When Elvis was a puppy, he was really scared of the electric coffee bean grinder I was using. So I spent some time running the grinder and immediately giving a treat, Pavloving him not to fear the sound.

The thing is that there are some aspects in which Elvis is ridiculously smart. One of those is recognizing patterns. He is extremely pattern and routine oriented. So even if I haven't used that particular coffee grinder in years, electric kettle has been swapped, I do pourover instead of aeropress... he recognise "coffee related" tasks.

And wants treats. Six years later.

This is what I see from the kitchen a few seconds after I have touched the electric kettle and Elvis has been sleeping upstairs: "are you making coffee?"

@algernon IIRC you were looking for registrar recently? Did you end up with list of reasonable of options?

Ohno, trying to find something from the internet is not fun. I am trying to figure out where cool kids buy^Wrent their domains nowadays and it is just AI SEO slop everywhere. Especially if you have some criteria like "not just thin frontend for Cloudflare like porkbun" etc.

Seems like IPv6 config for #NetBSD in netcup seems to be: do not use gateway shown in netcup UI, but rely on router advertisements. So no defaultroute6 in /etc/rc.conf and then add something like this to /etc/ifconfig.vioif0:

inet6 <your ipv6 subnet in the netcup UI>: :100 prefixlen 64 alias
# this enables router advertisement processing for ipv6
rtsol

Takes a while until route is found, but at least packets flow to internet. I couldn't get this to work by setting ipv6 route/gateway by hand to the one advertised in server network information page.

One thing that keeps tripping me over when dealing with ipv6 is the usual /64 subnet size. Your home/server network is allocated more IP addresses than whole ipv4 address space, just to be sure that you don't run out of IPs in your subnet.

Few months ago I switched my desktop & laptop from Arch -> Gentoo. Back to non-systemd initsystems, but that wasn't such a big problem after all because OpenRC is so nice.

Servers run Debian though and it really seems like I am going to be experimenting with BSD to replace those soon. Probably FreeBSD as it seems to be smoothest entry (documentation is nice, journaling filesystem, some VPS companies have it available out of the box, etc). NetBSD would be nicer compared to Free/OpenBSD because of LLM policy, but transition to it after having some BSD experience first shouldn't be a hurdle in case future serves disappointments. OTOH @OpenBSDAms is extremely intriguing option as well..

Oh. It seems like "sometimes" it might be beneficial to read manpages for commands that have I been using for decades. Colleague had "today I learned"-moment, which was news to me as well:

$ basename hello.txt .txt
hello

...this would have been nice to know in so many occasions.

I was clicking through "previously maze" in @jwz blog while emptying the nth cup of coffee and once again ended up in one of my favourite blogposts of all time https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/

I can't really pinpoint what it is, but that post always makes me smile.

"I require assistance" #corgi #DogsOfMasstodon

Yeah. #Firefox new tab page advertising organization known for massive corruption, human rights violations and environmental butchering. Perfect fit for #Mozilla values.

So... for the voicecom/screenshare usecase #xmpp is currently nogo. There is XEPs for 1-to-1 audio/video calls (called jingle) and mesh-varieties for jingle (so, p2p mesh where every participant connects to every other participant). This is absolutely not usable in any way, at least in the groups where I am. Even just pushing eight audio-streams to every participant, where participants are located evenly across whole Europe, UK and MENA... the bandwidth requirements alone are not reasonable and variable latency between every participant would make communicating impossible.

There is (or should be said, was?) https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0340.html for Zoom/Jitsi like conferences. That is apparently dead and no one uses it and wouldn't match the Discord like experience anyway with conference conductor.. thing.

Closest attempt for usable voice chat rooms seems to have been https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/av_conferences.html which on a surface level sounds like it matches Discordy-y lightweight voicecomms. Sadly Version: 0.0.1 (2024-07-29), so it has never been upgraded to proper XEP.

Just read https://wiki.alopex.li/DitchingDiscord and again author is actually pretty hopeful/positive about XMPP. Made me wonder if I should actually try XMPP out before sinking too deep into my own actually-easily-hosted-and-not-cla-laden-discord-clone project..

So this is the new account, moving away from the previous instance. Old handle was https://fosstodon.org/@orva