Got a new breaker panel installed, three phases coming in, three circuits going out in addition to a three-phase oven hookup. The bedroom/living room circuit is on phase 1. The office/kitchen circuit is on phase 2. The bathroom and hallway circuit is on phase 1, again. The three phase oven hookup is on phase 1 and phase 1 (two conductors of the three stuffed into a single 16A breaker), whilst the third phase chills in mid air, connected to nothing.

Something doesn't seem right here :floofWoozy:

Microsoft popping up a notification in the web version of Outlook in the middle of typing an e-mail which steals the focus to tell me that "Copilot is now over here!', which then activated the global shortcut handler and activates random UI elements as I'm typing out the word I was currently on...

Peak UX, Microsoft, peak UX. :neocat_woozy:

Hmmm, I wonder, I wonder, why my Wireguard tunnel suddenly stopped working (on UDP/51820) after I redirected all packets coming in via UDP between 10000 and 65535 to my VoIP server at the firewall. A true mystery I totally haven't spent 15 minutes figuring out... :floofWoozy:

Well, what a surprise - An original Pentium (P54C) at 100MHz manages about 5Mbps average upload throughput and about 3.5Mbps average download throughput doing both Wireguard tunneling and NAT on said Wireguard tunnel under Linux 6.14.9. Without Wireguard but still doing NAT, it's about 15Mbps down and 22Mbps up, which all in all is a lot quicker than I would've ever expected from that chip! :neocat_surprised:

When your server schedules the maintenance for you that you've been putting off for months because... time and money :floofWoozy:

(/ ran full and now begins the game of shuffling less important files onto random hard drives to free up enough space to get stuff to work again)

Crap, during some IPv6 mishaps in my home network, I somehow disabled the sysctl paramter 'accept_ra' for my primary interface under Debian Sid and I have no clue how, nothing in /etc/sysctl.d and /etc/sysctl.conf doesn't exist because systemd, my shell history has already rotated way past whenever I messed with that parameter and it's neither a kernel command line parameter, nor does grep on the entire filesystem give anything useful back. Oh no :neocat_googly_shocked:

Aaaand there's a bunch of posts on the timeline flooding in from other fedi servers that didn't manage to connect via IPv6, look at that x3

And I can finally adopt my new Unifi switch to the self-hosted controller, yay

Which also explains why my vault wouldn't sync being on a two week on-site work trip, since the network there is also pure legacy IP (unfortunately).

It all makes sense now!

Turns out: HAproxy on the server side kept crashing for god knows how long now after I removed a domain one of the backends pointed towards, now unable to be resolved. But since it only handled IPv4 connections, those were the only ones that broke.

At the same time, IPv6 in my home network seems to have fallen over with an unrelated cause and at work, we just don't have IPv6 connectivity. But most mobile providers do offer IPv6 per default, so those connections would work.

Arggghhh!

Fffffffffffuuuuu...

I've been chasing this problem I've had for days at this point, where I could connect to a bunch of my self-hosted services on a VPS perfectly fine from some internet connections, but fail to connect from others. Mobile data would work just fine e.g. connecting to this Masto instance, but at home or at work, connections were simply refused unless it was an ICMP packet...

Checked firewalls, traceroutes, local network configuration, client configs, no dice.

Keeping cool at work, the simple but effective slightly-jank solution :3

Did I say two days? I meant since early April, looking back at the usage graphics in Proxmox, it just never reached levels where my monitoring shows alerts of high CPU usage, until two days ago...

Fucking hell, can't host a Gitea instance without some form of crawler/AI blocker in front of it without getting DDoSed by Google, Amazon and whatever AI company also feels like gobbling up some juicy data for TWO ENTIRE DAYS STRAIGHT pinning the CPU at near 100% load.
There's only like two OpenWRT based projects and a few small ones with a dozen or so files at most publicy accessible, but I guess everyone's crawlers gotta get their broken OpenWRT source from my goddamn server, all at once -w-

Who'd've thought, lots of business and marketing talk, some interesting technological insights and announcements to upcoming products and new features, but most importantly, free snacks and drinks *and* a free 2.5G USW Flex Mini, noice :3

Let's see what this is all about :neocat_think:

For those curious, the system is booted with the help of a USB stick containing @manawyrm 's NVMe BIOS OptionROM: https://github.com/Manawyrm/nvme-int13h-optionrom

And the installer ISO is patched to include a backported NVMe and USB3.0 driver through this package: https://zone94.com/software/operating-systems/123-windows-xp-professional-sp3-x86-integral-edition

Well, I'll be damned, it actually works!

Windows XP booted straight off of an NVMe PCIe SSD and bare metal!

This has got to be the fastest and most snappiest XP machine I've ever played around with :3

Installing Windows XP onto an NVMe, what could go wrong!

Oh good, they support both, the 15 and the 24V LOREM IPSUMs!

I wish Discord would just create an official APT repository...