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in case anyone was wondering whether PIM-SM works on RouterOS nowadays... no, it still doesn't.

pretty sure this has been broken since 7.0.

#mikrotik

looking through my MikroTik support tickets, i see that i reported this in 2024 as SUP-168353 and the response was:

"We are aware of the issue, hopefully it will be fixed in the future."

i took this to mean "we might fix it in the future" but i guess they were just hoping it would fix itself, or something.

#mikrotik

RouterOS: i now support IPv6 ND proxy

me: yay!

RouterOS: ... for a single IP address.

me: what

@feld the only reliability issues i've had were with MikroTik's buggy OSPF implementation, but they seem to have fixed that and it's pretty stable now @elliot

housemates are away, so taking the opportunity to remove the last vestiges of BGP in our network and replace it with OSPF

@elliot i'm not sure what the right scale for "home network complexity" is but i guess... fairly?

it has externally 2x IPv4 /28s and a IPv6 /48 that are subnetted and need to be routed to the right place, some other internal-only networks (RFC1918/ULA), and is part of a VPN covering three sites including this one

you know, everyone performatively avoiding any software with a single line of LLM-generated code in it could spend their time doing something much more productive, such as burning down AI datacentres.

one of these achieves your aims, the other does not. just saying.

wrote a quick thing to answer an IRC question:

how to route a specific application's traffic through a Wireguard VPN on #freebsd https://people.freebsd.org/~ivy/app-in-fib.txt

i see people fleeing GitHub for Codeberg, which is understandable, but Codeberg is only one good DDoS from being down for a week.

the fix for this isn't to move from one provider to another, it's for people to host their own projects, or ask a friend to host it. Git has a built-in email workflow that works great, you do not need "pull requests" to accept contributions.

@AFresh1 are you using disks with 520-byte sectors? you may want to reformat them as 512-byte, since it has no benefit with zfs

@AFresh1 i don't know how to do it on freebsd off hand, maybe something with camcontrol. linux apparently has a utility called sg_format which can do it...

@AFresh1 we should probably have an easier way to do this, you don't often need it but it's rather unhelpful to require the user to know the SCSI command as a sequence of bytes...

@feld YMTC?

/bin/sh is a bad programming language, exhibit no. 94:

set -- $(nonesuch)
echo $?
-> 0

x="$(nonesuch)"
echo $?
set -- $x
--> 127

@feld the difference is Amazon was based on a well-known business model: undercut competitors through economy of scale. that would not have been a risky bet.

there's as yet no "economy of scale" in AI, only scaling at the same cost-per-user to support more users.

perhaps later models will change that, but perhaps not; we really don't know right now. i would certainly not be buying AI stocks right now, if i was rich enough to own stocks.

@feld it's not clear to me that "we can generate whatever we want". in the sense that i could go on ChatGPT right now and ask for "an image of a woman fretting over how ridiculous capitalism is", yes, but OpenAI is losing billions of $ every year to let me do that.

no one has yet demonstrated that LLMs are sustainable either financially or environmentally.

@feld i can appreciate that, for example, without copyright it would be a lot more difficult for people to make money from things like stock photography and artwork, because it's the threat of copyright litigation (rather than actual litigation) that encourages companies to license that rather than just stealing it.

but in a general sense, yes, the entire system is broken and really only benefits middlemen and legacy copyright owners (Disney, etc).

fun fact: if you do not have a signed contract from Gaia, you do not "own" land.