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* IPv6. A genuinely useful tool, in particular for homelabs: multiple globally routable addresses per machine. One address per service. No need for Host/SNI vho

* IPv6. A genuinely useful tool, in particular for homelabs: multiple globally routable addresses per machine. One address per service. No need for Host/SNI vhosting. Works well with containers. To get v6 support, either find ISPs/SIMs that do v6, or wireguard to a VM that providss a /56. * SSH ForcedCommand. Lots of usecases here, for backups, file storage, git, etc. * Verilog as a tool for software developers to learn digital electronics. VCS/code/simulation/unit tests are all a lot more familiar and expected for developers. * Writing tools yourself. There's often decent stable libraries that do 90% of what you want, and the remaining 10% is less effort than dealing with awkward integration with off-the-shelf tools. This relies on having low overhead packaging/deployment, e.g. Nix/Guix/Bazel.

mentos 3y ago
In the vein of your last point, I use ChatGPT4 to write all my one off scripts for odd tasks. Without knowing Python I worked up a script that can figure out which asset I have selected in UE4, grab the text from it, send it to elevenlabs to create a text to speech conversion, convert the downloaded mp3 to wav, import into UE4 and then set that as the assets (dialogue wave) voice over line…
hypercube33 3y ago
Do you have a source for a cheap cloud vm like you suggested?
- rodlette 3y ago
  If you just want to play with IPv6 on a VM, most VM providers will offer a /64, which is enough to have an address per service on your machine. If you wanted to play with IPv6 on multiple subnets, you'll need something larger than a /56, since subnets should be /64. I rely on my home's v6 /56, so I don't have experience with using VMs for this, but I know of a few providers that offer /56 (and above): * Mythic Beasts and Linode offer a /56 on request. They're not cheap VM providers though. * https://ifog.ch/en/vps https://ifog.ch/en/vps offer /48. * https://tunnelbroker.net/ https://tunnelbroker.net/ offer /48, which can be used via any VPS/home. https://reddit.com/r/ipv6 https://reddit.com/r/ipv6 for more info.

mentos 3y ago

In the vein of your last point, I use ChatGPT4 to write all my one off scripts for odd tasks. Without knowing Python I worked up a script that can figure out which asset I have selected in UE4, grab the text from it, send it to elevenlabs to create a text to speech conversion, convert the downloaded mp3 to wav, import into UE4 and then set that as the assets (dialogue wave) voice over line…

hypercube33 3y ago

Do you have a source for a cheap cloud vm like you suggested?

rodlette 3y ago
If you just want to play with IPv6 on a VM, most VM providers will offer a /64, which is enough to have an address per service on your machine. If you wanted to play with IPv6 on multiple subnets, you'll need something larger than a /56, since subnets should be /64. I rely on my home's v6 /56, so I don't have experience with using VMs for this, but I know of a few providers that offer /56 (and above): * Mythic Beasts and Linode offer a /56 on request. They're not cheap VM providers though. * https://ifog.ch/en/vps https://ifog.ch/en/vps offer /48. * https://tunnelbroker.net/ https://tunnelbroker.net/ offer /48, which can be used via any VPS/home. https://reddit.com/r/ipv6 https://reddit.com/r/ipv6 for more info.