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Please note: This is not authoritative information; if you use it and kittens pop out of your router or there’s some way simpler/better way to do things: don’t blame me for the kitten thing please document it and send me a link so I can learn from you. The Problem. IPv6. It’s a thing. Who even wants NAT anyway? Docker’s neat, it lets you run containers and stuff. [Read More]

A recent post on Richard Branson’s blog about neurodiversity was a good read. The world needs a neurodiverse workforce to help try and solve some of the big problems of our time. Many people on the autism spectrum excel in areas such as logic, technology skills, problem-solving, pattern recognition, precision, sustained concentration, analysis and other unique cognitive functions. Yet people on the autism spectrum are often overlooked for jobs that they might be brilliant at. [Read More]

This article on the New York Times about the idea of “Languishing” explains a lot about my productivity in the last year or so. I’m finally hammering away at a lot of little medium-effort tasks - and not just because I started being medicated for my ADHD at age 37. 🤔 It wasn’t burnout — we still had energy. It wasn’t depression — we didn’t feel hopeless. We just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. [Read More]

Quality post for sure - 512 Pixels on the historic sounds that Macs made when they failed to boot. I miss the whimsy in the personality of the early Macs. 🥰 I have to say the PowerPC Performa death sound with the little badoom-tish at the end was my favourite. [Read More]

I had an issue in the Proxmox VE manager, where on Safari (all the time) or Firefox, when the screen width was too low, the various UI elements made it so I couldn’t access the buttons in the top left. I found that all of the necessary things to change were in /usr/share/pve-manager/js/pvemanagerlib.js. Messing around, I screwed it up and had to learn how to extract a file from a . [Read More]

I’ve been having this issue for a few weeks, where my IPv6 address kept changing on my laptop. It doesn’t affect me on other devices because they don’t have long-lived connections to things like SSH. Turns out it’s a bug in pfSense which turned up in a recent update of radvd, where it’s not RFC8106 compilant due to mis-handling RA lifetimes. There’s supposedly a fix coming in a future version (see here), but for now I need a working network! [Read More]

I had to reset all my tokens for Github recently because I’m dumb and accidentally pushed one to a code repository. This broke HACS on my Home Assistant install because the token wasn’t working and rather than gracefully handle that, or make it possible for users to re-enter it, it just dies. What I found is that you really should remove the HACS integration, restart HA and re-add the integration, which will prompt you to do the “Github Device” setup [Read More]

Well that was weird, I have been having loads of issues with my MX Master 3 for Mac stuttering and lagging and generally being a horrible experience. I have been using it with a unifying receiver plugged into my OWC Thunderbolt (4) Dock, which is sitting about 60cm away under my laptop stand. Turns out - that’s enough distance and electrical noise to cause the problem. I moved the receiver closer (using a port on my monitor arm) and it works fine now! [Read More]

In another strange turn, Firefox has been prompting people with sponsored relevant links in the address bar and on the “new tab” screen. This is how to disable it. I’m guessing I don’t see these things because I typically run a Pi-hole and the data can’t get through. Click in the address bar and type or paste about:config then hit enter. It’ll probably throw up a warning screen, click through it. [Read More]

If you get the LMIC_ERROR_TX_NOT_FEASIBLE error when doing TTNMapper or generally using the arduino-lmic library (my version is 3.3.0) then do this patch in src/lmic/lmic.c. This patch was shown to me by Chris from Accelerando Consulting. Original code: u1_t maxFlen = LMICbandplan_maxFrameLen(LMIC.datarate); if (flen > maxFlen) { LMICOS_logEventUint32("frame too long for this bandplan", ((u4_t)dlen << 16) | (flen << 8) | maxFlen); return 0; } New code adds a check for maxFlen: [Read More]