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2025-01-08

GitHub and IPv6 in 2025

Filed under: Networking — jae @ 03:53
In this year 2025, the main GitHub domain still doesn’t serve over IPv6. Some subdomains do have IPv6 though, just… not what you would expect. For instance, avatars.githubusercontent.com: Whereas none of the other domains accessed when accessing github.com (named github.com, github.githubassets.com and alive.github.com) has IPv6. The package registry ghcr.io as well doesn’t support IPv6: And […]

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2024-12-29

Verkkokauppa.com DNS

Filed under: Networking — jae @ 03:44
Verkkokauppa.com is a chain of web and physical stores originating from (and limited to) Finland, akin of Amazon here if you will. When trying to search for a USB-C computer mouse, IPvfoo told me that the website was accessible over IPv6, which I never noticed before. I then queried the DNS server to see where […]

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2024-12-10

A week of Framework

Filed under: Random — jae @ 03:42
As per my usual tradition when I receive a new cool device, I have to write about it a week later, then either three months or a year later (as I did previously with my Index, or work MacBook Pro M1). As you may know, my previous laptop was a ThinkPad x200.It’s not exactly a […]

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2024-12-08

Deploying your own GitLab instance under 5 minutes

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 03:31
It’s no secret that I work around GitLab during my day job and that I generally love this software.This blog post is therefore not biased at all in any way or form. (do I need to mark this further as sarcasm, or did everyone get the memo?) For this quick tutorial, you’ll need: For this, […]

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2024-12-01

Setting up WireGuard tunnels from a BGP router

Filed under: DevOps,Networking,Tutorials — jae @ 03:28
I recently re-started my BGP shenanigans, and with that, re-setup some VPNs using WireGuard for my personal machines. I basically use those to whitelist connections to certain applications to only the prefix used by my machines. The host machine runs Debian and BIRD, and the end devices are diverse from standard Linux machines, to Windows […]

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2024-11-11

Sending commands to a Docker Compose Resonite headless

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 03:26
After searching for a bit, I found a way to send commands to a Resonite headless within Docker programmatically without having to run docker compose attach <container> and having to manually detach. You will need the software socat installed on the host machine, given most of my machines are running Debian, this can be done […]

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2024-07-18

Liberate your news with RSS

Filed under: Random — jae @ 03:19
RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication, is a really good and easy way to get all your news right onto your computer. While the standard is fairly old now, being older than me, it still fills its purpose wonderfully. To have a simple outlook, RSS allows you to get news from feeds made available by […]

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2024-07-08

I am not interested about AI

Filed under: Random — jae @ 03:18
Recently, I’ve received some e-mails from so-called “AI” startups, wanting me to join them to develop their product. I will be blunt: don’t bother. I’m not interested. I’m not interested in your startup that resells the OpenAI API under a fancy interface.I’m not interested in your startup that has no plans for the future beyond […]

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2024-06-21

Setting up a Resonite Headless and getting metrics from it

Filed under: Resonite,Tech,Tutorials — jae @ 03:12
As you may know, I made a mod for the platform Resonite that allows you to export metrics from the game as OpenMetrics data readable by Prometheus amongst other software. In this post, we’re gonna see: First, some pre-requisites: Setting up a headless in Windows is really easy. To first get the headless files, there […]

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