bert_hubert

bert_hubert, 28 days ago to random

Is @syncthing as good as it definitely appears to be? Quite impressed. Tried to get it to fail today and it didn't fall for any of my stunts. I'm especially impressed by the extensive versioning features.

bert_hubert, 28 days ago to random

Regarding previous post, ponder also this "WiFi Cable" sign:

bert_hubert, 28 days ago to random

Fun thing I learned today. To normal people "ethernet" sounds like some kind of wireless network. And they will tell you that the wifi isn't working after selecting ethernet in the Windows 11 installer (since they don't know ethernet needs a cable). I can't even blame them, "ethernet" does sound like some kind of radio thing ("in the ether").

bert_hubert, 29 days ago to random

Writing blog posts on a 128GB tricked out Xeon feels kind of like sacrilege. I should be doing science on this thing!

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

After the recent publicity I have updated the Google beeper / googerteller somewhat, including new Google IP addresses. I've browsed the web a bit with it and things are as terrible as ever. Lots of noise. I've also reinstated the bpftrace based per-process capability. https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller

larsmb, 1 month ago to microsoft

I just tried to help a friend and found this - wait what, Save As a PDF in MS Office on your local computer, it ... funnels your local document through their cloud service? 🤯

Sure, no data leak at all.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/office-for-mac-saving-as-pdf-requires-internet/a14c45c6-c524-4e77-9f01-5fc62ded14cb

#Microsoft #WTF #LibreOffice

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Just upgraded from PostgreSQL 13 to 15 and the process was so smooth that at first I worried nothing had happened. But turns out PostgreSQL is just that good. Deeply impressed.

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

I can't tell you how exhausting it is to see governments go out there time and time again to argue for more human rights violations (see ECHR CASE OF PODCHASOV v. RUSSIA). https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/22/europol_becomes_latest_cop_shop/

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

New post: A very practical introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs), in which we build a non-trivial parser (for Prometheus metrics) using the most excellent cpp-peglib single-include C++ library. So easy you won't ever want to parse a string by hand anymore. Post includes links to PEG libraries for Go, Rust and Python, and a ready to run GitHub repository of all examples: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/practical-peg-parsing/

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

European police chiefs are again asking the world to break end to end encryption, something the European Court of Human Rights very recently ruled against explicitly. In 2020 I spoke at an event at the European Parliament on why breaking end to end encryption is fraught with difficulties, and why you should try nearly everything else first:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/end-to-end-encryption-european-internet-forum/

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

If you want to ruin your day, go read up on "quiet NaNs". If you had any faith left in computers this should clear that right up. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuietNaN.html

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Over the past 8 years I've held a trilogy of presentations over at @NLNOG on the working life of technical people, and how we could improve it. The talk also covers if you should become a contractor of launch your own company. Here are links to two hours of video & slides of the trilogy, plus some context: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/technical-job-presentations/

stshank, 1 month ago to random

I have learned I can compensate for gradually degrading vision (nothing dramatic, just age) and small laptop / tablet / phone screens by increasing the screen brightness and burning through its battery faster.

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Oracle announces 441 security issues, which is rather stunning. And then slaps a 'Contact Sales' button on that page, which tells you all you need to know. https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2024.html

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Recently I found out that RIPE has a very interesting series of podcasts. Recommended. And also keep an eye open for the next episode ;-) https://labs.ripe.net/category/podcasts/

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

I need to share a rare story with you. My main development computer just died on me. And turns out I have no way this evening to access the SATA SSD in that computer. But! I HAD WORKING BACKUPS! AND THEY WERE FRESH AND THEY WORKED! Note that my backup script includes a sentinel file that my script checks that it can actually find that file in the backup & that it contains today's date. Thank you @restic !

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Does anyone know if there is a freely usable A-GPS (and A-Galileo, A-BeiDou etc) infrastructure? I know some people are working on something, but is there really nothing? The Galmon project has the data, so we could easily provide such a service, but I almost can't believe this doesn't exist yet.

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Simplomon (a single binary single config file availability/performance monitor) now has a manual that provides some indication of how things work. Not yet complete, but enough to get started:
https://github.com/berthubert/simplomon/blob/main/manual.md#what-simplomon-does

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

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bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

May you one day theorize something and 48 years later be photographed with the 27 kilometer large country-spanning machine that confirmed you were right. Awesome photo of Peter Higgs courtesy of the @CMSexperiment at CERN.

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

Simplomon update, the smtp/imap checker pair just dropped. smtp checker can optionally deliver messages, and the imap checker checks if they arrive (after a while). Will alert on (STARTTLS) certs about to expire. Also still somewhat hot, the Prometheus node exporter tests from earlier this week. Code, docker, docs -> https://github.com/berthubert/simplomon?tab=readme-ov-file#simplomon

bert_hubert, 1 month ago to random

I don't have the energy to investigate right now, but it appears Galileo (the EU GPS) yesterday suffered from reduced accuracy: https://www.gsc-europa.eu/notice-advisory-to-galileo-users-nagu-2024019

ripienaar, 1 month ago to random

Still looking for a solid option to port my UK O2 number to a useable VOIP provider that does sms termination also

I spoke with aa.net.uk and their support/presales just didn’t bode well

Paying O2 monthly is fine but changing phones is horrible as they are just idiots when it comes to swapping the esims