I compare the efforts to keep a doorway clear to the non-americans saying “just resist your government”.

Dude needs to run his shop and not become homeless himself.

Ansible using SSH

The moment you discover anything else, you’re gonna be so pleased. It’ll seem so modern! So fast!

Check out gatus.

It doesn’t do SNMP. That’s … bold.

Iso27002 says I can’t run this.

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Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they’re primarily geared for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity – and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.

So old code is now suddenly bad?

Yes. It must go stale without some kind of needless churn; right?

I loved solving a problem that redhat cant fix (because the smart people left) on their theForeman clone with a workaround that I learned from the days of NIS+. A 30-year-old workaround for last year’s shitty install.

But fear of established, known-good code will certainly change that in the long run: ifconfig, netstat, ifup, fstab, xinet, service; the more we can churn out the working tools for neu dreck coded by dunning-kruger lost-boys kids who had no mentoring to prevent dumb patterns, the less the working solutions for known-good tools will work. And that’s, some how, “progress”.

You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.

Search for these strings and let’s talk.

• incase
• aswell
• literally
• (his|her|their|the) emails
• the ask
• the spend

I’m agape. I’m flabbergasted. Someone wrote a mass noun like ‘e-mail’ and didn’t put a fucking S on it. My God.

Get Systemd to stand near the window. We remember better options.

Headphone jack?

This is for not not selling guns to Israel, right? I just want to be sure it’s still the same thing Russia convinced us to hate just him for.

A lot of people who don’t know how trade works (you sell the thing and can’t dictate how it’s used after that) or what a binary choice is, what songle-issue voting does for the conservatives, or what harm reduction is, really want something to allay those fears about leopards. So it’s only because this sounds like that, or I wouldn’t ask.

When people don’t know normal things we learned in '92, I get worried.

Indian subcontractors + AI.

(untrained) Indian subcontractors were the ‘Ai’-like solution of 20 years ago. Your employer is doubling-down on MBA-driven labour fantasies.

forgot there were still keyboards with a numberpad

number pad

Isn’t that Rockabilly?

No one significant; just security people, system architects, build/release people and support people, because of all the best-practice it breaks. Who cares about those chumps?!?

maxxing

Spelled like taxing, faxing and relaxing, but with an extra X because … okay, I don’t know why. Why the extra X?

I can’t watch. It’s just so much “the pot isn’t boiling; it’s just a little warmer” bullshit - I’m tired, boss - that I need to know whether this guy’s gonna fail the intelligence test before I commit the time.

The only solution is a pivot: the component needs to be dead to us now; and forever, too, as they’ll erode privacy and leak p-i-i at the drop of a hat.