reminder: there is no limit in the IRC emoji reactions specification for how long an emoji react can be... so the first 4kb of the bee movie is a legal emoji reaction!

my server now has 8TB of storage

it’s btrfs RAID-1 on two second-hand Seagate Enterprise Capacity (ST8000NM0045-1RL112) drives that are over 6 years old so I’m not sure how long they will last

also they’ve got 4k logical sector sizes so I don’t think SeaBIOS will be able to boot from them (but I don’t need that anyway)

Hey @frameworkcomputer! If I publish my dotfiles and write an installer for them, will you send me free(?) hardware to test on too?

RE: https://shrimple.aagaming.me/notes/alcnu72jj8

How the modem dial-up sound was actually created

#enough #negative #tech #and #news #timeFor #eyebleach

@slatian I published that eBPF program you were interested in: https://codeberg.org/noisytoot/bindrestrict

It's still very incomplete, but it does work. The README describes the state it's currently in.

Today I learned a spell to TOAST A BAGEL. It is supposed to be a spell to REFORGE A RING but it does not check the ring’s MATERIAL, and if you cancel about a second into casting the bagel will NOT be DESTROYED.

#wizardposting #wizard

I think my laptop might need new thermal paste. It always ran quite hot but it seems to be even hotter lately

Hi @catsalad I heard you like cats so here's one I saw today

HEY YOU, QUICKLY, BOOST THIS POST I NEED TO STRESS THIS SHITTY SERVER

i’m fucking crying 😭 this guy installed a malware that keeps redirecting his queries through Yahoo, and vibe coded an extension that redirects Yahoo to Google, probably not understanding that he has malware 😭 😭

there are some younger nutrias again! So cute!! They are a bit more shy than the older ones, but generally aren’t to scared of humans

i wrote an internet standard https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html (it's published on ietf.org so you know it's real and official and endorsed by the ietf)

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html
Meow meow MEOW mrrp meow nya mreow

British online friend: "Saw a flying banana tonight. I only noticed because of the purple light shining upwards"

Everyone: ???

"We have track measurement trains. They run around, checking the tracks for faults, the power cables, etc

They're bright yellow. So they're nicknamed the Flying Banana, as a joke on the Flying Scotsman

Night time they have this blue laser that scans the overhead wires. It creates this giant glow you can see when it moves"

I can't believe anyone is taking IPv8 seriously

The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing.

The thought of launching a one-ton battery pack presently ejecting streams of hot flaming gases ten meters away is as horrifying as it is hilarious.

Good luck whoever is to my right!

#cars

good morning

Every HackerNews post about IPv6 has some of the worst, most privileged, idiotic, vibe-coded, proprietary, ignorant, 16bit, capital-guzzling, unicorn takes I’ve ever known on the subject:

• IPv6 addresses are too hard to remember.
  So? You’re not meant to remember addresses, that’s why we have DNS, write it down, literally a non-issue.

• IPv6 is confusing and I don’t want to learn something new.
  That’s a personal issue buddy, either start reading or get left behind, that’s what you said about AI right? More things that you depend on this transition.

• NATing has solved the IP limit problem so there’s no point.
  NATing is a plaster slapped onto brain bleed, easy and cheap, but ineffective, it causes a wide range of usability problems, such as blanket IP bans, restrictions on self-hosting, connectivity issue for VPNs both private and corporate.
  To make matters worse, the effects are significantly worse in poorer countries, while Europe, China and the USA have a bounty of IPv4s to use (though China’s still aren’t enough), India has been on critically short supply for a while now with reports of multiple NATed network layers being issued. Imagine if you got banned from Valo because your neighbour 4 districts away got caught cheating.

• We’ve been trying for 40 years and it hasn’t worked so let’s give up.
  OK, we’re going to give up on solving world hunger too then because that’s clearly not getting anywhere, and the energy crisis too while we’re at it, just shut it all down.
  Just because you personally haven’t seen the progress or felt its effects doesn’t mean its not happening, people smarter than you have been working on this before you were born, and at this rate might continue to work on it after you switch careers to Goose Farming.

• IPv6 hasn’t worked so let’s just make IPv7.
  Insane take, despite how it looks, IPv6 support is extremely widespread and ready to go, the reluctance of big tech and ISPs is purely due to the cost implication and lack of enforcement, creating a brand new spec now would enforce another 40 year delay just to assuage your own personal opinion.

• IPv6 is a security risk because the router isn’t NATing.
  Misunderstanding of what NATing does. Even with a public-facing IP on every device, ports are still protected by the router’s firewall.

• IPv6 is a privacy issue because now you can easily identify every device in a home by its public IP.
  A valid concern, if it hadn’t been identified and resolved with the Privacy Extensions to SLAAC that randomises your IP address after a set time period, mitigating the problem to that of your NATed IPv4 Public IP, if not making it more private by muddying the telemetry waters.

#ipv6 #networking

Does Swoosh.Adapters.SMTP (the thing Akkoma uses for sending email) seriously not support IPv6!?

I tried configuring it to use both an IPv6 address and a hostname and domain name resolving only to an IPv6 address and it didn’t work. With an IPv4 address it works fine.

berkeley.edu.pl has successfully been migrated to a new server!

It is now hosted on a librebooted Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F running Gentoo located in my attic.