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Mike Ely

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Technologist, dad, author, ally if you want one. Writing site used to update weekly. "The limits of what you are willing to imagine are an epitaph you wrote […] [bridged from https://social.taupehat.com/@me on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11h

@ai6yr really not convinced it's copper thieves doing this. Even meth heads pretty quickly learn the stuff in the orange conduit isn't worth any money.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 15h

You know it's getting late in the week when you cat a file into less without even batting an eye. #sysadmin

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 3d

The thing that's awesome about #python is that you'll have like 57,000 versions of different modules and shit scattered all over the filesystem and they all have to be there because fuck backwards compatibility, and just when you think you've got a handle on how file precedence works, you're […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 5d

Came around a random corner and discovered this needless temptation for anyone who grew up watching Dukes of Hazzard:

A forklift-rated yard ramp sits alone in an empty parking lot, looking for all the world like a jump ramp.

A quartering view of the same yard ramp.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 7d

Goddammit lol...
#sysadmin

Cropped screenshot from a wiki page. One line, reading literally:
"FIXME: STOP LEAVING FIXME IN WIKI PAGES"
Text is allcaps. The text that says "stop leaving fixme in wiki pages" is both bold and red.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 7d

@cadey oh god, is this one of those "security by checkbox" things some people have to live with? Fortunately we (org with a couple AS numbers and more IPv4 space than anyone has a right to) don't have such an idiotic insurance company.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 8d

Network admins who disable ICMP: do you also take the numbers off the front of your house to keep the burglars out? #sysadmin

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 8d

@ai6yr no making it rain on Mar-A-Lago allowed! LOL

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 9d

My ex wife and I have a 14-year-old together. We get along great, but sometimes (often) we miscommunicate. This is like the perfect example. #parenting

Text message snippet with my ex-wife:
Her: Hi. Can you help me? I told her very kindly that she's not doing. She has acid. She thinks die. Unfortunately mom, me, you? Have avoid
Her: Avoid
Her: Maybe back me up make her feel better
Me: Where did she get acid?
Her: Acid reflux? From me, from in-n-out
Her: Call me briefly

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 9d

@jsm yeah that's just plain rude.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 9d

@freiheit I think it was something really absurd like netcat that I found installed as a snap once and didn't even have the ability to access all the network resources it needed.

The other bullshit thing #ubuntu is doing is preferentially installing snap packages when you use their GUI package […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 9d

@jsm again though, only one packaging system per distro please. If it's flatpack, great. But not flatpack plus RPM. Yanno?

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 9d

#linux distros: either use snapd for ALL your packaging or use snapd for NONE of your packaging. I'm surely not the only user who is sick and fucking tired of having to figure out whether the problem is with the snap package versus the distro package (deb, rpm etc).

Mostly, fuck snapd - it […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 10d

Of all the petty-tyrant linting rules in #ansible it's pretty safe to say var-namingno-role-prefix] is the worst. That shit goes on my skip_list from here on out. Name your vars appropriately, sure, but shoving the required prefix everywhere makes for some fugly-ass code. Nope! [<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#sysadmin

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11d

[Tiny tragedy, big feels]

Coda: I found a more appropriate and respectful place to leave it, where it was beneath the open sky and also where the gleaners of the world will find it and take sustenance from what it once was.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11d

[Tiny tragedy, big feels]

Last bits of cleaning out the garage and I found the most tragic thing: a hummingbird had somehow got into the garage without a way out and spent its last moments gazing out the window where all the food and water it needed was […]

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A hummingbird sits dead on a windowsill facing outside where it was unable to go.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 12d

A duck and its guardian

An arched gateway covered in foliage admits a view of the front steps of a house. Standing in front of the open door is a white crested duck looking to the right of the frame. Standing beside the duck, staring directly into the camera with its ears erect and its eyes slightly squinted, is a powerfully-built yellow-brown dog.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 13d

@ai6yr @spocko @USelaine isn't Serang where the shipbreakers are? That place is a special corner of hell. Why is food being produced there?

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 13d

Couldn't resist comparing the current muppet to a past muppet:

Dominar Rygel XVI from the TV series Farscape stands at the bottom of a stalled escalator, with a woman wearing a cream-colored blazer standing directly in front of him. He's glaring back towards the camera with utter stupidity and malignance.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 14d

Turns out when you rent a cargo van from one of the local non-chain outfits it comes with "free candy" not yet spray painted on the side, but you can see it there anyway.

A full size white Chevy cargo van sits in a driveway, looking anonymously menacing.

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 15d

Anybody in or near #santarosa in need of kid furniture:
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/100312074
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/100312076
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/100312078
https://www.freecycle.org/posts/100312080

A Post on Freecycle.org: Bunk Bed + 1 Mattress

via The Freecycle Network™: Ikea wooden bunk bed, complete and in good condition. One mattress with foam pillow-topper. There are two other loft-style beds at this location.

www.freecycle.org

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 15d

The great thing about getting into the zone with a project is the feeling that comes from breaking through a lot of hard problems.

The not-so-great thing about getting into the zone is that it's really hard to get up and walk away from it. Also, at least in my case, when I'm in the zone I'm […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 18d

@ai6yr here's some creativity! (if it really worked it'd be awesome lol)

Ham Radio World @hamradioworld.bsky.social · 18d

If you’re already healed, then let’s use the crutches to make an antenna 😁

Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 19d

Narcissus and Goldmund have been catching up in our front yard. They have a lot to talk about.

Two garden gnomes are on a small outdoor table surrounded by green foliage. One gnome is laying back with his arms behind his head, looking very relaxed and is smiling up at the other gnome who is standing with a coil of rope over his shoulder, looking down at the resting gnome. His mouth is open and he appears to be talking animatedly.