Notices by Andy Smith (grifferz@social.bitfolk.com)

My experience as a "Tor-friendly" hoster is that:

▶️ Very few people are prepared to deal with the amount of abusive traffic that will come out of their exit node, and consequently the burden of answering the abuse reports that this will generate.

▶️ Even relay node operators are often surprised by how much traffic it will chew up.

Having said that, I'm sure the comparatively low data transfer limits at @bitfolk (2TB/mo) do dissuade people from bothering.

#Tor

The beatings will continue until you all stop telling people you don't agree with me

"Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made another buyout offer this week, and threatened employees who speak to the press with termination."

https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

#Wordpress

dmarc.org allegedly stops using email as a contact method because it's all spam.

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg23232.html

YES THANKS PROGRESS I HAVE TO NOW SET AN ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE TO NOT HAVE IP ADDRESSES IN UNREADABLE DARK BLUE GET OFF MY LAWN WHERE IS DEVUAN.

#Linux

This looks like a big deal for anyone running Windows.

Unauthenticated remote code execution through crafted IPv6.

Happy Patch Tuesday.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063

Debian developers look to consolidate several ifupdown implementations into one team-maintained package, but will it be "ifupdown", "ifupdown-ng" or "ifupdown2"?

Much as it pains me to say, I think it may be time to make systemd-networkd the default on Debian.

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20240707135644.q227pfu4lg3dsqg7@House.clients.dxld.at

#Debian

Sometimes I'll just be going about my day and then I stop and think: if when we're coding we pronounce "char" like "kah" because it's short for "character", why don't we pronounce "enum" like "enoom" because it's short for "enumeration"?

Imagine spending countless hours proving it is possible to complete Factorio in a 12x9 world only to find out afterwards that since the Spidertron was added it is actually possible to do it in 11x9

(Spidertrons can stand on top of other buildings and have a large carrying capacity, so you can use them like chests to hold all the items you need to launch the rocket while still having the ability to place buildings on all tiles.)

Amusing execution though. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj17aGFp3lM

#Factorio

The mayor of Vadsø, Norway wants 26 hour days.

"When asked how the 26-hour day would actually work, the mayor replied “We haven't thought a lot about that.”"

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2024-April/058869.html

Can't believe that rsync has a Discord. RSYNC.

(I hate Discord)

It seems a bit excessive that my single user Mastodon instance has ~60G of media even though I run all the various purge commands to keep only 7 days.

"tootctl media usage":
Attachments: 38.5 GB (1.12 GB local)
Custom emoji: 1.16 GB (0 Bytes local)
Preview cards: 725 MB
Avatars: 9.47 GB (73.9 KB local)
Headers: 6.37 GB (191 KB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 0 Bytes

Last time I brought this up on a UK-based technical mailing list, an entrepreneur—themself from a historically persecuted ethnic group—told me that, "no one cares".
Well, I can't make anyone care but if you are in the position to advise on or choose a domain name you should maybe at least know some of the history behind .IO before buying one. Read this article from @cariad
https://www.beep.blog/io/

Microsoft updated the SPF record for hotmail.com in the last 24 hours but forgot to keep their IPv6 addresses in it, so as a result places all over the world are rejecting emails sent from Hotmail as forgeries.

EDIT: Removed my comment about not rejecting for SPF failure. Microsoft are requesting rejection of their own email here (-all).

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/15u28tw/microsoft_seems_to_have_broken_spf_for_hotmailcom/
#IPv6 #Hotmail #Microsoft #SPF

So does Trisquel contain CPU microcode yet or is it still terribly insecure on every modern Intel and AMD CPU and useless on lots of other common hardware that doesn't Respect Your Freedom?
https://hostux.social/@fsf/110811178897730555

#YouTube u wot m8

What is more premium about "1080p Premium" then? And is this an option that the creator has chosen (and presumably gets a kickback from)?

I see other videos at 1080p, 1440p and 2160p that do not need a Premium account.

I am not buying a Premium account. If this is a creator choice then do know that I will Patreon you at £1/mo sort of levels before I will ever sign up to YT Premium.

Here is a video with such an option. I downloaded it and got a webm (vp9) at 3617kb/s. Can someone with a Premium account see what bitrate they get for the 1080p Premium option? Sorry I don't know how to examine that in the browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q52epm4DLAc

@alarig I thought you played #Factorio !?

He's Dutch.

I did at least learn a few things:
- If you place non-military buildings over the map it dissuades biters from expanding to those chunks.
- You can prevent biters spawning by completely encasing bases in walls
- It's cheaper to have no repair packs in your bot network and have bots replace walls entirely, than it is to have bots die while repairing damaged walls

@alarig His 16 tile high ribbon world is pretty crazy also. But there is no speech for most of it, only captions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHs9aMsqQ4&list=PLDgN0w4z4q0xniMkmE5SuYUkN9Tv1auAf&index=1&pp=iAQB

@alarig I don't know what it is about Factorio and odd voices but the ultimate Factorio mad lad probably has to be DoshDoshington who also has a very distinctive voice.

Factorio but everything is modded to require fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFC7ez1bgnQ

@popey And also so many armchair analysts giving out theories of the 4d chess that was being played around this event and the birdsite thing… when in reality it's much more fuelled by cocaine, ego, complete absence of anyone to say "no".
Succession was a good TV show.