Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Many Network Interfaces per VM/CT - Good Practice? 1 week ago:
It really sounds like you need to dive into firewall rules. Generally you lean on your firewall to allow and restrict access to services. Probably the easiest place to start is to setup pfsense/opnsense since it has a really clean interface for setting up rules. And as you learn more about firewalls learning how subnetting works will allow for more efficient rules (for example, if you have 192.168.0.0/23 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.3.0/ 24 for your networks that you’re allowing traffic to/from you can just enter a firewall rule for 192.168.0.0/22)
- Comment on 8-Bit Homebrew Processor 1 week ago:
abandoning semiconductor technologies and making computers out of simpler parts
I remember reading an article a while back about basically computing using cards which block or allow light to flow as a series of logic gates. Another way to think of it is reinventing the punch card.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
In the mid-19th century there was a doctor in Vienna named Ignaz Semmelweis. He worked in a maternity ward and took extreme focus on the extremely high mortality rate in his ward, and Semmelweis eventually found that hand washing before providing care was extremely effective at reducing the mortality rate (consistent hand washing dropped it from 18% to 2% mortality rate) specifically doctors would do autopsies in the morning then (without any sanitization) move onto their duties in the maternity ward.
Semmelweis had the seniority to mandate hand washing (specifically he identified Lyme to be very effective, but of course it’s very unpleasant to wash with Lyme) he had the data to back up it’s effectiveness, but what he lacked was the social capital to successfully shift the local medical culture to include handwashing before caring for sensitive prenatal and postnatal care. Specifically he was a dick about it. Because he was extremely outspoken about doing this unpleasant Lyme wash before providing care for which he couldn’t provide a good theory as to why it worked, he was replaced as the director, continued his advocacy with limited success and eventually was placed in an asylum following a nervous breakdown where he died of sepsis from a caretaker not washing their hands.
His work was never recognized until long after his death. He probably could have had more success if he wasn’t so annoyingly loud and outspoken about this hand washing thing. It was clearly the right thing to do but it took time and effort, wasn’t entirely pleasant, and it wasn’t yet the norm. He saved hundreds of lives while he was in charge and hand washing was mandated, but because his successor ended the handwashing mandate countless more died at his hospital alone.
The first successful soaps, in part created by a handful of individuals Semmelweis had inspired, were only successful when marketed as a cosmetic product to make you smell better (and by convincing people that they real!)
The point is, in advocacy, no matter how right you are, if you’re fighting against “the way we’ve always done things” you will always have a significant uphill battle and have to play the politics and not be too upsetting to the order of things until some momentum is built, because otherwise, no matter how right you are, you can simply be written off as a lunatic and too annoying to be worth listening to
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Oooh that sounds like a good idea! I’ve been noticing how much meat is taking a bite out of my food budget and trying to play with ways to stretch it a bit more until the kids are in school and my wife can start working.
- Comment on Fool me twice... 2 weeks ago:
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how you hit a ball in football/socker
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we’re building megastructures around volcanos specifically to manage them instead of being subject to them.
Brings new meaning to “geothermal energy”
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
This requires a lot of concrete. A more economical solution would be to just move the volcano elsewhere. Plus then you can sell all of the new real estate where the volcano once stood!
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
I feel like with the direction of fire that’s more of a penis than a gun. I’m on board let’s do it!
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
if Westinghouse or Barrington had made outrageous claims to allure conspiracy theories then they might have got the Tesla treatment by thy internet instead and we’d only hear of Tesla in the science museum
Hey now, you get to hear about Westinghouse plenty in the railroad museums. A variation of the Westinghouse brake design is still in use on modern trains to this day
- Comment on Physics 3 weeks ago:
I went back to college in 2021 hoping to ride the recession recovery up with a new degree, got a 2 year Networking degree and I caught the tail end of the Great Resignation and snagged a pretty good job immediately after graduation.
I highly recommend going back whenever you feel up for it. Going into it when your even just a few years older means you can better appreciate the opportunities available to you, plus it’s a chance to do things you might not otherwise have done. For example, I stumbled into joining student government, and that was a blast traveling all over to visit other colleges for legislative meetings on the college’s dime. I made several friends and generally came out a better person
You could even do the crazy thing I did which is going back even though you really should wait, because my wife was pregnant! I started a semester the day after we returned from the hospital after my youngest child’s birth. I’m…not doing that again haha
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 3 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly at the time powers that be kept standing in the way of her presenting this tech to the military purely based on her gender
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using bing at work and it’s surprisingly good. It’s got tracking and ads and crap but it’s really more like Google was a few years ago than anything
- Comment on After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing. 5 weeks ago:
My wife only went because I was hellbent on seeing the eclipse at totality (we saw the last October’s eclipse and 2017 both from around 90% coverage). Afterwards she said “the Grand canyon ain’t got shit on a solar eclipse” and we are both still in shock for how amazing of an experience it was.
The wonky colors as day slowly turned to night, the sudden whooshing shadow as totality began, the burning ring of fire in the sky then the light whooshing back as totality ended, the cacophony of yelps by folks too slow to put their eclipse glasses back on. It was a hell of an experience
- Comment on Truck crash spills live salmon into wrong Oregon river 1 month ago:
So for a related fun fact, did you know they used to do this by train?
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
I honestly have to pretend that sexism in STEM is nowhere near as bad as I know it is for the sake of my own mental health. I’ve heard incredible stories of blatant sexism from colleagues and friends that I just can’t fathom
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
This funny story really brought a lot of great accounts out of the woodwork to block!
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Edge at work. I literally made the decision as “this is a Microsoft heavy shop, Microsoft is pushing Edge hard, and Bing is kinda good now, so let’s see how this goes” and I haven’t had a need to switch back.
I use Edge’s different profiles for testing, work stuff and personal stuff to keep them nicely separated and prevent any from bleeding too hard into eachother
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
Have you tried open street map? The geography nerds building that have a surprisingly up to date and high quality map of the rural midwestern region I live in so you might be pleasantly surprised
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
Bing has gotten surprisingly good recently though?
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
Firefox uses its own internal cert database which could create a similar effect.
Firefox supports DNS over HTTPs or a similar protocol that escapes my memory at the moment which could very well mess with its ability to handle DNS
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
The big problem with Privacy Sandbox is who is implementing it. I was on the fence about it for similar reasons until I saw who came out against it. Mozilla, the EFF, etc. all heavily condemned it, so I knew it was safe to say its bad (limited time, unlimited desire for knowledge and all I did not have the time to do a deep dive on Google’s newest way to get people okay with invasive tracking)
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 2 months ago:
Wake me up when September ends?
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 2 months ago:
To be fair I was pretty cringeworthy on my own at that age
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
That was literally how Apple became as big as it is. They created an ecosystem that encourages evangelism and outs people’s personal choices (green bubble vs blue bubble for example) while also making it intentionally difficult to mix and match outside of the ecosystem. Obviously it’s not a 1:1 comparison but it’s an example of a successful competitor to the market leader and how it keeps itself relevant.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
IT guy here, the choice of what to ship on the corporate desktops/laptops is a lot more naunced than that.
Are there users in the organization that use Excel heavily? Other windows-only software heavily? If the answer is yes then you’re looking at complicating support instantly because now you have 2 separate fleets of workstations that each require different tooling to manage and you either have to have a helpdesk that can be trained to handle questions for both or have different teams to handle each which is more opportunities for helpdesk requests to be miscommunicated, lost, etc. and adds some time to the ticking process. You also have to decide how users are selected for which they get. If you leave it up to the users they’ll all choose what they’re used to and you’ll just get a handful of weirdos which make the cost of allowing it likely higher than it’s worth. But if you force it on people by team you run the risk of someone having dual roles or covering duties and being largely hamstrung when they can’t use the windows software needed for the other role. Does this create a 2 tier system where users given the Linux workstations have less upward mobility? Or are you potentially creating future hassle where your Linux users will randomly have to come to IT to have their computer switched because they gained a duty that requires Windows software (which is a ton of lost productivity while they get things set how they like)
You also have to now maintain 2 sets of management tooling since generally Active Directory and Linux tend to be a pain to mix. This also means 2 different streams of vulnerability tracking and patch tracking, and 2 different streams of testing if you hold back updates for testing before deployment. And 2 different attack surfaces to keep secure for audits and red teams.
But let’s suppose you find that absolutely everybody in your organization can be moved to Linux as nobody uses software that won’t work on Linux natively. Awesome this is the best case scenario for Linux workstations in the office. What are the long term ramifications? Are you potentially limiting your options for vendors or contracts your organization can take on? Are some of your employees working at reduced productivity potential because they aren’t using the best tool for the job?
These are the considerations that have to be made, and argued politically for Linux to be deployed to user workstations in the office. Extremely similar conversations have historically had to happen (and continue to have to happen!) within IT departments to move things away from Windows Server. A bank I worked at just a year ago was so heavily invested in the Windows server ecosystem that they had Windows server in places it really shouldn’t have been and the choice to use Windows Server actually was a hindrance.
I think in the long run it has a chance. Linux has gotten so much better on the desktop in just the last 5 years, plus with the move to webapps across the board (not to mention kids in school right now learning on ipads and Chromebooks and never touching a Windows machine) I’m sure the decision will slowly get easier and easier, but right now, there’s very limited opportunities to make Linux workstations happen in a big way in the corporate world, and I don’t forsee that changing in the next 5 years
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
More like:
“Hey I have a problem with my Samsung”
“Here’s a custom ROM you can install instead” (but also glosses over a lot of the finer decisions that go into whether or not to choose to run a custom ROM)
- Comment on Real! 2 months ago:
I didn’t know I’d be seeing a new Navy Seal copypasta variant today but here we are
- Comment on Hey mods, ya think you might get around to removing that CSAM that's been up for hours? 3 months ago:
I purposely seek out the meme communities now. I send lots of memes to friends and have become known as a font of memes, and really I have Lemmy to thank for it
- Comment on Lol 3 months ago:
When I worked at a callcenter the general guidance was “if they don’t want to be helped, let them reach back out whenever they do” which was really helpful for people who just wanted to pick a fight since it gave a clear guidance of “hey, if you dont want to do this right now now here’s how to get back in contact”
- Comment on And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions 3 months ago:
This was always the reason at school for why we weren’t allowed to splash on puddles or walk in the mud. Even as a kid I called bullshit because I never saw tons of abandoned shoes in the mud. As a parent now I wonder how the heck they keep the kids out of the mud and puddles as well as they did