Notices by [nate@social0 ~]$ :idle: (gangrif@social.undrground.org)

Well. Look what came!

I got my HA Voice Preview Edition today! Setup was super slick, I have it responding to do things like turn on lights and whatnot.

Its internal speaker is trash, expect to connect external speakers for music, but I think I'm OK with that.

I really have no idea what I want to try with this, but I really wanted to support the project, so here we are.

#homeassistant #havoice #homeautomation #opensource

@hacks4pancakes Dammit...

I mean really.. Dammit. This all makes me wish I never stopped self-hosting all of my services... At least when I ran my own email I knew I generally agreed with the morals of my host.. :P

Seriously though, thanks for filling me in. Now I have enough data to go dig deeper. I dont use proton for anything other than a single account for the defcon group I help organize.. so im not terribly impacted personally.

Im really getting sick of every tech company suddenly showing how terrible they truly are recently. These are the companies that we've all trusted to host the infrastructure that the world operates on. Its just infuriating.

@hacks4pancakes I dont think I caught what happened with Proton, guess i need to go read up on it, but. What your describing here ive heard called Tribalism. Its what makes sportball fans so hateful toward eachother that it sometimes comes to violence. Its what makes political parties so polar opposite from each other. And for a lot of humanity's history its whats kept groups of people alive.

Our base nature makes us fall in line with people who think like we do. And then stick with them until something big makes us change our minds. Some of us are OK being loners and so we end up taking more objective views on these sort of things. But the bulk of the human race.. Its reallly hard to change.

Those of us who can think freely, do, in fact, as you say, need to call it out when we see it, and we need to be as vocal as we can be without also alienating ourselves from the larger tribes. Becasue if we appear to be too much "outside" of their views... Well.. we're just the opposition.

Let me be clear though, I am NOT suggesting that we all need to be OK with the most radical examples here. Just so we can somehow believe that we might change their minds. I am perfectly fine with being alienated from hate groups for example. But I think there are a lot of people who are floating right now, and maybe just need a good breeze in the right direction.

Hey what are folks using for service monitoring these days?

i self host some things that are production enough that i want to know when they're down. Mostly web.

Last time i did this it was nagios. I can do that again. but i through id check what's new and hot first.

#monitoring #selfhosting #ops #sysadmin

@XenoPhage i haven't looked yet. but you're definitely the one to ask.. has anyone put these into containers yet?

off to the Philly airport for wonderful los vegas! Will i see any of you at #aws #reinvent ?

@badnetmask i'm curios how on demand works. can i watch shows on demand from the channels i have? paramount for example. do you get library access to paramount? or just cable tv like on demand for recent shows?

Hey anyone I know out there use Hulu + livetv? Ive got some questions..

Is blue sky winning?

I'm listening to my morning news brief and the mainstream media personality is going on about a decentralized billionaire proof social network that _x_ users are jumping ship and heading over to in droves. For half a second i got my hopes up that mastodon was finally getting its break!

It's not. he was talking about blue sky. Which i was unaware was open. I swear id read here that bsky was closed? So i looked it up and sure enough, open and decentralized (rather opinionated in its deployment though).

I've been drumming the mastodon/fediverse drum for 2 years now and im having trouble getting even the nerds to join me, let alone the normies.

Has anyone else had a problem here?

#mastodon #fediverse #social #bluesky

@pivot Yea, i did a little looking on that. They have what they call "PDS" personal data server. Which as far as I can tell is like a mastodon instance. You run it yourself, point a domain at it, and then folks reach you using an double-at address sort of like Mastodon does. ATuserATdomain. The last I'd looked into it, I didn't come across that, and assumed bsky was just a new central walled garden like Twitter was. And I was not interested in that at all.

Hey folks, Ive got a friend, respecting his privacy as he didn’t ask me to do this, he’s out of work, has a background in Cyber security, threat intel, red team, but sounds like he’s willing to entertain about anything that’ll pay the bills. He’s having trouble finding a job.

I’d appreciate it if anyone out there who’s looking for workers even kinda related to his background would send me whatever you’ve got open. I want to see if I can help this guy out.

Thanks in advance.

#lookingforjobs #jobs #lookingforwork #jobopenings #cyber #infosec #cybersecurity #redteam #threatintel

Sorry mastodon, i feel like I need to vent.

I've mentioned here in the past that we raise back yard chickens. We've got a nice little coop I built myself, 14 hens in there, they are happy, well fed, and maintained. They repay us with lots of nice fresh eggs. The kids learn about the cycle of life, my wife enjoys caring for them, they are entertaining, and generally everyones happy.

One thing my wife likes to do, is get fertalized eggs, and hatch them at home in a small incubator she picked up. Its a really cool process, several of our chickens came into this world in this way. You always take a chance though. Being in town, chickens are ok, and lots of folks have them, but roosters are a big no-no because of the constant crowing. Well one of these eggs hatched into a rooster. So as soon as he started crowing (which is pretty much the sure-fire way to know the gender of a chicken) we put him in our garage, in a smaller coop, and started looking around for a farm or someone to take him. This wasn't going well, seems nobody wants a rooster, and if they do want one, they've already got one, and having more than one is problematic.

Back while I was building the coop, one of our neighbors (who we've always gotten along with) stopped by, and we chatted a bit about the chickens. He was super cool about it. He's generally been a nice guy, a little more hipster with his sandals and white cotton pants, but whatever, I can get along with just about anyone. I assured him we weren't planning on getting a rooster, and we'd planned to keep up with the cleanliness of the coop to make sure we didn't bother neighbors with it. He said something along the lines of "you wont have any problems from me", and seemed really happy about the idea of neighborhood chickens.

Well, That neighbor, about 3 weeks into our rooster-rehome search, approaches my father-in-law, who lives with us, but doesn't own the property, doesn't own the chickens, and generally has nothing to do with the situation. Complaining about the rooster, really agitated, says the rooster keeps him up while he's sleeping, how I'd promised we wouldn't get a rooster (which I did, but come on, we're actively trying to deal with it), and basically threatens to call the cops.

So, that night my wife and I talk about it, and the next morning I get up early, before her or the kids are up, and kill a rooster. Before you get all weird about that, I took every effort to make sure he didn't suffer. Now I've hunted since I was 12. I've harvested several deer, rabbits, squirrels, even a turkey, not to mention the numer of trout and bass ive pulled out of the local waters. But this was different, We'd raised this guy from an egg, and while we knew we had to get rid of him, none of us wanted it to be like that. Im not ashamed to say it really bothered me. All day it would hit me, how this poor guy did nothing wrong. And he was a beautiful chicken. Such a shame. It took me a week or two to really move past.

But it's done now complainey-neighbor can shut the hell up.

Well fast forward to yesterday (about 3 or 4 weeks since rooster incident). I'm out mowing my lawn, and mr. sandals and white cotton pants shouts from across the street. About "the stench". We had just opened up the coop for the spring, took the shielding off of it that we'd added for the cold winter months. Tells me his whole house smells, and how toxic it is, and how we "promised him" there would be no smell. Which i might clarify, i never said. How could I promise that? It's not possible, it's like promising he'll never smell dog poop from our dogs. After a 5-ish minute back and forth me trying to explain what we were doing that might have caused the smell, what we were doing about it, and him refusing to accept any of it. He brings up the rooster, i re-iterate that the rooster was an accident, and i had to murder the poor thing because of him, he goes on and on about how "We had a conversation" and how "I pormised him". I cut off the interaction feeling like it was going nowhere, and all I;m getting is threatened, and went back to mowing my lawn.

Why am I sharing all of this? Well i guess just because im angry, and wanted to share it, and also because im curious. Am I being a problem here? we;re doing our best, i cant find any ordinance that says we cant have chickens, and we''re making every effort to make sure we're not bothering our neighbors with this. I am generally not a confrontational guy. Now whenever I'm outside I'm looking over my shoulder to see if he's going to come accuse us of something else. Yesterday, my kids were out in the backyard playing with the hose, and the whole time, I worried that he was going to come complain about the annoying mirth of my children. (he didnt)

Anyone have a few acres in PA they want to sell cheap.

#neighbors #chickens #backyardchickens

@darnell @securingdev I've aired this concern to many of my conservative friends who just can't bring themselves to vote for biden over (insert thing they believe is biden fault, or biden age, here). i'm worried that if he's the-elected, worst case, we won't have another chance to vote him back out. because he'll find some way to become orange dictator of the US.

@mcc Can we have them leave the package on the actual porch too? not on the unsheltered stairs that lead to the porch? like... if we're asking anyway...