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I work primarily with Linux servers during $dayjob and sometimes come across needs where I need to have packet loss. Of course, I can’t be sitting around waiting for it to happen. Turns out, there’s a pretty simple way to do this. iptables -A INPUT -s <SOURCE_IP_ADDRESS> -m statistic --mode random --probability 0.1 -j DROP You can find more info in the iptables-extensions(8) man page. There are some other settings beyond random and probability to make packets drop....

For the longest time I was running borg on my server to do backups. Then one day I changed my destination’s name to something different (different domain name). I know with borg, if the backup destination changes, borg will prompt you on the next run that the destination is different than before, and to confirm the change. I ran my borg backup script, confirmed the destination and all was good…​ until next run....

Note I want to clearly state this is 0 dependencies on the server. The server does not need AsciiDoc installed to operate. AsciiDoc is for the client to use. The server operates with 0 `pkg_add`s I have fallen in love with a recent combination of software to make good looking websites, and having an easy to manage web server. I’m a minimalist in many ways. Really, I find that it makes my life easier....

Just last week (as of the date on this post) I ordered an AMD RX 6700XT graphics card. I saw it at a great price, probably $20 above what it COULD have been if prices were normal for graphics cards. I couldn’t pass it up, I had been wanting a new card anyways, and I was wanting OpenCL on FreeBSD. Well bad news for me, FreeBSD only uses AMD drivers from Linux kernel 5....

According to the FreeBSD 13.1 release schedule, the team is close to putting out the 13.1-RELEASE. I found the page and have been looking through the notes that are there so far to see what is of interest to me. On my desktop and laptop I have been running 13 STABLE, albeit blindly to what has changed, so it is nice to see the team put together a document with what is upcoming for the release itself....