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I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch of cloudflare (or whatever centralized captcha org) sites at once which raises suspicions. And orgs like cloudflare probably track IP address reputations, almost like blacklists.
Is this on track? Is there anything out on the 'net that might bac…

I got a free HP wireless printer, and it seems that it is not designed to work on a subnet other than the one where the print job is sent from.
I had to configure an Outbound NAT rule in pfSense so that traffic from print jobs is sent out with the pfSense IP address to trick the printer into thinking that the sender is on the same subnet.
What a hassle!

6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
#LetsEncrypt

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
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Aeza Group was put on the U.S. Treasury's OFAC list last year "for its role in supporting cybercriminal activity targeting victims in the United States and around the world."
The "international" AS is registered to an address in the U.K., while the "group" AS is registered in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"AEZA INTERNATIONAL LTD" transferred: AS210644, 2a01:/29 to ""AEZA GROUP LLC""

from my link log —
IPv6 address assignment.
https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/02/ipv6-address-assignment/
saved 2026-02-21 https://…

My rpi openwrt router is set up. If all works as intended I'll be surfing from my home IP address when @ my girlfriends house as it tunnels all trafic over tailscale to an exit node in my livingroom. That means.... that we can use my streaming services at her place without the provider is bugging me about another household. Well it's proof of concept right now so I'll let you know how it goes when it's installed at her place.

Interesting #TTP
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hidden-telegram-proxy-links-can-reveal-your-ip-address-in-one-clic…

Hidden Telegram proxy links can reveal your IP address in one click
A single click on what may appear to be a Telegram username or harmless link is all it takes to expose your real IP address to attackers due to how proxy links are handled. Telegram says it will add warnings to proxy links after researchers demonstrated that such one-click interactions could reveal a Telegram user's real IP address.

Lets Encrypt for IP addresses \o/
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability.html

🥳 Minor releases
• Auto Encrypt 5.1.0: Moves automatic IP address detection from top-level await to asynchronous createServer() method to enable servers that import to run offline when they’re running on localhost) and exports IPAddresses class so servers can carry out their own automatic IP address detection (IPv4 and IPv6) if they want full control over exactly which domains and IP addresses are included in provisioned TLS certificates.¹
• @small-tech/https: Re-exports IPAddres…

auto-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md at main
auto-encrypt - Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.

“you can just supply an IP address of a MongoDB instance and it’ll start ferreting out in memory things such as database passwords (which are plain text), AWS secret keys etc. The exploit specifically looks for those class of credentials and secrets, too.”
https://doublepulsar.com…

Merry Christmas Day! Have a MongoDB security incident.
Somebody from Elastic Security decided to post an exploit for CVE-2025–14847 on Christmas Day.

Yes it does. 🤪
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)"

Wrong.
#google #ai #slop

NetworkManager is a fucking nightmare
I love having something that silently reverts changes I made with 'ip'
I love waiting a full minute for it to give any indication that I've plugged a wired Ethernet cable in
Ok so I set eth0 to "unmanaged" with a little config snippet - fixed, right? Nope, now eth0 is a brick. Even if I bring the interface UP, `dhclient` just hangs and never gets an address because nm is (apparently(?)) STILL fucking with it. Confi…

from my link log —
ARIN incident report: IP address issuance error.
https://www.arin.net/announcements/20251212/
saved 2025-12-21 https://

Public Incident Report – 4.10 Issuance Error
Executive Summary On 2 December 2025, an IPv4 block 23.150.164.0/24, correctly allocated to the Original Customer, was inadvertently removed and reissued to the …

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social With Graphene, I get kicked off the internet. Other Android devices work perfectly with Wi-Fi, but Graphene suddenly can't access any IP addresses. After rebooting, it works for a few seconds, then stops again. I've been experiencing this for months, but now, for the first time, an app is showing me an error message: In Obtainium: "ClientException with SocketException: Connection reset by peer (OS Error: Connection reset by peer, errno = 104), address = ... , port …

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social With Graphene, I get kicked off the internet. Other Android devices work perfectly with Wi-Fi, but Graphene suddenly can't access any IP addresses. After rebooting, it works for a few seconds, then stops again. I've been experiencing this for months, but now, for the first time, an app is showing me an error message: In Obtainium: "ClientException with SocketException: Connection reset by peer (OS Error: Connection reset by peer, errno = 104), address = ... , port …

Hey, guess what?
I just saw the first Small Web site (the Kitten Chat example¹ from Kitten²) running at a Web Number³:
https://91.98.66.193/
👉 Update: I’m shutting it down in a few moments so it might not be there when you try it :)
Come say hi (I don’t know how long I’ll keep it on for, will update this when I turn it off.)
🥳
PS. This is only in the ip-address-support branch of Kitten right now and should be considered experimental. Will likely make it in…

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A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Universities selling their address space are probably oblivious to where it is going, but they should care. One day people are going to realize a lot of these high rep addresses are getting transferred to very different resource stewards.
re: https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Purdue University Northwest" (ARIN) transferred 163.245.224.0/19 to "Reliable Communications s.r.o." (RIPE) (Estimated Market Value: $139.26 K)

I reinstalled MX Linux on my father's mini PC because because it wouldn't connect to the Internet or the local network. After half an hour of scratching my head, I still didn't know why.
After reinstalling and configuring everything (network printer, email, accounts for various websites, etc.), I realized that the IP address I had assigned to it was already taken.
It doesn't matter how much you know about system or network administration if you're a complete m…

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.
¹

alrighty folks! time to install the new network box!
Will see if I can fully replace the Telus router (white roundish tower thing on the top shelf) with the asus router.
there will definitely be interruptions in internet to this mstdn account, as well as to the alberniweather blog.
It would be nice if it preserves my ip address, and not need a ddns update but I doubt I will be that lucky.
See you on the flip side! I will post updates from @…
#selfhost #footiMac #network #mastodon #homelab

Smart homes are really great aren't they?
Until the power company decides to throw a fit and interrupts the power to the house every few seconds for a while and half the lights in the flat determine this is a signal they should flash while demanding a network paring and password.
And now everything has a new IP address and the lights are enough to give vulnerable people fits.
#smartHome