Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

Fairly productive and enjoyable day today. Got in some good violin practice, spun more yarn, cleaned up a bit around the house, knocked out day 5 of Advent of Code. May give day 6 a look later, or save it for tomorrow.

@Gina pretty impractical on YT now. The ads are basically, to any of your network gear, indistinguishable from the stream you requested. DNS trickery is no longer sufficient. I would have said impossible but somewhere someone is surely doing something likely involving real-time decoding and frame analysis to drop frames that are ads before encoding it all back and passing through an ad-free stream. Gonna guess that takes a touch more power than most embedded SoCs offer yet.

Started the 2020 Advent of Code today in #Rust. Better late than never, but I've finally reached a point where I have time to think about such things.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/advent-of-code-2020

@Gina that makes a lot more sense. I used the imaging software more than 20 years ago in my first IT gig and nearly had a heart attack at the thought of it being used today 😂

@Gina Ghost like the system imaging thingy???

@purism this is not a use case I had in mind but it looks pretty cool!

Updated SSH Tunnel Manager to support both nmap-ncat and legacy netcat, and fix a bug that resulted in an infinite loop in one of the connection status checkers. So far it's been performing nicely for the last few hours with several network events thrown its way from the local and remote sides of the tunnel. Not mad about it at all.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

@Gina your upstream is still better than my US upstream! We won't even talk about how expensive my slow US internet is ;_;

@Gina @neil yeah I’d not bother setting a server up, just make a room on one that already exists.

@Gina an open Matrix room shouldn’t be too hard eh? Admittedly have not done large group video, but chat works well. If just chat suffices there’s the old faithful: IRC.

And finished todays bit of spinning and plying. I still have quite a lot of wool left to go overall but I’ll get through it one step at a time.

And we’re off to a good start on the new yarn.

@Gina nah this is exactly why I never actually finished a CS degree. I’d come up with an idea, start coding, and then find out there were twelve libraries in literally every single possible language doing the exact same thing already.

Fast forward 20yrs and now I just don’t care. If I write something useful to myself that’s good enough. If one other person finds one of my ideas useful, that’s icing on the cake.

Just publicly released a new project: SSH Tunnel Manager as a Bash-driven solution to keep track of a persistent background SSH connection with Local, Remote, or Dynamic forwards. Additional details in the readme.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

Non-tech project of the new week. Spin another bobbin of yarn from this really nice BFL roving. When that’s done, I’ll ply the two together and get started on the next bunch. I’ve got some plans to probably use this in a cardigan at some point.