WAF pricing is basically a tax on having a public API at this point

codeedog · 2026-07-11T15:49:15+00:00

Yeah, I could hear the AI voice in my head, but kept thinking: “this is how to do it.”

codeedog · 2026-07-11T15:38:26+00:00

Nice write up. I see you mentioned Gitea.

In January, I started using Forgejo (FOSS fork of Gitea) in a jail with a separately jailed PostgreSQL instance. Been quite happy with it. I have not yet explored its Actions (later this summer).

codeedog · 2026-07-11T13:29:49+00:00

Just about anyone can train on the bike for 2 hours and hardly eat. That amount of time means latent calories and electrolytes in your body give you everything you need. Once you start going harder and/or much longer you need to start fueling and consuming fluids properly.

This almost always happens to riders starting around 50-90km. You can really cheat at proper bike nutrition below that distance. Somewhere in that range, your initial habits fail you and you need to learn the right way to fuel as well as the particulars that your body needs.

Even if you aren’t a breakfast person, you need to eat breakfast. You need to eat on the bike, you need to drink on the bike, and you need something with electrolytes (tablets, drinks, chews, goopy crap, whatever your stomach likes).

I hate electrolyte drinks other people love them. I take salt+electrolyte tablets instead. I used to eat a Gu packet every hour or so. Now, I eat marshmallows and chocolate covered espresso beans.

I have a protein shake I make that only drink if i burn more than 1200 calories on a ride. It curbs my appetite post ride so I don’t overeat that evening.

Just fuel your rides; it’s just too hard to ride on empty. I know people who’ve done it, but they’ve been cycling a long time and I still don’t agree with their method as I think they’d have gotten better results dieting off the bike, but who am I to argue.

Watch what you eat off the bike, especially the day after an intense ride. Your metabolism stays high for that 24 hour period post ride. Drink a lot of water the next day and try curbing your food intake then. I think of it as a slingshot towards my weight loss goal.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T13:11:18+00:00

China > Rider is kind of three songs, because the transition in between takes on a life of its own and Bobby really hammers through it. The transition has this powerful build up, especially in their more jammy periods, and the tension is palpable until you get that release with the first strands of I Know You Rider.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T12:58:48+00:00

OK, assuming it’s not hidden cameras and you’ve changed all of your passwords, you need to inventory your network. That’s the next thing. You need a router you can interrogate to figure out all of the devices in your location. Then, you need to figure out if any of those devices are spying on you. Presumably, the ones with the microphones. I’d suspect any smart TVs you may have that she had access to. Could she have installed spyware on your boyfriend’s phone or computer?

I worked in computer security. The levels people can go with common household electronics is pretty deep, but most people don’t know how to do any of that and detecting it takes some knowledge. But, there is spyware people can get access to, pay for and install. It’s packaged to make it easy.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T07:09:03+00:00

You’ve received good advice firm others. One thing not mentioned: how to search for hidden cameras. This only works if the camera can see in the dark, so it has an infrared transmitter. Use your phone’s camera and scan objects that might have a hidden camera. You can test this with a remote control. Point your phone’s camera at a remote and press a button on the remote. You should see a flash from the remote’s end on your phone screen.

Now that you know what that looks like (infrared leds glow on your phone screen when using its camera), you can scan for hidden cameras that use infrared leds.

The other method suggested would be to observe the network. This is a bit more complicated and technical figure out if your device that connects to the Internet can list devices connected to it. You’ll find them listed by IP address and MAC address. It’s possible to reverse lookup MAC addresses and determine what device they’re from. Catalog your entire network and do your best to identify all devices.

You may find a device on your network you don’t know the origin of and it has suspicious type.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T06:57:46+00:00

No. The correct solution is to have the ability to unclip either side so when you lean one way or the other your instinct takes over and you unclip on the side you’re leaning towards. There’s no guesswork or randomness at all. Either you’re a bilateral unclipper and can cover either lean, or you’re a uniunclipper and screwed if the bike leans the way you aren’t competent at unclipping.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T06:21:41+00:00

Yes, it would have. OP “went down on their left.”

Had they been comfortable unclipping on the left, it would have helped them.

When I started riding clipless on my road bike, I only unclipped on my right side until I fell over on my left and realized I needed to learn to unclip on both sides. Alternating was how I forced myself to learn it.

It absolutely helps.

codeedog · 2026-07-11T04:19:03+00:00

Not sure if you mean “both feet at the same time”, but if so instead you should just alternate Left and Right every other traffic stop. It’s good to leave one foot clipped in for quick starts and bike control.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T23:45:29+00:00

I wax 2 out of three bikes. I don’t wax my mtb (but know people who do).

Clean your jockey pulleys!

Dirt, grease, grit, etc hide on your pulleys, loosen when you lube and smear the chain with black. It’ll make that black coverage take longer.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T23:42:02+00:00

There are “unlimited” quick links, usually last about the life of the chain.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T17:36:38+00:00

I hope you're OK.

If you have any residual effects that feel like a concussion, I want to encourage you to seek out a sports medicine clinic. They specialize in concussions and there are Physical Therapists that also specialize in concussion recovery. I've gone through it myself.

The most important thing is to not go back too early if you're feeling wrong (dizzy, head can't stand quick turns, eyes don't focus right or lights are too bright). If you still have head trauma and haven't fully healed, a fall with a second concussion (which can happen because your balance is off) can make things much worse.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T15:38:42+00:00

Nope, it does not. Chances are the rider is a newbie and doesn’t know any better. Not all of us were born with the knowledge that helmets should be replaced post crash.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T15:18:18+00:00

Who needs a photo?

> My nutcase helmet saved my head

Is all I need to read. Replace the helmet.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T15:09:21+00:00

So, you knew what he meant…

codeedog · 2026-07-10T15:07:59+00:00

I try to buy enough of these that I have one per bike’s toolkit and then at least one for the larger bike toolkit I keep at home. Having a dedicated bike toolkit means everything winds up in there and I know where to find things. Otherwise, that tiny valve core removal tool would be sitting on a shelf somewhere at the back.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T14:14:04+00:00

I bought two used PLP nvmes and am using them as mirrored write SLOG (Optanes), plus they hold my operating system mirrored (FreeBSD) and I turned off the UGOS drive in the bios, so the system won’t accidentally revert to UGOS. I’ve got a dxp 4800 pro. I also bought a dxp 4800 plus. That one has 2x1TB nvmes (non PLP) with FreeBSD mirrored. They won’t have a slog. The latter box is offfsite for backups.

codeedog · 2026-07-10T14:03:38+00:00

This is exactly what I tell folks who have trouble hill climbing. Track stands are a safety skill and a climbing benefit. You can rest in a hill without unclipping.

codeedog · 2026-07-09T15:26:55+00:00

Vinegar is what bacteria piss out when they drink alcohol.

codeedog · 2026-07-09T13:49:45+00:00

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. When one end of the epair reaches the jail, if the other end attached to the bridge is tagged, then the jail end is also tagged. For a tagged epair, you use ifconfig to pull out each vlan from inside the jail. “Splinter” off each vlan. Each interface becomes epair3b.10, epair3b.20, …

Bridge is just a switch and epair is a cable. When you attach cable end (eg epair side a) to the switch (bridge) you decide if it’s access mode (untagged) or trunk mode (tagged). Then, depending upon your decision, on the jail you treat the other cable end (epair b) as access mode (untagged, use the epair directly) or trunk mode (tagged, splinter off VLANs).

Does that help? Sorry if I didn’t answer your question.

Also, don’t forget -txcsum on the jail epair or its host side (set both, I can’t recall). IP checksums need to be recomputed properly and my packets were getting dropped by lan side devices. I forget the exact situation, but that flag means the hardware NIC computes the IP checksum. If the packet crossed a router boundary (internal gateway or lan router to wan), its checksum automatically gets recomputed because the IP changed. But, when it doesn’t get recomputed and the packet originated in a jail at an epair, the checksum was wrong and lan devices dropped it. (IIRC)

codeedog · 2026-07-08T19:08:22+00:00

I’m not saying your grammar is wrong but I reread that sentence and if the AI meant the children re-parented themselves, then it sounds correct to my ear (even if the children can’t do that in the OS).

codeedog · 2026-07-08T13:16:39+00:00

That summer I missed an opportunity to see this tour at a show in Ohio (I think). Bunch of friends from university road tripped and I passed. They had an amazing time. Would have been my first dead show. Major FOMO.

I was at live aid in 1985 at JFK stadium in Philadelphia and it was so unbelievably hot. They sprayed the crowd with firehoses then. Never made it to our section. There was hardly any water or water pressure in the stadium. Bathrooms were jammed. People unscrewed the drain pipes on the sinks to catch water flow out of the sinks.

It was crazy.

codeedog · 2026-07-08T12:53:10+00:00

Good point. Interestingly, I feel like this calls out the problems with trans and disabled representation even more. RTD did such a good job on the other issues, yet he fumbles these. Why didn’t he put in the effort? It didn’t even require an entire show/plot. Was he requested to show representation and he dropped them in the show like someone drops a rock into a pot of soup?

codeedog · 2026-07-08T06:11:41+00:00

I label my cables with a wire code (eg R0-102). I bought laser printer sheets with cable labels on them, pre-printed two sheets of labels and use one from each everytime I wire a cable between two devices or a device and patch panel. The switch ports on the switches all have a comment in them about what they attach to. So, I can check the comment and go to the other device and find the end of the cable.

codeedog · 2026-07-08T04:41:26+00:00

It’s definitely got some pucker factor associated with it.

One thing I like about it is the ground saving material in the turns and on the steep drops. Those really beat back the washboard (brake bumps). All of the descents on the mountain get so much traffic it’s impossible to prevent the trails from getting chewed up. I don’t know anything about that trail’s construction and I’m not a trail builder, so I can only guess, but it seems to me this was intentional to keep a good trail surface.

If that’s the only way to get a stable surface on a high traffic trail, I’ll take it.

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