I've been reading Brian Kernighan's "Unix: A History and a Memoir" and can't help but think all those people that came together, wrote so many useful tools that are still with us 50-60 years later... it's like the absolute opposite of this "AI" bullshit.
The manual to my ISP's router recommends to disable IPv6 if you're having "internet problems" 😂
When I create a new mail account, isn't dovecot supposed to create some kind of "skeleton" of folders under "Maildir"? I think Mutt, Thunderbird and others create the folders automatically don't they? Or else isn't Dovecot supposed to?
Weird. Dovecot v2.3.31.1 and K-9 (#mozilla Android Mail) have issues. On a new account, K-9 can't find the "Sent" folder. However, works with "Samsung Mail" (which I am assuming is or was a rebranded generic Android mail app?)
What is up with that? Even creating an empty directory under Maildir results in K-9 still being confused and not finding a Sent folder.
Does anyone know if #FreeBSD runs on a @starlabssystems StarLite? My wife has Ubuntu 24.04 on hers but I'd really like to know if FreeBSD will work on it. It has an Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 WiFi card and an Intel Alder Lake-N graphics chipset.
I suppose I could pop a USB stick in and try it. There has to be someone else on the Fediverse that has one of these devices and has tried BSD on it.
Epstein had a hand in funding the racist, eugenics-loving nutjobs responsible for this AI crap!
Finally got around to watching all of Murderbot (Series 1). Was really good! 👍
Connected my phone to WireGuard, working just fine here. Noticed after I disconnected WireGuard, the #DeltaChat relays continue to send PUSH+ACK packets to the WireGuard IP for 5 even 10 minutes after it's disconnected. Are the timeouts really long on DeltaChat relays? I think only @stefano 's relay actually sent a RST+ACK and stopped sending packets, but the other two relays I connect to continue to send PSH+ACK over and over.
Today, I had to import a GoDaddy CA certificate into a... wait for it... OpenJDK 6 keystore running on an Ubuntu 12.04 server. 😱😱😱😱
Anyone know if #freebsd 16 will get WPA3?
@justine Is that hail? Or just torrential tropical rain?
Hey #FreeBSD folks: I'm running Prometheus in a jail, but I have jail_exporter running on the host. Am I better off getting jail_exporter to listen on, say, prometheus' jail IP so prometheus can just scrape its own IP for the metrics or is there another way? I'm not using VNET. (Actually can't use VNET in this case)
Please boost! Thanks so much!
wg-quick up ...
systemd wg-quick@wg0.service
NetworkManager
Which one of these will actually make the Wireguard work? What an absolute mess. The wg-quick@wg0 WAS working on 22.04 just fine with no issues, then Ubuntu had to screw it all up for 24.04. I bet it's broken in some other way in 26.04.
Nothing like an Ubuntu 22.04 -> 24.04 upgrade on a machine 5800 km away and everything upgraded fine... except the Wireguard vpn never came back up so I'm locked out of the system now.
Why does do-release-upgrade in Ubuntu have to be so painful? Anyone know how to make sure Wireguard comes up? It seems to be both in /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf with one of those wg0@quick systemd script thingies but it's also showing up in NetworkManager but it's locked.
Just watched @stefano 's fantastic talk at EuroBSDCon (thank you whoever is doing the streaming because I couldn't attend!)
Disaster recovery is something not often thought about, or is fleeting. It's really important to have backups, have multiple places for them, and to test them regularly. There is nothing worse than finding out a backup you thought was fine, but wasn't fit for purpose.
The zfs send/recv is a great idea. Take a ZFS snapshot, and then a remote machine can just pull it down.
Of course if you don't have a spare machine at hand, you can just use a utility to back up to, say borgbase or a hetzner storage box or even to a spare hard drive you have. You can never have enough redundancy for this sort of thing.
Also many kudos to Stefano's wife for being so understanding and supportive. Disaster recovery is really emotionally and mentally draining!
The price of any food at airports should be severely capped; it's criminal how much they charge for food.
Also: if I go to an airport shop and buy my own things and do my own self checkout do NOT fucking present me with "tipping" amounts to add to the total. (USA I'm looking at you). Pay your staff a decent wage you greedy bastard shop owners!
Everyone at #eurobsdcon have lots of fun! I wish I could go. Just not in the cards this year. Hopefully next year!
Another revolution around our star. Somehow these seem to go faster every year.
Anyone running #FreeBSD and #unbound (DNS resolver) and finding unbound doesn't actually start after a reboot?
The init script has:
# PROVIDE: unbound
# REQUIRE: FILESYSTEMS defaultroute netwait resolv
# BEFORE: NETWORKING
# KEYWORD: shutdown
However, unbound needs to listen on an interface or IP. Why have the script run before networking and yet "require" defaultroute? This makes no sense.