I'd like recommendations for a Europe-based dynamic DNS provider, please!

I've been with freedns.afraid.org for about eight years, and they've been rock-solid and good value at $60 per year, but it's time to cut my remaining ties with US-based services.

Please boost for reach!

#DynamicDNS #Europe #recommendations #LazyWeb

Midi questions:

Midi is a serial connection and there exists a standard for sending it over TRS.

1. Do any phones support sending MIDI over the headphone jack or via a standard USB C to Headphone adaptor?

2. I assume midi over Bluetooth or midi over WiFi have some sort of documentation?

3. Is there an android app that will send midi in real time over the headphone jack or over Bluetooth or over WiFi (that I could use to play a busking organ)?

4. Can a phone with USB C be a usb host for a midi device, like can I plug my phone into a drum machine and output note-ons?

#MIDI #lazyweb

#lazyweb Any FreeBSD experts here?

* I installed FreeBSD on a new drive.
* I decided to _move_/reinstall FreeBSD on said drive 100GiB from the original location.
* I installed Windows _after_ FreeBSD.
* Windows decided to allocate the Reserved Partition at _exactly_ the correct place where the original FreeBSD install was. The UFS magic number and UUID are legit.
* FreeBSD loader is now trying to boot the Reserved Partition, thinking its UFS. All numbering went to hell

How do I fix the loader?

Drop the #lazyWeb hashtag. Asking peers for links is the most reliable tool we have
https://mastodon.xyz/@Profpatsch/115366477647167891

Ah, #LazyWeb, I need a less-fraught phrase than "look + feel" to describe a website transition to a new host.

Thoughts?

(I would do a poll if I had any alts in mind).

#lazyweb Anyone who is familiar w/ ipv6 and OpenWRT help me out?

I can't seem to get my router an ipv6 address, even though the router is assigning DHCPv6 addresses to attached nodes just fine.

Windows leaves the "Default ipv6 Gateway" field blank in "Wi-fi Status", and Luci's landing page does NOT have an "Upstream ipv6" portion. What options can I check from an ssh session to figure out whether it's my fault or my ISPs?

Weird to me that DHCPv6 gave me non-link local addrs anyway...

Does anybody on the #lazyweb know of a #youtube extension that lets users report/auto-skip for known #AI #slop channels.

I'm rocking #firefox (but flexible).

Maybe @sponsorblock enjoyers would have good recommendations?

Since the Debian upgrade from the Firefox ESR 128 series to ESR 140, I can't seem to turn off smooth scrolling, and that's making scrolling through content-heavy pages feel like wading through molasses.

Everything I've found just says to turn off the setting in preferences, but (a) it's already off, and (b) turning it on *or* off doesn't seem to be making any difference.

I want my snappy scroll back!

Someone please point me at the one obvious thing I'm missing.

#AskFedi #Firefox #LazyWeb

Hm. #Lazyweb, how do I override the gemspec of a gem?

I am trying to push all gems needed for my Jekyll build to my own forgejo instance (as a kind of cache), so I get them all with `bundle package`, then try to push them to my forgejo with

`gem push --host https://forge.wildeboer.net/api/packages/<user>/rubygems <GEM>`

But some fail with:

ERROR: "https://forge.wildeboer.net/api/packages/<user>/rubygems" is not allowed by the gemspec, which only allows "https://rubygems.org"

How can I override that?

#Ruby #Gem #Gemspec

#lazyweb umask is set system-wide in /etc/profile. If I comment that out, what will be the default umask I get? What is the default umask per process?

Is umask inheritance a shell thing or does every process keep umask state (even if they weren't started from a shell)?

Not modifying my system to try this.

Dear #macOS #Apple #Lazyweb, what's the 2020s era option for making a(n ideally bootable) backup copy of a laptop you're about to wipe?

BITD people would use CarbonCopyCloner for this, though I never actually used it much, I think I would just `dd` from a rescue disk to external drive, or make a Disk Image via Disk Utility?

#question

If I were looking for historical information (19th Century) about specific #Irish immigrants in Leeds County in Ontario, Canada does anyone know where I might start looking? Is information like this published online by the county or province or is this something that local libraries might be able to help with?

This is a #lazyweb question, but I'm inquiring for my aunt who has otherwise done a great deal of non-internet work on this over the past 20 yrs. Maybe more is digitized now?

When I said I was working on a musical Moo, which is kind of an interactive storytelling platform, loads of you mentioned some prior art by somebody who did another text based novel with music.

I made a note of this . . . . somewhere.... (help?)

#lazyweb #MOO #MUD

#Lazyweb: A while ago I came across a paper that said men in management positions were more likely than women to make judgements based on emotions instead of evidence. I can't find it now, does anyone have a reference?

I want to run an(other) account which posts pictures every so often on social media.

Up until now I've always built or used separate scripts for each network. I think it would be more sensible to post to just one, and use crossposting gateways to reach the others.

Can people suggest which one I should start with?

(Networks I'd like to use: Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Tumblr)
#lazyweb

#lazyWeb

Geeky friends, O'friendly geeks,

What are the best practices for optimizing performance for self-hosted videos?

Say someone* wants to ditch third-party services like Vimeo/Youtube and self-host their videos without compromising page #performance Are there any guidelines and best practices?

Aside from choosing an accessible video player, what should someone know/do?

—
*me. someone is me.