InEnduringGrowStrong

I’m a network sorcerer.
Wizards are more the book-type while I draw my networkink power from my bloodline.

Phones sometimes will ignore your local DNS (if any) and still use whatever the vendor hardcoded.

Try to reach the website from the phones, both with its FQDN and its IP.

Yea, I was referring to the OSI model.

I can’t know for sure if they kicked the bucket or not, but they aren’t around here anymore.

They seemed like a genuinely cool person and it makes me sad that they might be gone.

They’ve mentioned accepting and not fearing death, but also wanting to remain anonymous.
I won’t doxx them, alive or not, but know that it seems someone has since been taking care of what they considered to be their life’s work (their words).

May they remind y’all to cherish whatever time you do have.

A single misconfigured thing can suck real bad as you’ve seen.
Selfhosting involves lots of things that can be misconfigured or go bad.

That’s not to scare you out of it out anything, merely to congratulate you in seeking knowledge first.

Disclaimer: I’m biased towards networks because I’m a network engineer, opinions may differ.

I would say… having at least a vague grasp of layers 1-4 of the traditional network model is a decent start.
You don’t need to understand everything, but knowing a minimum will help a lot imho.

It’s hard to point you in the right direction without knowing what you already know or not.

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets.

It generates 42.8% bullshit.

No apologies needed. Although, ordering one before they reban it again may or may not be something to consider.

Pretty sure that ban was walked back?

Maybe put a transparent flap?

You might not yet always know what you’re doing to your Linux install…
But you can never really what the fuck Microsoft is gonna do to your windows install.

That’s without even getting into whether or not Microsoft knows what they’re doing themselves.

Critical Dependency As A Service

For when you need to outsource the potential crippling of your business to potentially hostile third parties.

I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it

Now’s a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.

“everyone that is on this list is over the age of consent in their state”

“In their state” is suspicious af here.

One this that’s really hard to replace is DDoS protection.

I leave my phone further away.
Close enough that I’ll hear it if there’s an actual emergency, but far enough that I won’t reach for it just because I’m bored.

That’s enough to take care of most of my mindless night scrolling.

If I just can’t fall asleep, sometimes I’ll go drift off in the hammock outside or something that’ll cool my body a bit.
Tbh, sometimes I just rub one out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also works as a decongestant.
I’m not a doctor, don’t use this as medical advice.

27??
Bruh, I’m paid 37h a week and I’ve already worked 40h.
If anything, I’m planning on working -8% today.

I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

Yea, we’re going for the combo.
I should have said “one of” our generation’s asbestos

This is probably our generation’s asbestos.

Older cable management was fucking elegant.
You can’t convince me that cable lacing isn’t fucking fabulous.