Lack of admins dogfooding is probably why problems go on so long.

Good to know, thanks!

Useful info, thank you. Once in a great while I have outages of a week or a little more, usually because something breaks when I just can’t rally the resources to fix it right away. Ideally this would never happen on infrastructure used to run an instance, but my hope is that various fedi platforms will be resilient to downtime on the order of 7-14 days before they entirely give up. I think it would be helpful to small and/or broke instance operators, and I would like a fedi with lots of little instances. :)

BTW, only reason I don’t donate is because I’m so broke I can’t even pay bus fare. Thanks for running the node.

I would love it if somebody could post in here what’s up on occasion.

meta discussion: time to ban 2 or 3 serial downvoters, perhaps

You’re going to have to ban drive-by downvoters.

Personally, I’d like to see a primary focus on systems that can be run locally, and systems which run on lower capability hardware, but that’s just me.

When it comes to stuff people can’t really run at home, maybe also encourage posting on systems that aren’t LLMs or art regurgitators, for example machine learning & “AI” in areas like weather forecasting, drug design, materials science, etc.

(edit: I suppose not all of those uses are generative… 🤷)

inetd, xinetd et al were how this was done back in the day.

many services use very little energy when they are not actively being used. that’s definitely not true across the board though.

I echo the suggestion of Proxmox.

still broken.

{"data":{"error":"unknown","message":"Request error: error sending request for url (http://10.1.1.7:8080/image): operation timed out"},"state":"success"}

I tried this once and it did in fact work.

original blog post:

https://www.righto.com/2025/08/intel-386-package-ct-scan.html

working fine for 😂e now.

oops. 😂y key which represents the letter alphabetically between L and N is broken so I have to paste in that letter every ti😂e, looks like I had an e😂oji in the buffer still. I think I’ll leave it.

go back to reddit

Anybody got a summary of the drama I smell behind this?

I have a consumer tier Ironwolf that isn’t too loud, it does make a little noise but it’s not a whine, more of a very low rushing air type noise when spinning (like the “brown noise” another commenter mentioned) and fairly quiet grinding when it’s active. Not the quietest drive ever, but less noticeable than some I’ve had in the past. The periodic thermal calibrations from a 2.5" HDD I have inside a mini PC next to it are more noticeable.

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I’ve done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.

Back when I was housing insecure but still had a place of my own to live, I first set up a point-to-point wifi link to some kids across the street to defray my internet expenses - they paid part of my bill instead of having their own internet. That was more than a decade ago and the hardware & software weren’t so reliable. When the arrangement fell apart and I no longer could pay the bill, I cracked the network of some neighbors in my building and used the same antenna to provide internet for myself and 3 others in my house for about a year. The neighbors were a nice young couple so I did my best to be decent about it - set up an always-on permanent VPN and used flow control to limit our max throughput.

It’s still possible to do this, and I’m still broke, so after a few years not needing to do any such thing, I cracked a network to have internet during a housesitting gig (house did not have internet).

Edit: get WiFi 6 or better gear for this. Trust me, the improvement in performance in marginal situations is well worth it. WiFi 6 was a big improvement over WiFi 5, which was a big improvement over WiFi 4, when it comes to staying connected and getting data across a dodgy link. I haven’t done much straight up piracy lately but I have done plenty of leeching in parking lots, and WiFi 6 gear is absolutely worth the money.

Pirating wifi doesn’t preclude any of this. See also the GL.iNet devices, such as the GL-MT3000.

Voip dot ms employs a ton of countermeasures versus skript kiddies as voip fraud is a severe problem. You are unlikely to have much luck with Tor Browser. I have to ask them to take my boring data center IP off their greylist every time I want to add cash to my balance.