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SEND THE BASS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxOKsyZ0Lw
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quote:ENGINEERS WANTED TO LORD OVER GUNTHER no! my secret motivation!
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Nov 24, 2025 20:42
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JPrime posted:no! my secret motivation!
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Nov 24, 2025 20:58
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Went on a little trip down memory lane and found this ticket that I got 11 years ago, at my previous job: Speech-to-text disaster?
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Nov 24, 2025 21:41
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I honestly can't remember.
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Nov 24, 2025 22:18
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No no. GUNTHER SEND THE BASS. https://youtu.be/uUYpIyWPKGk?si=SzkB3t0JXe4jzXuT
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Nov 24, 2025 23:19
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quote:I'm looking at one date right now. I was sound asleep at 930 at night on the 23rd, and I've got four pages of PowerShell action. FOUR PAGES OF POWERSHELL ACTION
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Nov 26, 2025 16:27
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Hot pounding PowerShell action
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Nov 26, 2025 16:52
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pounded in the butt by my four pages of powershell action
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Nov 26, 2025 18:27
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A major IT issue has hit upper management: The paper clip icon has disappeared from the Copilot search bar. You can still upload files to it by drag-and-drop, but that's not how it used to work, and so it must be fixed. Fortunately it's missing no matter what device they log into, making it an account issue for the Azure team and not my area.
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Nov 26, 2025 20:28
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Is IT is the only field where people complain about third party software and expect you to be able to do something about it, or do engineers get told to make water weigh less etc.
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Nov 26, 2025 22:19
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lol physical engineers get told poo poo like that ALL THE TIME My best friend was present during a meeting of the local government heads (mayor, chief of police, fire marshal, etc) and the head of the local corps of engineering during a horrific flood some years back. The engineers were giving the city options on how they could direct the flood waters—essentially which neighborhoods should flood and which should not. The city leaders were saying “no, none of these options are acceptable” and the engineer said “you have to choose or the water will choose for you.” According to my friend it went on for a while that no, the water won’t stay contained and no, he can’t make it have less force and no, physics doesn’t give a poo poo about the optics.
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Nov 26, 2025 22:40
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Similarly, years back there was bad flooding around the river Shannon in Ireland, and the locals were screaming about Dublin not caring about them and the government should do something. So the government planned to build a set of drains that would draw the water away and conveniently fill up the reservoirs all around the country. Of course most of the reservoirs are near Dublin, which has like a quarter of the population of the country in it, so the locals all started screaming about Dublin "taking our water!!!!!" and nothing got done.
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Nov 27, 2025 01:01
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I will never forget the time I had a particularly important client who was positive he could use HughesNet to provide internet for his temporary VoIP call centers, and it took me hours to get him to understand why, despite how magical the QoS SBC boxes we used at the time were for NAT issues and low bandwidth, there was nothing we could do under the laws of physics to eliminate GEO satellite latency. These days the only time I have to explain basic laws of physics is when people suggest running everything on WiFi. I do not envy those working in physical engineering fields who have to deal with it all the time.
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Nov 29, 2025 17:36
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wolrah posted:I will never forget the time I had a particularly important client who was positive he could use HughesNet to provide internet for his temporary VoIP call centers, and it took me hours to get him to understand why, despite how magical the QoS SBC boxes we used at the time were for NAT issues and low bandwidth, there was nothing we could do under the laws of physics to eliminate GEO satellite latency. Wifi is better than it was as far as throughput and latency are concerned, but god forbid you try to explain the limits of walls to someone. Or giant mirrors.
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Nov 30, 2025 01:06
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I had a friend ask in the group chat why they shouldn't just change their internet from 100mbit fiber to cheaper 5G internet. They thought it was a good idea right until sometime piped up saying that it's ok as long as it's not raining, because apparently that interfered with the signal. And people want internet a lot more when it's raining vs when the sun is out. 
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Nov 30, 2025 07:43
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Sywert of Thieves posted:I had a friend ask in the group chat why they shouldn't just change their internet from 100mbit fiber to cheaper 5G internet. They thought it was a good idea right until sometime piped up saying that it's ok as long as it's not raining, because apparently that interfered with the signal. And people want internet a lot more when it's raining vs when the sun is out. I just had my ex ask me the same question for her and the kids internet. From fiber to 5G. The salestwat said that it was better then what they had.
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Nov 30, 2025 08:31
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A nice reliable 100Mb fibre will do that all day long at a consistent latency, I'd take it over 5G any time.
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Nov 30, 2025 11:35
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5G is great if the only other option is satellite. If fiber is available, even slow, it's better than anything OTA. And people overestimate their needs, usually, which is why Surf can sell my whole neighborhood of 160 units on 2Gb fiber and be able to deliver.
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Nov 30, 2025 13:18
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AlexDeGruven posted:5G is great if the only other option is satellite. Fiber can get easily overwhelmed too, it’s just far harder. When schools went all remote here, my optical tree went from stable gigabit to hundred megs only if moons aligned.
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Nov 30, 2025 14:26
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Oversubscription is a thing, yeah. Sounds like your ISP might have overdone it a bit
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Nov 30, 2025 15:06
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Wibla posted:Oversubscription is a thing, yeah. Sounds like your ISP might have overdone it a bit Standard split rate for Italian networks is 1:64 so 64 people sharing the 2500 downstream channel. If every household in the block is doing a videocall with desktop sharing, it’s trivial to get there.
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Nov 30, 2025 15:54
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I live in an apartment and I would kill for fiber. I have Spectrum cable and it goes out nearly once a day for a few minutes.
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Nov 30, 2025 16:32
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SlowBloke posted:Fiber can get easily overwhelmed too, it’s just far harder. When schools went all remote here, my optical tree went from stable gigabit to hundred megs only if moons aligned. It's also much easier to mitigate on fiber. We have fiber customers where we'll build out 20 gigs of bandwidth and it'll average at like 7 gigs at peak times for a segment with about a hundred customers, most at 1 gig speeds. ISPs are held together by people not using what they pay for. Which I guess to be fair is networking as a whole. e:also COVID hosed our docsis network so much more than fiber Renegret fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Nov 30, 2025 |
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Nov 30, 2025 17:01
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Renegret posted:e:also COVID hosed our docsis network so much more than fiber Should have installed Norton to protect from viruses.
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Renegret posted:ISPs are held together by people not using what they pay for. I'm almost done building out an OT network with 25G aggregation and 100G backbone, with 10G to/between most edge switches... Prod-critical traffic is less than 5mbit? CCTV on the other hand, oof... several gigabit 
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Dec 1, 2025 06:30
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Y'all are forgetting that since you're computer touchers you actually know that you need to run a speed test off of a device that is capable of doing it. People upgrading to gig+ and then going MY SPEED TEST ON MY PHONE IS ONLY 500 YOU'RE RIPPING ME OFF is stupid common lol also WHY'S MY TV ON MY 8K STREAMING BOX I GOT OFF THE AMAZONS FOR $40 THAT GETS ALL THE CHANNELS BUFFERING you're lucky if they actually know the word is "buffering" and not "buffing" or just "IT'S ALWAYS SPINNING"
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Yeah, I've moved to a new place and had to deal with that myself. I genuinely don't bother plugging my laptop in unless installing a game because 50% of the one gig connection is still "basically instant" for anything not bottlenecked serverside.
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Dec 1, 2025 13:50
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Also very tangentially related but I get very angry at the appallingly misleading way wifi throughput is advertised on routers/APs every time I think about it 
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Dec 1, 2025 15:48
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Shugojin posted:Also very tangentially related but I get very angry at the appallingly misleading way wifi throughput is advertised on routers/APs every time I think about it Agreed. Especially the ones that advertise the total combined theoretical capacity of all the radios in the AP despite it being an 802.11ac device that was designed and built before 802.11be multi-link operation was even a concept. They start with absolute bullshit claims of individual radio performance and then add them together with another layer of bullshit. And of course inevitably these devices will have only gigabit ethernet ports so even the theoretical numbers aren't actually usable even if they were achievable over the air.
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Dec 1, 2025 17:10
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Shugojin posted:Y'all are forgetting that since you're computer touchers you actually know that you need to run a speed test off of a device that is capable of doing it. People upgrading to gig+ and then going MY SPEED TEST ON MY PHONE IS ONLY 500 YOU'RE RIPPING ME OFF is stupid common lol Our main ISP in Italy has historically provided over-specced routers so that the number of calls for low performance on fiber were always on the user side (which is always bounced to their paid support line). One side effect of that is that every unit will be able to do full speed ookla benchmarks to their nodes, something that your average ubnt router failed to until very recently.
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Shugojin posted:FOUR PAGES OF POWERSHELL ACTION update on FOUR PAGES OF POWERSHELL ACTION he did finally send in his "Documentation" which is pictures of event viewer logs from a camera phone 
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User: When I send this email, the attachment gets removed. Me: Huh, that's weird. Okay, we think we've fixed it - can you please try sending another email to see if it's working? User: It's still not working. Me: *checks the email logs and sees that she has not actually sent another email* 
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Dec 9, 2025 20:52
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Maybe they thought it would just attach itself to the original (delivered) email
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It does sometimes take a moment and a half for a message to show up in message trace depending on which system you're using.
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Dec 9, 2025 21:14
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Drove 280 miles roundtrip yesterday to put some OS updates on two Windows 7 machines. I told the Xray tech there that we were trying to move away from the old manufacturer to something newer but she didn't believe me
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She was right not to. One of my last-minute accomplishments was getting the firewall people to agree in principle to isolating all the Win7 machines left in research with some switch VLAN magic I don't understand and don't have to. We "finished" the 7->10 migration in research four years ago, they still have about 100 Win7 boxes left.
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That's a difference in understanding of what "trying to" means in different contexts. For the X-Ray technician it means pressing buttons and seeing if things work, and if not then you go get help and it works next time. For the IT nerd it means arguing with a manager and asking for budget then getting that request denied over and over again.
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No, actually, I will not give your request special consideration and expedite it as you are the 15th person since lunch to ask if I can get a three week process done in a single day because you didn't plan ahead. The instructions plainly state that this process can take up to three weeks and to not ask for your request to be expedited and yet eeeeeeevery single time some director gormlessly oozes into my DMs to wink wink nudge nudge jump ahead in the line cause they need their request done by tomorrow morning. Do y'all realize that the time I spend responding to you to tell you no could be spent actually completing your request? That if you didn't run directly to the VP the second I don't respond to your message, I could cut the time of these requests in half? gently caress all the way off everyone uuuuuugh
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A Frosty Witch posted:No, actually, I will not give your request special consideration and expedite it as you are the 15th person since lunch to ask if I can get a three week process done in a single day because you didn't plan ahead. The instructions plainly state that this process can take up to three weeks and to not ask for your request to be expedited and yet eeeeeeevery single time some director gormlessly oozes into my DMs to wink wink nudge nudge jump ahead in the line cause they need their request done by tomorrow morning. Do y'all realize that the time I spend responding to you to tell you no could be spent actually completing your request? That if you didn't run directly to the VP the second I don't respond to your message, I could cut the time of these requests in half? I measure the value of VPs by how prejudicially they respond to these escalations.
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