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  Seriously people: Do not make and hold direct eye contact with strange dogs. It is a sign of aggression to them. They are almost guaranteed to react negatively.

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  nuintari's rules of networking XCVII: Never use Roman numerals as a numbering system.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x69: IPv4 has no formalized shorthand, and what has been implmented in the wild is exceedingly inconsistent. Don't use any shorthand when speaking IPv4.

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  ante diem V Kalendas Novembres MMDCCLXXIX ab Urbe Condita

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x18: Consumer VPNs are snake oil.

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  I have a lot of nightmares, like, I wake up drenched in sweat, sometimes screaming in terror kinds of nightmares. But last night, I dreamed I was helping my sister buy a new car. My sister is such a terrible driver that her license was revoked about a year ago. She keeps holding out hope that she will be permitted to drive again someday. The thought of my sister driving again scares the shit out of me. Let me tell you, I almost prefer the waking up screaming kind of nightmares. Because, once...

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  Okay, so, what is the #Fediverse thought's on #Tutamail ? My current contract is up in December, and I am not particularly attached to my provider.

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  The chemical tank in Toledo apparently stopped offgassing last night. Despite bejng well outside the evacuation and shelter in place zones, there was a haze over north Wood county all day. Apparently atmospheric contaminants should be broken down in ajither 12-15 hours, and soil contaminants inside of three days. Toledo handled this about as badly as one could imagine.

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  We used to have a joke, it was pathetically simple, stupid, and completely grounded in fiction. Y'all didnt get it unless you had read the fucking book. It was 42. Now, we have a new joke. It is simpler, more moronic, and completely and utterly grounded in fucking reality. Four. THIS TIMELINE SUUUUUUCKS.

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  A friend of mine knows I am hard up for work, so she tried to throw a job my way. Design, it's digital fucking design. I swear to god, no one outside of the IT world has a clue what it is I actually do. No one in their right mind would ever ask _me_ to handle design.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x00: Start numbering things at zero, not one.

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  Fuuuuuck, Netbox has gone slop. Now I need to find an alternative. I wrote an IPAM many years ago, maybe I should just it again with expanded scope.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x0e: Fortinet: Not ever, not even once. 1st Corollary: No Mikrotik, either. 2nd Corollary: Huawei is out of the question as well.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x1b: Old and busted: No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft. New hotness: People should be getting fired for buying Microsoft.

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  It seems that @pixelfed@mastodon.social has reversed course: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117350705262301318 Even though it is software I don't use, I am glad to see an alternative social media platform opting to stay AI Free. People that want to use alternatives to the AI ridden corporate created options probably consider the AI use factor strongly in their decision when hey select an alternative. We didn't all come to the Fediverse so we could make it as shitty as the mainstre...

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  Tried to watch Coyote vs Acme the other day. What a piece of shit movie. It's not funny for the same reason Tiny Tunes and later Tom and Jerry weren't funny: Too much plot. They ruined a working formula with too much plot. You can't take falling anvils, rocket skates, and exploding birdseed, and attach it to a full on legal battle with an underlying conspiracy, chock full of dialogue and expect it to work. It falls flat on its face. Coyote vs Acme is boring, really and terribly bo...

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  Asking the hive mind, because maybe this already exists. I need the organ solo from Inagodadavida, on a seamless repeat. Like, start at the very end of the drum solo, and either do the whole thing and loop, or progress much slower through the phases of the organ solo itself. I may have to mix this on my own, and I may have to start it with Toccata and Fugue and fade into Inagodadavida. I have three weeks to figure this out. Wish me luck!

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x35: The network engineer is guilty until they identify the real culprit. Said culprit is then presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond any shadow of a doubt by the network engineer. It's not fair, get used to it, this is your life now.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x08: Your internet network(s), and your management network(s) are separate VRFs.

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  I was mucking around on bgp.he.net the other day, and noticed that the ASN and prefixes for $weCantSellFiber are no longer being announced. My boy! Look what they did to my boy!

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  FINE! You fucking win, I'll convert my VPN for sailing the high seas over to wireguard. Because apparently iVPN can keep an OpenVPN tunnel up for somewhere between five days and five seconds, and it rarely fails gracefully and recovers.

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  I love #Perl I really do, and contrary to popular belief it is almost always possible to write clean, readable Perl. Except when you have shit like this: for my $foo (@{$bar->baz}) { my $qux = $foo->quux; } That shit drives me fucking bonkers. I'll forget the next time I need to do something like that, I always do.

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  nuintari's rules of networking 0x2f: Defense in depth is dead, long live defense in depth! Seriously, the alternative is to expect your single line of defense to be perfect, and that has worked sooooo well so far.

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  Okay, I just wrote what I call fedimemer, a program that allows me to reply to other posts (or just post on its own) with memes, alt text is already set, and I can add optional comments. All I have to do now, is gather up a collection of memes. This seems more efficient than searching for, downloading, and posting a meme manually. I usually don't remember to add alt text, and I never keep the files in a sane, easily searchable place. Now, I just run 'fedimemer -l' and find the on...

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  My sister is back in the hospital this morning. She managed to get a sunburn so bad yesterday that she probably has an infection and they are concerned she may turn septic. Right now, I provide maybe 1/4 of my sister's care. My mother does the rest, mostly because I live 30 miles away, and my mother lives two miles away. I have to confess that one of my biggest fears in life is that when my mother is gone, my sister's care will fall to me completely. I love my sister, but if you look a...

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  So, I need to send alerts from UNIX systems (Linux, BSD, whatever), to my mobile devices. I am certain there are many ways to do this. Does anyone have a way that doesn't completely suck? A way that they actually like? ie: requirement one, something I can self host?

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  I've been using and programming computers for decades now. I'm almost ashamed to admit I just figured out how to make the cursor disappear this morning. printing "\033[?25l" --turns the cursor off printing "\033[?25h" --turns it back on Convert to your language of choice as needed. I of course now have to bolt this onto about 3 dozen Perl scripts. Incidentally, this came about because I decided I wanted a command line stopwatch app that didn't suck. The curso...

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  Dog walked, dog batteries discharged. Fortunately, pitties seem to be solar powered. Bonus: We smashed 13 spotted lanturn flies today!