That’s a very generic name. Do you have a link?

My question is why are people still listening to this dude and doing so on a platform that rivals 4chan in hate?

Regarding your question, I’ve had trouble multiple times with docker (and other software) that required trying to find out just where a packet was getting stuck. The worst thing is when you open a port in the container to 0.0.0.0, send a request to it (HTTP, telnet, or otherwise) from the host via the container’s IP and the packet doesn’t arrive. Then you have to run through the gamut of:

• are the interfaces up?
• is it the IP address that’s wrong?
• is the the port wrong?
• is the network mask correct?
• is the gateway IP correct?
• is the firewall somehow interfering?

There might be other things I’m missing, but once I get to the firewall stage, most of the time I just give up, put the service into a VM and try accessing it from there - if I really really care. Otherwise, I drop it and move on.

I did just find this Network address translation part 1 – packet tracing which allows tracing a packet through the firewall via xtables-monitor. It’s in my notes now, so if I run into the problem again, I might have a place to start next time.

But still, that’s just on my machine. Once things happen on the network and there are routers and other things involved, it’s very difficult for me to debug.

Reading the iptables dump is not for beginners. Far from it. A packet can go through all tables and chains or none. And allowing a packet in one chain then begs the questions which is the next table or chain. There are maybe 100 flags and nobody can memorise them all.

Ufw just allows adding rules, ss doesn’t trace packages as they go through the firewall, it can show you open ports and established connections, but it can show you which tables and chains a packet went through. lsof is even more rudimentary than ss and literally means “list open files”. Since everything is a file in linux, that’s a lot of files. Again, no tracing.

Somebody will say “just tcpdump”. Again, no that doesn’t trace which tables and chains a packet goes through. The entire firewall is a blackbox to tcpdump. At least to my knowledge. All it sees is which packets arrived and which were sent on the selected interfaces, and whether they was successful or not.

Nothing I know of traces a packet through the firewall and presents in a TUI nor GUI. I know that it’s possible to make copies of packets and send then to custom chains that can log the chain and packet it came from. There might even be a way of generating a trace by adding a rule to a chain, which means adding it to every chain, but I’m not sure I’ve seen something do that.

Extraterrestrials

The problem with networking is debugging it. The worst is debugging iptables and nftables. Figuring out which chain they are going to is a massive hassle. How come we don’t have any graphical tools whatsoever for this work?

Amazing work.

XDG portal?

I feel for the students that must buy and use windows in order to be able to execute the crap the university tells them to use. Universities are so far behind on tech

Aren’t there cleanup scripts for Windows?

Inb4 somebody says “wHy Is ThIs A vIdEo???”

Thanks for sharing. I like these kinds of videos too.

Edit: I bet the problems he ran into were due to CachyOS (and NVIDIA). I don’t know why people keep recommending some arch linux stuff to beginners.

Is that on chrome or Firefox? I thought Firefox disabled media by default. Mine always requires a click to allow media.

Edit: maybe I changed the settings

@dbx12@programming.dev looks like it really is an AI bot. Good comment.

I wish it were a huge peertube instance, but alas…

Maybe I should mail them and ask to join the fediverse 🤔

It’s how I reduce my YouTube consumption. It’s very welcome. They haven’t (yet) blocked alternative frontends.

Nothing against KDE, I just found GNOME to be more polished out of the box and stayed.

I see. No problem. Just personal preference. I thought that KDE had unreasonable defaults compared to GNOME or something, hence the question about customising.

KDE. I have a specific way I want to work and use my window manager and desktop. KDE allows me to do that OOTB, GNOME doesn’t. The other DEs might by their configuration is by opening a file and guessing the options, so I stay away.

KDE doesn’t need customizing. My parents use KDE and have never opened the settings dialog. They are productive.

Why do you think it needs customizing?

Just FYI, the video is also on peertube

Just throw 200kUSD in tokens and 60 agents at it for 2 weeks and you’ll be done!

Well, add 3 months of bug fixing and a rushed release then everything will be fine. Promise. 😘

Oh, this isn’t a post about bun? Sorry.