Ok since I'm already half doing it _ANYWAY_ I pose this question: Should I take over ulogd package maintainer in fedora and possibly epel? If it's just me and my epel-missing-pieces copr repos because I'm the only one using it basically, I'm content. If there's anyone else that wants / needs […]

I look, manifest v3. How... _delightful_. Why am I backing up everything in Chrome you ask and moving to another browser? No reason, clearly.

**On the one hand:** ESPHome solves a huge number of issues, and it's not bad. **On the other:** _GOOD GRIEF_ , I flipping swear, every time I need to update something it's a compilation disaster mess! Went to update my gl-s10 bluetooth proxies, should be easy and painless, right? _NOPE_ […]

**HA** Ok while trying to report the sync oddity with the WiiMs and the Logitech Squeezebox Radio's I've got I tripped over one of the 3 radios in my office that can sync up solidly. Double checked, it's the converted UE. The converted UE that can't use it's wifi because it's just broken or […]

Investigating an ISP up in Canada: **ISP:** We do static IP addresses at residential **Me:** yay, and I notice you provide IPv6 addresses too, those are static as well if you go static? **ISP:** we only provide 1 IPv6 addresses, and there's no such thing as a static IPv6 address **Me:** […]

Ok that only took me freaking forever today, and I still don't have it narrowed down enough: Something changed in the Github Workflows in such a way that it utterly breaks a maturin building of a project in such a way that it utterly makes no sense whatsoever Yay. I've got a workaround, and […]

NYPL is hiring an associate director of cybersecurity https://nypl.pinpointhq.com/postings/a63d29dc-80a1-4619-9d3a-11dbcc77f955 #nypl #libraries #publiclibraries #infosec #security #jobs #getfedihired

Ok lets see if someone can come prove me wrong, but I snagged a WiiM network receiver to play with. Vague thinking is for hiding in a kitchen cabinet to run some wall speakers in the new kitchen. Snagged the Pro, mostly it's the cheaper one that had what I wanted mostly. Why did I snag it you […]

Ugh, got my droplet water meter working and talking to MQTT, but had to chat with the AI tech support to get there. Fun fact: it didn't help The problem was my 37 character mqtt password, their apps password box accepting 26, and their device only being able to use 25. Eventually got it […]

Hmmmmm... That's interesting... We might have bought a house in the Ottawa area of Canada... Guess I should start looking for contractors to do some electrical, low voltage, internet, flooring, etc work up there for when we can take possession in November... #canada #ottawa

Ok someone out here almost certainly knows, and I need a double check: does Alpine Linux ship with sysfs by default? I mean there's a lot of things that half rely on sysfs being around for somewhat good reason, but I've got some indications it doesn't ship with it by default, and that seems […]

House shopping update: offer accepted, and the next 10 billion things that all need to happen are now in flight. Wheeeee. Going to sort the big one tonight / tomorrow if we can

House offers and negotiations are a somewhat non-transparent mess. Ugh

Home! And the core poe switch is dead Qelcome home!

So trip to Ottawa was lovely, toured a data center, toured many houses that are for sale, spent a lot of time in the "wading" pool near my mother-in-laws, ate some poutine, talked with some nice people at a bank, have aome lovely emails that both cart a lot of weight and look like toulet paper […]

Well house searching in Ottawa area goes ok. There's 3 finalists, all have different ups and downs and debating on which to chuck a lowball at first. Still got some mess to sort out first but, such is life. Did look at a place today that is as-is and apparently comes with a car (clearly […]

People ask: John, why don't you use things like a bormal human being? Why you gotta be *"weird"*? **Me trying to board a plane as a boring normal himan being** "Individual is syntax error '," at position 0 in index 0" This, this is why.

**BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA** Cranky at some stuff going on so in classic fashion went to fix things in places I can / have control over. I've now got Nextcloud Office up and running looks like, so that's yet another giant nail in the coffin for using anything else. Think it's lunchtime now.

**_Me:_** But this should work! __ **_Me:_** This is dumb, I'm going to back this down slightly. It should work, it clearly doesn't.

**sighs** Ok I would love to claim that, of all entities, NIST has some clue about how to get data around, like CVE data! I sadly cannot. They almost have things figured out, then they go and push 503 files into cloudflare so that cloudflare's caching is pushing garbage data down because, and […]

Fun times, looks like my grumble about IPv6 and Microsoft yesterday has also led to confirming that Azure cloud in general can't talk to my IPv6 block, which in turn is breaking Github CI stuff! Well I guess adding *'v4'* dns objects needed to be done anyway

It's 2025 and our friends as Microsoft can't figure out how IPv6 works, which is blocking not only (and my kids) ability to get into Minecraft today, but also access answers.microsoft.com so I can try and read the various takes on how to fix this. Seriously, it's 2025, it's not that hard (for […]

So weird... Was looking at kiddo's scout camp and went to pull up the ones i remember... Gone. Sorta... One is gone gone but still owned by the scouts sounds like. The other, one i worked at, got sold off to external entities though it's still camp like Troop is gone, council is gone, camps […]

**cries** _WHY_ root@kryten:~# systemctl reboot --check-inhibitors=no Call to Reboot failed: Interactive authentication required. root@kryten:~#

A few things today have made the Y2038 bug a LOT closer in time than I had thought...

using the sledge hammer of doom, I've got headscale and headplane all sorted and working and looks like VPN is VPNing correctly. **le sigh**

guh, #headscale did something messy between 0.25 and 0.26, and now it can't load because my policy doesn't comply _AND_ they didn't didn't do some migration thing, _AND_ the older version isn't available in the copr repo so I can't roll back easily, backup and wipe, and then restore […]

There's a PDU that's a bit on the old side and has remote capabilities **AND** local control, and 8 ports. Kinda delightful frankly. I have an e-bay saved search for them, they come up now and again for reasonable prices and really excited when they come up as marked "for parts" - 'cause I know […]

Ohhhh that's an interesting and odd change, and something that might bite folks... Did up an install of F42 on a new box, tried something else, was proven wrong, and have come back to what I know will work. Nice box actually, minisforum ms-a1, has 4 nvme slots, so I've filled them all - like […]

Dear Chrome: moving the tab search from the left most of the tabs is super duper obnoxious

ok a plan is devised, I'll have to buy some more hard drives, and swapping all the 1u systems out for 2u systems because the 1u's cant have their mobos upgraded (too specific). Just have to figure out when I'm heading down near the colo next to spend that many dollaroos

Well that's obnoxious: EL10 kills off support for anything before x86-64-v3, which of course includes the stack of systems I have in the colo that run nigh everything. That's a smidge obnoxious 😕 I guess I should start looking at upgrading the fleet, but ouch that's going to be 8 or 9 […]

I bought a new domain name ✨ and ✨ did something with it this weekend! :blobcatgiggle: 🚀 https://ifconfig.wtf #ifconfig

I genuinely don't say this terribly often: but dang my hat is off to the Ceph developers. This Mastodon instance, deep in it's under pinnings, runs on Ceph along with about a bajillion other things. It just works, it works well, upgrades are mostly non-issues (you just have to be somewhat […]

Ok Frigate is a _LOT_ happier ripping out the corel AI tpu I was using and replacing it with an Intel Arc A310 (motherboard I'm testing with only has a single pcie slot, go figure). This is looking like a viable replacement for Sighthound now. Seriously, Intel absolutely got it right with the […]

Have a couple more openings on my team for folks if you want to come play: First up is a Rust developer, mostly working on things like Luwen and working on moving some of our python based tools down to rust based tools. Lots of things coming, and all down in the systems stack […]

You know, I'd love to give `ixgbe` a solid benefit of the doubt in many cases. But it's utter garbage. I've got a nice board that has two 10G copper nics on it and they literally won't work, I'm using a USB gbe nic because it does. There's a reason that everyone says for GBE: use Intel For […]

Can someone point me in the direction of *WHY* Fedora seems to have wandered off and made the default firewalld zone 'FedoraServer' on (obviously) Fedora Server, and not literally what everyone everywhere notes as 'public'? I would love to go read back through either the bug or mailing list […]

_MOSTLY_ caught up on making sure I've marked my kickstarters as received / downloaded. Found two that I don't have the ability to snag, and pinged both the creators. One was easy, we'll see how the second one goes. Not bad having 62GB of kickstarter related data 🙂

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry. Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website. Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon […]

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 […]

Obnoxious, upgraded the two home servers to F42, and it mostly booted up and worked, except for nfs-ganesha and nfs4 and.... yeah that just core dumps. Backed down to F41's nfs-ganesha and it coredumps elsewhere but it works soooooo I'm up, but it's clear that nfs-ganesha isn't getting the […]

Well this is a first in a while, need a bootable 32-bit x86 live image...

This is a couple of days past, but I couldn't get my spoons together enough to write this till now. Many of you know James Lopeman, mostly by the name of Meflin. He's a @ThePSF Fellow, been an Admin and Mentor for #gsoc , and been around the open source world, quietly in the background as is […]

Flagging this up, maybe someone does or knows someone who does: I am in search of a tool steel maker who can replicate some parts. Specifically Leatherman has stopped making the Style PS, and I have a tendency to burn through the little screwdrivers / nail file on them something fierce. My […]

Well that's new, got grumbled at on an email thread for doing default txt email instead of html because the txt makes it hard to read. *Blinks* That's a new one! Did make me solidly laugh at least. #emailishard

Grrrrrr. So I finally got unifi 9 up, and got the mongodb server upgraded from 3.2 to 8. This is a pile of garbage the UBNT should have automated and decided instead "meh". They get a lot right, and a lot wrong and I wish there was another good self hosted single pane of glass option to […]

Nooooooooo the Leatherman Style PS has been retired! Getting it fixed is dicey too 😭 Ugh not happy for sure, anyone got a similar tsa friendly multitool they can recommend?

Everyone say it with me: Multi-controller I2C **NEVER** ends well Note: I did not do this, someone's debugging something and strongly implying to me this exists #hardwareishard

I know I'll be in the minority, but I find it somewhat ridiculous that Letsencrypt is stopping sending notification e-mails on pending non-updated certs. Just seems silly all the way around