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Title: IPv6 at Online.net, with libvirt
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Date: 2017-07-14T00:21+02:00
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Author: Wxcafé
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Category: tutorial
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Slug: ipv6_at_online.net,with_libvirt
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So, I have this server at [Online](https://online.net), a french hosting
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company, part of Illiad. They do an all-around amazing job hosting servers,
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their interface is great, they datacenters are top-notch, etc.
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But like every other hosting company out there, IPv6 isn't yet a first-class
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citizen. Oh, it's supported all right. The official way to make it work involves
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not one, not two, but *three* configuration methods:
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- The address must be configured statically, manually
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- They use Prefix Delegation (PD), so you have to run a DHCPv6 client to get the
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prefix delegated to you
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- And then you need to get a default route, and since they don't implement the
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DHCPv6 extension for this (yet?) so you have to accept SLAAC (stateless
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address autoconfiguration) Router Advertisements (RAs).
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So, generally, on Linux, this is a bit of a hassle. You come and configure your
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static address, the kernel accepts RAs by default so that's taken care of, and
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then you configure a DHCPv6 client (they have a nice tutorial for that) and
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you're good to go.
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Of course, there's a catch: the title of that post says "with libvirt" and
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I wouldn't have written a blog post to tell you "they have a good tutorial, just
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follow it!".
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So libvirt is a common interface for a bunch of virtualization technologies
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(Xen, Qemu/KVM, bhyve, virtualbox, etc...). It also does a bunch of nice stuff
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for you, like set up a SPLICE or a VNC server for each VM, handle the resource
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management in a standardized way, all that stuff. But it also handles the
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network stuff for you. Which is really nice in a way, since it sets up a bridge
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for the VMs to communicate, firewall rules for forwarding and stuff, a DHCP
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server for the VMs, etc. And you can configure it however you want! I can just
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bridge out to the NIC, or setup a v4 NAT, or whatever. It's really nice. But
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then you turn on IPv6 on your libvirt network config. And just like that, poof,
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your host v6 connectivity goes down.
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That's weird. Reboot, the v6 connectivity doesn't even go up! Even tho you have
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an address and ... wait, the default route is gone?
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Yeah, so *here's* the catch. libvirt, when it starts up and one of the
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configured networks has v6 enabled, launches a Router Advertisement daemon
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(radvd) and starts sending RAs to *all host interfaces*. **TO ALL OF THE HOST'S
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INTERFACES!!** But it doesn't know any default route to advertise to the egress
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interface, so it just sends a RA without a default route. And, of course, Linux
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sees that and overwrites the old default route it received from the older RA,
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cause *of course* a newer RA would have better information, *even* if it says it
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has no route.
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Anyway, so now there isn't an easy answer to this, so I went the cheap and
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dirty route : I disabled the libvirtd service, and wrote the following into my
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`/etc/network/interfaces`:
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```
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iface eth0 inet6 static
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address 2001:bc8:30b9:<whatever>/64
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accept_ra 2
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post-up ip6tables-restore < /etc/ip6tables.conf
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post-up sleep 30; \
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echo $(ip -6 r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3) > /tmp/v6_route ; \
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systemctl start libvirtd; \
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sleep 10; \
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ip -6 r a default via $(cat /tmp/v6_route)
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pre-down ip6tables-save > /etc/ip6tables.conf
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```
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(yeah, I know the code block is )
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So, okay. Please, consider this. Yes, this is absolutely disgusting. But it
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*works*.
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Please don't hit me
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Anyways if you were looking for a way to make this work, here it is.
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Title: mastodon
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Date: 2017-05-20T18:18+0200
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Author: Wxcafé
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Category:
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Slug: mastodon
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...
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So. What have I been up to these last weeks, you ask (or maybe you don't care,
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in which case I'm gonna tell you anyway, cause it might still be interesting to
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you).
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Also, why am I writing this blog post? Why, you see, I made a promise of some
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kind (I'm also kinda cheating here, but whatever). I have a patreon now
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([here](https://patreon.com/wxcafe)). I ask for money to fund the Mastodon
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server I'm running, [here](https://social.wxcafe.net), that has almost 900 users
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at the time of writing. I say *server*, but it's actually **servers**, since I'm
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also hosting [this one](https://imaginair.es), less generalistic and more geared
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towards creators and people who enjoy what we call "les cultures de
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l'imaginaire" in french, which loosely include SF/Fantasy type settings, role
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playing games, TCGs, etc. More on that one soon, but for now let's stay on
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subject : why am I writing this blog post? Well, enough people were nice (or
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foolish, depending on your opinion of me) enough to give me money that now
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I have to keep my engagement to write a blog post a month (which means you'll
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see way more posts since the last one is from... february (and I had to check)).
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Anyway, yeah. That's mostly what I've been up to these last few weeks. I've
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started hosting a mastodon server on social.wxcafe.net about a month back, I've
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spent a while working on the mastodon codebase and issue tracker (I haven't had
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time to do that as much as I'd like lately, I've been working on other project
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with more urgent deadlines...), and the imaginair.es project started developing
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with the help of [Ekzael](https://imaginair.es/@Ekzael) and
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[Eutrapélie](https://imaginair.es/@Eutrapelie) about two and a half weeks ago.
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I then worked a bit on automation and stuff (more on that soon) and the
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imaginair.es mastodon instance was launched about a week and a half ago.
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So, about imaginair.es. The idea with this is not to make it a single mastodon
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instance, but rather to have it be a nebulæ of mastodon instances. Basically,
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the main domain is to be an open discussion board, with creators and people
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interested, as I said before, in SFF, etc. But then, seeing how mastodon could
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be amazing for role playing, subdomains are available for, well, roleplaying
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groups. Meaning you can get your own mastodon instance for your RP/RPG group,
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and play online through that. I don't know about you, but I think that mastodon
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would be a pretty nice medium for that. Anyway, I'm going to talk about the
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technical details now so if you don't care skip the next two paragraphs.
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So, how do I plan on running that many mastodon instances (ah, the rethorical
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question, best friend of bloggers)? Well, that question requires a bit of
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insight into how Mastodon works. First, Mastodon is comprised of three services:
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web workers, a sidekiq process, and a streaming (websocket) server. Combined,
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without much activity, these use up about 1 gig of RAM. I rent a [Dedibox Classic
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2016](https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-classic) at Online.net,
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a french provider. That server has 1 Xeon (6C/12T) at 2.2Ghz and 32 Gigs of RAM.
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That means that I should have enough memory to run 32 low-activity servers,
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which typically RP servers should be. That would be if I did traditional
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virtualization (Xen, etc), but not with KVM/Qemu, because Linux now has
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a feature called KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging), that allows it to merge memory
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pages that are the exact same. Meaning if I run 10 mastodon instances on that
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same server, that are all copies of one another, it **should** use only 1 gig of
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RAM. Of course, since users are present and different from instance to instance,
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since the content they post isn't the same either, and since the system (like
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all systems) isn't perfect, its not 100% efficient. But I can envision hosting
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at least 100 instances on that server, for about 30€/month.
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"But isn't that a security problem?" I hear you ask. Well, yes and no. Yes, it
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could be a security problem, it *sounds* less secure than strictly separating
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each VM and never letting them interact through the hypervisor. **But** given
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the number of high-profile providers who use KVM/Qemu with KSM, I feel pretty
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secure using it too, and we've seen more bugs in Xen than in KVM/Qemu (I'm talking
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about KVM/Qemu specifically here, not about the kernel itself...) in recent
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years. Anyway, if someone manages to get a shell on one of these and then gets
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root and then uses KSM to jump between VMs and/or escape the VM entirely **AND
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THEN** gets root on the host, well, I can only pray they're not pissed at me
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enough to fuck with my other machines.
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Anyway, so here are the projects I've been working on these last weeks. I'm
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gonna continue working on these, of course, even tho I have some more pressing
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projects right now, and I hope then can be useful to some people. If you'd like
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to join either, feel free, of course, and if you'd like to get a private RP
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instance, HMU at [@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net](https://social.wxcafe.net/@wxcafe)
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Date: 2016-04-08 01:43
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Title: A propos
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Title: About
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Slug: about
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Author: wxcafé
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Category: Perso
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Wxcafé, c'est moi.
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------------------
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Je m'appelle Clément Hertling, je suis né en 1995 (oui, ça m'évite de devoir
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mettre à jour cette page régulièrement), et je suis étudiant en DUT à [Paris 12
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(UPEC)](http://www.u-pec.fr), après un an de prépa integrée
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a [Épita](http://www.epita.fr). Je vis actuellement a Villejuif, près de Paris,
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en France.
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Je suis enthousiaste dès qu'il s'agit de jouer avec des ordinateurs, que ce soit
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avec des systèmes d'exploitations (et particulièrement les UNIX-like : Linux,
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\*BSD, OS X, Plan 9, ...), mais aussi avec le réseau et son administration
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(principalement couches 2 et 3, routage et commutation).
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Bref, j'aime les systèmes : les observer, les démonter, les remonter, et les
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comprendre. Ça s'applique aussi bien aux systèmes d'exploitation ou au réseau,
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comme dit plus haut, mais aussi à la sécurité, ou bien même à des systèmes non
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électroniques : je suis aussi très intéressé par l'horlogerie, par exemple, ou
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par les jeux de rôles, qui sont aussi en quelque sorte des systèmes (de jeu,
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mais des systèmes quand même).
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Je suis aussi intéressé par le hardware, que ce soit de l'embarqué ou bien des
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serveurs, et dans une moindre mesure par l'électronique. Je fais un peu (et de
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plus en plus) de programmation, principalement en python et en Rust. Je
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m'intéresse beaucoup a la théorie de la programmation, toutefois, et j'aime
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beaucoup la programmation fonctionnelle.
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J'aime aussi écrire a propos de ce que je fais, et de mes pensées sur la
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technologie en général, et c'est ce que je fais (parfois) ici (et a d'autres
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endroits sur d'autres sujets.)
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Vous pouvez aussi me lire sur Twitter, c'est un moyen de communication que
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j'utilise beaucoup. Les liens sont dans la barre a droite. Si vous voulez me
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rencontrer IRL, vous pouvez m'envoyer un mail.
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*-- Mis à jour pour la dernière fois le 2016-04-08 01:43*
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Wxcafé, that's me.
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------------------
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I'm Clément Hertling, I was born in 1995 (this is totally a trick not to have to
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update this page regularly), and I'm a student in a technical
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update this page regularly), and I'm a student in a technical
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formation at [Paris 12 (UPEC)](http://www.u-pec.fr). Before that I did a year of
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preparatory school at [Épita](http://www.epita.fr), a engineering school. I live
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in Villejuif, near Paris, France.
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You can find my resume in english [here](https://pub.wxcafe.net/resume_en.pdf).
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I try to keep it up to date, and it should be most of the time. The code is
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[here](https://git.wxcafe.net/wxcafe/resume) (might be a bit slow...)
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I'm pretty enthusiastic about playing with computers, whether that
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means operating systems (and more specifically UNIX-like OSes : Linux, \*BSD,
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OS X, Plan 9, ...), or networks and their administration (generally speaking,
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layer 2 and 3, routing and switching).
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Well, I like systems : watching how they work, tinkering with them, and in the
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layer 2 and 3, switching and routing).
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Well, I like **systems** : watching them work, tinkering with them, and in the
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end understanding how they work. This means OSes and networks, as I said before,
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but also security, or even non-electronic systems : I'm very interested in
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watch-making too, or by pen and paper role playing games, which are also
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systems, in a sense. Game systems, but systems nonetheless.
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watch-making too, or lockpicking, or even pen and paper role playing games,
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which are also systems, in a sense. Game systems, but systems nonetheless.
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I'm also interested in hardware, be it embedded systems or servers, and to a
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smaller extent in electronics. I also do a bit of (but more and more)
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programming, mostly in python and Rust. I'm very interested in CS theory,
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though, and very much so in functionnal programming.
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smaller extent in electronics. I also do a bit of programming, mostly in python
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and Rust. I'm very interested in CS theory, though, and very much so in
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functionnal programming.
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I also enjoy writing about what I do and about my ideas on tech in general, and
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that's what I (sometimes) do here (and in other places, but on other topics).
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You can also read my thoughts on twitter, it's a communication medium that I use
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a lot. The links are in the sidebar. If you want to meet me, you can send me
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an email.
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You can also read my thoughts on Twitter and Mastodon, I use those
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a lot. The links are down in the footer. If you want to meet me IRL, hit me up
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by email.
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Sorry all the posts here are in French, btw. I'm thinking about starting to post
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in English, but for now it's all in French. Maybe try Google Translate?
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*-- Last updated 2017-05-23*
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*-- Last updated 2016-04-08 01:43*
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Wxcafé, c'est moi.
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------------------
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Je m'appelle Clément Hertling, je suis né en 1995 (oui, ça m'évite de devoir
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mettre à jour cette page régulièrement), et je suis étudiant en Licence Pro
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à [Paris 12 (UPEC)](http://www.u-pec.fr), après un an de prépa integrée
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a [Épita](http://www.epita.fr) et un DUT Réseaux et Télécoms. Je vis
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actuellement a Villejuif, près de Paris, en France.
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Vous pouvez trouver mon CV en français [ici](https://pub.wxcafe.net/resume.pdf).
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J'essaie de le tenir a jour, et ça devrait être le cas la plupart du temps.
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Le code source est disponible [ici](https://git.wxcafe.net/wxcafe/resume) (ça
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peut être un peu lent...)
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Je suis enthousiaste dès qu'il s'agit de jouer avec des ordinateurs, que ce soit
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avec des systèmes d'exploitations (et particulièrement les UNIX-like : Linux,
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\*BSD, OS X, Plan 9, ...), mais aussi avec le réseau et son administration
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(principalement couches 2 et 3, routage et commutation).
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Bref, j'aime les systèmes : les observer, les démonter, les remonter, et les
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comprendre. Ça s'applique aussi bien aux systèmes d'exploitation ou au réseau,
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comme dit plus haut, mais aussi à la sécurité, ou bien même à des systèmes non
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électroniques : je suis aussi très intéressé par l'horlogerie, ou le
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crochettage, voir même par les jeux de rôles, qui sont aussi en quelque sorte
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des systèmes (de jeu, mais des systèmes quand même).
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Je suis aussi intéressé par le hardware, que ce soit de l'embarqué ou bien des
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serveurs, et dans une moindre mesure par l'électronique. Je fais un peu (et de
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plus en plus) de programmation, principalement en python et en Rust. Je
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m'intéresse beaucoup a la théorie de la programmation, toutefois, et j'aime
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beaucoup la programmation fonctionnelle.
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J'aime aussi écrire a propos de ce que je fais, et de mes pensées sur la
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technologie en général, et c'est ce que je fais (parfois) ici (et a d'autres
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endroits sur d'autres sujets.)
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Vous pouvez aussi me lire sur Twitter ou Mastodon, j'écris (bien) plus sur ces
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médias qu'ici. Les liens sont dans le footer. Si vous voulez me
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rencontrer IRL, envoyez moi un mail.
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*-- Mis à jour pour la dernière fois le 2017-05-23*
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Title: RPGs, teardowns, ...
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Date: 2017-06-16T21:52+0200
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Author: Wxcafé
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Category:
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Slug: RPGs,_teardowns,_...
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It's starting to look more and more like a real blog here, I make less posts
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about a specific thing and more about what I've done recently. I mean sure it's
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only been two months but still.
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Anway. What'd I do this past month? Well, not much. I didn't get much time,
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cause of school work. Thankfully tho I'm done with that for a while.
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Anyways, here's what I *did* do:
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- First, I made a bunch of posts (in french) abour pen and paper RPGs on
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[that hashtag](https://imaginair.es/tags/unjourunjdr). These talk only about
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indy RPGs that I like, and there's like 6 of them. I stopped doing them when
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I started working on the school stuff, but I might start again (not once a day
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tho, but still) in a while.
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- I also moved social.wxcafe.net from a VPS on Vultr to a VM on the same server
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that hosts imaginair.es
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- Since this, I also moved that server to another one, still at Online.net,
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taking advantage of the summer sales. I've been having some issues with IPv6
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recently for some reason, but I'm still debugging that for now. It's not that
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much of a blocking bug, as I can just reboot and that fixes it, but it's still
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2-5 minutes downtime every time the IPv6 disconnects, and it's a bother.
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I didn't have that problem on the older server for some reason, with the exact
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same configuration. But yeah IPv6 with Online.net has always been finicky, so
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I guess it's to be expected. I'll try to spend some time fixing this in the
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next month or so... But it might just end up working fine on its own after
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a while. IDK.
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- uh I guess that's pretty much it? I've painted some miniatures at
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https://imaginair.es/@wxcafe, too, and I'm pretty excited for HOU prerelease,
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but that's beyond our concern here I think.
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Hmm. That doesn't feel a lot like a real blog post. I might just do another one
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in the coming days, but that's all I got for you for now.
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See ya...
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P.S.:
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Oh wait I said I'd talk about teardowns! I'll do that in that next post then.
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Not only does that clearly separate concerns, it also makes this post have
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a great misleading title, which is perfect.
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Title: So I got an iPhone
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Date: 2017-02-11T17:38+01:00
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Author: Wxcafé
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Category: misc
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Slug: so-i-got-an-iphone
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So I've been using an Android phone since I got an HTC Desire HD, I think in
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late 2010, so for a little over 7 years. I went from 2.2 Froyo to 6.0.1
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Marshmallow, and used basically all of the versions in between except
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Honeycomb (3.x).
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Before that, I had an iPhone 3GS, which I had a great deal of fun jailbreaking
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on iPhone OS 3.1.2/3.1.3, and gave up at the end of iOS 4.
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Of course, I had a lot of fun playing with the android phones too, flashing the
|
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bootloaders, installing "custom ROMs", and even different OSes on some of them.
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That was all fine when I was looking to *play* with my phones, I had *time* to
|
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do so, and it didn't really matter to me if things were broken half the time.
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|
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I'm not in that situation anymore. As sad as it makes me to admit it, android,
|
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or at least the experience I've had with it, doesn't work consistently. There
|
||||
are always small things that are broken that you have to constantly fix. There's
|
||||
always that *thing* that should work fine but doesn't. And then there's the
|
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security aspect, which, I'm not even going to *try* going in there. Go look at
|
||||
the list of CVEs on Android, look at those that are over severity 9, and have
|
||||
a good laugh (or a good scare I guess).
|
||||
|
||||
Anyway, my phone (a Moto X Play, so supposedly a pretty flagship, not too
|
||||
modified android phone) was starting to require a reboot a day to keep on
|
||||
receiving texts, which was /a slight problem/ to me. I couldn't fix it by
|
||||
installing a clean "ROM", because for all the ones I've tested with this phone
|
||||
either the radio (so 2G/3G/4G) OR the wifi stops working, which is, as they say,
|
||||
not optimal. I tried to fix it, nobody had the same problem, I couldn't figure
|
||||
out where it was coming from, whatever.
|
||||
|
||||
So I got an iPhone. Of course, another part in this is that I now have a regular
|
||||
income, so buying an iPhone doesn't mean eating pasta for two or three months
|
||||
anymore.
|
||||
|
||||
Anyway. I bought an iPhone SE, because I want a headphones jack, and it was
|
||||
cheaper. I can't just churn out 770€ for a phone, even when I have regular
|
||||
income. My first impression of that phone was that it was very lightweight, the
|
||||
screen was pretty small, and it looked and felt very good. Everything looks like
|
||||
it makes sense, on that phone.
|
||||
|
||||
The "first time on" experience is very good, with everything working fine, no
|
||||
popups interrupting you from typing, the importation of data from your old phone
|
||||
(be it an Android phone or an iPhone) is very easy and works perfectly. The
|
||||
settings are all in one place, the third-party software works generally better
|
||||
than on Android (okay, my bank's app doesn't work that well, but what do you
|
||||
expect from a bank...). I have working push notifications in all my messaging
|
||||
apps. My emails are not in an app called "Gmail", but in an app called "emails".
|
||||
I don't need a google account to use my phone. I *need* an apple account only to
|
||||
get apps, but since that's all I do with apple they have far less information on
|
||||
me than google has in the same situation.
|
||||
|
||||
For some reason, even though the screen is smaller, the soft keyboard seems to
|
||||
work better for me, I hit the keys that I want more often, which is a pretty
|
||||
important thing because autocorrect doesn't always work for me, since I type in
|
||||
two languages using the same keyboard. AUTOCORRECT WORKS FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGES
|
||||
OUT OF THE BOX! You don't need to download a recent update to Google Keyboard to
|
||||
be able to enable it in a submenu of the settings, you just get the dictionary
|
||||
and it starts correcting in multiple languages.
|
||||
|
||||
Okay, let's talk about things I miss:
|
||||
|
||||
Firstly, I miss having [Twidere](https://github.com/mariotaku/twidere) with an
|
||||
official twitter API key. Being able to have all the features of the official
|
||||
twitter client in an app that doesn't suck (and Twidere is actually amazing).
|
||||
I use [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/) instead, and it's great, but
|
||||
since it doesn't use the leaked official Twitter API keys, it can't do what
|
||||
Twidere does. I guess that's on twitter being assholes.
|
||||
|
||||
Secondly, I miss being able to copy files from my computers to my phone. Android
|
||||
phones use MTP, which is a shitty protocol but works with Linux and Windows (and
|
||||
very badly with OSX). iPhones use the iTunes sync thingy, which works for OSX
|
||||
and Windows as long as you have iTunes installed, aaaaaand doesn't on Linux.
|
||||
Well, there's [libimobiledevice](http://www.libimobiledevice.org/), which at the
|
||||
time I was using an iPhone 3GS was described as "teaching penguins to talk to
|
||||
fruits". It works, but the version packaged on debian is not the latest one, so
|
||||
it can't talk to iOS 10. I tried installing the latest one manually, which
|
||||
worked, but for some reason the desktop still can't detect the iPhone, so I can
|
||||
mount it with `ifuse` but I can't do anything with it since none of the software
|
||||
that could use that mount actually detect it. Anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
Third, I miss... wait, no, actually, I think that's it. Everything else works
|
||||
just the way I want.
|
||||
|
||||
Anyway, that was the story of how I got an iPhone. I won't be jailbreaking it,
|
||||
but I'll be posting stuff here if I find out how to make that thing work with my
|
||||
Linux computers.
|
||||
@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ MD_EXTENSIONS = [
|
||||
# Social
|
||||
SOCIAL = (
|
||||
('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/wxcafe'),
|
||||
('pencil-square-o', 'https://social.wxcafe.net/@wxcafe'),
|
||||
('github', 'https://github.com/wxcafe'),
|
||||
('envelope', 'mailto://wxcafe@wxcafe.net'),
|
||||
('key', 'https://pub.wxcafe.net/wxcafe.asc'),
|
||||
|
||||
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