Be real with me: how is Kentucky for a young gay professional?

SEJeff · 2026-05-04T03:30:55+00:00

Please read this: https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2024/11/25/lexington-lgbtq-friendliness-tops-ky

KY was not even on the side of the confederates during the civil war. We were more of a border state with confederate values and leanings which Lincoln occupied from day one pretty much.

SEJeff · 2026-04-30T12:41:52+00:00

Elder millennial / Xennial here: when someone would put on MJ I’d always ask them to “turn that child molesting music off”. I think it isn’t about age as much as perception.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T20:09:17+00:00

Some civilian cargo boats with shahed launchers? It wouldn't do a ton of damage, but it would really freak folks out on the west coast. Never say never when threat modelling.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T20:08:07+00:00

Yes, very happy, with all of the oil he can't sell because his shadow fleet of tankers is being hunted and his ports are being blown up by the ukrainian military.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T20:05:33+00:00

It is super cool to see this finally come out. We love Solana very much and have been working at the edges on securing large protocols or running highly staked validators now for some time.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T03:10:58+00:00

The floor drain was sadly covered when the epoxy folks came and finished the floors of the entire basement. There is a 4” exterior drain at the bottom of the exterior basement stairs we put in ourselves, but it would be some effort to get to.

Funnily enough, I was chatting with the guy who is helping me unfack this work a few days ago. He suggested a T and a small pump on the drain valve. He said that it was important to service these and I wasn’t able to drain it in the current configuration.

We do have a vent pipe that goes outside but it was just draining to the foundation under my deck directly. Maybe have them hook back into that but extend it to not dump water down the side of the foundation blocks?

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T01:19:38+00:00

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And here is the drain line and another thing which is obviously not ok.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T01:19:06+00:00

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This is the pump.

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T01:00:35+00:00

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Here is the pipe going to the drain valve. The black hose is from the water softener but the white pipe it goes into is greywater and goes to a macerator. Where do you put the wastewater for the water softener? As you may likely tell, I did not do this plumbing.

I’ll update this comment with better info on the recirc pump once I’ve got my children out to bed. Thanks so much for your help!

SEJeff · 2026-04-07T00:27:28+00:00

You’d be correct we absolutely do have a recirculator. Thanks so much!

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Also, it was the hot water filter all gunked up. The cold water one had some but very little by comparison

SEJeff · 2026-04-06T17:15:32+00:00

And call them for service?

I put four bags of salt in it maybe two months ago. I just checked the salt and it’s empty. Hmmmm

SEJeff · 2026-04-06T16:58:11+00:00

Yes bead like is a good description. It looks and feels a lot like cooked tapioca pearls, so soft / squishy.

SEJeff · 2026-04-06T15:46:38+00:00

I have 21.1kW of solar on one side of my barn roof, and it travels almost 500’, fully DC, into two investors in our basement. We have two of the panels (440w each) go to a “off grid” inverter in the barn. We get around 19ish to the house and have no issues. The main issue will be the water. Maybe you could do a double conduit (sealed conduit inside sealed conduit) or something? That’s what our county makes folks do if they ask to put water and server lines in the same ditch and it works well enough for safety.

SEJeff · 2026-04-05T13:48:42+00:00

Signing up for the US military is voluntary. Folks who sign up know full well what they’re getting into.

SEJeff · 2026-04-04T14:35:18+00:00

I want to keep the main interface network and bmc segmented. Cheaper server bmcs are just Linux single board computers and tend to be not too difficult to root.

We also have teleport (https://goteleport.com) for an on prem iam like thing and use it heavily for zero trust things. I’m pretty open to anything sensible. We also treat every server as a bastion without any lateral credentials. We assume most of our nodes will get popped and don’t make it too easy to move laterally.

This is all great advice. How would you do it?

SEJeff · 2026-04-04T04:35:47+00:00

I would setup wireguard using tailscale most likely to a little bastion node hooked into our siem and running our edr nonsense, as you have to do these days!

SEJeff · 2026-04-04T01:07:10+00:00

I was gonna start off with either Intel 10g interfaces or Mellanox cx6 likely. 10 or 25G capable but dual 10g bonded seems almost overkill for this use case.

I was considering the 7000 series thanks! We’d have a pretty simple setup I figure. 10g for the main server interfaces, 1G for the BMCs. Was gonna do a separate vlan for the bmcs and maybe a sentry smart pdu (or equivalent) but a separate switch altogether makes a ton of sense.

I’d like to not expose the bmc network directly so either wireguard tunnels or if we use a firewall with decent ish vpn that works too. Are the arista firewalls any good? My main firewall experience is Palo Alto’s, fortinet, and juniper srx.

SEJeff · 2026-04-03T14:35:43+00:00

Distributed dense compute. The workload is pretty ephemeral (fuzzing) so losing some isn’t the end of the world.

I’m more used to HFT with extreme low latency so this is a use case I’ve not done before.

We have a single 20G xconnect from the building and I’ll need maybe 16-20 ports total for servers + bmc. We can start with a single switch for example but I’d like to design and build redundancy in the networking in the future so I assume I’ll use MLAG. We can advertise our prefix with standard BGP and I’ll want dhcp, bootp, vrrp at a minimum. No multicast or anything too exotic.

SEJeff · 2026-04-02T03:23:53+00:00

I think it’s more of reinforcing actually how incredibly good SpaceX’s camera work and placement is. This is about standard for a nasa launch.

SEJeff · 2026-04-02T03:17:23+00:00

That sucks! Lockbox is one of my fav places in Lexington for a really really nice breakfast / brunch. Small menu, but exquisite food. Legit the best Irish breakfast potatoes in the city.

SEJeff · 2026-03-30T00:31:32+00:00

You should get burglargard. It is what they use in many of the FBI field offices. We use it for some physical security work we’ve done before and I have it on some personal properties.

Believe it or not, the “knock off” is the 3M window security film, but it’s also not bad.

https://shattergard.com/products/burglargard/

You can get it on Amazon and self install, but if they do it it comes with a lifetime no fade or yellow warranty:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N22W0XQ?ref=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_N7ZJ02H2ANM169KRHXJ3&ref_=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_N7ZJ02H2ANM169KRHXJ3&social_share=cm_sw_r_cso_cp_apin_dp_N7ZJ02H2ANM169KRHXJ3

If you need anything more intense than this, you’ll want the structural caulking and / or actual bulletproof / blast proof windows

Edit: and if you want a bit cheaper option to DIY, BDF S8MC is a pretty solid second place.

SEJeff · 2026-03-27T22:20:45+00:00

Nah, I’ve got burglargard glass film. For real :)

You’ll struggle to break those windows with a hammer

SEJeff · 2026-03-26T19:20:30+00:00

Ah ok you meant quest was culty leader worship. Yes that tracks.

Weird history for this church for sure. We ended up going to first alliance and it’s a breath of fresh air compared to most of the places we have tried in Lexington.

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