silverwizard

@silverwizard@convenient.email

Father first and foremost
RPG player/hacker for fun and explicitly not profit
InfoSec for Profit
Feral Child of Unix and RFC 2324

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silverwizard, to random

My aircon is covered in ice and apparently this is a thing that happens and I am sweltering

silverwizard, to random

When you see me holding a Macbook at BSDCan, you need to understand, it's running FreeBSD

silverwizard,

I am building a kernel on a Macbook Air from 2012

I bought this thing on the weekend (literally Sunday)

It was running OS X Lion

silverwizard,

Any wifi people have some time? I'm using an ancient bwn card and this threahd (last post) is making me think there's a reversion to something because it's the only mention I can find using 14.0 forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.…

I've already built a kernel accepting the GPL so I'm not super afraid of getting my hands dirty

(I can provide better info in a bit, but the linked forum thread is my exact steps, which, once it was crashing the same way, lead me to that thread)

silverwizard, to random

My two year old walks up to me holding a stick "It's my shilleilagh!"

I stop

I skip a beat

I realize that there's a troll in True And The Rainbow Kingdom who calls his stick a shillelagh.

The real question is how can a 2 year old say Shillelagh pefectly

silverwizard,

@hypolite I mean, yes, there's that, but also - two year olds

silverwizard,

@hypolite it's more, kids pronouncing any word is hard, any multisyllabic word is harder

silverwizard, to random

I boot an old Mac I rarely use except when I need a mac. I run "brew update" and... it updates XZ

Painful :(

silverwizard, to random

the problem with making robots with k year olds is that I just kinda thing "let's do this" and fly by the seat of my pants but the kid really needs structure

Quinnypig, to random
@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social avatar

: give me an option to report bugs to support that doesn’t cost me anything—make it a game even. If the issue is with the service my support fee gets refunded 2x!

I shouldn’t have to tweet like this, to report issues like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/s/aQWTweBErN

silverwizard,

@Quinnypig AWS's Ubuntu NIC driver had an issue where it would negotiate a packet size smaller than the HTTP header, so we would try to do a docker pull and it would just transfer data back and forth all night.

We had to pay for support to open the ticket
We had to upload logs to s3 ("we don't click external links")
We had to do all the log gathering
We had to pay for transfer to get those logs

We ended up making about 36GB of logs before they finally realized that our initial suggestion was correct, and then fixed their bug

I shudder to think the transit costs

silverwizard, to random

Been sick all week, it's quarter to four and I'm basically asleep. Blah. Don't get sick.

silverwizard,

I'm hoping to be well enough for the Birthday Gauntlet next week, and then BSDCan! Baaaaah!

silverwizard, to random

How do people parent without having a partner or self who did their thesis on zeitgebers?!

silverwizard,

@hypolite maybe, my brain is illness soup

The word Parent is a verb here, meaning to act in the parental role, which might be the barrier?

silverwizard,

@hypolite I figured it was brain soup or English verbing nouns

So Zeitgebers are a thing in psychology deeply linked to sleep, addiction, and hunger. Basically the theory as it works is that the brain produces certain neurotransmitters based on external events (this is pretty easy)

But this means that the best way to make someone hungry is to do thing things that lead to lunchtime, or the way to make someone tired is to do thing things that happen before you sleep.

So, my wife did her thesis in zeitgebers during exams and sleep disruption caused by it (with an emphasis on effects of people with Bipolar Disorder, since you know, fields get narrow), and so we thought a lot about them for our kids. We established good rituals before sleep, managed a good bedtime routine, but also made it repeatable.

This meant my sick 2 year old had napped a bunch and didn't want to sleep, so I kept him up an hour, did toothbrushing, gave him a bedtime snack, and gave him lullabies, and he was asleep instantly

silverwizard,

@hypolite most parents are aware of the value of bedtime routine, but the real trick is understanding how you can shrink or lengthen the routine, vary the routine while away, and repeat the routine in case of issues

silverwizard,

@hypolite it's kinda a IYKYK thing, but I care deeply about it!

silverwizard, to random

In the wake of vishing, smishing, and qishing, catfishing will now be known as chishing

silverwizard,

@hypolite Obviously they are:
Phising but with your voice
Phishing but via an SMS
Phishing but via a QR code

Obviously! Aren't you glad we have clear terminology!

silverwizard,

@hypolite I have been sick for days and missed this!

Catfishing is a separate type of scam than phishing. Both are deception based scams, but is generally about stealing credentials and another is generally directly stealing money. The joke was just taking cat fishing and acting like it was a subset of phishing due to the similarities and then giving it a confusing name. The smishing and vishing.

silverwizard,

@hypolite yeah, I'm fine mostly, but ug

silverwizard, to random

My son thinks every country has a king, since ya know, we do. It feels weird andis so fucking hard to explain toa four year old that having a king is considered dumb and out of date.

silverwizard, to random

I should be flattred that when I make brownies my kids start chanting impatiently, shouldn't I?

it's just very stressful

silverwizard, to random

Why haven't we, as a society, given up on USB-c as a failed experiment?

silverwizard,

@odessa the standard normal kinda flat USB ports were A (or host), the kinda weird squarish ones you probably only saw on a printer were B

silverwizard,

@odessa sorry, I'm bad at the jokes! my brain is just four factoids in a fishbowl waiting to be your new friend

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