The Psychotic Network Ferret

nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

<p>Level 0x2F, Neutral Evil, Technomage. I love UNIX systems, especially FreeBSD, and build carrier grade networks for fun and profit. I'm also a musician, historian, and a pretty decent cook. Lover of fuzzy animals of all sorts, but especially the kleptomaniacal, tube shaped ones. I have a dog named Hazard Dax of whom I will share a near endless supply of pics.</p><p>This account periodically generates automated posts brought to you by fortune(6), perl(1), cron(8), and the emotion of rage(42).</p>

Posts

Post #4480763
Since I am on the subject of Olive Garden, which claims to be an Italian restaurant, I have a question for my actually Italian friends like @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe . How much heavy cream is actually used in authentic Italian cuisine? Because I am convinced every single thing at Olive Garden contains heavy cream. The salads eventually end up with a dressing that is at least partially heavy cream based. I think the breadsticks are somehow made with it. Hell, I think the water probably contains...
Post #4468794
Okay, so more story time. My Friday's fucking good deeds going very punished. I manage the computers at my mother's church. It pays nothing, I do it out of the kindness of my heart. I'm not even religious, I'm honestly some what anti-theist. But, they provide community services such as a food pantry, community meals, AA and NA meetings, and it matters to my mom and sister. So I help. Go to migrate the old PC's files to a new one. I should have done this a month ago BTW, b...
Post #4360368
I have a weird quirk, and I wanna know if anyone else does this. I readily absorb the accents of the people I am around. Stick me around my friend Andrew for a few hours, and I've got a decidedly London accent. Send me to Tennessee for a day and I've got a southern drawl that is driving my wife insane. Hell, if I watch enough of the Sopranos I start sounding like a shitty interpretation of the Jersey Shore. It takes longer when the accent isn't foundationally English, but a few da...
Post #4354002
Just heard an absolutely horrific bit of imagery. "[trump] leaves a Kentucky fried contrail everywhere he sits." I need to fit this into a conversation somehow.
Post #4280827
It's sysadmin day, I would wish a Happy Sysadmin Day to everyone, if sysadmins were actually capable of being happy. So long as terrible developers and end lusers exist, we will never be happy. #sysadmin #sysadminday #sysadminday2026
Post #4260397
Just got followed by someone who had, "130 IQ" and "AI Prompt Engineer" in their bio. Quite possibly my fastest block ever.
Post #4245259
We were snowed in for my birthday this year, so my mom finally got around to taking me out for dinner, and I opted for Campus Pollyeyes in Bowling Green, Ohio. These are my leftover stuffed breadsticks, half the original order. Pollyeyes is known for breadsticks as an entree. I had mine with cheese, pepperoni, salami, green peppers, and onions. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend them!
Post #4198978
nuintari's rules of networking 0x2b: Port knocking is a really annoying and roundabout way to put a weak numeric password in essentially plaintext in front of a service as a pre-connection requirement.
Post #4176484
We wore out Dax puppy!
Post #4169818
nuintari's rules of networking 0x66: Custom TLDs: Just say no. 1st Corollary: You should probably avoid some "legitimate" TLDs as well.
Post #4152383
Okay, so in fucking awesome, my friend Clint managed to save most of my old Minecraft world! He is trying to save more of it, but what he saved so far is pretty kickass. I'm going to bring this world back, try and track down as many of the old players as I can, and open the world to new players as well. I think playing on a world that is, at its core, old school Minecraft on the latest software could be a lot of fun. In order to get the newest content, you'll need to push toward the edg...
Post #4147856
nuintari's rules of networking 0x52: Simplicity is King, consistency is Emperor.
Post #4142974
ZOMGWTFBBQ. #Windows11 on #Proxmox. Install started well over an hour ago now. I drove up to East Toledo, walked the dog, came back, and it is _still_ only at 80%. All so I can run MCEdit and try to save an old #Minecraft world.
Post #4137150
/me shudders I am about to install..... Windows. It's only on a VM, but still. There hasn't been Microsoft software in this house in over a year now.
Post #4129310
Let me tell you, finding the difference between this: CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01" and this: CAA 0 issue "letsencrypt.org:validationmethods=dns-01" After a night of pure insomnia was a lot of fun. One of my zones renewed fine, the others all threw an error. I resorted to grep CAA >> , manually fixed up their serials and deleted the non working entries. But I wanted to know what I had done wrong, so I kept staring at it. It's...
Post #4124590
every day I don't bring my good camera, a cool view presents itself. Taken from the south bank of the Maumee river in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Post #4114381
I found my old Minecraft world, the really cool one with tons of players and loads of beautiful builds and redstone contraptions. Only reason I ever shut it down was because it got so big chunks kept getting corrupted and regenerating. And since the world was so old, chunks would regenerate with a completely new algo, meaning solid walls and random bits of ocean started appearing everywhere. Well, I thought maybe I could resurrect it after all these years, and fix the regenerated chunks in-gam...
Post #4113835
Okay, so most of y'all know my opinion of consumer VPNs. For those that don't, they are snake oil. They don't offer any significant privacy gains over just letting your ISP see your flow data. They used to be good for two things: 1) sailing the high seas 2) bypassing GeoIP content restrictions Of course that second one barely works anymore, as the content providers have started blocking VPN provider networks. But apparently NordVPN offers a "static IP" service. WTaF?! C...
Post #4094074
In the name of all that is fucking stupid with the world, why the fuck would Wood County Ohio's Sheriff need a fucking MRAP?!?!
Post #4073687
nuintari's rules of networking 0x57: If your redundant fiber path is ever in the same conduit, on the same pole, on the same side of the road, or in the same vault as your primary path, it is not a redundant path.
Post #4065414
Oh Costco, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. One is for your customers' complete lack of situational awareness, not to mention basic manners. Two is for the customers who wait until they are at the greeter to get their ID out. Three is for the people who take exactly two steps past the greeter to only stop and put their ID away. Four is for the aggressive vendors who constantly try to sell me a new cellphone/new windows/new Cutco brand knives/etc. Five is for how your stores ar...
Post #4019754
nuintari's rules of networking 0x0b: Since everything relies on the network, the network is always the first thing to take the blame. Network engineers must be adept at several non-network engineering disciplines as they will be called upon to troubleshoot them.
Post #4015208
nuintari's rules of networking 0x44: Always bring extra patch cables.
Post #3969214
I know we aren't supposed to fuck around about followers..... But 900 morons think I have shit worth saying. This shocks the hell outta me. I assume 700 of you are fucking wrong, or bots. Or worse.... you are BOOTS. The rest, I assume wanna be members of the UHNC! Semper Dook! Step up, biotch!
Post #3946669
Son of a fuck..... I've got a tree of heaven growing in the drainage ditch at the very edge of my property. Time to whip out the chainsaw! I'll not be responsible for more spotted lanturn flies in this area.
Post #3945074
Hey #IT friends! I want to hear the dumbest things you have ever heard said in a professional setting! I've got two to get this party started. The first was at my first MSP job (A job I will never do again), I was trying to create a more streamlined deployment for Fortigate firewalls (yes, eww). When I explained the idea to my boss Casey, he responded with, "Well, that sounds nice, but we have a healthy mistrust of automation here." WTF? You work in IT and don't trust automa...
Post #3899182
nuintari's rules of networking 0x0d: Trunk ports are trunk ports, access ports are access ports. Mixing tagged and untagged frames on an interface is to be avoided.
Post #3866912
as I proofread this shit, I'm reading this in Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann's voice from Heartbreak Ridge. I recomend you do the same. Turns out, [one of] the monitoring system[s] from $weCantSellFiber still exists. The company has been split multiple ways, and at least one network has been outright abandoned. This is what happens when tech talent leaves. The people left behind lack the skills, courage, or authority to change "anything". I feel so bad for my Second Banana. He c...
Post #3865872
You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps And all leather cow interior And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah) And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour Gettin' 1 mile per gallon Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers I'm gonna wipe...
Post #3853514
nuintari's rules of networking 0x4b: Excellent remote-hands are as rare as a completely sufficient budget. Treasure them, reward them, and tell absolutely everyone about them.