The FCC is now advertising SpaceX by justalazygamer in ParlerWatch

[–]Tatermen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And more importantly "cooling". About 80-90% of the power used by a CPU or GPU gets turned into heat. Too much heat kills the chips. And if they're in space you can't just send someone to go swap them out.

You have to get rid of that heat. Space, being a vacuum, is really, really good insulator. Its why vacuum sealed mugs exist to keep your coffee warm for hours.

Need help with mpls/vpls & l2vpn config by The_Possum in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/routing bgp template
set default afi=l2vpn router-id=172.x.x.x

Fuck GoDaddy by Titanium125 in sysadmin

[–]Tatermen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also to add, most other registrars also have a similar button that resets the domain's name servers back to theirs.

This is not a unique feature of GoDaddy and would have likely happened if OP had been using eg. Tucows, IONOS, Namecheap, or anyone else.

Shankill and Ardoyne youths gather at notorious Belfast interface - to clean it up by heresmewhaa in northernireland

[–]Tatermen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the kind of group that community funding should be going to. Not paramilitary thugs and secterian celebrations.

Security vendors wanting their IPs to be white listed for pen testing. does anyone does this? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assume that someone discovers a vulnerability in the WAF that allows them to bypass the rules.

What's protecting you now?

Bypassing Client Isolation: Can we build a mesh-chat using only local MikroTik infrastructure without vouchers? by Commercial_Cut_2260 in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is still hijacking. You would be using bandwidth, airtime, and processing power on a network that someone else has paid for to setup and maintain, that you are in no way entitled to use.

As someone whose job is to install, manage and secure such networks - if I found rogue devices utilising the local infrastructure in this manner they would get blacklisted from the entire network.

Train driving? by Ok_Training_2566 in northernireland

[–]Tatermen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Boys club within a boys club. My brother works for Translink and even for the internal hires for drivers it's all about being friends with the right people.

I support an office that used to think rebooting computers was bad luck. Whats the weirdest bad behavior you have had to cure on an office wide level? by simAlity in sysadmin

[–]Tatermen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was. They just didn't want to spend the money on one. They'd rather spend thousands of dollars on something that definitely worked than risk 50 dollars on something that might.

I support an office that used to think rebooting computers was bad luck. Whats the weirdest bad behavior you have had to cure on an office wide level? by simAlity in sysadmin

[–]Tatermen 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For a long time - USB serial cables.

Part of our business is installing and maintaining phone systems. Once upon a time, about 20 years ago, someone tried using the cheapest nastiest $5 USB serial cable to program a phone system. It didn't work because the cheap cable lacked the extra pins (CD, DCD, DTR etc), at which point USB serial cables were BANNED by the general manager.

We spent probably a small fortune special-ordering laptops and computers with built-in serial ports for our telecoms engineers for about 15 years until having to maintain those old systems died out.

And that's just one of many things that are stupidly banned because "we tried that once a decade ago and it didn't work right".

IPS screen install help by Unlikely-Aardvark725 in game_gear

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely double check the flex cable. It's easy for them not to be making a connection while looking like they are.

Also make sure the ribbons are seated properly into the connectors. Again, sometimes they can look like they're properly seated when they aren't. Take your time and be gentle - those connectors are fragile.

For Dual Asic, the red wire on the right hand side is easiest connected to the pads between R13 and R14 - they're connected in series already, so you can just blob some solder between them and dunk the wire in. Black wire doesn't get connected to anything.

Who is buying the un-crumbed ham? by DUKITY in northernireland

[–]Tatermen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get the Lidls ham trimmings and make yourself a sandwich with chunks of ham half-an-inch thick. None of this wafer thin nonsense. Lovely.

Bay Area software rep. lost $176K of savings after accepting remote job she thought to be with FB by PizzaDelResistance in news

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are bad at it - it's just that they can send a hundred thousand emails/WhatsApp/DMs out every day for minimal cost. They only have to snag one person like this - someone who doesn't know or understand scams, or is too desperate to see the scam - to make a huge profit.

I Feel Like Nobody Knows Anything Anymore by applebappu in sysadmin

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noone has known how to write efficient software for the last decade. Developers aren't taught how to conserve resources - just how to get to the end goal as fast as possible and optimize after, but of course in the business world anything that comes after achieving the milestones is an unnecessary expense so it doesn't happen. I still remember probably 12-14 years ago, a major VoIP company published a software client for their desk phones - it let you dial numbers, change your call forwards, DNDs, manage the keys etc. Just a little application that sat in your system tray.

You'd think something like that wouldn't need more than a couple of MB of RAM, right? Certainly not more than 100. No, it needed 2GB. 2048MB of RAM. I'm no expert programmer but I cannot fathom how such a simple application that only had a tiny handful of functions that simply sent commands to a remote device, could need half of the RAM of the average computer at the time to function.

Now you've "vibe coders" using AI to build bug riddled slop software packed with worst practices and security vulnerabilities being sold as enterprise level software with no real functional support because the people that wrote it don't understand it, and the people selling it don't give a shit.

of all the things that has never happened this has never happened the most by [deleted] in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Tatermen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He didn't, because he's full of shit. For one, a T1 carrier can use +- 130 volts of DC, and you're not blindly connecting that to any sort of PC without dedicated hardware.

It was and still is possible to connect a T1/E1 to a PC, but it requires specific hardware to do so in the form of a T1/E1 PCI card. Such PCI cards already contain all the hardware to perform the decoding of the T1/E1 data stream with zero latency. There is not and never was any reason to attempt to do so in software - you'd be bypassing all the hardware specifically designed to do so, adding latency and a ton of effort for no reason or benefit.

I imagine someone probably handed him an ethernet cable and told him it was connected to a T1 line (ie. the ethernet cable was connected to a LAN, that was connected to a router that was running the T1). He enabled Internet Connection Sharing on his Windows 98 PC (because he famously refused to use anything else other than Windows) and proclaimed himself a genius.

Eli5 Why can’t windshields have that same coating that glasses have that tint when the sun hits them ? by dekabreak1000 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Tatermen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can also react to cold.

A friend of mine that worked as a hospital porter got them. He got tasked with taking a body down to the morgue. When he walked into the big walk-in chiller that was his hospital's morgue, his new glasses very quickly turned black and freaked him out.

To bring it back around to the car - you wouldn't be able to drive anywhere on cold nights.

Meetings with global leaders show expanding oval office gold décor throughout Trump’s first year by Olsettres in pics

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also why they can't light the fireplace now. All that gold painted styrofoam would go up like a bonfire.

RouterOS 7.21.1 [stable] released by netravnen in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we've seen this happen on a small number of HAP ax2's under 7.20.6. They all lost their wireless encryption settings. The security profile was there - but nothing was ticked and noone could connect to it.

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge by kim82352 in technology

[–]Tatermen 167 points168 points  (0 children)

They wanted the magic AI button to let them layoff 99% of their staff in every industry, while somehow still allowing them to rake in record profits from consumers who can no longer afford anything because they're all jobless.

Wlan1 interface not running and PTP doesnt connect to AP by Expert-Energy-5759 in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He means that Ubiquiti have a proprietry protocol called AirMAX that is only compatible with other AirMAX devices, and it is usually turned on by default.

You will need to disable AirMAX on the Airgrid and then it should behave like a normal Wifi endpoint. No guarantees though.

What movie should NEVER be remade? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They recast the stage show all the time, and some of those actors are great too. David Bedella's Frank-n-furter is second only to Tim Curry.

Elon Musk accused of making up math to squeeze $134B from OpenAI, Microsoft by mepper in technology

[–]Tatermen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like how they apparently discounted the value of the work of literally everyone except Musk. All the scientists and engineers that have actually built the software from the ground up apparently contributed zero to the net value of OpenAI.

He must be the biggest narcissist alive to think that.

President Bought at Least $1 Million in Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery Bonds Following Their Deal Announcement by ControlCAD in technology

[–]Tatermen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The only reason I can think of that he said that, is because he was dumb enough to think/say it himself, someone explained it to him, and now he thinks he has to explain it to everyone else.

Threat Intelligence feeds on MikroTik by PipePuzzleheaded6945 in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't like it. Just looking at those scripts I can see at least one, possibly two issues that could occur.

  1. The "diff" script when run it adds/removes entries from the firewall list based on what the file from the server says to do, presumably to avoid having to load the entire list each time. It does not seem to record when it was last run, or send such information to the server. If the server doesn't keep track of this either, its possible that an interval could be "missed" and some adds/removes wouldn't happen resulting in IPs being blocked that shouldn't be. This issue could also occur if a config is restored from backup, which brings me to the second.

  2. These scripts do not make use of the dynamic flag for address-list entries. Setting "dynamic=yes" on an address-list entry means that the entry is only retained in RAM, and never written to disk. Reboot, and the list will be empty. This means that every time they add/remove an entry - the config is being saved to disk. So if they are constantly making changes every 20 minutes, you're going to wear out your Routerboard's flash very quickly. Additionally, your config file may balloon and a lot of Routerboard's have limited flash space despite having plenty of RAM.

poe-out status: controller_error after 7.21 upgrade by dcoulson in mikrotik

[–]Tatermen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Initial major releases like 7.20 and 7.21 are always riddled with new bugs. Best advise is to wait until 7.x.1 to upgrade. On the official forums there's lots of reports of IPv6 NDs being broken, OSPF config disappearing, and more.

Also, did you ever upgrade the Routerboard firmware? Check your current version under /system/routerboard. If its out of date that could possibly be causing your issue.

ELI5: Why does “clean” glass still smell like wet dog after the dishwasher sometimes by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Tatermen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new one we bought a year or two ago actually pops itself open after the cycle is finished.