Linux, #IPv6 geek (http://flyingpenguintech.org/). Amateur radio (#hamradio) operator. Air and space fan. Favors the White Lotus gambit. Anti-LLM. Currently in North Carolina, USA.
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Walking down the street at my town's monthly arts fest when I noticed a cart selling gelato. The power of @mwl@io.mwl.io compelled me.
Despite upgrading to Debian testing with the newest Asterisk and adding an override to the systemd unit for After= the specific network interfaces, it still starts before the IPv6 (or maybe the DNS?) is ready and fails to resolve an IPv6 IAX2 peer. I went back to the old "ExecStartPre=sleep 5s" kludge and it works fine. 🤡
It's frustrating seeing so many "The future of [computing thing]" articles when we don't even have the present figured out.
I've seen two pieces on the local news this week about Flock cameras finding missing persons 🤔
McCarthyism and Nazi book burning got us Fahrenheit 451. Gonna be real interesting to see what stories are written about this era's techbro destruction.
Came across this bit of #HamRadio nostalgia: @john.wiseman@www.cantab.net
The document is dated 1993. I probably read it shortly after it was written when I was running the software under DOS.
RE: @luckytran@mastodon.social
We're kinda already cooked. If anything else happens under the current admin... I dunno, what's beyond cooked?
Got my Asterisk instance moved over to a new Debian Testing VM. Couple of hiccups but everything seems to be working now. 🤞
A friend sent me a link to jolla . com last week. I stopped reading after the first mention of "AI". He implored me to continue reading. I counted 5 more instances of "AI" in the first text block and closed it again. I never did make it to anything about the supposed Linux phone everybody is talking about.
OH: "I don't understand. I don't even overstand."
Wherein I get snarky with a support bot:
Me:
When will you be making linktr.ee available on IPv6?
Linktree Support joined the conversation
I don't have any information about IPv6 support for linktr.ee in our knowledge base, so I can't give you a timeline or details on this. I've passed your question to our team, who will follow up with you directly.
Jem joined the conversation
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out with your question about when Linktree will be available on IPv6. At the moment, Linktree has not yet announced a public timeline for full, native IPv6 support on its main domains. Currently, the platform uses IPv4 connections along with Content Delivery Network (CDN) routing to deliver its services. You can find more details on the Linktree Homepage. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. We’re here to help!
Me:
Hello! Thank you so much for the same non-answer I get from every company I have asked this question of for the last 15 years. I cannot, in fact, find more details about this on the Linktree Homepage. If you have any actual concrete information, please don't hesitate to provide it.
Dear Humanweb,
I'm hosting a website for a friend who just wants to upload a bunch of music files and serve them. It's currently using Apache's autoindex with some basic styling. I'm in the process of migrating to nginx, whose autoindex module is less flexible. (Yes, I know about fancyindex, but I don't really want to install it for one site.)
Is there a simple little program/script/pony that will iterate over a bunch of MP3s in a directory, read their metadata, and produce a nice HTML file? Maybe even with inline audio tags?
@bgptools@social.bgp.tools is on fedi but they don't seem to be updating often. Even so I thank them for their BGP table and ASN name exports which make the current version of SixSpotting fast and stable.
UX Wishlist¹ item for Firefox: When encountering DRM media, instead of putting up a banner at the top that shrinks the viewport to prompt to enable it, put a red box over the media in question with the prompt in it. Most of the time I don't care because I'm never going to enable it, and I get tired of having to [x] out the banner.
¹ I know Mozilla doesn't actually listen to user input so I vent here.
https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/08/networkmanager-supports-ipv6-mostly
NetworkManager 1.58 is currently sitting in Debian experimental. Hope this makes it into forky.
I really don't understand how I'm supposed to keep on with life as usual when everything is on fire, some of it literally.
@Unlikelylass@mspsocial.net And worse he specifically calls out any "AI" opponents:
And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
So it's not just that the wider context is out of scope, it's somehow our fault. At this point all I can do is direct a gesture he is known for back at him: 🖕
https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
The generic name time.nist.gov will continue to point to all of our servers on a round-robin basis, and users are encouraged to access the service using this name.
Except that it doesn't any more. That name now points to a load balancer that is only reachable via legacy IP.
There are two types of technical people. Upon encountering the phrase "Recommended for advanced users only":
1) Sees a warning to back away slowly
2) Sees a challenge to become an advanced user
If only we had a language for asking computers questions (queries) that had a structure similar to sentences.
On a lark I took a look at LoRa APRS. Turns out it's basically a KISS TNC wrapper for the LoRa layer and thus using AX.25 as the layer 2 protocol. Seems one could hook this up to BPQ and use NET/ROM to build an old-school mesh.