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.

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, IPvfoo¹ told me that the website was accessible over IPv6, which I never noticed before.

I then queried the DNS server to see where it was hosted and:

Server:		127.0.0.53
Address:	127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	verkkokauppa.com
Address: 34.95.73.242

Weird, no v6 there, let’s try with the www subdomain now:

Last week, I received my new laptop: a Framework 16.
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 young machine, being around 16 years old now.

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:

• Some machine where the instance will be hosted
• Docker installed on the machine
• Ability to read instructions

For this, we’ll be using docker compose which provides an easy way to bring services up from a configuration file.
This tutorial just provides a bare bones instance that you will need to configure further later.

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 BIRD¹, and the end devices are diverse from standard Linux machines, to Windows desktops, to iOS devices.

First, the BIRD configuration is pretty trivial, just adding a route for the prefix via lo: