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@xgranade@wandering.shop I stopped using ntfy.sh when it went slop.
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Nivex 🐧 📻
@nivex@tenforward.social
mastodon 4.7.3Linux, #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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6540
It's been awhile since I sent this around so I think it's time (especially since I haven't posted it since I moved instances).
I learned about THERAC-25 in college. I was also in college when 9/11 happened, and the PATRIOT Act was passed. This might give some insight as to why I am the way I am today.
I feel like there's an opposite of "too big to fail". Maybe "too small for the bastards to care"?
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@veronica@explains.social The quote I saw recently on this score: "I want to write. You want to have written. We are not the same."
We've known for decades that binary protocols are less prone to a plethora of issues (not the least of which, security) compared to text based protocols. This was the main impetus for the creation of HTTP/2. So it still irks me that Varlink comes along and says "lol let's put a JSON parser in everything". I mean, c'mon, you could at least use CBOR!
I don't want to go analog. Digital has too many benefits. Making sure I and those I care about are the ones who benefit is the key.
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@FoxVK@mastodon.sandwich.net I respectfully disagree. To start over would be to throw away the years it has taken to get the #IPv6 stack tested and integrated into countless operating systems.
After every talk I have given at a conference nearly everyone who speaks with me afterward says it was less difficult than they anticipated. IPv6 is no less confusing than any other protocol. It is just different than the IPv4 some people are used to.
IPv6 is practical today. I already use it on my mobile to communicate with servers running at my house without any extra layers.
The solution is not to start over. The solution is to finish the job.
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.
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.
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.
Wherein I get snarky with a support bot:
Me:
When will you be making linktr.ee available on IPv6?
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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.
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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.
It's frustrating seeing so many "The future of [computing thing]" articles when we don't even have the present figured out.
Why differentiated glyphs are important, #hamradio edition:
Both of these are US issued callsigns:
N0OO
NO0O
As are both of these:
NO0OO
N0OOO
Does your font make it obvious at a glance they are different? Or does it just all just look like someone screaming in the negative?
There's something a bit ironic about a site called Futurism not having #IPv6.
Enshittified search is letting me down. I'm trying to find a reference to a quote that's something like "You don't really run #IPv6 until you turn off IPv4."
This will likely be incoherent. The beginnings of ideas, hopefully some of which will resonate with someone and we can grow it from there.
Starlink is convenient, but every time I see it mentioned I can't help but think of the evilness of Elon Musk and how close we are to Kessler Syndrome thanks to the irresponsible mismanagement of orbit (h/t @sundogplanets@mastodon.social ).
We have the technology to improve terrestrial networks in traditionally less connected places. It would take work. We would probably need to change the way a lot of people think about the Internet.
My first ISP was a volunteer-run rack of dial-up modems colocated at the local university. It was a community effort. We could build community owned networks again. I think. For all I know it's been made illegal in service of capitalism. But from a technical standpoint it's a matter of deploying gear and educating people. Some of these new networks may not look pretty compared to what we're used to, but dangit they'd work. I have some of this knowledge locked up in my noggin' that I'd love to share with people.
I don't know how to power past the inertia though. We seem to be locked into this notion that Big Corporations are the only ones who can save us. Can we really start over and build a compassionate network for the people, or is everything we have going to rot?
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.
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.
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@shanselman@hachyderm.io Can you add the AAAA records too?
2606:50c0:8000::153
2606:50c0:8001::153
2606:50c0:8002::153
2606:50c0:8003::153
ref https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site
#ipv6
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?
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.
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@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: 🖕
groups.io is hosted on Linode but has no #IPv6 ☹️
I've seen two pieces on the local news this week about Flock cameras finding missing persons 🤔
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.
Got my Asterisk instance moved over to a new Debian Testing VM. Couple of hiccups but everything seems to be working now. 🤞
At what point do we assume if it's on GitHub it's slop tainted?
Firefox 153 ESR is starting to filter out to some of my devices. It was nice deferring the AI crap for awhile. #NoAI
uspol
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. 🤡
OH: "I don't understand. I don't even overstand."
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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org oh and there was this: https://tenforward.social/@nivex/116365197282893701
@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.
New FPT blog post: No IPv4 Day Revisited
https://blog.flyingpenguintech.org/2026/07/no-ipv4-day-revisited.html
#IPv6
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2013/12/campaign-turn-off-ipv4-on-6-june-2014-for-one-day/
We need to do this again. Next year will be the 15th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch day and the 10th anniversary of RFC 8200 making #IPv6 a formal standard.
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@w8emv@hachyderm.io Hmm... my memory is that it was from a presentation, but I wonder if it was inspired by this.
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.
RE: @luckytran@mastodon.social
We're kinda already cooked. If anything else happens under the current admin... I dunno, what's beyond cooked?
Silly mozilla:
[ERROR crashreporter::glean::uploader] failed to send glean ping: process failed (exit status exit status: 7) with stderr: curl: (7) Failed to connect to incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org port 443 after 2 ms: Could not connect to server
I guess the ultimate way to avoid being tracked is to go #IPv6-only.
Tonight someone started a sentence with "AI has its place, but..." I held my tongue. What I wanted to say was: AI has its place. That place is in the bin.
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io As I've said elsewhere: If the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, it must be destroyed.
One minor annoyance with JSON -> CBOR: If you feed it a value like 0.8, you'll end up with a 64-bit (8 byte) float. I'd love to see a type for simple engineering notation, eg: 8e-1 would encode the 8 and the -1 in as few bits as possible. I know there's a 16-bit version of IEEE 754 but the precision isn't there. Not sure how high the exponent would need to go to make it worthwhile.
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@UnderEu@mas.to Really wish all the various Firefox forks would get together and make one that unseats Firefox: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
And this isn't even a https://xkcd.com/927/ because each fork is a niche unto itself. Some eschew tracking, some are anti-AI, etc. But they're all essentially after the same overarching goal.
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If the independent, non-slop web has any future at all, then now must be the time for every firefox fork to commit to working together to maintain a hardfork isolated from Mozilla.
It's a project that is too large to be handled by any small project alone (and maybe even all of them combined), but one that is too important to left under the guidance of an organization like Mozilla.
Without such bold co-operation I fear we have already lost.
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@bryan@dusty.ninja Libera isn't doing geoDNS so you're getting round-robin from the whole planet. You'll want to use one of the region code hostnames to get a closer server. I'm not sure if US, East Asia, or Australia would be closer to you sitting out in the middle of the Pacific. https://libera.chat/guides/connect
I think this might be the only #IPv6 link in the whole AXUDP/IP network at this point:
CBEACH:WG3K-7} AXIP Mheard for Port 1
N8VNR-1 2605:a601:a63f:7c03:5054:ff:fe81:83ce U 10093 Wed Jul 29 20:08:18 2026
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