SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138@octodon.social

@ada I have had a hard time getting even 8GB to work (without swapping to hell and back) on a non-phone/tablet. Terribly, terribly wrong.

RTFM... Glad to see more people come to the right side of that.

Gave in and watched the first Expanse episode of the season. It was everything I imagined. Such a good show.

@galaxis Ooooooo

@starkatt Intersectionality.

The third draft is complete! 15kwords longer than D2, which I'm not thrilled about. But it is a better story.

@pmakholm We will know when the endtimes are here once Google moves into the email marketing segment. Once they're both MSP and MTA, they're moving to monopoly.

@jaycie The example I keep running into is how many extensions email has required over the years. From technical reputation systems like SPF/DKIM and DMARC to the entire anti-spam ecosystem of blackbox machine moderation. All with an 80% case (delivers to Google) and a much harder 20% case (delivers to my custom MTA).

Because email is terrible, I've been having a long talk at work about deliverability.

You see, we send app-notices through email. Enough that we should be using more than one IP address. But we keep landing on some blacklists.

I had to get firm yesterday and point out that we've exhausted the technical solutions, and the only way out of the hole is to improve our behavior and wait for us to be released from purgatory.

No one likes to wait. Especially with customers complaining.

The Interstate 35W bridge fell into the Mississippi in Minneapolis several years ago. The failures there were many.
* A bad design (known)
* Lots of salt used on MN roads (known)
* Inspections missed a few things (unknown)
* Incorrect understanding about how cracks move in that particular structure (unknown)
All of it failed.

There is a thing you see a lot in incident management, and customer response to it. The demand for a Root Cause Analysis and identification of a root-cause.

This is misleading.

Most systems are distributed systems these days. They're complex. Which makes for complex failures. Complex failures are interlocking failures.

Failure-Mode Analysis is a better term than RCA.

Hello, Des Moines.

Tomorrow I drive to Des Moines, Iowa. Where I'll be speaking at DevOps Days there on Friday.

@rey That's a heck of a form full of strange biases.

@indi Oo, POVRay! I was introduced to it by my CompSci graphics prof. As part of a bid to extend the science building, he asked some of us to model and render parts of the existing building. I got to build the green house! Fun project.

There is just no getting around the fact that big data takes big time to move around.

Is something happening to witches.town? I saw a post with advice for moving away. Is it going down, or experiencing a drama event?

2606:4700:4700:0:0:0:0:1111 Is their IPv6 service, but it isn't nearly as fast from where I am.

Found out today that the 1.1.1.1 DNS service from CloudFlare actually has a TLS option. Didn't know you could do that.

Turns out you can.

Should be good for bypassing NXDOMAIN intercepts from my ISP :P

Watched the live JCS. Some impressions.

1. Actors who can act and are amazing (Judas).
2. Singers who can act are almost as good (Mary, Harod).
3. Singers who can't act in star roles are not that good (Jesus).
4. They needed another week in previews to nail the technical passes, OMG.
5. I AM HERE FOR SPARKLY GAY JUDAS, WHO CAN SING.

Of the... 4? JCSs I've watched, this Judas is likely my favorite.