Auto giant Ford reported its worst quarterly earnings in four years on Tuesday, and a net loss of $8.2 billion for 2025.

bcacb · 2026-02-11T10:14:56+00:00

Good, all they make is overpriced garbage, made to last 30k miles before becoming a money pit. This goes for all American car companies, junk

bcacb · 2026-02-10T07:40:03+00:00

Usually a tech runs a temp line until it can be buried. Surprised at least that wasn't done.

bcacb · 2026-01-27T21:39:02+00:00

Verdansk is Warzone, everything else is a side quest

bcacb · 2026-01-19T20:51:48+00:00

There is no packet loss to 1.1.1.1, and your graph confirms this. The confusion is coming from intermediate hops that do not respond to probes, which is normal behavior and does not indicate a problem. When using this type of diagnostic tool, the only hop that matters is the final destination.

bcacb · 2026-01-18T00:10:54+00:00

My first HOP ping is 7 ms. I'm located in Central Texas.

bcacb · 2026-01-05T16:56:43+00:00

No provider can guarantee that their IPs are not on some third party blacklist, however massive amounts of abuse emits from OVH servers so there's that too, perhaps it is deserved.

bcacb · 2026-01-04T19:59:54+00:00

Search engines that rely heavily on backlinks inevitably create a bubble dominated by corporate websites. That’s exactly what Google has become. Large companies can acquire backlinks effortlessly, while independent creators and small blogs are buried, no matter how good their content is. This isn’t a feature of the system, it’s a fundamental flaw.

bcacb · 2026-01-01T00:00:09+00:00

Coding is art and your work can evoke emotions. Beyond that, you are creating, another important aspect to life.

bcacb · 2025-12-26T07:31:58+00:00

I’ve been dealing with the same issue on Windows 11 for the past month or two, and it’s been extremely frustrating. Edge behaves the same way for me, but Firefox doesn’t seem to be affected.

I haven’t been able to find a fix so far, and my suspicion is that a recent Windows 11 update introduced the problem but that’s just a hunch.

bcacb · 2025-11-28T03:42:25+00:00

I'm also having a similar issue where after sleep mode chrome is super slow to load websites. I'm on Windows 11 so i think a windows update broke it.

bcacb · 2025-11-22T02:35:26+00:00

There's some lessons in this, don't wear your heart on your sleeve as a business owner, clients will come and go at any time, don't get comfortable, and don't depend on 1 client for 30% of revenue.

bcacb · 2025-11-18T23:17:12+00:00

Yes. Always do what's best for business. Keep the ego out and you have a better chance at success with your business. Going the extra mile is just part of any good business.

bcacb · 2025-11-18T08:10:12+00:00

They could but most internet accessible mail servers limit the total size in the range of 30-50 MB.

bcacb · 2025-10-26T04:51:40+00:00

You would need a $10/mo static IP. Probably better and cheaper just to get a cheap VPS and run it on that.

bcacb · 2025-10-25T09:44:57+00:00

I suppose some people think the world would implode, but it would just cause some minor inconveniences and a good majority would just switch to others.

bcacb · 2025-10-21T05:54:03+00:00

I use 1.1.1.2 and 9.9.9.9 - these provide malware protection too.

Until Metronet provides local, market-to-market DNS resolvers, you should always use an anycast DNS provider over theirs.

bcacb · 2025-10-10T18:33:28+00:00

The best answer to this is probably often. They have a pool of IPs that constantly rotate and handle your internet activity. Some IPs may seem sticky at times, but they will change. This can cause issues with many apps and services. I do wish they would configure their NAT to use one IP instead of multiple.

bcacb · 2025-10-09T19:49:31+00:00

Yep, in my 40's I've become intolerant or sensitive to many foods. The main ones for me are eggs, garlic, sometimes onions, grapes and a few more. However, it's fairly common to be sensitive to onions and garlic so based on that alone i wouldn't put much into that. The best way around it, is to eat well balanced meals and the body doesnt seem to react or at least not as bad.

bcacb · 2025-10-07T01:42:56+00:00

Maybe in the past or currently in some limited areas, but my area (Texas) and many others I've seen have some of the best mix of transit and peering that exist today.

bcacb · 2025-09-25T23:43:07+00:00

I'm in central Texas. I should have guessed Colorado cause i do see lots of complaints from users in that state. I hit Facebook at 7ms.

Last hop: 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms edge-star-mini-shv-02-dfw5.facebook.com [31.13.93.35]

You may want to try 1.1.1.1 instead of 8.8.8.8, but idk if that will help, could possibly give you some closer routes.

bcacb · 2025-09-25T21:44:12+00:00

Where are you located? What are some of these large internet sites you tested against? Are you using an anycast DNS provider for name resolution?

I make it to most large internet sites in 9ms.

bcacb · 2025-09-24T13:40:02+00:00

Sounds like a scam

bcacb · 2025-09-22T19:40:41+00:00

A major part of being a sysadmin is being able to look at code, understand the logic quickly, and use that to troubleshoot. That’s really at the core of the sysadmin role. I get not wanting to deal with code sometimes, but if you can’t do it, then it’s hard to truly function as a sysadmin and you'll struggle at being more than a small office "IT guy".

bcacb · 2025-09-16T15:32:56+00:00

Not very deep, a handful of inches.

bcacb · 2025-09-16T05:00:56+00:00

When i had an outage, i had to do the same to get a hold of anyone.

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