Someone explain to me real quick what the appeal of Bluesky is, especially when compared to Mastodon.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (Semicolon! 🤘)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

But then, why just block IPv4 and not also IPv6?

I’ll take “what’s the most overlooked thing in corporate networks” for 200. 😅

Thank you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Luckily, I can disable it. I also tried it, no luck, though. But the problem is, I don’t really know how much snakeoil actually runs on my machine. There is definitely a ClownStrike infestation, I stopped the falcon sensor. But there might be even more, I’ve no idea. From the vague answers I got last time, it feels like even the UHD/IT guys don’t know what is in use. O_o

Yeah, it is definitely something on my laptop that rejects connections to IPv4 ports 80 and 443. All other devices here can access the stuff without issue, only this work machine is unable to. The “Connection refused” happens within a few milliseconds.

Unfortunately, I do not have the slightest idea how it works. But maybe I can look into that tomorrow. Kernel modules are a very good hint, thank you! <3

You’re right, it might be some sort of fail-safe mechanism. But then, why just block IPv4 and not also IPv6? But maybe because the VPN and company servers require IPv4, there is zero IPv6 support. (Yeah, don’t ask, I don’t understand it either.)

Haha, I never ran across this before: http://www.wtfpl.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wtfpl-strip.jpg

LOOOOL, great programming tutorial music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh gawd. This is the point where computing stops being fun. 😂

• Can you disable the snakeoil junk temporarily? Probably not, eh?
  
• Have you verified with an external device that it really is your laptop that’s dropping the packets? Like, what does tcpdump on your router see?
  

If this works reliably in the office, then it feels like some kind of fail-safe mechanism of the snakeoil stuff. If it can’t see its control server (which might only be reachable from the office?), then it shuts down web traffic? Something like that?

Any idea how the snakeoil works? Maybe it does LD_PRELOAD magic to hijack syscalls like connect()? Does it use kernel modules?

@skinshafi@thunix.net Ah nice, it indeed fixed it. I don’t get the warning anymore. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Congrats! :-) I still have to survive work next week.

Fuck me dead, what a giant piece of shit. On my Linux work laptop I have the problem that some unknown snakeoil “security” junk is dropping any IPv4 connections to ports 80 and 443. All other ports and IPv6 seem unaffected. I get an immediate “connection refused” when trying to estabslish a connection.

I had this problem four weeks ago on Friday morning the very first time at home. On Thursday evening, everything was perfectly fine. Eventually, I plugged in the LAN cable in the office and everything got automatically fixed. Nobody can explain what’s happening.

Then, last week Friday morning out of the blue, the same issue was back. So, I went to the office yesterday and it got fixed again by plugging in the network cable. This evening, I have exactly the same bloody problem again.

What the hell is going on? Does anyone have any ideas? I’m certainly not an expert, but I don’t see anything suspicious in iptables or nft rules. I also do not see anything showing up in /var/log/kern.log. Even tried to stop firewalld, flush the iptables and nft rules, but that didn’t result in any changes.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de hahahahahaha! I will try to incorporate that one when I complain about AI imagery. Like, “Stop fucking using that AI shit, mon, I am an Kunstliebhaber!

@bender@twtxt.net “Kunstliebhaber” perhaps? 😅

I’m on vacation now. First order of business: Sit in the armchair for “a few minutes” (= sleep tight for 3 hours straight). 😴

If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net got to say, after visiting castles, shrines, and similarly antique places in Japan… no comparison. :-) Wife agrees.

@prologic@twtxt.net because of his decision to declare martial law (which attempted to ban political activity and censor the media), seemingly out of the blue.

@bender@twtxt.net Facing impeachment over what?

@skinshafi@thunix.net it is limited use, for now. I read somewhere (can’t remember now where) that efforts were being made to make it to function across all Tildes, but it hasn’t gotten too far, so it seems.

@prologic@twtxt.net the South Korean president is facing impeachment. The president declared martial law to protect the country from North Korea and eliminate anti-state elements. However, the declaration was seen as a response to domestic pressure and scandals. MPs blocked the declaration and forced the president to reverse his decision. The president’s defense minister resigned and the president is now facing impeachment proceedings.

Today we got to explore the Imperial City of Hue amongst other places.

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Un élève de 6e me dit ‘oh vous connaissez la bonne auberge. Voilà un petit qui a de l’avenir :) #jdr

What the hell is happening in South Korea?

Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

Share your solution via Twtxt and how you arrived at it and I’ll share my solution tomorrow!

#napkin-math

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com ah, yes! The thing is, I have too many broken pieces already. 🤭

@skinshafi@thunix.net That would be cool! Lemme know how that goes!

@skinshafi@thunix.net You might want to consider adding basic caching support:

… returned 200 but no Last-Modified header - can’t cache content

Or https://git.mills.io/prologic/static

https://pkg.go.dev/go.mills.io/static

@bender@twtxt.net zs integrates my static server yes 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net is zs a web server? I see on the source of the page that is simply posting to /cgi-bin/hello, and some JavaScript to get the value of that post, from the same CGI.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Mastodon offers the “deluxe” experience, but it is a resource hungry beast, that can also be feeble as hell. I miss it, a lot, but am running GoToSocial instead because of its simplicity, and nimbleness.

Btw, zs supports CGI

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ok 👌

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 🤣valet’s merge 🤝

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s because Luke the “others”, it’s designed to be a “fast socials media” 🤣

@skinshafi@thunix.net Could be a locale thing, yeah. 🥴

@mckinley@twtxt.net To help saving the planet is a good reason. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Brilliant! How can I join?

Because, you know, the more the merrier! :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net I prefer:

Coalition for
Universal
Needs
Truth and
Solutions

@skinshafi@thunix.net awesome!

I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

@prologic@twtxt.net Finally a good name!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Awww 😅

It’s really hard to put into words. Mastodon just feels more stressful. Ugh. I don’t know. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Looks like Irish was created around 7 years ago too 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net interesting indeed.

Also interesting:

edit_hash: When a message is edited, a new message is created– this field holds the hash of the modified message. The client follows the chain of edit hashes to end up at the final, edited message to display. This lets us keep an “undo” history (not yet implemented) and is a marker so the client can display a marker that the message has been edited.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! Also very interesting rid bits here 🤣

The author, parent hash, timestamp, and message values go into the hash. (see Message Hash for details)

Worth noting that this is a local “forum”. BBJ uses an SQLite database.