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@feld locked out from what? did i miss something
@lucasmz "why is IPv4 being preferred?" is exactly what i'm asking :D
i do use ULAs internally, but that shouldn't affect "ping bbc.co.uk" since it has a GUA.
@lucasmz although, perhaps this is related to the host itself having a ULA, so it prefers the IPv4 address. but this doesn't seem to be configurable in musl :-/
on FreeBSD it just works, since it realises the host has no IPv4 connectivity.
how do i convince Alpine Linux that it doesn't have IPv4 connectivity? when i run e.g. "ping bbc.co.uk", it picks the IPv4 address first, even though it doesn't have a default route.
i can't disable IPv4 because i need it for Wireguard.
i can't use /etc/gai.conf because musl libc doesn't support that.
this makes e.g. apk very slow because it waits for IPv4 to time out before it tries IPv6. i don't understand why it doesn't immediately get "no route to host" over IPv4...
any ideas?
latest weird problem: on FreeBSD/ppc64, running as a KVM guest on Linux, 'tcpdump -ni vtnet0' doesn't show any packets.
the network is working fine, the packets just don't appear in tcpdump.
how strange.
until i deleted my GitHub account, i did not realise how terrible GitHub is for people who aren't logged in. i just loaded one GitHub page, the first one i've loaded today, and got "You have hit a secondary rate limit"...
yet another reason not to keep code locked up there, i suppose.
@feld i appreciate this may be different in the US or where you live, but.
@6b6279 it's a 1G FTTC business service, that includes two IPv4 /28s and a support team that actually knows what they're doing, which for me, is worth paying for.
i don't mind them taking the payment separately, it just seems weird for them, like, it's creating more work on their end for no apparent benefit.
i made one phone call last month, so my ISP has taken a direct debit of £0.16 to cover the call charges.
would it not make more sense to just add this to the next invoice (which is usually ~£112/month) and take it all at once?
like, it doesn't really affect me either way, but this seems a bit bizarre.
@feld i haven't seen any updates since the Klara article about that, but i also don't really follow ZFS development. mostly i find files are just easier -- the same reason i don't use raw devices for my databases, even though that's usually faster. so i'd probably stick with files anyway for my own uses, which aren't performance-critical. @mwl
manual testing of various #freebsd src.conf(5) knobs has determined that a lot of these options are actually meaningless or wrong and just shouldn't exist.
@meena another one is WITHOUT_BLOCKLIST which simply breaks the build when used… since no one has reported this since it was added, it’s almost certainly useless.
@feld i don't even know where to start with this... many people who are poor have previous experience with debt and are not going to take out a loan, even if they could, for some abstract benefit, because they're used to being punished for doing that (credit cards, overdraft, etc.).
@feld you are obviously not a poor person, which is fine, not everyone experiences every possible way of living, but... can you just believe me when i say that "just take out a $6k loan for a battery" is not going to fly for most people?
@feld like, i don't know how else to say this, it's not about interest rates or loan guarantees or cars... people simply *won't do that* because they are terrified of this kind of debt.
@feld this is tl;dr. normal people cannot afford to just take out a $6k loan. the fact they have car loans doesn't change that. and again, where i live, most people do not have car loans, or cars.
@feld i did not misunderstand, i know how abusive US car loans work.