Notices by The Psychotic Network Ferret (nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

@inthehands I'm just looking at the real world fallout right now and sighing. Kids are coming through college, having ChatGPT'd their way through everything, and they can't answer basic interview questions.

We focused so hard on grades above all else, that kids learned to do anything to get them, including not learn anything.

@janneke @jesterchen @actuallyautistic You are being needlessly pedantic. Which I guess is just you being you.

@janneke @jesterchen @actuallyautistic

I didn't "want" this question answered one way or another. I legitimately wanted to know if it was just me that thinks it is insanely rude. I worded it as such. Turns out, I'm with the majority for once in my life.

The reason it is rude is because of the effect speakerphone have on conversation volumes: It drives them up. If you were just speaking to a friend close by, you would naturally(hopefully) adjust to each other's volume levels and the ambient noise level and in all likelihood(again, hopefully), keep it down. When you use speakerphone, it comes through loud and clear for everyone in the vicinity, this also has the impact of making the local phone operator tend to elevate their own voice.

So, while using the earpiece would result in everyone nearby hearing little more than your likely hushed voice. Using speakerphone in the same situation usually means we can all hear every word of both sides of your conversation loud and clear. Speakerphone causes you to be loud in public. This is why it is rude.

nuintari's rules of networking 0x3d:

Test your cables.

1st Corollary:

A basic pair mapper is almost never a suffient test.

Some AI coder: "I" wrote this new thing that searches for hidden strings in files.

Most youngins: Oh wow, that is so useful, I wish I had this years ago!

Us greybeards: Congratulations, you reinvented grep.

This is absolutely a subtoot.

nuintari's rules of networking 0x4a:

Whenever possible, use bi-directional (BiDi) optics. Fiber connections are a finite resource that often require manual labor and a fusion splicer to add. Less fiber used means less fiber spent. It is also half as much fiber to break.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc&list=RDdZLfasMPOU4&index=8

Twenty-five years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope........
For a destination...... mmmm , mmm, yeah yeah yeah

People who insist there is no such thing as a stupid question have obviously never been asked things like,

"What is a better computer, a mainframe, or mysql?"

and

"How do I find the BGP ASN on my cellphone?"

Yes, these, and so many more, both came from the same ID10T who has my cellphone number.

The next time he starts texting me a book of stupid again, I should just reply, "new phone, who dis?"

@pluralistic Sir, I do not wish to frighten or alarm you, but dealing with Microsoft with regard to email issues is akin to performing an auto appendectomy with nothing but LSD and Absinthe as an anesthetic.

I wish you luck. Moreso, I truly hope you retain your sanity and composure in the face of the Lovecraftian horrors that lie before you.

Boosted for exposure. gl;hf

Motorola(now Cambium) Canopy Subscriber Module, filled with ants.

It had signal issues, but was still working. They were all up inside the dome portion as well. Just used some canned air to blast it out and called it good. Recommended the end user put some Sevin Dust around the base of the pole it was mounted on.

@usuario How completely perfect can an analogy possibly be?

You: Hold my beer.

Well done, well done!

I just read a post that contained this:

"IPv6 was supposed to solve NAT, so fewer servers would be needed."

Way to tell the world that you understand neither systems nor networking. Bravo, you have proven your incompetance regarding two subjects in a single sentance. How very efficient of you.

@georgetakei $172 million is probably chump change compared to her botox bill.

#DNS isn't the problem. DNS is almost never the actual problem. DNS is incredibly stable.

A resource failing to resolve because it's record was incorrectly changed or removed is not a failure of DNS. It is the failure of whatever made the change.

DNS didn't fail today for #AWS, a record got changed somehow and DNS obeyed.

I hate the, "It's always DNS," trope because it reveals a deep misunderstanding off how DNS works and what it actually does.

The mental gymnastics people will make to blame DNS for everything drive me fucking crazy.

nuintari's rules of networking 0x13:

Seriously.

NAT is not a firewall.
NAT is not kind of a firewall.
NAT is not like a firewall.
NAT is not sort of a firewall.
NAT is not a firewall.

There is a world of difference between explicitly denied traffic, and traffic dropped because the device just didn't know what to do with it.

nuintari's rules of networking 0x05:

A proper recursive name server is local to your network. Never use any of the commercial providers that really want your DNS traffic. They really want your DNS traffic for a reason. That reason does not have your best interests at heart.

DNS is not hard.

@ryanc @arrjay The mentions of optimizing.... gee I wonder who you could mean? 🙂

@georgetakei

_every_ accusation is an admission.

New corollary on this one, inspired by this fiasco: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115164282623836102
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nuintari's rules of networking 0x66:

Custom TLDs: Just say no.

1st Corollary:

You should probably avoid some "legitimate" TLDs as well.

@thomasfuchs And whenever I try to talk to people, in this very industry no less, about how awful and pointless these modern frameworks are, I always get the same responses.

"But $foo has changed how modern computing works!"

"You just don't understand how modern computing works."

Look around, modern computing _doesn't_ work. Everything is broken, every tool presented to the public is tedious to use. Everything we build anymore is pure shite.