Posts by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
(DIR) Post #AitEnZIOdscfq36MC0 by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-06-13T15:59:53.552381Z
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@emaste @josephholsten @danmcd @feld ah I hadn’t gotten to the FDE part of my research yet.I kinda dropped it when I realized I couldn’t easily import my raw disk images.
(DIR) Post #Aj5sc1093vM0iLHFpY by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-06-18T23:02:45.777900Z
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@hannesm hrm i wonder how that would work 🤔 - both of those vendors operate on file based backups, so not sure how'd they manage to do block level replication/backups. i guess any vendor implementing this would need to allocate a pool-per-user who could then send their snapshots over to?i kinda like file based backup solutions tbh as its pretty rare that i need to recover more than a handful of files at a time. at least with the way that i use tarsnap. it also allows me to use one set of keys for my geli encryption than the keys used to encrypt data on the backup side of things.
(DIR) Post #AjZ5JVFlHgVF3YDoq8 by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-03T20:39:01.904844Z
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starting a fight with my wife by claiming that Sigourney Weaver's character in Working Girl is the true victim of the movie.
(DIR) Post #Ak2B4ZvIs8xV8Q0Kqu by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-17T21:12:13.291720Z
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omg my online sexual harassment training program is penalizing me for being a fast reader. every other page has a quiz which i keep passing. but i'm still being told i can't go to next page for 10mins.to be clear - i think its super duper important people get this training, just frustrating that i'm being sandboxed because i can read pretty quickly...its my freaking job to actually read and process tons of info quickly 😭
(DIR) Post #Ak2HJeY2Yj8VXyh7zM by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-17T22:41:15.913946Z
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controversial(?) fusion food idea: Birria XLB dumplings 🤤 thought of it while i noticed my local taco truck has birria ramen (yum) and wondered why i couldn't get XLB on every street corner in LA yet.
(DIR) Post #Ak2HrZxy6IRTBO01s8 by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-17T22:44:44.233959Z
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@feld Xiaolongbaoshanghai soup dumpings
(DIR) Post #AkEnF3yk6rHNOvYhyC by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-23T23:18:09.344542Z
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@briankrebs This is pretty wild - how common are email-only reference checks? I’ve always done phone call or video call at a minimum, surprised a high profile security vendor would have such a porous background check process like this.
(DIR) Post #AkIqETeAGeqhDMBYoq by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-25T22:27:54.447644Z
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@futurebird Thresher shark enters the chat:
(DIR) Post #AkUl6iIVkESmSj3T1M by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-07-31T16:14:54.113636Z
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@miah @arichtman that's a great point, i was looking for an experienced SRE for some contract work on AWS (automating some APIs) and our agency just sent me a bunch of senior devops people who had like three years of running heml charts. they struggled to understand i needed someone with more than a superficial understanding of how distributed systems operate.
(DIR) Post #AkZSF4KslR4Jn5EanI by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-02T22:43:49.862152Z
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as a certified weirdo i couldn't be happier that being called weird is triggering the right wing people here in the states.probably wishful thinking that it'll cause any form of introspection but i'm ok that this term is being co-opted by popular culture to make reactionaries uncomfortable.
(DIR) Post #AkhvaFPdEDjaA1aPUe by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-07T00:56:15.062373Z
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@feld heh still better than Heart of Darkness. But I’m also “pro drugs and mayhem” so I’m prolly biased
(DIR) Post #Akj6F8p1pU0KIGZ0YS by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-07T14:21:10.737366Z
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@feld @Suiseiseki @hj @mirabilos i agree, i've had better success using something like haproxy for rate limiting and mitigation.
(DIR) Post #AkjMJADgApH53M29wW by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-07T17:27:23.030884Z
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howdy - any #freebsd or networking folks smarter about #pf than me willing to help dumb down the real impact of this advisory from today:https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:05.pf.ascif i'm reading section III correctly it seems like a host could bypass pf to successfully ping6 a system when it shouldn't. could that easily be pivoted to something larger, or would it mostly be an information type leak?
(DIR) Post #AkjZoXQBG8RnOQAioa by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-07T19:56:04.837870Z
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@hj @feld @mirabilos @Suiseiseki nice - I’ve migrated to using blacklistd on free/netBSD and have been happy enough with that. Thankful we have multiple ways to automate blocking bad actors out there tho
(DIR) Post #AkjpZVuKChNlcY85Im by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-07T22:54:45.386341Z
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apropos of some discussions i've seen here about blocking AI bots on their servers i wanted to share a novel way to do this via haproxy and their ACL support.https://www.haproxy.com/blog/introduction-to-haproxy-acls#using-acls-to-block-requestsso you could do something like this (off the top of my head so ymmv):acl is-blockedagent hdr_sub(user-agent) -i -f /etc/haproxy/blacklist-agent.txthttp-request tarpit if is-blockedagentwhat's neat about this is that haproxy is pretty dang light weight, has an API to programaticaaly make changes at run time and allows you to tar-pit people. i'm sure someone smarter than me can (or already has) expanded this to more robustly block AI bots.
(DIR) Post #AlOg22faxEk5HNYrdw by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-26T20:15:24.754056Z
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@feld nice! can't wait to check this out next time i upgrade.
(DIR) Post #AlV6pOv4maGKEQl6dE by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-08-30T18:18:49.697261Z
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@justine @FreeBSDFoundation I'd pay for a poster of the Beastie illustration that I think Kirk owns the copyright to, hint hint 😁
(DIR) Post #AmOzFU9W1xcVD2CBzk by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-09-26T14:41:25.795152Z
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@feld @micr0 once i had a chance to talk to Eric Allman and was like "M4? why?!?" and he reminded me that back then due to hardware constraints he needed to choose a syntax that would be efficient for computers not humans. It made sense, but still didn't make me feel any better about my lost youth trying to get sendmail to sendmail.
(DIR) Post #AmuObhZXmkkjUHPVa4 by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2024-10-11T19:53:01.615662Z
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@karinjiri I've been a happy on stock Pleroma for a few years now. I migrated off of bsd.network as well, but this was a while ago during one of the early twitter exodus waves happened.It mostly just works for my personal fedi server. I run both the app and the psql database in a small bhyve VM without any issues. if i ever decide to move to a server someone else manages i'd probably kick the tires on bsd.cafe as they seem to be building a nice community.
(DIR) Post #ApuioxVXqlHW7TDeca by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
2025-01-09T18:08:30.654152Z
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In whats i'm sure not be a shock to anyone, but the #fediverse is basically useless in an emergency. There was *some* slightly useful info. But the fact that search is garbage and no one has a coherent way to use hash tags makes it pretty pointless if you are trying to coordinate on a hyper-local level with normal, non tech obsessed people. its fine for other stuff, but certainly not useful when things are really chaotic and time sensitive.bluesky is garbage too, but it did have a few useful things out there and the search was at least usable even if it was mostly just idiots spreading misinfo.shockingly instagram seemed to provide the most useful, actionable info for me over the past several days. that and traditional media like TV.now that the media has entered the "blame game" phase its looking like print media will be the most reliable source of info moving forward.