I just had an interesting thing happen.

I have an old (needs-to-be-retired) Linux distro for amateur radio stuff, called HamVoIP, which is running a quite old Archlinux.
Linux linkbox 5.4.75-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 9 16:58:39 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
This system has Tailscale installed, and is using a node on my Tailnet to route both incoming and outgoing traffic.
This ISP is using CG-NAT, and I want to direct traffic from the internet to an Asterisk PBX, so I have a Tailscale exit node appropriately configured for this purpose.
The registration IP address must match, so outgoing traffic is also sent through that system.

It's been fine for a while, but just this afternoon, this system could no longer access the internet. LAN and tailnet resources were fully accessible, including the exit node itself, but nothing would pass through, until I disabled the use of that exit node and enabled it again.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Anyway, it's working now, but I really should make this system go away in favor of it's more modern 64-bit replacement. It's definitely easier to deal with. Just getting Tailscale to use an exit node in the first place was made more complicated by the old implementation of netfilter.

Canada purports to be a pluralistic country. It recognizes many ideas, many traditions, many communities are valid and worthwhile, and the country can and should do the work to know and understand as many as possible.

X is the antithesis of pluralism. X games anger outrage ignorance and prejudice for gain. The algorithm pushes these idea far beyond the real value of these ideas.

Only the pathetically naive and willfully ignorant don't see this.

Misinformation and its manipulation and the outsized harm and impact is today's political reality.

Solomon is feigning outrage with the naive confidence that his party's own misinformation gains through X, is still worthy and justified, that it will compete with the anger and outrage capable of supporting the killing of an innocent woman.

Supporting X is supporting anger, ignorance fear and prejudice, not very Canadian, or its it?

#cdnpoli

2025: AI will take people's jobs!!

2026: RAM is very expensive, maybe we should start hiring people to remember things...

Finally got a chance to start listening through the latest Ice Cube album Man Up and he seems pretty pissed off about modern stuff

Freedumb:

[Intro]Why is the internet not working?
Why are you not working?
Why is the internet not working?
The same reason you're not working
Did you turn off the internet?
Maybe

[Verse 1]
Create a clone through this iPhone
It's the perfect device to get spied on
Swipe up, swipe down, pipe down
Type it in, never, ever write it down
Knowing, it's mind controlling
First you start scrolling, then you start trolling
Yeah, what you know about a prison?
Ain't no rhythm in this algorithm, no
It's about the vision
It's about to be a head on collision
Lost my religion
Motherfuckers gotta Google where God at
I despise that
He under my hat
He under your hat
He in your heart
I bust a rhyme that's better than Mozart
What I look like asking Chat GPT
"What was it like growing up in the CPT?"

[Chorus]They hit me with that freedom
It don't cost you a penny to be dumb
They hit me with that freedom
What's the reason? That shit is treason

[Interlude]AI is learning to escape human control
AI is in fact learning to escape human control
Human control, human control

[Verse 2]
L.A. to the bay back in '88 (Yeah)
I was there, nigga, fuck what your computer say
You'd rather ask a nerd like Zuckerberg
Go ahead homie, go and join the herd
You's a blue light zombie (Zombie)
Become an unhealthy, selfish as a selfie
Go ahead, ask Open AI
When you know that they lie about the fourth of July
Information artificial, blow the whistle
You know that we with you, go get the pistol
Shoot the fat screen first then the laptop
Kill your iPhone then smoke your Xbox
And when they call SWAT, here come the robots
Don't matter if the motherfuckin' door's locked
They shooting in the dark, ripping us apart
Motherfuckers only mad 'cause we too smart

[Chorus]They hit us with the freedom
It don't cost you a penny to be dumb
They hit us with the freedom
What's the reason? That shit is treason

[Outro]I think the most important thing to understand about AI is that AI is not a tool
It is an agent
What's the reason? That shit is treason

Open X-Change making a *universally breaking* change in config format & removing features from #Dovecot in the 2.3->2.4 upgrade is telling. That they removed some core features (e.g. unix login auth) inks in the drawing. They are tired of having the world's de facto default open source mailstore server, they want the world's most lucrative mailstore server.

And the page explaining the changes at doc.dovecot.org/2.4.0/installa… is basically a big fat FUCK YOU to the Dovecot Community.
#Sysadminnery

I think the best way to fight RTO is to submit accommodations requests for ergonomics.

Tell your doc you have back pain. Get a doctor's note. If you're in a jurisdiction with accommodation legislation, you should be able to get your own desk fitted to you.

Now get all your coworkers to do this. No more hot desking, and the costs of an office goes up.

#RTO

#writerscoffeeclub Name a poem (or poet!) which has influenced you.

There's too many to list. There's the usual suspects like Khalil Ghibran and May Ziyade who influenced my 19th century Egypt pieces. Lately I've been drawn to the narratives of women and supporting women's wrongs so Abbasid era female poets like Inan, Arib and Faridah are big inspos. He's a man, but also Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting sorrow which gives a sympathetic look of Yang Guifei.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:
propublica.org/article/immigra…

#Immigration #ICE #DHS #USPolitics #News #Trump #Law

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

^ProPublica

RE: mastodon.social/@appleinsider/…

Nice list, but which of these devices would I really want? Mostlikely none. :)

I have a serious question out there for those who like listening to music. How much do you think a musician/creator should get paid when you listen to their music?

I ask because the amount is pitifully small if you stream - for Soundcloud it would take around 400 streams for the musician to make 1 USD and that is one of the better streaming platforms. For Spotify, its thousands of streams - fine for Lady Gaga but not for small creators, often in niche markets.

On the other hand many musicians sell their music for a few dollars for a whole album or less than a dollar a track. Yet few seem to avail themselves of actually buying music.

Streaming is killing music and combined with the AI generated trash that is all over platforms like Spotify one has to wonder how much longer the market for music generated by real people will last.

So please, go seek out your favourite musician and BUY an album or track. Don't stream and certainly don't use Spotify.

Hugs, Sammi

#music

I'm in the middle of recording this big-ass synth album, and all I want to do is play guitar.

Can anyone tell me WTF is wrong with me?

For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away.
It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them.
If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.

I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore.
Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.

I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.

Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T.
Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.

So, anyway, technology is still cool sometimes.