I wish I understand *why* what I did fixed the problem that I still don’t understand, but it did.
I was just trying to get all 5 VMs involved onto one host so I could snoop on the traffic between them more easily.
I’m blaming stuck ARP or Spanning Tree. Two of those VMs were briefly fighting over the same IP last night before I fixed the freshly-minted clone to use its proper new one.
#Sysadminnery
"In a recent statement, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that he felt very happy that after 40 years of trying to get the United States involved in a major war with Iran, he had finally succeeded in achieving his goal. "
Anti-Iran Policy as a Sacred Mission of Israeli Propagandists
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/mission-israeli-propagandists.html
One of the side-effects of a choice I made more than a decade ago, is that I get informed of new networks that are performing ssh scanning/guessing on one of my servers - because I naively assumed there were a limited number of networks involved (not realising it's mostly hijacked machines, rather than hackers renting VPSes).
Anyway, there's been an uptick in the last few weeks of new networks originating this traffic.
REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg6m5q2mv5…
One of the things that I needed to do in in an early job was to go into backcountry cabins and deal with haunta virus. It involved going into the cabin, wearing a respirator and a bunny suit, opening all of the windows, and then spraying every surface down with bleach water. They told us that if you get haunta virus, the death is painful and quick.
Dealing with that was kind of easy. Just don't go wander through an old cabin without doing that. Possible person to person infection is scary.
I was involved in web development in the early days. (The 1990s!) It was fun, exciting, it was good. What ruined it was people who did not love the web getting involved. People who didn’t use the web like they loved it, people who didn’t understand it, people who cared more about money than the web.
The web got wrecked because we let too many assholes get involved & call the shots but it’s not too late. We can still take back the web for us. We can continue to build out the web we…
Trump is not attacking Iran for the Iranian people. If the Iranian people fight against their government he will watch from the sky, maybe offer some air support but will not get involved on the ground...
#iran #usa #geopolitics
I'm currently looking to expand my social network and would love to get in touch with anyone in the "global south" (especially African countries) involved in #hamradio, wireless community networks, #FOSS or #OSHW
#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders
Texas Republican Primary:
Rep. Wesley Hunt came in distant third at 13.4%.
— That result means this bare-knuckle, mega-Texas primary will last for another 12 weeks.
Gobs more money will be spent.
And it will put a tremendous amount of pressure on the White House to get involved in the race.
https://www.memeor…
“The Claudia Winkleman Show” is simply outstanding. She’s funny, awkward, slightly edgy, and knows how to get her guests really involved. Brilliant!
Our People Before Profit Campaign Launch Event for the Galway West by-election is coming up on 13th of April at 7pm at the Ol' 55 bar in Galway. Speakers include Richard Boyd Barrett TD with some music by Áine Tyrrell.
Demand a Galway we can LIVE in!
Get involved in the campaign over at https://www.pbpgalway.ie
@… if we’re going to get government involved in bathrooms, let’s mandate that men have to wash their hands when they’ve used one
So the Tangerine Turd and the Israeli scumbag have been bombing Iran, apparently killing school children. Then the Farage vermin wants the UK to join in? I do hope SKS doesn’t get involved.
I'd love to get involved with this but I'm not sure I'll be healed up enough by March 7th... I'm also not an expert or a noob so I am somewhere in-between.
https://give.wisconsinbikefed.org/event/ready-plan-pe…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073
The EU should get involved and demand that Chrome *also* silently install some other AI models.
As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only
From a military point of view, as German Defence Minister Pistorius has noted, the US doesn't need european ships as escorts in Hormuz, if you think about the size of the US Navy. So it is probably just to get Europe involved in Trump's/Netanyahu war on Iran. I hope we will pass.
#Iran #USA
The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…
I never thought I’d be doing this at my age…
That’s what my friends Karen and Chris told me recently. She’s a retired teacher; he’s a retired firefighter. They are a Canadian couple from Alberta who, over the past few years, have travelled the world, spent time with their family, and helped over a thousand individuals and couples build an online business that removed financial anxiety from their lives.
How did they do this? They got involved in an online business a few years ago and helped others do the same. They had a mentor to guide them from day one. But on top of that they had access to and support of other experienced people on the team. They were able to take advantage of a huge library of training resources that showed them how to get started and keep going in an effective manner. And they had the flexibility to work on their new business based on their priorities and schedules.
The results speak for themselves.
If you’re wondering if it’s possible for you, message me to learn more.
I never thought I’d be doing this at my age…
That’s what my friends Karen and Chris told me recently. She’s a retired teacher; he’s a retired firefighter. They are a Canadian couple from Alberta who, over the past few years, have travelled the world, spent time with their family, and helped over a thousand individuals and couples build an online business that removed financial anxiety from their lives.
How did they do this? They got involved in an online business a few years ago and helped others do the same. They had a mentor to guide them from day one. But on top of that they had access to and support of other experienced people on the team. They were able to take advantage of a huge library of training resources that showed them how to get started and keep going in an effective manner. And they had the flexibility to work on their new business based on their priorities and schedules.
The results speak for themselves.
If you’re wondering if it’s possible for you, message me to learn more.