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OpenWRT firewall rules with with dynamic IPv6 prefix

I recently got IPv6 connectivity at my house, so naturally I wanted to add IPv6 support for my server. I ran into some difficulties that I didn’t find documented in a single place so here is the solution I came up with. The problem I quickly discovered that my ISP is not doing the IPv6 support "right", they are not giving me a /56 prefix with prefix delegation but instead a /64 prefix that cannot be further divided into subnets. This is true for all mobile operators in Finland and I cannot get anything else in my current address so this will have to do.

Monday, June 10, 2024 | 3 minutes Read
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Migrate Misskey root account

I recently migrated my single user Fediverse server from Misskey to Firefish. During the migration I encountered an issue that I did not find documented elsewhere. I thought I’d write down the solution I found, in case anyone would benefit from it and save some time in the future. I decided to migrate to a new domain at the same time, so the easiest way was just to create a new server and migrate my account and not fuss about migrating the Misskey instance itself.

Sunday, December 10, 2023 | 2 minutes Read
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Creating this site

As seems to be customary on technology related blogs, the first post is about creating the blog itself. So here we are, this is the first post in my blog, detailing the steps I took to arrive here. Assessing the options I first got interested in static site generators years ago when my friend Fatih built his site with Jekyll. It felt very refreshing at the time since I was hosting my homepage on WordPress, which always seemed a little too bloated and overkill for my needs.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 4 minutes Read