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Isepic posted:This has bit me in the rear end on RHEL before, due to me ignoring the huge warning in resolv.conf that these changes will be overwritten by NetworkManager. tactlessbastard posted:This morning someone drew a swastika on the floor. Finding out who did it is not fun, but then when I do, I will fire them, which will be fun.
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How brain dead do you have to be to draw a swastika on the floor at work. Even if you believe all that poo poo you can pretty much espouse it all day long if you make a slight effort to maintain plausible deniability, have a representative from the ADL on hand to give you a free pass by insisting it's because you were excited, or any number of media chuds to turn it into the next free speech rallying cry.
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Feb 17, 2025 16:21
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Nobody said they were smart
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tactlessbastard posted:This morning someone drew a swastika on the floor. Finding out who did it is not fun, but then when I do, I will fire them, which will be fun. 
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Incredible. Honestly surprised they were able to find the source considering the amount of work it took to trace it. BlankSystemDaemon posted:An unwritten Unix rule is that changes are always done in config files, and programs are reloaded (from disk, using SIGHUP) - for this very reason.  *I'm going to pick on NGINX Unit because it's fresh in my mind but I've seen this model in a lot of applications intended to be used in a heavily containerized environment: https://unit.nginx.org/configuration/ The official way to configure it is through a REST API, not config files. Off the top of my head the Kazoo telecom platform does the same thing.
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The PSTN is predominantly digital now, the days of switching systems are quite far in the past
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Aunt Beth posted:The PSTN is predominantly digital now, the days of switching systems are quite far in the past correct, but everything is still logically circuit switched. unlike IP, where there is simply no way to tell what happens to a packet once it gets switched or routed, in telecom every single digital link has a known beginning and end that are rigidly fixed in space and can be traced to physical locations point by point. the part that's really problematic is figuring out where the analog line at the end of the chain goes, since the wire just goes into a pipe in the wall and is buried under miles of dirt that you can't dig up or necessarily trace physically. at some point, there has to be a paper tag labeled "123 FAKE ST" or you're just boned.
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cathoderaydude posted:correct, but everything is still logically circuit switched. unlike IP, where there is simply no way to tell what happens to a packet once it gets switched or routed, in telecom every single digital link has a known beginning and end that are rigidly fixed in space and can be traced to physical locations point by point. There's a CO at 14th and 63rd in Ballard that I've walked by, and it has a window. I don't think I've ever seen a CO with a window before. Anyways, it looks like exactly the 'straight out of 1967' vision that I had in my head of what they looked like - just fricking wires everywhere. I have no idea how somebody would arrange it, but it would be good if someone smart in this kind of stuff could do like a youtube video on it.  
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Bone Crimes posted:There's a CO at 14th and 63rd in Ballard that I've walked by, and it has a window. I don't think I've ever seen a CO with a window before. Anyways, it looks like exactly the 'straight out of 1967' vision that I had in my head of what they looked like - just fricking wires everywhere. I have no idea how somebody would arrange it, but it would be good if someone smart in this kind of stuff could do like a youtube video on it. thats so loving sick
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Bone Crimes posted:There's a CO at 14th and 63rd in Ballard that I've walked by, and it has a window. I don't think I've ever seen a CO with a window before. Anyways, it looks like exactly the 'straight out of 1967' vision that I had in my head of what they looked like - just fricking wires everywhere. I have no idea how somebody would arrange it, but it would be good if someone smart in this kind of stuff could do like a youtube video on it. my friend, you would do very well to visit the Connections Museum - both on YouTube and in person, since it's in Georgetown. your mind will be fully blown
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cathoderaydude posted:my friend, you would do very well to visit the Connections Museum - both on YouTube and in person, since it's in Georgetown. your mind will be fully blown holy poo poo, how did I not know about this?
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cathoderaydude posted:correct, but everything is still logically circuit switched. unlike IP, where there is simply no way to tell what happens to a packet once it gets switched or routed, in telecom every single digital link has a known beginning and end that are rigidly fixed in space and can be traced to physical locations point by point. Speaking of, if anyone knows how far SIGTRAN is, I'd love to hear about it - I've got zero connections in the industry anymore, and finding public information on what's being deployed was difficult even before search engines stopped being useful for technical subjects.
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Bone Crimes posted:There's a CO at 14th and 63rd in Ballard that I've walked by, and it has a window. I don't think I've ever seen a CO with a window before. Anyways, it looks like exactly the 'straight out of 1967' vision that I had in my head of what they looked like - just fricking wires everywhere. I have no idea how somebody would arrange it, but it would be good if someone smart in this kind of stuff could do like a youtube video on it. There's a bunch of stuff if you sort this channel by oldest first, but I've always enjoyed this video of a live switch cutover in 1984. I never really thought about how physical the origin of the term "cutover" actually is.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I would've thought that with IP networks and the use of SCTP, you wouldn't need to know where a packet goes, with the labeling? I don't really know for sure here, but to the best of my knowledge all the ILECs are still using SS7 over TDM links. It's all fiber now but channels are still nailed to physical addresses at both ends. They very much want to stop doing that, but I've heard nothing to the effect that they actually have made any progress on it. Not having worked at a actual wireline LEC however I would concede to anyone with direct knowledge.
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cathoderaydude posted:the part that's really problematic is figuring out where the analog line at the end of the chain goes, since the wire just goes into a pipe in the wall and is buried under miles of dirt that you can't dig up or necessarily trace physically. at some point, there has to be a paper tag labeled "123 FAKE ST" or you're just boned.
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you ate my cat posted:There's a bunch of stuff if you sort this channel by oldest first, but I've always enjoyed this video of a live switch cutover in 1984. I never really thought about how physical the origin of the term "cutover" actually is. This is great, thanks. Announcer voice: WR-Glendale ESS Cutover 47.2 seconds - no shorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk&t=231s
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Hell yeah what a soundtrack Time to pimp this show again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9bHJfymjg Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 17, 2025 |
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I use Mint at home as my daily driver and its great. I mean it tries to be the most user friendly, close to windows distro out there, so its not to much of a leap. I only have one windows machine anymore and it's for gaming. Everything else is mint or kubuntu. Meanwhile, I will just skip to the punchline of today's nonsense: "You put an interrobang in your password‽"
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Well now I'm inspired for some new bullshit to pull when I set people up with temporary passwords.
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You'd be amazed how many characters password setting fields will let you enter that login fields will refuse to accept.
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The most frustating password field I dealt with was one that sat in front of a system with an 8 character password length, but this wasn't mentioned and the frontend handled it by silently dropping any characters past the eight one from your password when you created it, so whatever got stored in you password manager was too long. Then the login form didn't behave the same way, it accepted the full length password, used that to log in with, and failed.
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A fun pssword fail I ran into was some work stations that had these little compact keyboards on them where the numpad was overlaid on the right half of the keyboard. So if you had numlock on the right half of the keyboard starts typing numbers instead of letters. This became an issue when the password on those stations was switched from something that could be typed entirely left-handed to something that crossed onto the right half of the keyboard.
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Thanks Ants posted:The most frustating password field I dealt with was one that sat in front of a system with an 8 character password length, but this wasn't mentioned and the frontend handled it by silently dropping any characters past the eight one from your password when you created it, so whatever got stored in you password manager was too long. Then the login form didn't behave the same way, it accepted the full length password, used that to log in with, and failed. God I've had this happen multiple times, not even 8character limits, I've had limits be 14, 15, 16 and just never mentioned anywhere.
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The button to reveal the password if you hold it down is a really good feature for verifying what has been typed
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Had a password for a bank once that included an asterisk, I believe as the last character. I don't know if their support believed me when I told them I hadn't forgotten, but I still refuse to use asterisks in passwords.
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Core memory unlocked: That time I thought I knew my mom's password. It was not eight asterisks in a row.
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klosterdev posted:Core memory unlocked: That time I thought I knew my mom's password. It was not eight asterisks in a row. 
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At a previous job I saw the Director of Accounting put in his AD password during a meeting to log into that room's main display PC and it was just the number 8 eight times. Turns out it's pretty easy to tell what someone is typing when it's a password like that.
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Yeah but that's just his AD password. His bank pin is four fours and his phone unlocks with six sixes 
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Fortis posted:At a previous job I saw the Director of Accounting put in his AD password during a meeting to log into that room's main display PC and it was just the number 8 eight times. Turns out it's pretty easy to tell what someone is typing when it's a password like that.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah but that's just his AD password. His bank pin is four fours and his phone unlocks with six sixes 2580 nobody will ever guess this
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MF_James posted:God I've had this happen multiple times, not even 8character limits, I've had limits be 14, 15, 16 and just never mentioned anywhere. We had a period where our passwords had to be exactly 8 characters. That's what happens when you integrate Active Directory (8-char minimum) with an existing, load-bearing HP-UX system (8-char maximum).
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mllaneza posted:We had a period where our passwords had to be exactly 8 characters. That's what happens when you integrate Active Directory (8-char minimum) with an existing, load-bearing HP-UX system (8-char maximum). oh yeah well aware of the old 8char HP-UX limit, I've run into it many times, but random websites with double digit character limits was a new one to me.
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Entropic posted:A fun pssword fail I ran into was some work stations that had these little compact keyboards on them where the numpad was overlaid on the right half of the keyboard. So if you had numlock on the right half of the keyboard starts typing numbers instead of letters. My first laptop had this back in 1998. It was really confusing after a BIOS update that somehow changed the default numlock state, and my Windows password no longer worked, until I realised the mistake. Re: weak password chat, my family realized my dad used a fairly weak password (a 3-letter phrase repeated twice) after his passing, and I had to crack a password-protected Word document with his bank details he left us. He had used that password for decades, across all his accounts.
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No it was some genetic sequence. He was a huge nerd. 
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Sywert of Thieves posted:No it was some genetic sequence. He was a huge nerd. An early form of biometrics!
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Maybe your dad just liked Gattaca
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he just wanted two cats his entire life and never told anyone
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