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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:03:45 JST Matthew Garrett

   Wondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:03:44 JST Matthew Garrett

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     My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:04:01 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 Do it!

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:04:54 JST Matthew Garrett

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     ("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:05:49 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are

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     jbaggs (jbaggs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:09:05 JST jbaggs

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @mjg59 Too computer. Such broke. (Or something like that.)

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:09:49 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     • jbaggs

     @jbaggs @mjg59 Many problem. Wow.

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:21:07 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 My printer works fine, but I do keep a baseball bat next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:21:09 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc Ok but printers are broken for *everyone*

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:25:52 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 How do you know it hasn't tried to murder you, though? Maybe it's trying really hard, but as a printer, the logistics of murder are very difficult.

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:25:53 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc I recently introduced a printer I found on the sidewalk and I am astonished it has not tried to murder me in my sleep

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:30:48 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @mjg59 Maybe it's slowly poisoning you?

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:30:49 JST Matthew Garrett

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc I mean honestly if a device wants to murder me but has no capability to do so do I even really care

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     jbaggs (jbaggs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:39:07 JST jbaggs

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @mjg59 Death by 1000 paper cuts.

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     Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:47:13 JST Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

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     @henryk @mjg59 Oh, diabolical.

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     Henryk Plötz (henryk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 17:47:14 JST Henryk Plötz

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @mjg59 If I were a printer, trying to murder someone, I'd subtly alter the numbers on any printout, hoping to corrupt a medication plan or something.
     https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Feb-2026 21:29:29 JST abadidea

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @mjg59 my husband is a lawyer, I am not the first beep booper he’s been involved with, and he asked me with a very frustrated tone why every beep booper he knows is always like “hang on, the computer I’m using can’t display in color atm, but my good monitor is hooked up to one with a broken ethernet port, just give me a few minutes to code up a way to transmit jpegs over speaker and mic and I’m sure the meme you sent will be very funny…”

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     Buttered Jorts (ajn142@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 22-Feb-2026 04:14:33 JST Buttered Jorts

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     • Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc @mjg59 @iaintshootinmis this week something fucked some part of my git config, and now git uses the wrong SSH binary despite .gitconfig directives otherwise. Now I can’t interact with my remote repos due to this, without opening a separate terminal process and setting the correct binary in the environment variable directly. It took me about 4 hours to get to that point.