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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Mar 04, 2026

RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116171975075730495 What are the chances we'll manage to not feed this to all the cattle, sheep etc, causing bacteria to mutate to become resistant ?

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First discovered last year, a lasso-shaped peptide called lariocidin kills bacteria in a way that’s never been seen before - and because its germ-killing mechanism is new, something bacteria haven’t had time to adapt to, it’s predictably awesome in the fight against drug-resistant microbes. AZO https://www.azolifesciences.com/news/20250404/Meet-Lariocidin-A-Game-Changing-Antibiotic-That-Outsmarts-Resistance.aspx

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Mar 04, 2026

@bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de Ahem, "Pawlot" is right there ;) (Not my invention, it was mostly as "co-pawlot" when Elite Dangerous players had a cat hanging out with them.)

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Mar 02, 2026

One of the things I use Discord for is the Heroic launcher server, mostly for the channel where "Gaming on Linux" news is posted. They're investigating Fluxer as an alternative. So, I popped over, created an account, muted everything but that one equivalent channel... ... and, hmmm, I'm not sure how ready Fluxer is for this. I mute "until I turn it back on" an entire category and yet still get activity dots for the channels. And they seem to have somewhat limited keyboard navigation (I'm used Shift+Alt+ to navigate to "next channel with unread messages"). I did do a quick search to see how good Fluxer might actually be, including things like security response, but didn't come up with much. They have some form of bug bounty program, but looks like the only rewards are "kudos" and maybe some free month of their premium sub. #Fluxer #DiscordExodus

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 26, 2026

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Before I switched to BitWarden for my passwords I was storing them using kickpass.

kickpass gives you an encrypted file per thing/site, and there’s no requirement to actually be storing a password in that part of the data. The metadata just opens up in $EDITOR.

I’ve not looked at it closely, but I assumed it was doing a better job of handling things like “don’t leave a plain-text temporary file lying around if you crash” than my previous home-brew script based on GPG.

The one downside is that the file(s) will need to be in ~/.kickpass

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Finally getting around to upgrading my home server from Debian bookworm (12/oldstable) to trixie (13/stable). `apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs` went smoothly enough, just a few config files with local

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 25, 2026

Hours later and it mostly went smoothly.

postgresql 15 -> 17 cluster upgrade required an astounding amount of extra disk space. Ended up doubling that partition size from 10G to 20G (despite only 6.6 GB used beforehand, 15G wasn’t enough).
Ah, so that’s the fun and games with dovecot config grammar changes.
Why did rsyslog.service fail to listen to a TCP port (logging from my desktop) at boot ? A restart had it work fine….
No, OpenSSH, I don’t need you to ban ‘bad’ IPs, I use fail2ban for that.

Now for the grind of updating/adding logcheck ignore lines for new and changed bits of logging….

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 25, 2026

Finally getting around to upgrading my home server from Debian bookworm (12/oldstable) to trixie (13/stable).

apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs went smoothly enough, just a few config files with local tweaks.

Currently wishing I had FTTP for the apt full-upgrade downloads. I’m “languishing on only 80Mbps FTTC”.

I expect to have some issues to sort out once this bit is done, and I still need to re-activate/update my third-party repositories….

#Debian #Debian13 #FTTP #FTTC

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 24, 2026

*click* Until Firefox devs screw something up that's absolutely no AI functionality for me, thanks. Oh, it's in its own new section of the settings, "AI Controls". #firefox #mozilla #noai

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@Epaphus@mastodon.lo0.uk I was literally getting `SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument` for anything below 1500 with `ip link set eth0 mtu 1500` in the telnet shell.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 23, 2026

Huh, although maybe it "just works". Once I set the server-side MTU to 1508 I can ping with packet size up to 1480 (1481 of complains it's too large). Experimentally setting the server side to 1608, and then binary chopping the ping size, largest supported is 1490 in the ping command.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 23, 2026

@Epaphus@mastodon.lo0.uk I was literally getting SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument for anything below 1500 with ip link set eth0 mtu 1500 in the telnet shell.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 23, 2026

@Epaphus@mastodon.lo0.uk Nope, the telnet interface doesn't allow setting an MTU above 1500 on eth0. Ah well, and it would only have been an extra 8 octets/0.536% anyway.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 17, 2026

@ktims@nonexistent.ca I just had an epiphany. This whole thing actually has nothing to do with TLS. That was a rabbit hole I went down due to my initial web searches hitting upon things like openssl 3.5 introducing the post-quantum protocols. No, this thing is *purely* about IPv6 PMTU failing in this use case. I mistook my "server has a different MTU, because it's talking on ppp0 directly, and the desktop has 4088 MTU due to its LAN NIC" for "server has openssl 3.0, desktop has 3.5". So, there's *not* a case where only the TLS negotiation would trip up, and the later bulk data be fine, as TLS is a red herring in this whole thing, only looked into because I was observing the issue with web browser TLS connections.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 17, 2026

@neverpanic@chaos.social Yes, Debian is using:

ii openssl 3.5.4-1~deb13u2

But I’ve looked very closely at the two sets of negotiations, and there were only very minor differences. I had tried configuring off the hybrid post-quantum ciphers/etc, but it made no difference.

It’s just something about openssl 3.5 negotiation causes Azure to generate larger packets, and only IPv6 had this cause an issue. As else-thread, likely because something in Azure is eating the icmpv6 “message too long” packets before they make it to whatever the TLS is terminating on.

The working negotiation, from my Debian 12/bookworm host, has it re-assembling 3 TCP fragments of size: 1219, 1420 and 1062. With the broken 13/trixie setup my end only ever sees a 2nd fragment of length 1326, the first fragment is never seen.

So, whilst a different openssl version might not help the packet size, this really is about the path back to Azure not getting the “message too long” message and thus it never retries with viable fragment sizes.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 17, 2026

@FoxVK@mastodon.sandwich.net The idea is out allows for e.g. larger NFS packets between my server and desktop, so greater throughput on large file accesses.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 12, 2026

@vikki@know.me.uk And also with phone numbers. I had a letter from the DWP last year saying they needed to phone me... on the phone number I'd informed them I was no longer using YEARS before.

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 12, 2026

@benjohn@todon.nl Well, sure looks like the performance of the M1s holds up: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-late-2020 versus https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-13-inch-2025-10c-cpu-8c-gpu

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@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza · Feb 02, 2026

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org Mostly such things need to change from "give us a head pat please" to "Were there any issues with our service this time?". So, if there weren't, you just rightly ignore it. If there were, they've provided a clear channel to complain. But, of course, that doesn't even need the pre-emptive notification of the possibility.

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