straight

so I finally got myself a pride flag and put it in the entrance of my home. My kids were having a discussion in front of it why I did not iron it and if you should iron a pride flag at all… Because “then it would be straight”

after 2 days of searching I found out that this is actually a thing, made popular by Bernie Sanders

https://twitter.com/Potatopolitics/status/1522605863084638208

Knowledge transfer

So I love cats and since I have adopted Grace, they have not gotten enough attention.

This is mainly because Grace is so much better at catching my attention. But they have started learning from her / copying her.

And it’s against the rules to not rub a belly when exposed. 🥰

Stupidity

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.


The same applies when you are stupid.

Ricky Gervais

bufferbloat 2.0

if you are like me, you don’t use your ISPs modem but run the connection straight into your pfsense. This allows for some nice stuff. for example combating bufferbloat.

some nice people at SANS have written this post about it.

tl;dr: my bufferbloat rating (according to dslreports) went from C to A+

Basically it’s just traffic management and efficient queuing, use of codel limiters instead of tail dropping.

now I want to see how it affects my video meetings and if this was the reason for the occasional stutter/drops in framerate. would be epic.

and… Last but not least: update SSL certs