Hyacin (He/Him)

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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • It’s Zen adjacent, so it seems suitable to share (only found the post because it made it’s way to my ‘top’ feed) - https://www.dhamma.org/en/index

    My closest centre is about an hour north, and it’s free so how could I not at least try it the first time? I think I went 6 or 7 years in a row after that, only missing last year due to a somewhat prolonged death in the family.

    The teachings and practices Goenka ji imparts have change my life and thinking in ways I couldn’t have imagined possible before my first retreat.





  • The documentation sure seems geared to steer you into a support contract. I’ve got 25+ years with *nix of assorted varieties, and networking, but I’ve been pawing at this for a couple hours now and still don’t even have a test version installed and working. NOT user friendly documentation at all. Currently stuck at “can’t reach Redis server” yet absolutely no documentation I can find that even indicates how to tell it what Redis server to use. The sample config file(s) and documentation are less than bare-bones. Sad.

    Very reminiscent of the products RedHat champions as open source, yet it’s like black magic to get the open source versions running.

    Edit: lol, and it looks like it’s all been a waste of time, as I was hoping to pull in data from a couple switches and my router I have in my pretty damn simple home setup - that I might use and become familiar with this software so I could maybe one day use it in a professional capacity - but for SNMP monitoring “An ntopng Enterprise M license or above is required.” 🤦‍♂️ … having actually once after MUCH effort gotten the open source version of AWX working and fulfilling my needs (true story!), I don’t think it’s a stretch to say this is actually worse than what RedHat does.




  • This is, a yes and no imo.

    Cars are financed so much, and making the sale so often depends on being able to get the customer financed, that a lot of sales people do get pretty well versed in the financing side of things. I’ve finally after many years found a used car guy I trust, and shortly after I had done a consumer proposal (couple steps below a bankruptcy for anyone unfamiliar), the second time I was buying a car from him, he was able to get me a rate that I couldn’t BELIEVE, just by playing a couple banks against each other. He just wanted to make the sale, it’s no skin off him if I’m paying 5% or 25%, but he’s more likely to close the deal if he can get me a good rate and payments I like the size of.

    Another angle is big companies that have their own financing wings. Mercedes-Benz Financial is a pretty good example. They’re entire purpose is just to help people buy their cars - so I’ve seen them offer rates as low as like 0.9%!

    Don’t get me wrong, there are more scumbags than not out there, in car sales, used car sales, and loans - by FAR - but there are instances where things make sense and work out well.

    On the main point though, yes, the entire credit system is a total scam. It was significantly worse ~20-30 years ago when they wouldn’t even tell you why you had good or bad credit - it was all just black magic they kept secret. Still a horrible scam to this day though.


  • LOL!!

    The original station was called “City TV”, they had a news program called “City Pulse”. In the late 90s/early 00s they launched a 24h news channel and called it “Cable Pulse 24”. At some point along the journey they shortened to that unfortunate name that I will now not ever be able to see and not laugh!!



  • Does this diagram make sense?

    Not so much, no. At least, I’m having issues with it … and I’ve been a networking professional for more than 25 years.

    Diagrams are best scoped to the OSI layer you’re talking about, in my experience. For my home lab I have a huge layer 2 diagram, and a totally different one for layer 3.

    If you’re asking about ‘LAN protected by Netgate’, then we’re concerned with layer 3 - so I’d omit the patch panel and illustrate things from a layer 3 point of view.

    That aside, it looks like yes, your whole LAN will be ‘behind’ your Netgate. I can’t speak to the specifics of the C1300 you mention though as I’ve never used a Netgate product.




  • I mostly agree, and did the same with my second gen lab build - instead of shiny new NUCs like I had used round 1, I bought old off lease Dell Xeon boxes. SO MANY PROS -

    • Got them up to 14c/28t each
    • They can take GPUs and actually do heavy transcoding/ML work
    • They can take up to like, 128GB of memory, which is GREAT when they’re all hypervisors

    The downsides can’t be denied though -

    • Even without the GPUs and beefed up CPUs, they are power hogs - the CPU alone uses more than an ENTIRE NUC
    • They run HOT
    • They run LOUD

    The same holds true for off-lease SFF stuff, Lenovo and the likes …

    So while reuse/repurpose is absolutely of the utmost importance, no question - when it comes to technology and how quickly it advances and miniaturizes, a thorough and logical pros/cons list is often required.

    I’d add another option though - if you do need what a Pi brings to the table - do you really need a shiny new Pi 5? Is it possible a used Pi 3 or Pi 4 would do the trick, and check the reuse box?










  • I’ve heard many right wing folks complain, because in this country at least (Canada), the right LOVES to brain wash them into believing government should be smaller, socialism is bad, and high taxes are evil (even though when they get in they only give tax breaks to their rich friends).

    I, one of seemingly few rational thinking humans left in this country, have always understood, believed, and told those people at every opportunity - “THAT IS WHAT PAYS FOR OUR SERVICES”

    I remember before I deleted my FB account one tool on there complaining about an incoming ‘digital services tax’ (i.e. Netflix subs and such), and I quickly skim his wall or whatever, and he was collecting the “oh noes, I lost my job cause covid, please give me money government” benefit we had just like, a year prior - they SERIOUSLY just do not understand they very benefits and services they rely on and complain aren’t big enough or good enough, ARE FUNDED BY THOSE DAMN TAXES.

    As infuriating as all that is - it’s even worse to see an entire half of our government fanning the flames of this idiocy, reinforcing it, and teaching them it is right!!