Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • Off the top of my head you would gain some things like superior P2P between devices like NAS because IPV6 doesn’t need NAT traversal. Better plug 'n play for devices, no ip conflicts as the probability of two devices generating the same IPv6 address is statistically zero. I guess you could throw in ‘future proofing’ your network so that when the rest of the world catches up, you’ll already be set up for it.


  • move to IPv6, if only for the learning experience.

    I’m about the learning aspect. It is possible to have local IPV6 connectivity between devices, but only IPV4 for ingress and egress (IPv6-only LAN with IPv4-only WAN). Your router or access point will assign the IPv6 addresses to your devices usually via SLAAC or DHCPv6 and manages local IPv6 routing. Since there is no IPv6 route to the internet, it falls back to IPv4 if the application supports dual-stack or simply uses IPv4 if the OS is configured to prefer it. The router then translates or routes this traffic out via its IPv4 interface.

    This is how I have configured my network. Not because my ISP doesn’t give me an IPV6 address, but because my commercial VPN does not support IPV6. In that scenario, there is a possibility of IPV6 ‘leaks’ outside of the VPN tunnel. I’m not sure about OpnSense, but pFsense has an option to enable IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling.

    ETA: Did a little checking on OpnSense and it seems you can do IPV6 to IPV4 via a plugin called os-6in4.



  • Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders

    The article doesn’t really say if the OneDrive or DropBoxe folders were on the physical drive that was being backed up. Backblaze has a restriction on how the backup operates. The drives must be physically connected to the computer being backed up. I have no experience with backing up Git but to date, all my back ups are what they should be. I know there is software that ‘tricks’ BackBlaze into thinking NAS drives are connected, but not sure what the actual names of the software are.












  • Interesting. My method for finding new or similar music to what I have in my library is to use TasteDive. Crowd-Sourced, so you get a ‘real world’ recommendation. It can be a little bit of work, but I find it quite effective. TasteDive also works for movies and a lot of other things. It does have an API tho I’ve never explored that side. I’m not sure what software would interface with their API.