I feel very embarrassed now. It's been 0 hours since I learned that the "Bastille" in #bastillebsd is not just a nod to the Parisian fortress and prison, but also alludes to Bastille, the container/jails manager. And Bastille has a template format that isn't too far off from Dockerfiles. As it […]

Do I understand that #freebsd Netmaps are what Linux AF_XDP would look like if the latter were designed from the ground up for high-performance user-space (a la DPDK) packet processing, but without the complicated necessity of an eBPF application simply to dispatch to a particular socket, and […]

RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/115606322667370792 if your company has gotten to the point where you are paying more than $1000/mo for a wiki (confluence, sharepoint, etc) you should probably hire a librarian

[horny shitpost] dude wanna frot our cokes together #shitpost

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt […]

I'm chronically being reminded that I need to give FreeBSD -- or any *BSD -- a try. The latest reminder is that a botched Debian update resulted in an initramfs missing the `sd_mod` module, necessary for mounting SATA disks. I'm no stranger to debugging early Linux boot oddities, but the idea […]

They're conning statistically unsophisticated, disappointed voters with impressive-looking, but meaningless, "analysis" that tell people what they want to believe. If you push back, they challenge you to prove a negative - "if this is wrong, just show there WASN'T fraud". That's not how it […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Trains. That is all. https://media.ccc.de/v/dhcp25-85-the-s-bahn-mitteldeutschland-and-it-s-consequences

"What does antifa do?" My personal experience with antifa.

My local transit authority recently updated to a real-time #gtfs data feed for buses in the region. But in the rollout, they left their old, static feed alive and that's caused every data sink (eg Transit App, Apple Maps, etc) to still use the old data. I figured they'd notice eventually, but […]

A dive into FUTO, the sketchy right wing org that's falsely claimed musl & many other projects as its "grant recipients": https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

@evoterra 1. DON'T bring identification. 2. DON'T bring your phone. 3. DON'T sign anything. 4. Use public transit or walk there if you can. If you cannot, DON'T park anywhere nearby. 5. MASK UP.

I don't need another project.... But I do kinda want an e-reader and the one I want doesn't (yet) have a FOSS software stack. I don't need another project...

I got IPv6 in the cluster ​:neocat_floof:​ Need to figure out: * Ipv6 LB (and ipv6 bgp) * Configure ingress to use ipv6 * Everything defaults to single stack, hmmm. * Oops also don't have ipv6 on pods hmmmmmmmm * Oh no everything exploded ​:neocat_floof_explode:​ _Ok so do_ not* set cilum to […]

TIL explosion welding is a thing. That is, high-velocity impact of one metal into another using controlled explosives, resulting in the two being stuck together. Good heavens, what hath material scientists wrought? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding

🕑 **EU Citizens have 4 days: the clock is ticking!** European countries are finalizing their positions on Chat Control **this Friday.** If your country supports Chat Control, it is vital you contact your representatives and voice your opposition to […] [Original post on mastodon.neat.computer]

How I spent my evening: finding my local transit agency's GTFS-RT data feed, in order to inspect whether or not bus position data is being fed to Google Maps and Transit App. And then writing a Python script to cross-reference the IDs with human-readable names, to make sure the data is sensible […]

So there's a decades-old mechanism (and actual standard) how programs lock serial ports on unix-like systems in /var/lock. it's used in practice even in 2025 and #systemd >= 258 simply breaks it with "we don't care". I am not a systemd opponent, but that kind of behaviour without a prior […]

Last day of #sanog43 One of the many many things i am enjoying here is IPv6 connectivity - may my country of residence follow this example soon :) ps. my joy in being here is not dominated by ipv6 :) #sanog #bhutan #ipv6 #apnic #btnog #nog

The worst film I've seen this year -- War Of The Worlds (2025) -- also only uses #legacyip addresses rather than #ipv6 . But truth be told, that wouldn't have salvaged the cringe-fest which my poor ears and eyes had to suffer through. I am not left trembling in shock and fear like H.G. Wells' […]

Today I feel slightly less old: I'm watching The Verdict (1982) this evening, and the scene with the settlement check/cheque had me entirely stumped. I had never seen "DOLS" or "CTS" written on a check to stand for "dollars" and "cents". Even the font used is extremely strange to me, with […]

#madkingviolence "long press the button to start the mad king violence"

In a passing convo today, I was reminded of post-quantum cryptography and so I did the duly warranted thing: find a relevant @soatok blog post to refresh myself on the absolute basics. I found this one: https://soatok.blog/2021/02/09/crackpot-cryptography-and-security-theater/ It was exactly […]

I happened to be at #opensauce and saw a booth on IP over Tin Can and Strings (IPoTCAS). Sadly, I didn't jot down the creator's social media or contact details, but I did grab the link for the GitHub: https://github.com/SuperTails/ipotcas What I'm trying to figure out is whether this supports […]

lT security 101: Don't leave your company laptop with authentication smart card inserted, applications open and without screensaver at your seat when using the lavatories on a train. Unbelivable...

Mastodon peeps, you *smoked* BlueSky. So far, not one penny reported from there, but Mastodon blew through it. This is my match; I hope it helps even one person make it through a hard time in their life, or into something they dearly desire. https://wandering.shop/@offby1/114710499045451226

Earlier, I ranted about how #docker obliterated any sense of network foundations when they introduced their container runtime. As a case study, I want to focus on an example of the damage done, where Docker's machinations confuses and ignores the underlying implementation details of Linux […]

Managing containers using #nerdctl compose in an IPv6-only environment is aggravating, not least due to non-intuitive default behavior like all v6 nameservers being stripped from /etc/resolv.conf . But I choose not to blame the Nerdctl developers, as their implementation intentionally tracks […]

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing." “All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for […]

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FFS!!!!! I removed IPv4 from two of my cloud-servers, since Hetzner charges extra for legacy and I don't need IPv4 on those (I access the servers and services with IPv6 and habe my RoadWarrior VPN for when I'm on outdated networks). Now I noticed, that I can't update some Linux containers […]

For ~7 Months now, my Git-Server (Forgejo) had an invalid A entry in the DNS. The result was, that it was only reachable via IPv6 (The AAAA record was correct.) The only two situations, where I noticed that, were on the WiFi of German railway (WifiOnIce) and two Hotel Wifi Networks. But that […]

I wish to believe there's somewhere in Germany named "Horny am Main", or "Horny on the Main (River)" in English.

I had a thought earlier: is stateful #nat guaranteed to never scale as well as stateless routing? My thinking is yes, since stateful NAT creates entries for each connection (a pair of hosts), whereas routing tables have entries per host destination. For N hosts, the worst case routing table […]

Gondor (OSUOSL) calls for aid! If you don't know @ramereth or OSUOSL, give me a couple of seconds. Lance runs the Oregon State University Open Source Labs, an entity that does a lot of good in helping host and foster the infrastructure behind a bunch of open source projects. It has the added […]

Does anyone have first--hand experience with RFC 8781 PREF64 #ipv6 RA option? I'm looking to: 1) update my home's radvd config to advertise that option, or maybe alternatively 2) outright replace my existing router with a BSD variant and learn to deploy from scratch.

@mr_daemon EXACTLY it's like talking about fire code lame people go away, cool people come up to you it's great

Learn to repair things. It's a potent weapon against enshittification.

Where would I need to go, if I wanted to address each individual pixel of my monitor via an #ipv6?

What You Can Do 1. Submit Comments to the FCC (Deadline: April 11, 2025) The FCC is accepting public input on potential deregulation. It’s critical that amateur operators and supporters submit comments to ensure our voice is heard. How to Submit Comments: Upload Document: Standard Filing […]

Kudos to #tele2 for what looks like the only #IPv6-capable #volte #vowifi implementation in #sweden Definitely works, confirmed via packet capture :> #lte

To summarize - The use of Signal in the "Houthi PC Small Group Chat" was legitimately bad, for security, opsec and legal reasons - Signal is agreed by security experts to be the best available messenger; you should install it; it can and should replace your regular IM/SMS app.

If you’re affected by the IETF LLC’s inaction, or just find the body in charge for designing the Internet we all rely on to be in the wrong here; I invite you to sign my open letter to the board: https://boycott-ietf127.org

First time setting up #rook and #ceph. First challenge: figure out why my OSDs aren't talking. As I should have suspected, it was a matter of setting `ipFamily: IPv6` in my #ipv6only #kubernetes cluster. Heh

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Today I've finally traced the strange issue plaguing Microsoft Intune on my company laptop at home: apparently it is unhappy with my #tunnelbroker #ipv6 tunnel. I guess this is the last hint I needed to consider renting a /48 and a VPS to get a subnet that isn't handled weird due to being […]