grawity

@grawity@treehouse.systems
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hobbyist sysadmin and tech support person, still occasionally seen on IRC

interests: windows 98, macos 9/8, plan9, systemd, athena, x.25, all kinds of 80s-00s "retro" computing & networking

✨︎ no, I really don't have a good profile picture ✨︎

Locationhttps://nullroute.lt
LocationLithuania

/opt/freeware/lib/gcc/powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0/13/include-fixed/stdlib.h:50:1: note: 'exit' is defined in header '<stdlib.h>'; did you forget to '#include <stdlib.h>'?

well what am I including then

my bashrc has Ctrl-comma bound to "xdg-open the current directory in a file manager".

sometimes I press it out of habit when I'm over SSH, forgetting that I do actually have X11 forwarding enabled on that SSH connection, and a file manager indeed pops up.

now I usually expect a Thunar window to pop up, and every time I'm surprised by ... this thing:

I think it's funny how Xterm – the most "network X11" program you can imagine – now takes 24 seconds to initialize its X window over LTE/4G, while Thunar (a bitmap-rendered GTK2 app with image thumbnails and all) starts in only seven.

(Probably because nobody tests Xterm over network anymore, and doesn't even consider that the "download the *whole* font" thing might be a little slow...)

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3.3 Internal Use of NBMA Cloud Services

"Cloud" services such as frame relay often are more economical than
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I didn't realize the terminology of "cloud networking" already existed in 1997

https://donotsta.re/objects/64fc65f6-efae-4632-aa32-72c6de693889
okay I guess GRE over IPsec is broken in routeros 7.21rc

thinking about how it's been several *years* since I've had any IPv6 internally anymore – I still have the HE.NET BGP sessions but I'm only keeping them up so that they (and my whole ASN) don't get deleted for inactivity ;_;

still committed to keeping everything dual-stack at work, but...

at home I still mess around with routing and stuff, set up RADIUS for VPNs last week, but little energy to touch or reconfigure anything that's already been working until now – because if I take something down "temporarily", I know I'm not bringing it back up.

(still have plans to set up a "shell account" thing somewhere but, every time I open ESXi's VLAN section I just stare at it blankly and go back to scrolling)

ironically, I think it was getting "native IPv6" at home (utterly horrible Telia's 4G "native" CGNAT "IPv6") that drained all the fun out of it.

one day they rolled it out and suddenly everything broke as I had to figure out how to prevent packets with my "native" prefix going through my HE.NET tunnels and vice versa ... and why the Telia CPE's DHCPv6 (which I couldn't disable!) was assigning the same IPv6 address to my laptop and my washing machine.

so I just took down all the IPv6 tunnels completely, and never brought them back up, even when the "native" IPv6 disappeared later

...on the topic of argv[0] being mutable https://social.treehouse.systems/@grawity/114910244850655560

replacing the old APC UPS (made in 2002) with a "shiny" "new" one (made in 2006)

$ apctest
2) Perform a Battery Runtime Calibration
Select function number: 2
Checking for battery level ...
Battery level 099.0 insufficient to run test.

...so I need to calibrate it before I can calibrate it

(I kept entering 2 until I finally caught it showing 100% for a brief moment)

also what the /hell/ was the noise my UPS just made
I wonder who's managing the E164 namespace of *checks wikipedia* Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha
https://crt.sh/?q=e164.arpa
crt.sh | e164.arpa

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