The Psychotic Network Ferret

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Almost my entire income is unfucking bad AI nonsense, much of it starts like this story. And it almost always comes with a phase in the negotiations where they beg me to reduce my rates because they have already spent so much money on AI. But that isn't my fault, nor my problem. Never been told off like this though.

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

I want to make one thing abundantly clear. I do not hate AI because I think it is gonna go all Skynet and kill all humans. The people who believe that shit are morons. I hate AI because it makes its users stupid. I hate it because it is enabling a survalence state. I hate it because deepfakes and AI slop are filling the world with garbage and propoganda, and making the world a shittier place to live. I hate it because the mega AI datacenters are awful, resource hogging neighbors that no one should have to live near. I hate it because..... well, I hope you get it. I'm not one of those doomsday cult members who thinks AI is an emerging intelligence secretly plotting to kill us all. Just wanted to make that abundantly clear.

@rl_dane@polymaths.social How is this? Also, /me offers hugs

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 mainstream social networks.

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 cursor made it ugly, so I figured out how to get rid of it. Necessity is the mother of invention. #UNIX #computers #programming

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 one from the list that I want! Like any good techy, I can work really hard to be lazy!

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.

Acer is bringing back the Pacard Bell brand. Somebody is getting fired in the next year for this, mark my words, that brand is both tarnished and cursed.

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!

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.

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange I want...... ROOM SERVICE! I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer. I WANT A $10,000 A NIGHT HOOKER!!!!!1111one ... I want my shirts laundered... like they do... at the Imperial Hotel.. in Tokyo.

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

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.

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.

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 boring. It is sprinkled with tiny bits of fan service that seem completely forced at the best of times. The coyote never speaks, yet is the single most verbose character in the movie. And I do not mean this as a compliment. There is no humor behind his repeated Acme product induced torments. And..... fuck, I'm bored telling you how boring it is. I didn't even make it halfway through before I shut it off. Just, save your time and money.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You know shit is bad when Joe Fucking Walsh is making sense.

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.

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

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 at my mother's phone call history, she receives no less than five, and usually more calls a day from my sister. My sister needs a LOT of care. I'm absolutely terrified of that burden becoming exclusively my cross to bear.. But lately, I'm not so sure it'll ever come to that, if you take my meaning. I almost feel horrible to say it, but it's quite a relief to expect my sister to be the next death in the family.

@sternecker@infosec.exchange Sounds a lot like Menieres. Get thee to an ENT yesterday.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au That is indeed the appropriate reaction. These kinds of operations don't employ actual engineers, people who consider failure modes into their designs. So you get networks that are fully redundant, on paper, at layer 3. But physically? The fiber to all three upstreams leave the building in the same conduit.

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!

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.

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange I used to theme my desktop, match tiles and window decorations to backgrounds, and only used transparent terminals. A few of my AfterStep themes were highly rated on Themes.org. My desktops were quite lovely. And them one day: /usr/local/bin/xsetroot -solid black And I went back to basic and reliable xterm.

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange Only thang left to do now is hack ya own brain, then loop it through Jones.

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange @shapoco@misskey.art Long chip is L000000000000ng!

@da_667@infosec.exchange Aesthetic nose? That's the best snozz you've got?

@kajer@infosec.exchange Gave up all things Windows over two years ago. I abdolutely do not miss the device manager. dmesg forever!

@sternecker@infosec.exchange Trans-tympanic steroid injections really do help. and it usually runs its course..... eventually. I haven't had vertigo in over a year now. Took over ten years to get to this point though.

@gewt@social.treehouse.systems Hah! How true. I've seen 'modern' Mikrotiks take 15 minutes to consume a full table.

@litchralee_v6@ipv6.social @philpem@digipres.club Its not "technically" a thing, a Winmodem was a slang term for a CPU bound soft modem that only worked in Windows. There were also Linmodems, same shitshow, but the manufacturer provided a Linux driver that was probably hell to get working. But your CPU performance always tanked while a softmodem was running. Not awful on a Pentium 2, pure misery on anything older. I always bought external, serial modems. They were the real deal. I always got better performance.

@litchralee_v6@ipv6.social Gateway was leeps and bounds better than the others. E-Machines and PB were about the same. EM's had shittier/lower spec hardware, but were far more standards compliant. You could usually get Linux running on an E-Machine. The Win Modem wasn't going to work, but the rest probably would. Packard Bell's often had terrible shit like a combo modem + sound card on a single ISA board. The hardware was almost always crazy proprietary like that. There were Packard Bell's that couldn't run NetBSD. But used Gateways made fine home servers, and were even decent desktops when new. Especially once the Pentium 2 became the standard, their quality actually increased a lot.

@barubary@infosec.exchange Oh neat, I do not believe I have ever seen that approach before. But, given Perl's flexibility it isn't shocking it exists. As for readability, this is just of those things where Perl has no good way. Just the bad and the ugly, and I do mean that in the boolean sense.

@kajer@infosec.exchange OSPF solves all static routing induced problems!

@litchralee_v6@ipv6.social I don't know your age, but I fear you may have just googled, "Win Modem," and were rendered horrified.

@sternecker@infosec.exchange Sorry I had to miss it.

@Sempf@infosec.exchange My torrent network is isolated from the rest of my network. Stuff can go in, stuff cannot come back out. I don't trust torrent providers as far as I can throw them, and they are intangible. But, I need to mask my identify/location sufficiently to be the pirate that I am.

@sternecker@infosec.exchange Huh, how so?

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social They called Obama, "President Poupon." I call Trump, "President Poopin'"

@jordanmd@infosec.exchange Getting someone on this sort of thing is a) expensive, and b) a never ending battle to keep the coverage up and the costs down. Also, getting a paranoid schizophrenic to trust a stranger is....... not the easiest thing in the world.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Semper fudge

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au They shut down the entire network headend. Everything got moved to the company that the new owners contract out core ISP operations to. You read that right. Companies are trying to sell core ISP services to ISPs like MSPs sell IT services to SMBs. It's a shit model that delivers shit services, and it is fucking catching on.

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?

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.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Also yes, and also yes. I did a little shell magic, and I do believe the official count is 1313 CVEs.

@gewt@social.treehouse.systems It was a 'high end' Mikrotik, whatever the fuck that means.

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe "Several vulnerabilities" I think the adjective "several" stopped being applicable a while ago. I do believe this qualifies as a "fuckload."