One eepy penguin.
A neighbour decided that 7:40 in the morning is a good time to start drilling holes in walls.

@MarcinGondek You certainly have more enthusiasm than I do :D The problem we have is very niche, and these media companies are too big to care.

@MarcinGondek Been told no success contacting Disney, even though it weirdly seems to work now (checked web inspector and it's indeed using v6)

@MarcinGondek Somewhat. The only thing HBO Max could do for me is allowlisting a _single_ IPv6 address. Anything else they don't want to talk to me, and instead "your ISP must contact us". They don't even share what geolocation services they use. The "ISP" succeeded, but we still don't know what geoloc dbs they use. PA here too.

@bigzaphod There's an argument that people stopped trusting UIs with immediate results, so designers introduce artificial delays to compensate.

@MarcinGondek You're definitely not alone with this! Don't have native #IPv6 from my ISP, so renting a /48 prefix from elsewhere, and it's the same rubbish with "wrong country" or "VPN detected", and it's not easy (if at all possible) to get to the actual people in these streaming giants that could help with geolocaiton.

Also, there's already been a whole year since this gem. Worth a relisten:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/

My son told me he was awarded the Leslie Neilson badge at school. I asked “What's that?” He said, “It's a big building with lots of kids, but that's not important right now.”

The IEC has this really neat webpage for exploring electrical plug type usage around the world

https://www.iec.ch/world-plugs

@nytpu The wyvernizing radiation, on the other wing…

TIL about https://macos-defaults.com/

Ooh fun, #Firefox used a bit too much memory, so #systemd-oomd decided to kill my entire desktop session.

Looks like this is up to distribution maintainers to correctly compartmentalise applications to prevent one from bringing everything else down. One would think #Ubuntu would already have this handled, especially in an LTS (24.04) release.

@alice @volpeon I think this might be the quickest I've ever seen a cat disappear

Me: boots an old laptop to check a thing in kde 4
Nova: ​:ablobcatpnd_kunkun:​​:neocat_floof_explode:​

@WiteWulf Settings - Tabs - "Show colour in tab bar" is likely what you're looking for

I have a slightly different thing, wonder if anyone else does.

*in a good mood, feels nice*
*feels a bit too nice*
Did I forget that I had to do something?
Ugh, of course, that annoying thing!
*mood no longer good*

re: https://birdbutt.com/@colinstu/115449644759902483

@ret Ah yes, they finally discovered Wi-Fi 720

@neil Still running 4.4.18 on RPi 4, because anything newer requires a newer instruction set (ARMv8.2-A).

I am currently so sick of the "modern" IT stack.

I have convinced myself that I need to do so many things to do something properly that I have stolen the fun out of just about everything.

GitOps all the things.
Infrastructure as Code.
CI/CD pipeline.

It all sounds so cool on paper, but what did it get me?

I don't just give new programs a shot anymore, because of the list of things I am mentally considering each time.

I can't even just spin up a basic web server anymore to serve a file, because everything is read-only and using some deployment tool that I then have to wait for to deploy the thing.

Automating something has turned from "a shell script in a cronjob" to "an impossible nightmare".

I have turned my homelab into a job.
I hate it.
And I am now debating how quickly I can burn everything down and start from scratch with just the one tool that has always worked for me: Keeping track of what I did to a machine in a markdown file.
My machines will not be cattle, they will be my pets, and I will give them cute names and make sure they run like they are supposed to.