Maybe we drop ethernet all together and go back to tokenring?

Well, you can’t call yourself a computer expert until you erase your entire drive or make it unbootable at least 3 times.

PiHole works great. I get 20% of requests denied and it really helps keep ads and unwanted sites to a minimum. It was easy to setup. I just update it via ssh once every 60days or so.

The stats are kinda revealing also as to the sites the household uses .

The CEOs will get a short term boost to profits and stock price. Theyll get a massive bonus from it. Then in a few years when shit starts blowing up, they will retire before that happens with a nice compensation package, leaving the company, employeez, and stockholders up shits creek from his short sighted plan.

But the CEO will be just fine on his yacht, dont worry.

You forgot we run on fritos, tab, and mountain dew.

Mind if u ask how much that cloudflare front end costs you a month for how many hits?

Try nextcloud. It can generate links to files like this.

My PMs are all about time allocation… yet they fail to understand what research is.

Pm: How long until you finish designing and implementing this thing?

Me: I cant put a time on it, weve never done this before and have no points of reference. So i could figure it out today or a month from today…i cant give you a time because its bever been implemented.

PM: Sighs in dissapproval… ill just say 5 business days. Hows that.

Me: if we are just making up numbers, sure

Yes PM is Project Manager

You got a laugh outta me with this one. Heres your upvote

From an administrator POV, python is great for scripting, automation, and AWS boto work.

You could always just get the entire list of AWS public ranges and use that to identify interesting traffic… Of course that would vpn all AWS stuff.

If you have a list of domains, you could schedule a script to resolve each to IPs and rebuild your VPN definition every night.

Other news, we stood up a Gopher server…ya know…just in case

I knew someone who threw away a laptop because the screen broke.

They see junk

I see a new home server with built in ups, just rip off the screen.

Welcome to the fold.

Been running nextcloud for 8+ years. Love the auto upload and bookmark sharing apps.

The contacts and calendar apps support DAV…I use DAVx on android to sync contacts and calendar to nextcloud …haven’t sync’d to Google. Grab it from FDroid. I have an article on my web blob explaining how to do it.

Remember to backup your cloud data and secure your web portal or run over private vpn.

Oh and go find the php updater script…it’s a life saver.

I always recommend Mint to wundows converts. It looks like the windows UI, just works out of the box 99% of the time, and has a huge user base that is happy to provide assistance

Look at you with your fancy ps/2 keyboard port. Where’s my AT port and 9 pin serial mouse.

It does. Or can just send the recorded message to your email as a .wav attachment.

I use this.

I have Ms VoIP as my provider. $1 month per line and 1 cent per min.

I have a grand stream sip adapter… Configured with my providers info and my creds. Phone can plug into it. Works just fine. Plus you can use any sip client to connect to the same line from mobile or PC.

Also, my old house had pots lines in every room. I took my grand stream and wired it into the house, not a phone. So I can plug regular phones into any of the original outlets and it works as it directly connected to the grand stream. I have 4 regular phones all running over original wires into the grandstream using sip

I did it for ya…good luck with your phd