Paul's Site of Stuff ^..^

Ever since I [finally] got an IPv6 range for my home/business internet connection a few years back I have struggled to be able to access Microsoft services - either at all, or heavily delayed.

After migrating a client's file server from Windows to a FreeBSD samba share, they have noticed some files when opened are not prompting other users to open the file in "Read-Only" mode. The additional users can just open the file with read+write permissions.

This should not be!

Searching the internet gives a handful or results, often met with Microsoft's "Run these powershell commands blindly and you'll be sorted" support method - which are basically no help at all.

Having recently switched my daily driver computers to Alpine Linux, and the performance and computing enjoyment gains being fantastic, I have found the performance on some applications, Zola specifically, can be quite drasticly poor. Here's what I did to solve it. (It's a very simple solution)

Even when GPT (GUID Partition Table, not the slop thing) didn't exist, I never thought I'd need to deal with and handle the limit of a 2 terabyte partition size on an MBR/DOS formatted disk, it just seems such a huge size it would never be a factor. But, here we are, in 2026, and I have had to deal with this exact issue.

What's the deal with Calendar Categories?
Why do all services and applications seem to handle them differently?
This is a general vent of me, working through all these things and trying to find a reasonable solution!

Often, when I'm consulting with a client and a third-party service provider, I may have the need to bring up a security concern which should be considered, or eliminated, surrounding what the third-party service provider aims to implement. This can be met with a defense of "We have always done it this way and not had a problem yet." which drives me insane!

How I learned to stop worrying and love WhatsApp... not really. This is how I've set up my own XMPP service to be able to talk to WhatsApp using the slidge-whatsapp transport module.

Here are some notes and pictures of how I made a working, automated hydro-electric dam in Luanti. The dam gates can be opened and closed manually to generate more or less power, or, if the power demand becomes too high or too low, the dam will automatically open or close gates to adjust the power accordingly.

I've noticed a few times recently my Forgejo server has been triggering alerts on my monitoring systems that is isn't responding as fast as it normally should be. Low and behold - it's due to AI crawlers causing it to grind to a halt as the scrape every little section of the service for their own needs.
This is how I implemented Anubis to help mitigate this problem.

Recently I've started to migrate some of my VPS's to Netcup as I have found their offerings more performant, and less expensive, than other VPS providers.
However, it seems due to the way Netup's IPv6 network is set up causes some issues with FreeBSD, and allegedly other BSDs leading to loss of connectivity via IPv6.