I started playing guitar in August 2020 during the pandemic to give myself something to do. This is kind of a made up excuse, because between working from home and having three kids, I rarely go out anyway. Pandemic life didn’t change much for me, but I got interested and went for it. Here’s what I learned as a guitar noob that I think might be helpful for other people wanting to get into guitar.

For the past ten years I’ve been using Hurricane Electric’s Tunnel Broker service to get IPv6 transit at home long before it was available from my ISP (Cox Communications). Today, I bit the bullet and switched to native IPv6 from my ISP. While Hurricane Electric has has been fantastic, it’s not a perfect solution for most residential users. Being a tunnel you’re force to have a lower MTU than you’d otherwise have, and streaming video providers have a propensity to block tunnels as “VPNs”.

I recently migrated my Unifi controller from a bhyve instance in Triton to an LXC container in a Raspberry Pi. I won’t go into all the reasons why here, but suffice it to say that I had made some choices about my existing network that, while they made sense at the time, didn’t really jell with the way Unifi is intended to operate. I’ve been running a controller myself for over a year, and I already have a router and several spare Raspberry Pis laying around, so getting a Cloud Key or Dream Machine wasn’t something I was willing to pay for just yet.

The CDDL is not incompatible with the GPL. Anybody who says otherwise has an agenda. I’ve heard all the arguments. They’re all bullshit and FUD. I, of course, am not a lawyer. But I can read. This is written primarily to discuss the situation with the Linux kernel and ZFS. First, let’s review. The Linux kernel is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL). The effective clause of the GPL is in section 2, as follows (emphasis added).

Last week I presented on Triton at LOPSA LA and UUASC. I’ve got video this time! And slides, though most of the talk was live demos, so the slides leave a bit to be desired.