Using MAC address filtering in 2024

It still seems like yesterday we were watching her debut, then we were saying goodbye. I’ve loved everyone in Hololive, but Fauna was up there with Ina, Watson, Reine, and Liz. I still can’t believe I won’t be able to catch a comfy stream again before work. Thanks so much Fauna, and all the best. Let Me Stay Here may be on repeat for a while. 💚...

When this blog started twenty years ago—sorry, I’m still processing that number—many of my early posts concerned setting up my ideal FreeBSD, NetBSD, and/or Linux desktop environment. I cobbled together what I needed and settled mostly on ROXFiler, urxvt, and Fluxbox, with a few other experiments. It was fun, and I learned more from tweaking my...

I was resuming the downloading of a video from a site using yt-dlp, like a gentleman, when I got this message: [download] Resuming download at byte 695556181 ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 416: Requested range not satisfiable I got the same error when looking at ranges, and the guy tried to sell me a gas unit when we...

I wrote a few posts last year talking about my desire for a portable computer in a slab form-factor I could use while commuting on the train. This is opposed to a commuting form-factor I could use while slabbing on the train. That sounds like planking. Wow, 2011 called, they want their meme back. There have been some great suggestions, some of...

I read that title back and realised it implies that refrigeration was my invention. This may surprise some of you, but I cannot take credit for inventing refrigeration. Well, I could, but that’d leave you… what’s a pun related to air conditoning? Frosty? … Michał Sapka ran a poll asking what the greatest invention of modern times was. Out of...