Notices by Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town), page 8

pff 🙄

in 2017, it was looking like SoundCloud was going bankrupt, and lots of tools came out to download a backup of the music on your SoundCloud account.

the site ended up surviving.

none of those tools have been updated since 2017.

"oh, phew! it survived. false alarm. instead of letting this be a lesson and maybe keeping these tools up to date, we're just going to go back to trusting the cloud again."

and i don't think any of these tools were designed for the musicians. i think they were designed for the listeners to make copies of the songs in their playlists.

i don't think there ever *was* a tool for the musicians... 😑

you can find everything on eBay

the Blizzard inside and the blizzard outside

@djsumdog @roboneko @lamp the only reason i have for bothering with IPv6 is external pressure to get familiar with it. altruistically adopting it? nah. it must at least offer some reward. but if i do it, the only reward will be silence, seeing as no one thanks you for using it.

@lamp @djsumdog @roboneko why would changing the packet format lower latency?

@lamp @djsumdog @roboneko picking an ISP like that sounds like an ideological decision

@lamp @djsumdog @roboneko maybe there's more of an address shortage where you live. it makes no business sense to make IPv4 a second class citizen unless forced to. i suspect Norway might be spoiled with far more IPv4 addresses than it could ever need.

@lamp @djsumdog @roboneko i'm not aware of a single ISP here that has customers share IP addresses, but i've heard of it from other countries

@lamp oops, i thought i had removed all traces of IPv6 records and disabled any listening ports. i don't know enough about IPv6 to feel i can do it properly and securely. it's just one extra thing to worry about.

@lamp i'm not seeing any AAAA record for berserker.town, so you must've dug that out somehow. see, i don't even know how you did that, which i probably should know if i'm going to run an extra protocol stack.

@lamp it's probably because Hetzner configures an IPv6 address that i don't think i've found a way of disabling, and i haven't bothered to manually config a netplan because doing that on a remote box can be a hassle if you accidentally bring it off the network. there's console access but still.

@lamp to me, it's this subsystem that i didn't ask for and it keeps appearing everywhere and i have to keep plugging the leaks. the fact everything tries so hard to get you to use to it actually makes me want to resist it even more.

@lamp i can disable it on the kernel level but in my experience, this actually breaks stuff, so i can't do it.

@djsumdog @roboneko @lamp there will be some amount of extra work to do, with little benefit for it, no matter what. if there was some kind of benefit, some way in which it actually helped... i mean, all i can think of is "help speed up adoption of IPv6 so we can all have more addresses to work with"

finally

Putin may have decided to invade Ukraine because of drug induced megalomania, says Danish intelligence official:

https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/danish-military-intelligence-suggests-drug-induced-megalomania-may

@Zergling_man @0x4E4448 guess they're a bit quiet.

i feel quite alone over here. i don't hear from other instance owners who feel the same. i don't feel backed up at all.

it is EXTREMELY tempting to offer the contrary list to fediblock

"oh, you blocked us. well, look at these 102 instances who like https://relay.berserker.town blocking you back. how do you like them apples?"

but i won't do it. i'm the better man.

@0x4E4448 you have to ask the admin.

@0x4E4448 if you don't like that an admin decides stuff for you, the next step is to have your own server.