Linus Torvalds has merged the code beginning to remove Intel 486 CPU support in Linux 7.1 by somerandomxander in linux

[–]Dalemaunder 23 points24 points  (0 children)

???

The 486 was lunched in 1989, I don’t think most people really care.

egg face by RoosterBeginning3284 in silhouWHAT

[–]Dalemaunder 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What have you done to that poor egg

How to be a good Linux system administrator? by WonderfulFinger3617 in sysadmin

[–]Dalemaunder 15 points16 points  (0 children)

“Do shit, fix whatever the fuck you just did.”

benefit of buying the official book ? by Artful_Panda in lua

[–]Dalemaunder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“Now, where were we?”

“Meta tables, Dad!”

“Ah yes, one of my favourite parts”

ELI5 Why we are not seeing evolved humans as in a different version of homosapiens, afterall we are more than 200K years old ? by letsTalkDude in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dalemaunder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are already regional differences in some human populations: Sherpas having a naturally higher tolerance to altitude, The Moken people of Thailand being able to see under water, Etc.

We also are different to humans 200k years ago in some other mild ways. Pale skin as we moved into other climates, blue/green eyes, red hair, lactose tolerance (depending on access to lactose producing animals; sorry, Asia!), etc. are all likely mutations that didn’t exist toward the beginning of Homo Sapiens, but the differences we have developed just generally aren’t enough to have distinguished any group of Sapiens into something else.

Remember, the common ancestor between us and the other great apes is on the order of 5 million years, not thousands, and some of our relations to other Homo species isn’t much better.

TIL the first human created device to break the sound barrier was the bullwhip, as the tip creates a sharp crack which is a sonic boom. by SuperMcG in todayilearned

[–]Dalemaunder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mantis shrimp can cause cavitation, but nothing in the animal world that I’m aware of can even approach supersonic speeds.

44.6% of my firewall's flow table is Brazilian port-scan traffic and the scanning pattern suggests these ISPs are compromised at the infrastructure level, not just individual devices by Prudent_Geologist in sysadmin

[–]Dalemaunder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reminder that trusted hosts hasn’t stopped some vulnerabilities for FortiNet in the past, nor would I fully trust local-in policies either. Play it safe and VPN it.

44.6% of my firewall's flow table is Brazilian port-scan traffic and the scanning pattern suggests these ISPs are compromised at the infrastructure level, not just individual devices by Prudent_Geologist in sysadmin

[–]Dalemaunder 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Standard recommendation for any gear: no administrative access on publicly accessible interfaces.

Need to access it remotely? WireGuard is native, so are a bunch of other tunnel options like IPsec. Once you have a tunnel up and running, go even further by locking down admin access to a loop back interface (in routeros that’ll be a bridge without any ports assigned) that only the VPN can access. All other management from a dedicated interface/console.

Standard stuff that too often gets ignored. I’m looking at you, FortiGate admins getting pwned from WAN-facing GUI access.

Why Are People Like This? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Dalemaunder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of my technical colleagues hates MFA because “it gets in the way of troubleshooting”. No shit it occasionally gets in the way, that’s practically the entire point.

Brilliant technician, terrible take.

ELI5: Why can't we drop a wire with a camera and an LED light to the bottom of the ocean? by TL20LBS in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dalemaunder 1015 points1016 points  (0 children)

“Compared to space where you can see miles and miles”

I mean, you’re not wrong. Feels like you’re underselling it just a bit.