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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

QNAP branded ConnectX-6 Lx cards were a steal back when I got a bunch, but QNAP in their wisdom have not upgraded the firmware since 2021. Pretty abysmal for something that’s still getting updates from NVIDIA five years later. Also the card has a fan, so cross flashing isn’t very appealing.

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Tor Lillqvist @tml.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@karppinen Huh? It says "NO leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026."

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@tml derp, it would probably help me in the world if I learned to read

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

So leap seconds were abolished from next year, making the one scheduled for December 31 this year the last one ever. Positive: I get to tear down all the leap second smearing infrastructure we have Negative: very little motivation now to do the firmware update and associated downtime my […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

One of the many reasons we ditched Cloudflare back in the day was their inability to distinguish between DDoS attacks and push notifications, like this one:

Grafana graphs showing HTTP traffic at a baseline of 10 Gbit/s reaching almost 200 Gbit/s during one early morning minute in Helsinki, Finland

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Shit you notice as an ISP: UniFi routers on default settings* simply pass conntrack-invalid packets from the local network to the WAN interface as-is with the RFC 1918 source address in place “Hey mr ISP so I failed to NAT this packet from 192.168.1.58 because the conntrack expired but I […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Probably the best thing about HomeView is never having to hear the endless rumors about it again

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 13/10/2026

"The Nazi Bar Has Good Drinks, Actually"

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Junos is just death by a thousand cuts at this point. The number of completely random and arbitrary limitations I keep running into is just insane. Today’s problem: add-path send is just not supported in virtual-router instances on the MX204, for reasons I guess

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain”

Ad for Teufel headphones saying "Not designed in California. Aber in Berlin. Seit 1979"

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

IAB Europe at it again. In the latest TCF version they’ve renamed the device fingerprinting opt-in language. Where they previously asked for permission to ”Actively scan device characteristics for identification" they’re now asking to “Identify devices based on information actively requested." […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Today I’ve found a bug with TLA+ *and* I’ve found a bug with Jepsen. IS THIS ADULTING???

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@VPSuuronen jos eläkemaksuihin ei kosketa niin tässä olisi siis kyse eläkemaksuilla toteutettavasta progressiivisesta verotuksesta. Näkisin että ei ole omiaan ylläpitämään luottoa eläkejärjestelmää kohtaan ainakaan näin pienellä maksimieläkkeellä. Toisaalta rikkaathan elää pidempään, joten siinä […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@tuulimukka.bsky.social vähän nyt slopahtava toi vasemmanpuoleinen vaikka hauska onkin

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmwyve1…

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Finally got around to automating daily fresh screenshots for richie.fi – previously I was featuring shots from 2022 or even older. The variety is great, too. Today, for example, we’ve got stories about sea cucumbers and about a wet mitten

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

“Inundación del Centro de Datos” is not a subject line you want from your Spanish data center on a Sunday morning

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Working in Blender for the first time and suddenly I see how Apple can sell folks new faster computers every year and how my M3 Max is not, actually, as fast as anyone could ever hope a Mac to be

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NaClKnight 🧂⚔️🥊 @naclknight.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This is what's possible with younger politicians.

Screenshot of an article from Club386.com mentions that AOC revealed a Super fast 1000 Hz LCD gaming monitor for e-sports enthusiasts

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Oh cool / insane, apparently QSFP-DD optics can have integrated EDFAs now

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/09/2026

you want to know what's terrifying? ffmpeg is actually a critical part of the transporter software stack in star trek.

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Initiated a return at apple.com for my new pair of AirPods 5 (rattling noise, known hardware issue, thought it'd be less hassle to just return than get a warranty replacement). Anyway, from clicking submit on the site to a dude at my door picking up the earphones: 37 minutes

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

passing phone call audio streams over Core NATS, as one does

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Had fun over the weekend building my own take on Tierra, Tom Ray's digital life simulation from the 90s. I remember reading about it in WIRED, then running it briefly on my own machine. It's so much easier to experiment with this stuff using today's […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250… the only reason to join the omarchy trust is to signal new political allegiance. it is, simply, a vice signal. #fashtech

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, how does one break into the business of selling asshat billionaire watches

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/1172… The Suica penguin is getting MURDERED but I have to admit I love the orange creature whose patience is wearing thin

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 07/09/2026

Quite appropriate today #LG #Spyware

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1172224… I've been largely indifferent to this style of robot canine but wow... adding that articulating neck really transforms them into nightmare material in a way even the machine guns just didn’t

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

A slightly bad look that Ookla includes speedtest servers from H2NEXUS (AS215730) on their default server list while the AS itself is on Spamhaus’s ASN-DROP list. Bad actors getting tons of incoming connections from random speedtest users maybe isn't great?

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Glyph @glyph.im · 31/08/2026

Shame on 1Password. I am a long time user, i like the product, but ever since their first crypto partnership I've been nervous about recommending them. Apparently not nervous enough. omarchy.org/news/2026/08/1password-…

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I love how we’ve spent the last 40 years coming up with ever more clerer audio compression codecs and here I am looking at a web API that uses base64-encoded PCM

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@tml My desktop was 64-bit 30 years ago but I'm still very much dealing with 32-bit ARM boxes every day. So to me 16-bit is still the very old stuff the way 32-bit just isn’t.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 13/07/2026

Since I still see people sharing and recommending archive.is (archive.today) links, perhaps it is relevant to note that: - the service DDoSed a blog using the readers' browsers - and was caught changing the articles it "archived" - Wikipedia blocklisted it earlier this year - it is DNS banned […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

just learned about S3 over RDMA today 🥴

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The customer base of my ISP *doubled* today

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

…I've built my Junos configs programmatically for years know, but the blocker to doing this has been that I don't have the guts to automatically deploy config changes to core routers. The middle ground that made this possible was to just automate pull requests with the changes, I can then […]

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Marko Karppinen @karppinen.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Implemented ASN-DROP filtering on my network just now. It's 435 autonomous systems you probably don't want to exchange traffic with. Currently drops about 11k routes on the DFZ (10,000 IPv4 routes, 1,000 IPv6 ones) as my routers see it […]

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