Author Archives: stuff writer

uceprotect lists subnets that never sent mail

Posted on 26 March 2026 by stuff writer

uceprotect.net claims to provide a blacklist of IP addresses that send spam. SMTP server operators can query the blacklist, and know to refuse mail from these IP addresses. That’s the theory. But there’s a problem though: uceprotect blocks IP address … Continue reading →

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KJV vs ESV: Jude

Posted on 19 December 2025 by stuff writer

Luke 2:14 – peace to whom? A friend got this meme about Luke 2:14 in the ESV, NIV and KJV and asked about it. Just looking at it, it seems as if the KJV is leaving something out, because it … Continue reading →

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Hymn review: “I asked the Lord that I might grow”, John Newton

Posted on 13 November 2025 by stuff writer

John Newton, famous for writing “Amazing Grace” also wrote the hymn, “I asked the Lord that I might grow”. I don’t care for this one: it doesn’t have as much grace, and it is below amazing. When you set out … Continue reading →

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FRR says “Finite State Machine Error” for IPv6 BGP on Linux

Posted on 3 November 2025 by stuff writer

If you turn off link-local addresses for the interface (those horrible 169.254.50.231 type addresses, and also the IPv6 fe80::dead:beef:4:f00d/64 things), FRR goes sulky. In netplan, it looks like this: When FRR is sulky, it says it will advertise IPv6 subnets, … Continue reading →

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IPv4 port routing for scaleable no-CGNAT NAT

Posted on 13 October 2025 by stuff writer

The CGNAT problem is that a big box at the ISP has to track the state of all communications on the network. This is expensive. It is also unnecessary. It’s 2025-10-13, and here’s an answer. Executive summary for TL;DR: Port … Continue reading →

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mysql_upgrade fails: Unknown collation: ‘utf8_general_ci’

Posted on 9 October 2025 by stuff writer

There I was, innocently trying to upgrade mysql from some version to some other version, and I ran into this beautiful bug: Turns out this is caused mostly by the stupid. Dependencies First, it wanted a bunch of new RPMs: … Continue reading →

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Old Apostolic Church and New Apostolic Church

Posted on 22 April 2025 by stuff writer

This information about the “Old Apostolic Church” and “New Apostolic Church” in South Africa left the internet a few years ago. It is reproduced here in one very long page, with (likely broken) links to web.archive.org. Content belongs to the … Continue reading →

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Rebellion of the lesser magistrate

Posted on 7 April 2025 by stuff writer

When government fails, it falls on people that have any semblance of government authority to do actual justice. Government in South Africa has failed, because its core function (justice) has failed. The courts in South Africa are failing with the … Continue reading →

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Jacobs Krohnung coffee allergic reaction: probably egg white

Posted on 26 March 2025 by stuff writer

Just putting this out there: I have noticed that I have a predictable and severe allergic reaction on drinking Jacobs coffee. The coffee is just fine, but the headache is two hours later. I believe the reason is that the … Continue reading →

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Serial and display console

Posted on 22 January 2025 by stuff writer

Configuration examples on the internets for configuring GRUB to boot serial console tend to turn off the regular console, for GRUB and for Linux. Here’s how you get serial console and regular keyboard/monitor console for both GRUB and Linux: # … Continue reading →

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