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

I cannot believe I have to keep saying this, but:

STOP PUTTING SHIT ON GITHUB. PERIOD.

Github was never good, and then Microsoft bought it, and it went from shit out my ass..... to lick my fucking asscrack you fucking cuck.

STOP USING GITHUB.

@silverwizard ctrl+a is basically the HOME key, it will return you to the start of line.

ctrl+b conflicts with nothing. That is why it is the sane control character.

I knew this 17 years ago, and still decided to fight against it, in the name of muscle memory.

I was fucking wrong.

I switched to tmux soon after the initial release, roughly 17 years ago.

less than three months ago, I finally pushed through accepting ctrl+b as the control character. I had started using GNU Screen maybe a year prior to the release of tmux, and fought against ctrl+b in favor of Screen's ctrl+a for nearly 17 years.

I finally changed.

It was nothing. I avoided change for 17 years, and for nothing. The change took me hours, not even days.

Reason: ctrl+a does other useful shit.

@BeAware I feel seen.

@sidereal @nullagent Not really, I've been telling people that Microsoft was a massive problem since the 1990s, and no one has ever listened.

They continue to be a massive problem, yet are continuing to expand the scope of their issues, and they aren't going anywhere.

What they have done is prove that they can be absolutely heinous, and nothing will actually change. I can be right all I want, but Microsoft still wins in the end.

@Blueteamsherpa This. ^^^

I've studied history my entire life, I have chosen to specialize in the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, and the ensuing shitfest.

This is 100% accurate. Nothing BTS has said is an exaggeration. Every single bit of it is terrible and true.

@silverwizard Running a business to generate sustainable income is the old way.

Running a business to generate maximum profits for shareholders on a three month basis, and the future be damned! is the new way of almighty capitalism.

Neither are compatible with how you run a government. But most people who believe in Trump believe he will do the first, when in reality, he is using government to take option 2 to eleven and beyond across the entire NYSE.

@silverwizard Well, efficiency is a great way to get people on board on basically anything.

Like believing that government should be run like a business. Government does not exist to generate revenue, it exists to provide services to, and to protect its citizens.

or at least it is supposed to do that.

But the GOP ran up such a massive operating debt, that now, people think we need a solid business man to reduce it.

never mind that the Republicans are the ones that caused the debt in the first place, and every time they are in power, the party of fiscal conservancy is great at doubling or tripling the national debt.

A thought.

A true department of government efficiency would seek to bypass any and all government checks and balances, because they are, by very definition, not very efficient.

Fascism is far more efficient than Democracy. This doesn't mean it is better. I am an engineer, and I recognize that not everything is an engineering pipeline. Being an "efficient" government probably means you are at best cutting corners, at worst, violating human rights.

Efficiency is not always, or even often, the best measure of, "good."

Massive issue with GNU Screen:

https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html

Suggestion: Start using tmux 17 years ago.

hey #infosec #bsd #networking #security friends, anyone know of a good, regularly updated list of know DNS over HTTPS servers?

I'm making my blocking of them way better using an awesome new feature I discovered this morning in #JunOS called dynamic-address, which allows me to update an address entry from a remote webserver.

So, need updated list of DoH servers, translate to JunOS friendly format, push to local webserver, let the firewall update periodically.

I really should blog this shit, I can't be the only person who could use this.

I have a question I have started asking at the beginning of any interview. "Does this organization use MS Office, and specifically Teams and Outlook for collaboration, or something else?"

If the answer isn't something else, I tell them I am no longer interested in the job and decline to continue the interview further.

This has absolutely flummoxed and irritated more than a few people, but this is my line for my own sanity. I'd rather push a broom than use Outlook and Teams again. I realize that this is limiting my career choices quite a bit. But in a world where we are always telling each other to look out for our own mental health, this is something I need in order to stay sane. I can't spend any amount of time arguing with bad software when I'd rather be getting shit done and not fall completely off my rocker.

So, I'm adding a second question now. "What is the organization's position on AI and its use for work?"

I think you can guess what kind of answers will make me walk away.

@tante Pay extra money to make it even easier to steal my personal information so you can advertise to me more effectively, for a feature I'll never use that virtually nobody is asking for?

AI is like blockchain, it's a solution looking for a problem. A lot of the things I see AI being heralded for are problems we solved with "basic" automation and some math 20 years ago for a fraction for a fraction of the cost.

@dexter Wow.... I am completely qualified!

I have written a looooot of CGI Perl on Apache in my day, the vast majority of it spent grumbling about how I wasn't allowed to use PostgreSQL instead.

It's just funny, I rarely see calls for that skillset anymore.

@silverwizard I have burned so many Starcraft CDs in my day.

My original Starcraft CD got used so much, it exploded inside my CD drive. Never did get that drive working again.

@prettygood @josh I'm almost afraid to ask, what in IPv6 doesn't, "work right?"

nuintari's rules of networking 0x14:

NAT should never have needed to exist.
NAT might have gone away, if y'all had taken IPv6 seriously in the mid 2000s.
But y'all got addicted to NAT, and now it is here to stay.
A significant number of complaints against IPv6 are now due to the sad reality that many people in IT do not understand networks without NAT.

Windows 11 installer:

Get to the account creation, step.
Press SHIFT + F10 to get a command prompt.
Enter: start ms-cxh:localonly
Create a local user instead of a fucking Microsoft account.

You're welcome

Fuck you Microsoft.

Cloud Computing is the modern expression of the old axiom, "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself."

@usuario Well true, but when I select restart, I have an expectation that I will not have to also press the power button.