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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • There is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.

    Why do you think an independent ISP would operate any differently at the networking level on a per-customer basis? This is basic network segmentation, and my home gear can do that pretty easily. Throw each customer on their own vlan that’s a /30 and they can’t do anything more than talk from their node to the central router.

    Good firewalls make good digital neighbors, and an independent ISP isn’t going to survive long if Alice can access Bob’s home network over the ISP without having something specifically configured in Bob’s network to allow that.














  • Malicious compliance does wonders to solve issues with stupid rules. One of my “favorite” gigs was full of me going “we’ve done it this way for a while, despite policy saying to do it this other way, can we update policy to just have us do it the right way instead of the documented way”, being told “no, do it by policy”, then a week or two of me doing it by policy before being told “policy is updated to <what I said it should have been from the start>”.



  • May I introduce you to my Lord and savior, the recap email.

    “As per our conversation on <date>, we discussed <topic> and had the following points/action items…”

    I’ve only ever had one job where these emails were not appreciated (current job most send them by default), and man was it fun pissing off people outside of my command chain by documenting the shit they wanted off record.