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dmnelson

@dmnelson@mastodon.social

K-12 sysadmin. Linux, Mac, and some other things including pfSense, Ubiquiti, Juniper, and XCP-ng. Photographer, Apple enthusiast, and vintage tech admirer in my spare time. Learning Swift/SwiftUI. BLM. LGBTQIA+ ally.

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gedeonm, to random
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Mother’s Day card mailed from NC to SC on May 3rd hasn’t arrived in time for the holiday. Can we PLEASE get rid of DeJoy? For the love of god, please. 🤬

dmnelson,
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@gedeonm It’s kinda hard to believe Biden didn’t get rid of him on day one.

dmnelson,
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@gedeonm Just need to promote him to USPS Fellow to thank him for his service. Still there, still important, but not calling the shots. 😆

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

dmnelson,
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@siracusa Wow, I’ve never seen this before but I’m sure I would have been all over it as a kid.

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gedeonm, (edited ) to random
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Have you replaced some or all of your passwords with pass keys yet?

dmnelson,
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@gedeonm Depends on how you define “replace”… I’ve set up passkeys every opportunity I get, but few if any of them eliminate your password, and it just ends up being an alternate way to sign in.

dmnelson, to random
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In the world of Apple Silicon, the M series chips are positioned as Mac hardware that filtered down to the mid-to-high-end iPads.

Introducing the M4 on iPad first kind of breaks that illusion. The SOCs are all so closely related anyway, it seems kind of arbitrary that some have an A prefix while others have M.

While they’re at it they could call the next iPhone chip the M4 Mini, M4 Lite, something like that. They won’t if for no other reason than marketing. But it’s interesting to think about.

siracusa, to random
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[BINNING INTENSIFIES]

dmnelson,
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@siracusa Is this the first time they’ve binned Apple chips in such a way that you can get an odd number of CPU cores?

I know you could get 7 vs. 8 GPU on the M1 Air, for example. But I don’t remember seeing odd CPU core counts.

tashen, to random
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I’ve really been enjoying Star Trek: The Next Generation so far. It’s kind of tough putting into words exactly why. Sometimes you just vibe with something so much and that’s enough to love it. 😊

dmnelson,
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@tashen Is this your first time watching?

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dmnelson, to random
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#SilentSunday #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #OregonCoast #HecetaHead #HecetaHeadLighthouse

dmnelson, to macrophotography
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#SilentSunday #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #Flowers #Insects

Daojoan, to random
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Actually, Sith is a slur

dmnelson,
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@Daojoan The socially acceptable term is “Republican”.

dmnelson, to random
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The little one got me up at 3:30 this morning. Try as I might I couldn’t get him back down, so I’ve been drifting in and out of consciousness to Paw Patrol for the last three hours. TGIF

dmnelson, to sysadmin
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Our students are on Gmail. Staff are on-prem (for now.)

Barracuda adds an “external sender” warning to student mail, so I want to bypass it via an outbound gateway in Google. <https://support.google.com/a/answer/178333>

I can programmatically fetch Google’s netblocks from _spf.google.com

What's the best approach to keeping those up-to-date in Postfix or Sendmail list of permitted relay hosts?

I can kludge something together but wondering if anyone already did it and has a recommendation.

dmnelson,
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tl;dr Currently Google Workspace email from students to staff hit our Barracuda because that’s our MX record. I want to direct it straight to one of our on-prem mail servers instead to avoid the “external sender” banner. Google has lots of networks mail could come from. Looking for best way to keep relay rules up-to-date.

tantramar, to random
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If you’re wondering where I decided to stop paying attention, it was where you typed “USians” instead of “Americans”.

And I’m Canadian.

dmnelson,
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@tantramar I always have to pause and think about this one. I read it as a mashup of “USA” and “Asians”, so I at first glance I think it’s a cutesy way of saying Asian-Americans. 🤷

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dmnelson, to random
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Still a little scary, but I trust Mercedes to take this seriously and get it right more than I do Elon. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112338358942847991

NateBarham, to random
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Listening to Rec Diffs 104: True Bottom and…

I’m sure you’ve heard this enough, but I can’t help but pause and say, no @siracusa, regardless of how good a programmer you are, you will never convince me that is the correct answer.

The job you were best at was, without a doubt, OS reviewer. There has never been and likely will never be another of your caliber.

Absolutely the GOAT.

Respectfully.

dmnelson,
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@siracusa @NateBarham I don’t know what got me on this train of thought but I was actually contemplating this as an Ask ATP question for John the other day: Now that you’re free of a jobby-job, if Ars approached you about writing OS reviews again would you do it?💡🤔

amerpie, to random
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Mac people - excluding Apple’s own apps, what software have you been using the longest? For me it’s going to be BBEdit (released in 92) and ToyViewer (released in 95), both of which I’ve used since the 90s. Honorable mention to Launchbar and PathFinder.

dmnelson,
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@amerpie [BBEdit|BBEdit Lite|TextWrangler] is certainly the third-party tool I’ve used the longest that I still use today. I remember first finding it on a CD-ROM that came with a book or magazine in the 90s.

I’ve been on 1Password long time. I don’t know if it’s even been around long enough to count.

Others that I’ve used a long time are Firefox and LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before that.) It feels kinda wrong to include them since they’re not really Mac apps. (1/2)

dmnelson,
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@tantramar @amerpie Oh yeah, Transmit! I love it but I guess I haven’t been using it all that long in the grand scheme.

For (S)FTP my path was Fetch, Fugu, Cyberduck, and finally Transmit. Looking at my saved license info I started that around 2017.

Also a big fan of Screens, but again started in 2017. Not all that long ago, really.

Looks like I started using Carbon Copy Cloner in 2014. Ten years there. Not too shabby.

kcarruthers, to random
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GOP Senator says Donald Trump Isn't Just Looking For A 2024 VP, He's Looking For An "Heir" To Carry On His Agenda Into 2028

https://polinews.org/gop-senator-dished-horrifying-details-donald-trump-isnt-just-looking-for-a-2024-vp-hes-looking-for-an-heir-to-carry-on-his-agenda-into-2028/

dmnelson,
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@kcarruthers An “heir” so loyal they’ll pardon him.

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dmnelson, to random
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People who say they don’t want to add their card to Apple Pay or Google Pay so they can scan a QR code and pay on their phone… yet don’t bat an eye at the idea of handing the card to a stranger who takes it out of sight for several minutes. ☠️

christianselig, (edited ) to random
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Randomly curious: what email provider do you use?

dmnelson,
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@christianselig Google Workspace. I wish I could just use custom domains on iCloud, but I have too many domains and there are users who aren’t part of my family sharing group.

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