want the software driving cars around my family to be held to the a similar standard of quality. In the context of self-driving cars, "Move fast and break things" means "Half-arse it and kill people."
Humans in the USA manage 1.16 fatalities per 100,000,000 miles travelled. Uber's software couldn't even get to 3 million miles before it killed someone.
We do this properly, or not at all.
@dc7ia OM and YL (Young Lady) get on my nerves too. I don't know if it's internationally used, but in the UK a lot of people use XYL to mean 'wife'.
Time to dump such anachronisms if we are going to get people who don't live in the 1950s interested in amateur radio.
Hmm... hamfest tomorrow morning. Or sleep in? Yeah, I'm thinkin' sleep in.
#hamradio #notamorningperson
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