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POTA, Parks On The Air, what is considered by many in the amateur space to be the gateway drug to either HF , amateur radio, or both. Probably no surprise, given that reputation, that the first actual time I’ve stepped up to a radio was, well, POTA. You don’t have to talk, you don’t have to spend too much time stressing out over everything, you just need to call and respond.…
As if I didn’t need yet another hobby that assumes a relatively high amount of disposable income, as of July 17th, 2023 (ignore the date this goes out), I am now a licensed amateur radio operator. As of the 31st, I passed the element 4 exam, 1 granting me the highest class of license available in the US: Amateur Extra. But, why? Well, why not? The direct answer is, actually, cosplay, for a…
Yeah, I know, I was away for a while and some things broke. In apology, take this: breaks fixes, and some improvements! No really, these might actually be useful to anyone reading this, and not just me. Well, some of them. If you’re not aware, I use a modified fork of the Bilberry theme for Hugo (it’s on the “site-local” branch). Recently, major version 4 was released,…
If you’ve clicked on this post itself, you’ll notice there’s a sound file at the top. That’s because if you click it, or hit the P key, you’ll hear… me, reading this! I’m working on adding this to old posts one by one, so you might see that popping up eventually. But, partially for accessibility, and partially just to make these sort of ramblings easier…
Fail2Ban is a wonderful tool for managing failed authentication or usage attempts for anything public facing. However, by default, it’s not without it’s drawbacks: Fail2Ban uses iptables to manage it’s bans, inserting a --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable rule for each banned host. The thing with this is that I use a fairly large amount of reverse-proxying on this network to…
So if you’ve not heard, there’s this website called AbuseIPDB , which, no affiliation, is a website where webmasters can submit reports of abusive IP addresses, and then query those reports, either manually, or using their REST API. And this is how I did exactly that, to help cut down some of the spam on my email server. Let’s get started. So here’s the deal. Spam is just…
I’ve finally done it: I’ve changed comment providers from Disqus over to a self-hosted Commento instance. Everything should have been imported, though profile images were likely lost. You need an account (of course), I’m working on integrations with most identity providers (Twitter, Google, GitHub…) that I can manage, so sit tight.
Oh don’t worry, there’ll be more detail on this one soon. But as I’m still (slowly) working through stuff to write, enjoy me remembering that I have PeerTube integration, but more importantly, enjoy me panicking as I don’t know what I’m doing with this.
So this is just going to be a total rant. IPv6 is, in theory, a solution to many things, including the dwindling IPv4 address space. IPv6 was officially a draft in 1997, and became a real Internet Standard in 2017. And, quite frankly, it’s one of those things that, in my opinion, just adds too much hassle for not enough benefit. Take 2 this time. More facts. Clarified points, same worthless…