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Engineer who converts solder, Ethernet cables, and firmware into entertainment.

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Having a perfectly fine and normal morning ripping down 16 foot long boards with a battery powered skillsaw.

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I've started seeing ads for Flex Alerts and how we all need to act to bail out California's rickety ass electrical grid, and I'm really coming to the conclusion "fuck em"

With programs like OhmConnect and Emergency Load Reduction Program, the California investor owned utilities can fuck right off with just asking me nicely to reduce how much electricity I'm using. If you need people to shed load, pay them to do it.

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She always has a muddy nose.

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I'm currently seeing 236VAC from the grid, which is a TOUCH lower than the typical 247VAC I see most days.

So yeah, I think it's kind of warm in California today.

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Me: "I do worry a lot about whether I'm breathing correctly, or getting enough oxygen, or if the air is good... but I can often overcome that with a pulse-ox. That's my security blanket when I'm having a bad day, I just wear the little lanyard so I can check my O2Sat whenever..."

Therapist: "That's a good strategy, that works?"
(cont.)

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@North Jesus Christ dude. Am I supposed to be worrying about this too? This is going to live in my head rent free now.

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@North nope. I'm not thinking about this. nope nope nope nope

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I have to give Centos credit. They really did just kick everything from the centos-stream8 mirror directory off to the centos-vault and now 404 all mirrorlist requests for centos-stream8. Not even just give the single vault mirror URL.

So a month from now, CentOS 7 is just... gone.

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Someone should build a public level 2 EV charger that only accepts quarters and has a mechanical mechanism like an old parking meter.

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I'm just Ken. 10/10

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I still think about the fact that I was apparently the top TAC engineer at Arista globally one year for the number of RMA orders placed.

WindowsKey-V was a godsend and I can still tab between fields in the order form with my eyes closed.

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What's the acceptable cancer rate at EMF these days? Asking for absolutely no particular reason.

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Someone I knew did actually manage to get a new BGP allocation from ARDC, so I guess they are still handing those out, but he said it took three months and exchanging more than 50 emails, so in case you were wondering how ARDC is doing after getting $80M, the answer is crippling bureaucracy.

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@antonis Last I heard from them, they wanted me to renumber all my ham services to a subnet from a new single /16 they were migrating all of the BGP announcements to. I told them to get stuffed and I've never bothered renewing my portal account since then

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@antonis They just issued my friend a new /24 from the 44.4.0.0/16 Silicon Valley subnet, so it looks like they gave up on whatever their plan was when they were trying to kick me off the 44.4 space I'm using.

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@jeroen @antonis Correct. We regularly bitch at ARDC that they need to get their act together and get RPKI implemented because they keep complaining about people stealing their address space using IRR.

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You can almost forget you're in the middle of a huge city in some places along the river

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@MLE_online "why hello there solar panels. Are you interested in a talk?"

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"I want to know more about you and what you do because I'm highly suspicious." - Redditor talking about me.

But I might start using that as a conversation starter in public.

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BIG MICRO MIRROR NEWS!

"This has got to be a front for a criminal hacker organization or a an undercover governmental organization." - Random Dude on Reddit

When @warthog9 and I originally started the project and started stamping out lots of identical Linux mirrors, I went "lol, how long do you think it will take before someone on Reddit accuses us of being some kind of conspiracy for running so many mirrors?"

We host Kali Linux on some of the mirrors, which means that a few domain block lists block us for hosting "hackerz toolz" which is dumb, and I partly enjoy causing pain for people using such overzealous domain block lists.

The cesspool that is Reddit has delivered on the foretold. https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cqlbkz/comment/l41zbo1/

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@morgan @warthog9 me! That's me! He's talking about me!

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@warthog9

Me: You're going to need to be more specific in wtf you think I'm doing here"

Him: immediately folds.

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My mistake was getting myself labeled as "The NTP Expert" at work.

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@mansr Yeah. I really disdain this job security thing.

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I enjoy the game of reading every comment thread about anything related to any issues on Linux mirrors, and seeing how far I have to read until I see someone saying that IPFS/BitTorrent would solve all our problems while completely lacking the understanding of HOW MANY other much harder problems that would cause.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40516437

Then sending those comment threads to @warthog9 to revel in how his 16 year old paper is still relevant, correct, and only dated by the size of the specific numbers. https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2008/ols2008v1-pages-173-182.pdf

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@kivrak @warthog9 from a traffic engineering perspective or a router performance perspective?

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One of the fun parts of being a mirror operator is that you get to deal with China Mobile using ISO download mirrors to fix their traffic ratios with other ISPs at peering points.

Looks like they've moved to using Slackware now...

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@tweedge My previous theory the last time when it was centos ISOs was it was that it was a bad DHCP server configuration because the user agent matched that in the Connect-X3 PXE rom, but this time it's an OSX user agent and more random behavior from more systematic IP addresses, so maybe more deliberate this time?

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@tweedge https://social.afront.org/@kwf/112491295264492540

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