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It is 2025 and it’s still super easy to deploy a blog using Hugo and GitLab pages.
In fact, the post you are reading right now is exactly that, deployed on my self-managed instance.
But Jae, weren’t you on another host beginning from last year?
Yes, last year I switched to Mataroa for the ease of mind the platform has.
The interface is very clean, has no bullshit whatsoever and is made and hosted in small web fashion.
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:
; <<>> DiG 9.18.28-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> AAAA avatars.githubusercontent.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18015
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;avatars.githubusercontent.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN AAAA 2606:50c0:8002::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN AAAA 2606:50c0:8001::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN AAAA 2606:50c0:8003::154
avatars.githubusercontent.com. 159 IN AAAA 2606:50c0:8000::154
;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 2a09::#53(2a09::) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 08 04:55:56 UTC 2025
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 170
Whereas none of the other domains accessed when accessing github.com (named github.com, github.githubassets.com and alive.github.com) has IPv6.
Star Citizen is a game that has been in development since around 2013.
It claims to be a space simulator, MMORPG, FPS and a bunch of other things.
More than 10 years later, 750 million USD invested, what have we got?
The game looks visually good, even if overly generic “space stuff”.
Nothing much else to say on that point, the ships have real thought put in their design, starting environment seem to be somewhat consistent and hand built (tho I noticed there are really a lot of food shops everywhere for some reason).
Location: Vantaa, Finland
Date and time: 2024/12/08 11:45 (local time UTC+2) - 09:45 (UTC)
Frequency: 15290kHz
SINPO: 2/5
Equipment: Tecsun PL-680 + wire antenna
Content Heard:
Unsure, asked a friend and only words they could understand were “Tokyo 23”.
Notes: I cannot speak Japanese, sadly. Lots of static and interruptions.
Contact: NHK WORLD-JAPAN | Contact Us
Card received:
In the middle of the year, I got a Quest Pro, mainly to use with Resonite for face and eye tracking.
With this standalone headset made by Facebook, came a small program that (allegedly) cost them billions to make: Horizon Worlds, their own platform. You know, the one without legs.
Well, I tested it for a bit.
Why? I was curious.
Will I move to Horizon Worlds anytime soon? Hell no.