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by alyandon 3y ago
Unfortunately, no. The typical interaction was the CSR requesting that I waste a bunch of time logging into the router, verifying a bunch of settings and requesting that I reboot the thing before continuing to troubleshoot my problem. The
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by alyandon 3y ago
Specifically, the DOCSIS cable modem was rented from the cable company and it was reporting the CPE MAC address that it sees connected to it. In this case, it was reporting the MAC address of my router and the CSR on the phone would look u
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by alyandon 3y ago
I got tired of Cableco, Inc. tech support identifying my router by mac address and ultimately them telling me to reboot/replace/reset my router rather than troubleshoot the actual issue. So, I set my router's mac address to s
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by alyandon 3y ago
Might happen tonight. Forecasts aren't looking good - https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
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by alyandon 3y ago
In this case not only was the CVE a bullshit CVE, it also didn't properly scope the "affected" versions. The end result was that the version of the software we were running didn't even have the option that could potenti
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by alyandon 3y ago
You joke but I had to deal with an actual "high score CVE" internally that dealt with a denial-of-service vulnerability that happens when an administrator misconfigures the software. It literally boils down to "if you miscon
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by alyandon 3y ago
I spent some time in southern California as a software dev contractor during the dotcom heyday of the 90s. I was renting in one of the more affluent areas and it was clean, had great venues within walking distance, great weather, people in
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by alyandon 3y ago
"small government" also means just enough government intrusion in other people's private affairs to enforce their preferred social policies.
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by alyandon 3y ago
Most likely - just like shims popped up to share PuTTY's ssh-agent with WSL1. These days I'm just running a full blown Linux DE in a VirtualBox VM since its graphic console isn't objectively terrible like Hyper-V. If for som
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by alyandon 3y ago
Ironically, I still prefer using Cygwin to WSL despite the impedance mismatch with Windows. I really wish that Microsoft had been able to make WSL1 work better instead of giving up and going with the VM route with WSL2.
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by alyandon 3y ago
I actually enjoy the early game for some strange reason and different map seeds always presented a different set of challenges (especially on deathworlds) because of water, cliffs and resource locations. I mean, sure - once you get oil and
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by alyandon 3y ago
Space Exploration goes out of it’s way _not_ to make things pointlessly grindy. Your definition of grindy is not my definition of grindy - maybe "pointlessly" was a little harsh on my part. It's cool though - differe
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by alyandon 3y ago
I greatly enjoyed Factorio and even went as far as doing a deathworld. I even tried some of the full blown mod packs like Seablock, Space Exploration and Krastorio2 to extend the base game. However, they all seem to be designed with this u
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by alyandon 3y ago
This was really only a problem 3 or 4 years ago. At some point in time, it just stopped happening and I hadn't really thought about it since then. I am a Google One subscriber so there are probably some support options open to me tha
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by alyandon 3y ago
Maybe they care now. They certainly did not appear to care when my mailbox was getting spammed into uselessness by their customers.
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by alyandon 3y ago
That's cool and all and I'll take your statement in good faith. However, how do I as a user report that an email that was accepted by Google's own SMTP servers was not subsequently delivered to my Gmail inbox? I can't c
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by alyandon 3y ago
Google used to do this for low volume emails I was literally sending to myself by authenticating with my google smtp account credentials. I could find no rhyme or reason to it. It would claim to accept emails and they would never show up
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by alyandon 3y ago
Sending the report to /dev/null would technically be doing something with the report though. My problem is "no response to report" combined with "I continue to receive the same or substantially similar volume and ty
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by alyandon 3y ago
I can tell you that spam reports and bounces are monitored If they are, I saw no evidence of that (except for the initial auto-response) based on the numerous spam reports I manually submitted with headers, dates/times and body
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by alyandon 3y ago
I finally started sending anything from AWS SES straight to trash because the spam on their platform is persistent and they are non-responsive to spam reports. I was getting 30+ fraudulent/spam emails a day in just one inbox alone.
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by alyandon 3y ago
Not always though. Lower end VPS providers seem to be moving towards placing you on a shared /64. I run into issues on a particular Digital Ocean instance of mine where my IPv6 allocation is something like a /112 and it gets swe
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by alyandon 3y ago
liquid of no sleep I shall now never be able to think of coffee and also not immediately think of this discussion and that particular phrase. Thanks. :)
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by alyandon 3y ago
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the 8. However, it is just as valid to talk about unpatched security flaws.
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by alyandon 3y ago
Android phones that are 8 major versions out of date because the OEM won't support them probably don't have that feature.
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by alyandon 3y ago
A non-cryptographic PRNG with a 32 bit seed and yet all the other maths/details are correct? I refuse to believe that that is anything but deliberate fraud.
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by alyandon 3y ago
From the article, * Energy gain in this context only compares the energy generated to the energy in the lasers, not to the total amount of energy pulled off the grid to power the system, which is much higher. I'm leaning towards
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by alyandon 3y ago
I already get pop ups from my insurance company (a major one I might add) that FF is not a supported browser when I log into their website. I assume that one day I'll be told to use Edge or Chrome and not allowed to log in at all. I&#
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by alyandon 3y ago
Anecdote - I've used their domain search tool quite a bit and I've never run into an instance of a domain suddenly being unavailable when I go to register it.
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by alyandon 3y ago
I really wish I could reproduce the thing on demand. I'd file a bug report but it has happened only a handful of times to me in the past 2 years and only on a single server. :-/
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by alyandon 3y ago
Some random observations: * System randomly taking 5+ minutes to boot "systemd-analyze blame" can help identify issues relating to boot time * Daemons sometimes not starting on boot This most often occurs for me when services don&

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