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If your wrapper script requires as many or more flags/inputs than the original script, it's probably bad for you
in reply to silverwizard

(Caveat: not if it's abstracting multiple different tools on different systems)


Someone needs to write a sysadmin version of the Last Sea Shanty

A sysadmins not a sysadmin anymore

in reply to Andy H3

@Andy H3 He also does a Last Sea Shanty that I like youtube.com/watch?v=zw0FZs_J2I…

also some wildly good River Shanties around on.soundcloud.com/dWAaRJRCEY75…

I mostly love the Sea Shanty as a repository of blue collar solidarity songs that are great for groups and to scream, so I don't understand the love for the Wellerman, though enjoy it fine



404media.co/this-is-doom-runni…

This is the *stupidest* use of LLMs - right?

The primary problems with video games are:
1) too well written
2) don't suffer from enough bloat
3) run too quickly

Luckily Google has fixed it in a way even worse than Stadia!

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in reply to silverwizard

I agree keep it running on bacteria not the software equivalent of an elementary school kid that pees his pants daily and licks the windows because he likes the taste/


Got to pull a coworker into a call and just explain logs to them

That's what they call a good day?



Listen, if your branching and commit message strategy takes more than 15 minutes to explain. And I need to work with every team and this is just yours.

I'm not gonna follow it.



I finally finished Siege of Dragonspear in my quest to get through all of Baldur's Gate.

I am shocked by how unpleasant it was to play through.

Only having BG1 to compare to - it's like night and day.



Explaining why my Wizard RPG character can't write:
"I wanted to make sure I mastered all the letters before I started figuring out writing"


I really need to stop assuming that most developers have a mental model of DNS delegation in their head.

I need to accept that I'm the weirdo here.

in reply to silverwizard

I have a post-it note that says "it's always DNS" stuck up my nose
in reply to screwlisp

@screwlisp just write down "it'll be easy! We'll just do split horizon DNS with a second local domain, it'll make it way more efficient!"

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@Craig Brozefsky 🇵🇸 yeah, there's lots of cultural contexts, but I constantly assume that things that make The Internet Work are default skills tech people have.


Does anyone else listen to this sometimes? archive.org/details/cyber-fina…

It's such an important artifact

in reply to silverwizard

This is wildly important. It's bitter and it's complicated. But it's probably the real Cyberpunk. It's good. Listen to people think about journalism during a tragedy.


I am currently regularly dealing with Zscaler support and Drata support.

Drata support is awful because you need to get answers from an LLM before you can talk to it. But the LLM is worthless because it just puts out a segment from the knowledge base and you only contact support when things are broken.

Zscaler support is worthless because they're undertrained and given a flow chart to follow. The flow chart means they just parrot the knowledge base repeatedly.

Drata's support is better because there's only one human trapped in this hell.




Zscaler seeing a user has an IP in 100.0.0.0/8 tells me that wont work because that's a Zscaler internal IP.

Of course, the user's ISP is misusing CGNAT and also claiming IANA reserved IPs are theirs.

Abolish legacy IP

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@The Psychotic Network Ferret the problem was that neither group using 100.6.0.0/16 *owned* it. Both of them were using it for extra IPv4 space.

And I've been a ISP grunt, I know we want IPv4 to die, but there's some ISPs that have bonkers IPv4 stacks and massive CGNATs without a whisper of IPv6



Me vs @Becky parenting
@Becky - buys the kids mars bars
Sean - tells the kids Mars Bars are made by war criminals and then starts teaching them to make nougat
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My 3 year old kid has a 1 string guitar to learn to make sound, To protect his fingers I handed him a guitar pick. He yelled "Can I open it!" and started trying to find a seam to shove the pick in to spudge the guitar.

I am... raising children.

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A recent chat lead to the idea of the Standard Reference Olympian

Someone who is *not* good at the sport. Just to remind everyone how intense everyone there is.

"Oh this person got 20th place! Unremarkable"

make people compare them to the SRO

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard At least the SRO wouldn’t have defended “her creative vision” in the numerous interviews she’s given since.


Hey #Bhyve/#FreeBSD people!

I'm trying to manage USB passthrough into a guest, I can't find anything in the manpages. Is there something I'm missing?

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in reply to silverwizard

Not currently supported, as far as I’m aware. The closest you can get is to pass through a whole USB host adapter PCI device to the guest, then all devices connected to its ports will end up in the (same) VM.
Proper USB passthrough isn’t ridiculously difficult to implement by any stretch, but I guess nobody’s got around to it yet.
in reply to Phil Dennis-Jordan 😷

@Phil Dennis-Jordan 😷 "Not missing something" is a good answer! Thanks!

I gotta figure out if I have a host I can give my homeassistant server. But thanks!

in reply to silverwizard

You can pass entire USB controller (PCI passthru) into Bhyve VM but not a USB port or USB device.

Here instructions how to do it:

vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08…



Alone for lunch (yes it's 4pm) for the first time since the kids were born.

writing a complex regex to manage emails, since, ya know, I know how to have fun.



I get all my music as FLACs because I'm not unwise.

My car will only play mp3s (and oggs?!).

This 2012 MacBook Air is not made for this find command.



InfoSec: If you use the wrong crypto, and have SSL broken, you could, maybe, get the email of the user. 10/10 CVE, Information Disclosure

Also Infosec: This Is Good And Normal


This battle was lost a long time ago. There is no going back to sane defaults. Data collection is now the primary goal of paid and free products. You don’t own anything, and you will be happy. Of course, you can still use privacy-enabled products at home, but those options are limited, and not all your apps will be available. bsky.app/profile/ahhmandah.bsk…



've seen so many hearing aids on kids this week, often low profile, some very large, all taking wild abuse, like a child spraying his repeatedly with a water jet in a splash park

and - I feel so good about this - this is the core of accessibility - you didn't see a lot of deaf kids before because they were isolated! and now they're not!

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in reply to silverwizard

almost sounds like that one kid wants some quiet and is trying to break it ;)


Phillips Hue keeps threatening me they're going to shut down everything. I put their app on a side device that wont download things and I don't update it, and I put their bridge on a no-internet-access VLAN - but I'd like to just not deal with their shit.

Is there a bulb that doesn't deal with their shit?

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@Neil Brown UK is a tall order, but I'd love to get good Tasmota bulbs. I am dangerously close to building one.
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@Mischa 🐡😎 Wait - you can connect them directly through zigbee?!

Hmmmmm

Bhyve USB passthrough reseach commences.



Security is Threat Modelling

Security Advice or guidance without a threat model is not correct. Full stop.



the Humble Bundle copy of Gratuitous Space Battles I bought years ago is causing OpenAL issues every time it makes a sound and seems to have no mute option.

I need to figure out dummying the linker...



Last night I had a dream that I was (kinda accidentally) elected UK Prime Minister, and I was confused as hell because I was a tourist and didn't know any of the ritual.

And I think that it's telling about the UK that my brain can find no holes in the theory that this is plausible



Security vendor demanding I install servers in my network running out of date FreeBSD which can't be updated and RCEs in SSH

I really wish there was a compliance framework these types needed to follow

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@The Psychotic Network Ferret I think it's so they don't need to tell me it's FreeBSD.

They also tell me to use the IP address on eth1 and the server *is FreeBSD*.

It's 11.4 so it's not dire - but it looks like they haven't updated it ever. I tried a poke at pkg and they don't have their own repo so the repo is just gone. And yes, the SSH is 8.4 from 2022.



Talking to coworkers "Remember, your laptop is 4-10x as powerful as one of the servers, your laptop has to run Slack and none of the servers take that kind of abuse"


The company I work for is really great, but the CEO is toxic as hell

Just completely and impossibly.

We had an outage and he joined the technical call, and started throwing out ideas and forced the response team to *stop* discussing the issue and *instead* explain why he was wrong.


in reply to silverwizard

yes, provided you add enough sugar, but I doubt it'll taste fantastic.
in reply to þēodrīċ (e/ack thbbft)

@þēodrīċ I mean, probably do a very strong tea, as strong as I can get it, and then add a sugar, the problem is finding a good sugar for the yeasts to not sour, while also leaving the flavour dry


The problem with my current employer isn't the lack of technical sophistication, it's that everyone outside of the dev org thinks my skillset is fungible with every other person inside the dev org.

Despite me being hired explicitly outside the dev org's purview because it *isn't*

in reply to Alex P. 👹

@Alex P. 👹 I was hired by someone who knew what they were doing and given Infrastructure and Security as purview, and now everyone says "this person does DevOps" which... hurts every time
in reply to silverwizard

@Alex P. 👹 the real problem is when people
1) tell the dev lead about like, DNS changes or whatever, and then they don't tell me "but it's all engineering"
2) asking me to deal with frontend JS or python code that just... I don't know


Google breaking NewPipe forcing me to properly setup my flows for watching video on Nebula


After the giant DDoS on DynDNS I started multi-hosting my domains and almost everything else. But no one will pay for multi-cloud. And I don't get why we never learned this lesson?


Honestly, the amount of time I spend flummoxing security vendors by saying things like "Oh, we're not using office 365" is very upsetting

It's not that I don't understand that 99% of their clients are using O365, it's how many products and support team fall apart



the booze is on strike

what a fuckin' weekend for the booze to be on strike



Remember
This is the fault of Crowdstike's C level execs

This is not the fault of the scapegoats they will blame this on

This is a failure of time, budget, expertise, and process.

They cut costs by cutting quality

in reply to silverwizard

reuters.com/technology/crowdst…

Honestly, looks like CrowdStrike said some shit would go down because they were contracting. Which uh - good call.

in reply to silverwizard

Every hacker in the world is posting this right now

I am assume it was Ed Zitron's post



Banks are screwing my wife around. Her mom put some money in an account years ago for her, and she's pulling it out to put it somewhere more reliable, but the cheque was listed in both names, and so banks are refusing to deposit it because it's in the name of two people. So she tried to go into the bank with both of them and endorse the cheque in front of bank employees, which even then they are being a pain in the ass about. This is stupid.

But she went in this morning.

CROWDSTRUCK

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard *sick electric guitar riff*

I was caught in the middle of an OS update (Windows)
I looked 'round and I knew there was no turning back (Windows)
My mind raced and I thought, what could I do? (Windows)
And I knew there was no help, no help from you (Windows)
Sound of the drums beating in my heart
The thunder of BSOD tore me apart

You've been - crowdstruck

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in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan crowdstruck is the verb form of "ruined by a vendor"

"CrowdStrike was worse, but SolarWinds was another vendor that crowdstruck everyone"



Ug, I should have paid @404 Media long ago, they are the best reporting I've seen.

But at least I paid them Wednesday and I assume that my subscription will be spent on the spirits needed to get through their next few calls to CrowdStrike.

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The best part of owning a VR headset is that I can put on the headset, use it for an hour, remember why it sucks, and then move on


using the Serverless Framework to update some lambdas

And all I can think of "Didn't I use a framework so I didn't have to type the same thing a billion times?"



Google fucking hates file folder and file organization.

And holy fuck I hate it, and I worry it's bad for people exploring systems.