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Written by Denton Gentry on 2025-01-31 at 12:28

https://linuxiac.com/opnsense-celebrates-10-years-with-the-25-1-ultimate-unicorn-release/

I'll update OPNsense in a week or two, looks neat.

My OPNsense instance is a VM running on a Proxmox host with ZFS as its storage. I doubt the ZFS support within OPNsense will be applicable, I think it sees a raw block device.

I wouldn't want OPNsense to create a ZFS filesystem using the blocks which reside within the Proxmox ZFS filesystem. That would be confusing.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-30 at 17:10

I hope this timeline eventually leads to "surprise advancement in post quantum cryptography drains Satoshi's early bitcoin wallets."

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-29 at 03:24

"You are receiving this email because you are a Credit One Bank cardmember."

No, I am receiving this email because the person who keeps using my email address on their accounts never figures out that they don't receive the emails they signed up for.

YOU then send no unsubscribe link because you assert that I am your customer without ever having confirmed the email address during your signup process.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-25 at 13:37

After pausing/resuming almost 30 times, the sync of 260 GBytes has reached 56%. It stalled again a while after I went to sleep and just sat there the rest of the night.

I'm giving up on SyncThing for this. However when I try to unshare the folder the UI just sits there until it reloads, and it fails to remove the folder from its list.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-24 at 23:46

So now I have to do the social media calculation of "risk that someone will decide that I need to be harmed, punished, or somehow made to suffer" versus "willingly silencing myself to avoid saying something which is true."

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-24 at 23:37

Oh, my. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dentongentry_the-practice-of-painting-one-blade-of-a-wind-activity-7277009152630050817-tWGW

This must have gotten picked up somewhere that is aiming a death ray at it.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-24 at 23:24

Syncthing appears to send chunks of 16 KBytes, as 11 max sized frames followed by a 544 byte frame. When it stalls, it finishes sending one of those 16K chunks and then just doesn't send anything more.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-24 at 22:43

Usually when I pause/resume in this way, the Syncthing daemon on the Mac dies and is automatically restarted. I see the UI say it has lost contact with the backend, then recovers.

I've found a number of descriptions of similar problems and that pause+resume lets it start making progress, but no permanent solution that I have found.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-24 at 22:43

I am trying to sync 260 GBytes, about 450k files altogether, from a macOS system to Linux. Both are running Syncthing 1.28.1.

While underway it can transfer at about 50 Mbps, but the transfer has repeatedly stalled and sat there transferring no data for several hours. On the originating Mac if I pause the destination Linux machine and then Resume it, the transfer will start making progress again and transfer a few more gigabytes before stalling.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-06 at 22:08

Done!

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-06 at 19:31

Ok. Today is the day.

The semi-annual Running of the Proxmoxes, wherein I update from Proxmox 8.0.3 to 8.3.

Here we go.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-03 at 19:40

I've used Google Blogger forever. I haven't looked at the template for some time.

I don't want the Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest share buttons any more. I do want Bluesky and Mastodon share buttons. It doesn't look easy to do this.

Google doesn't appear to be working on Blogger any more. Promotion-Driven-Development means a product that can't get someone to L7 will not be worked on further.

I think it might be easier to move the whole blog than try to make Blogger do what I want.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-02 at 02:18

Ok, got the whole fam set up to use Signal. We have individual 1:1 chats initiated, plus a family group.

It was easy. I'd gotten the impression that Signal was hard to use, but the family are all fine with it.

We'll try a video call soon, eldest sprog is back to college until XMas break.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-12-01 at 00:25

@danderson I'm seeking an offsite backup option for the ZFS filesystem holding our photos, NextCloud, etc.

I believe you used rsync.net at one time, do you still? Can you share experiences with it?

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-11-30 at 23:58

What am I up to today?

Oh, you know, the usual: writing to newspaper columnists about foreign driver's license reciprocity with the state of California.

Unfortunately I just learned that the state politician I am most trying to reach held a constituent town hall near me two weeks ago, and has no more scheduled for months.

Oh well, opportunity missed. I'll try some other way.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-11-30 at 10:24

The people working in Tech are traditionally fairly Leftish. Still are, mostly, though of course there is a whole range.

The execs never were Leftish, not really. "You have no privacy, get over it."

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-11-30 at 09:52

I have resisted the overwhelming urge to reply.

Please clap.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-11-24 at 19:26

I guess I'm in the market for a gaming laptop for Mister 15 #2. His 2023 ASUS TUFbook turned out to not be tuf enough: the screen doesn't light up at all not even at UEFI. Similar reports abound over the last couple years, with no solution offered.

So:

• no ASUS, I'm old and hold grudges

• 32+ GB RAM

• 1+ TB SSD

• mobile GPU, RTX 3050 or better

I'm polling https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cheap-gaming-laptops and the $879 MSI Katana A15 looks reasonable so far.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-10-23 at 22:14

College student me decided to shoot photos exclusively in black and white, so I have no color photos of my University years.

High school me decided the Kodak Disc cameras were cool, so all of my high school photos look like ass.

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Written by Denton Gentry on 2024-10-13 at 14:11

20 year old Avant-garde me: I shall take all of my college photos with black-and-white film, to emphasize the stark nature and breathtaking cold of Ann Arbor.

Me, 30 years later: the fuck is all the color?

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