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fedops

@fedops@fosstodon.org

Self-confessed hermit misanthrope. #childfree, #foss, #privacy, #selfhosting, #hiking, #gardening, #nature #conservancy, #EV. My background is 30 years of Unix and Linux sysadmin, 10 in industrial OT security. I'm also a forest smallholder.

Fuck Putin and fuck all fascists.

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btp, to random
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My boss told me that ARM chips are for toys and children and only real machines run x86. I'm still dumbfounded.

fedops,
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@joel @btp lol.

fedops, to random
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Shoutout to lightningmaps.org for a really neat visualization of what's going on. 👍

fedops,
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@proactiveservices yeah absolutely. This week's been a real roller coaster...
@troublewithwords

simon_brooke, to random
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Blessings of Beltane to you all. The Sun returns; the Earth greens and gives forth abundance. Be grateful, and hopeful. There is grace in this day.

fedops,
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@simon_brooke and to you. There will be food and drink offered to The Fair Folk tonight.

fedops, to random
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I have an opening for an OT security person in the Cologne/Düsseldorf region of Germany.

You must be a FOSS aficionado who is willing to work on pushing a windows-based environment towards something from this millenium. Challenges are internal friction on the dev side and lack of knowledge of non-IT people.

You must be enthusiastic about industrial environments and heavy machinery.

EU citizen/work permit preferred, hybrid office/wfh. Relocation assistance. DM for details.

thewk, to random
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finally found a coral ai accelerator in stock. Should arrive sometime next week....
It's for a fun new idea to keep cat poop out of my garden.
Utilizing camera feeds and a watering system attached to my home assistant....

fedops,
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@thewk oh dear. 😄 Does the plan include explosives or missiles as well?

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Finally... The weekend!

If only it had not taken a 4 hours meeting to end the week...

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque eleven (11) meetings today. Personal high score. For small values of high.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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"Design by committee" is alive and well.

Alas.

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque another day full of long meetings?

fedops, to random
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Colleague of mine would like to use Linux more, and one of the remaining obstacles were his two printers not working. Spent a couple of hours debugging (proprietary) drivers and always ended up with "communication error".

So finally grab a tcpdump, and lo and behold: the thing was giving ICMP denied for SNMP. Whisky Tango Foxtrott. Turns out the driver needs it to query the supplies levels and status and otherwise won't print. At all.

Enable in web interface, paper comes out.

Go figure.

sotolf, to random
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Time for the ritual of the day, please accept this illustration image that is not really like reality, I'm inside a container, and not really that wasteful with beans :p

fedops,
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@sotolf have had 3 so far and nothing's helping. 😳

fedops, to random
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Websearched a distant relative on a whim today, and happened onto instantcheckmate.com.

Holy smokes. Yinzes USians really don't give a crap about privacy, eh?

Within 5 minutes I had found not only his address and phone number but also his sister's and mom's, correctly identified his deceased father, and found their relocation history over the past 30 years. Without even so much as having to create an account. 😳🤔😳

kev, (edited ) to random
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This just glorious from @keenan. The way they read the post is just 👌

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/rss-readers-make-me-want-to-jump-into-a-vat-of-acid

fedops,
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@kev @keenan I'm completely the opposite. I love getting my feed without having to mentally accomodate each site's different layout and idiosyncracies. The feed reader (feeder and newsboat) just gets me the content and none of the BS around it.

Maybe I'm more used to that since also my normal web browsing setup is very likely to completely destroy the layout of your site by filtering out all unwanted scripts and blinky doodads.

fedops, to random
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Is anyone using Bitwarden in a large organization?

We currently use Keepass with about 5000 entries in 800 folders and subfolders. These represent geographically distributed customer sites.

Importing this into BW works, but the search functionality is super clunky and the dumbed-down interface is a pain to use. For example in the app a found entry is not listed with the collection it was found in. It is in the web UI, but the collection name is shortened unrecognizably.

fedops,
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@joel doesn't solve our issues. We need to be able to give groups of people access to subtrees of the whole thing. With Keepass it's all or nothing, and whoever knows the master password for a vault has it.

thewk, to ubuntu
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Testing time 24.04 :-)

fedops,
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@thewk what's different with the rdp server compared to say 22.04?

fedops,
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@thewk interesting, thanks.

I'm not really a fan of rdp since it's essentially a security nightmare, and extending this to non-windows machines is a wrong move IMHO. But I accept that it has become a defacto standard.

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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So... 🤓

$ uptime ; date ; cat /etc/slackware-version

20:41:16 up 349 days, 44 min, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05

Thu Apr 18 20:41:16 CEST 2024

Slackware 14.1

OK, I really need to update this little machine to #Slackware 15 before the uptime goes to 365 days... 😅

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque that's cute.

$ uptime; date; cat /etc/redhat-release

20:58:49 up 1290 days, 23:58, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.07

Thu Apr 18 20:58:49 CEST 2024

CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)

Not proud of it, and I need to do something about this sooner rather than later. 😬

fedops,
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@ParadeGrotesque there's a thin line between wanton negligence and retrocomputing. 😂

Wyatt, to random
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This is my lappy. So I am checking in with a different challenge. I want to see if I can keep this hardware going 10 years with the same install. I think I can always transition it to a server.
@JLW_the_Jobber

fedops,
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@Wyatt nice! I just passed 6 years with mine at the beginning of April, having started with Fedora 27.
@JLW_the_Jobber

array, to random
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This morning I received a call to have a job interview this evening, dev position, in a big enterprise ("big" according to my humble standards; ~200 people in the IT department I've been told, a noticeable change from being just 2 developers in my former job). Stakes are high and probabilities are low, but having another chance when everything seems to be going south is nice. :)

fedops,
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@array excellent news, very glad to hear this! Good luck! 👍👍👍

fitheach, to thinkpad
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Calling all ThinkPad users.

A while back, I sprayed sparkling mineral water all over my ThinkPad keyboard. Despite drying it immediately, the keyboard always malfunctioned after that incident.

I purchased a replacement keyboard from TellusRem, as they are considerably cheaper than the Lenovo originals.

I can report that the TellusRem keyboard is every bit as good as the original.

fedops,
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@fitheach according to their webshop those are indeed original, albeit refurbished, ones? Nice! 👍

JoeRess, to random
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You love to see it.

fedops,
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@JoeRess sweet. Any reason or just the usual speculation going down?

simon_brooke, to random
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It's taken a month, but I now have a new hydraulic winch for my tractor working. This should make hauling logs out of my wood so much easier!

Painting the plate and frame. The frame hanging from a piece of old baler twine, and painted green.
Winch on the tractor, view from behind.
Winch on the tractor, view from the left rear quarter. The heavy winch with its steel cable are mounted to the plate. It is linked by two hydraulic hoses to a control valve mounted on the top left of the plate. The plate is mounted by the frame to the three point linkage on the tractor, and the valve is linked by two more hydraulic hoses to the hydraulic circuit of the tractor.

fedops,
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@simon_brooke oh very nice! That is a sweet setup. Did you purchase the winch new, it looks spotless. What make/model is it please?

thewk, to random German
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So, had my car in the workshop, detailed the issue. Got it back, without the issue fixed and two new issues. Guess tomorrow I‘ll be ruining someones friday…

fedops,
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@thewk you didn't go there in the first place? 😀

Gina, (edited ) to random
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    fedops,
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    @Gina ok. A pickup truck, a Belstaff, and a pair of wellies. 😂

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