This guide is for homelab admins who understand IPv4s well but find setting up IPv6 hard or annoying because things work differently. In some ways, managing an IPv6 network can be simpler than IPv4, one just needs to learn some new concepts and discard some old ones.
Let’s begin.
First of all, there are some concepts that one must unlearn from ipv4:
Concept 1
| 0810 b' from ' | |
| 0678 b' ssh2' | |
| 00d8 b'%.48s:%.48s():%d (pid=%ld)\x00' | |
| 0708 b'%s' | |
| 0108 b'/usr/sbin/sshd\x00' | |
| 0870 b'Accepted password for ' | |
| 01a0 b'Accepted publickey for ' | |
| 0c40 b'BN_bin2bn\x00' | |
| 06d0 b'BN_bn2bin\x00' | |
| 0958 b'BN_dup\x00' |
This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.
On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that
| pub trait IteratorExt: Iterator + Sized { | |
| fn our_flatten(self) -> Flatten<Self> | |
| where | |
| Self::Item: IntoIterator; | |
| } | |
| impl<T> IteratorExt for T | |
| where | |
| T: Iterator, | |
| { | |
| fn our_flatten(self) -> Flatten<Self> |
Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma
You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats
Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz:
| default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam' | |
| default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes' | |
| default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no' |
| That's it - I've finally lost it with Linksys and both my WRT 1900ACs that are only a year old are getting chucked. Don't get me started on all the reasons why, but it's primarily down to continued degradation of wifi signal and the constant need for reboots. Going by the responses to this tweet, that's just what they do: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/778867707655487488 | |
| I’m going all out with Ubiquiti instead. No, I'm not interested in [insert the other thing you think rocks here], there's a really vocal majority in favour of Ubiquiti so that's that. Now I need help speccing out what I need for my house as it’s not quite as straight forward as just chucking in a couple of (dodgy) routers. | |
| Here’s what I’m working with: | |
| - Large multi-level house about 500m2 (needs at least 2 APs, probably more) | |
| - Wired ethernet to every room (I believe Cat 5e, was here when I got here) | |
| - Patch board in the garage and a 100Mbps hub (running patch cables out to a Linksys 8 port gigabit switch instead) | |
| - 4 wired connection |
I'm currently the lead instructor at Code Platoon and an instructor/developer at the Turing School of Software and Design.
I've been advocating the Fish shell and when the choice is up to me, I choose that for my students. Enough people ask about the decision, particularly in relation to the preinstalled Bash shell, that I figured it's worth laying out my reasoning.
No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.
Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.
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