@jbz Haven’t WhatsApp servers been all moved to Linux after Facebook acquired WhatsApp?

@lw Why not netlink?

@debacle Is the offer still available? The link just returns a 404.

@25admins

The case of multiple devices each with its own Wireguard tunnel would be way simpler by using #IPv6 . This can be done with an ULA prefix, so no "real" IPv6 is needed. Each machine gets a /128 and a static route back to /48, so monitoring and remote management don't have to be limited to a single host.

This would be way simpler than containers or VNETs. And there would be no risk of conflicting with any existing networks (or rather for ULA: it would be greatly limited).

@iobear @matdevdug I guess my MNO must be full of enthusiasts, my mobile phone does not have IPv4 address on mobile network at all. And those people at Facebook, having IPv6-only datacenters.

@matdevdug According to https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/46 Netbird still does not support the *current* Internet Protocol. I've evaluated it last year to replace the #IPSec VPN at $WORK and lack of IPv6 was the reason I had to give up on Netbird. I have quite many #IPv6 -only hosts and my colleagues need to be able to access them.

@niebezpiecznik Te radio-stopy można sobie ot tak nadawać, bez szyfrowania czy podpisu cyfrowego? :/

@nixCraft I think "fiber optic broadband" should be split into 2 separate categories: Passive Optic Network and real Ethernet. The former is just as bad as cable / DOCSIS with high jitter and shared bandwidth, the latter gives each customer their own symmetrical link.

@bert_hubert We could greatly reduce our reliance on cloud services if we could reliably host things at our homes. But ISPs either don’t offer IPv6, or offer it on some limited way, like some German providers changing customer’s prefix every 24 hours. Or offering just a single /64 network, which prevents having own router, or they even put you behind their own unidirectional firewall, which are a thing on mobile networks.

@nygren That would be a positive surprise if any mobile operator provides IPv6 prefix delegation. I have not yet seen in in the wild and it would be a game changer for people with FWA internet.

@nixCraft We don't get upset by that. We get upset by applications forcing colour output no matter what, not detecting being piped, spamming logs with escape codes. There's plenty of software misbehaving like that.

@emaste Kagi provides a way better answer, with references:

> Quick Answer
> The term "thermite.sh" refers to a script used in the context of FreeBSD, specifically for release engineering and building installation media. Here are some key points about it:
> 1. Functionality: The thermite.sh script is responsible for syncing built files from a designated directory to specific snapshot or release directories. This process is part of the workflow for managing FreeBSD releases
> …

@nixCraft Meanwhile htop on my new servers has quite useless UI… But it builds #freebsd in a matter of minutes :)

@mwl I’m happy to see IPv4 labelled as “legacy”. How about going one step further and changing the order of chapters, with IPv6 before IPv4?

@thor @nixCraft I don’t think recommending people to use `ifconfig` in 2024 is a good idea. Also the command you’ve pasted lists a Link Local address, and sure, it is an IPv6 address but having it does not mean the machine is connected to IPv6 internet.

@stefano

> This is a long but beautiful blog post.

I don't see anything beautiful about yet another closed, commercial workaround for bad infrastructure. The new Internet is already here. It's called #IPv6 and it's in fact not new, it's the current Internet.

Funny how the blog says:
> The problem is developers keep scaling things they don’t need to scale, and their lives suck as a result.

And yet people keep putting everything in #cloud or behind a #vpn when it's not needed.

@niebezpiecznik A czemu nie na odwrót? Najpierw pisać na Mastodonie i to dopiero kopiować na Twittera?

@mwl I think the cover must have been inspired by somebody trying to get their emails reliably delivered to Office365.

@leean00 @nixCraft What if you physically remove half of disks from RAID and rotate them? : ]

@paul Dell systems work well with Debian and FreeBSD. You might want to get Intel or Mellanox NICs instead of Broadcom and double check RAID controller’s compatibility for new controllers. Everything else works just fine OOTB.