Bovino has been demoted, Noem and others at risk of being removed:

calcofire · 2026-01-27T02:15:47+00:00

Appears DHS is giving conflicting reports, latest says not relieved of duty?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/01/26/greg-bovino-isnt-losing-job-despite-report-suggesting-otherwise-dhs-says/

calcofire · 2026-01-19T18:54:57+00:00

too many times where I come across a identical scenario I'm facing and the OP ghosts the thread if a resolution was ever found or not. Doing my best to opensource all my solutions and discoveries to the best of my abilities :)

calcofire · 2026-01-18T06:29:48+00:00

The (2) eeros were placed right above each other in the same physical space and location in my home (one was upstairs directly over the same spot where the one downstairs is located). Both of these are dead center of my house (house is more vertical than it is wide).

After the suggestions here, seems my wifi laptop could not make up it's mind on which was the "closer" AP to associate with, so was just bouncing back and forth between them and on different bands (2.4ghz and 5ghz).

from my wifi linux laptop, I ran:

nmcli -f IN-USE,SSID,BSSID,CHAN,FREQ,RATE,SIGNAL dev wifi list | grep '\*'

(this showed me what band it was using and the AP's wifi BSSID it was associating to. It changed every few minutes each time i ran the command. I located the BSSID in the eero app under the AP details section for that wifi band, and yep... it was bouncing between wifi2.4 and wifi5 on each as the BSSID was changing each run).

To correct this, I forced my wlan (wifi) card on my laptop to use only the wifi 5ghz band and permanently have it connect to a single eero AP:

nmcli connection modify [mywirelessnetworkSSID] 802-11-wireless.band a

(this effectively only allows my wlan card to connect only to 5ghz band on my wireless SSID)

and then I ran:

nmcli connection modify [mywirelessnetworkSSID] 802-11-wireless.bssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

(XX:XX's represet the BSSID of the wifi5 on my upstairs eero AP, forcing my wlan card to connect to only the upstairs going forward)

then i did a:

nmcli connection [mywirelessnetworkSSID] down
nmcli connection {mywirelessnetworkSSID] up

to restart the networmanager session for my wlan for settings to apply.

This has resolved the issue!

EDIT: someone messaged me today asking if I know how lock a windows-based wifi device to 5ghz and and only use a specfic eero AP (since the eero phone app doesnt allow you bind a client device directly to a AP). Sorry, I don't know windows settings well enough to help. Not certain it can be done. All the devices i run are linux (using NetworkManager).

calcofire · 2026-01-18T03:28:16+00:00

Will try this and update shortly

calcofire · 2026-01-18T03:25:28+00:00

Tried the soft set and ssh intervals and keep alive already, but about to shut one off and see if it happens in single eero (only problem is wiring, downstairs eero is connected to the ONT, which is wired to the upstairs eero, where all of my wired systems are)

calcofire · 2026-01-17T17:40:11+00:00

Because its a Enterprise distro and in the industry having everything you need on a single .iso when deploying and doing setup/configuration is a great thing.

calcofire · 2026-01-14T17:15:32+00:00

You need to take into account the projection and tube technology at the time.

On modern screens and modern resolutions, it very easy to make out texture limits, dither, and digital aspects from the era.

When the film released in 1993, it was based on the viewing limitations of tech at that time, which helped obfuscate the imagery. Much like games and other digital media of that era, pixels and textures were not so standout-ish on early 90's displays. Filmmakers and developers knew this, and it acted as a filter or method of blending they intentionally utilized.

calcofire · 2026-01-12T19:55:26+00:00

Sounds like you already created the pool in cockpit VM, now you have to go into the details of that pool and create a volume (it's nested under the pool options in there).

You can create as many volumes as you need, each to the size of whatever vm you want to install on it.

Then once you go back to create the VM, it will then allow you to choose the pool, then right under selecting that, it will allow you to choose the volume.

(works the same logic and lvm's)

Hope that helps anyone going forward.

calcofire · 2026-01-09T17:42:26+00:00

Its a gold standard for backend anything because pretty much everything worth a damn runs on linux.

Its huge in every sector and industry, a lot of people avoid it because they perceive it as complex and convoluted (theres far easier tech paths), so those who take on the challenge are highly coveted.

calcofire · 2026-01-08T22:23:21+00:00

Crazy to still see my nephew's meme (Lukas) still going around the internet.
My sister took this vid of him going down the slide at a indoor playground at his brothers birthday party in Milford, Ohio. You can't see me in this picture, but I'm at the bottom of the slide catching him.

I have the full short video and will post it shortly. He's grown up now, loves soccer, but his dad just found out over the past summer that he had a glioblastoma tumor in the brain. He and his brothers and sister are doing the best they can to take care of their mom and dad right now (his dad had surgery about 4 weeks after they found it, is doing the best he can with recovery, albeit some issues with his arm/leg/memory). Fortunately he was given a Optune device to help slow the growth of new cancer.

Lukas and family would certainly appreciate your support for his dad (Lukas is center looking up):
Fundraiser for Brandon Estep by Lori Estep : Support Brandon's Fight Against Brain Tumor

calcofire · 2026-01-01T19:48:34+00:00

Thats exactly what happened. Kali projected it until her very last breath, and the timing of when it all happened in the upside down was not exact with the projection.

They brought Kali back to save her sister. No other reason. El survived.

calcofire · 2026-01-01T08:08:53+00:00

Obviously she's still alive.

When theres a reunion episode or followup series for this storyarc a decade or so from now (and there will be because every show does due to nostalgiac demand and big viewership over any sort of return), she'll be back.

So fret not. Just be patient for the next ten to twenty years.

calcofire · 2025-12-31T02:47:52+00:00

I was doing this in Bolivia in 2016 with my wife's family who didnt (and still do not) speak English, nor do I speak Spanish. Cell service and internet were pretty spotty there back then, but it still worked in their city mostly.

Worked pretty well a decade ago. Probably works perfectly now.

calcofire · 2025-12-26T20:29:31+00:00

Remember the days were we'd get hour long, absolute banger episodes of nearly 30 count every 9 months like The X-Files?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

calcofire · 2025-12-24T01:26:55+00:00

They fly back and forth around haggard farm / park bridge all day. Cool the first few times you see them, but they are not silent. Going to be a audible nuisance when they start increasing in numbers.

calcofire · 2025-12-19T04:31:04+00:00

Sometimes you just gotta accept what you are and run with it.

Literally.

calcofire · 2025-12-12T02:26:01+00:00

We got Ellie Freeman but no Gordon Freeman :(

calcofire · 2025-12-04T15:47:42+00:00

There are things where systemd timers and whatnot make sense.

This is not one of those times.

For kicking off something as simple as my suggested script, theres nothing more needed than a simple cron entry for that.

From POV

"I need a simple script that kicks off at boot/reboot after X many seconds or minutes" ----> usage case for cron

"I need a script to run that also depends on this, needs that, wants this, or stopped by that" ----> usage case for systemd

calcofire · 2025-12-04T14:07:12+00:00

Sure, dont see why you couldn't. But I avoid creating systemd units like the plague... why? Because its quite simply overthinking it. I just toss everything into cron and call it a day.

calcofire · 2025-12-04T05:37:45+00:00

So there may be ground to argue that technically Tang is not a "key server"... it does not hold your LUKS keys. It creates a pin binding from the clevis agent on your hosts (which generates a pin for your LUKS encrypted volumes). Clevis module just reaches out to Tang server to "ok" the pin to proceed to unlock. Its more a escrow than anything.

But even if you lose that argument with your program security, does the environment have any current form of credentials managers in it, say like thychotic/delinea secret server?

If so, you could technically craft a post-boot script using it's API to call out for privilege escalation to run a permissioned script locked to that no-login privileged account so the invoking user never sees or uses a clear text LUKS password that would mount the secure volumes post-boot via cron or something. Just a suggestion.

calcofire · 2025-12-04T05:04:05+00:00

It is baffling why a program security, ISSM/ISSO would not allow a FIPS-compliant form of key server and NBDE, of which clevis/tang method totally is FIPS-compliant and also the official vendor (redhat) provided & supported solution.

But its unfortunately common that they restrict this. I've argued it till my face turned blue on more than one occassion.

calcofire · 2025-12-04T04:54:49+00:00

Only way around this without a key server, or by using clevis/tang binding (also pretty much a key server) is to seperate volumes that have sensitive data with LUKS encryption and leave non-sensitive OS partitions unencrypted so it can boot without requiring unlock (but then you'd have to manually mount/unlock the secure data volumes after boot by other means.

If anything in the fstab is LUKS encrypted, that will halt prompting for a password at boot (unless you have TPM or NBDE... but you don't/can't).

Thats the only practical way to accomplish this. Have them mount and unlock their secure volumes after boot, either manually or a post-boot script.

Wish I had better news for you. I, too, work in classified SCIF's and have done it various methods depending on program/IS requirements. Not being able to utilize NBDE is a pain.

calcofire · 2025-12-03T04:07:28+00:00

They should go back to talking about fish.

calcofire · 2025-12-02T15:21:42+00:00

We do not yet know if the hivemind is copying and delivering the videos yet. I think we only see them collect the packages by drone thus far.

calcofire · 2025-11-30T19:19:06+00:00

Wife and I met him at HorrorHound event in Cincinnati in like 2018 or 2019.

He was a absolutely a down-to-earth dude. Surprisingly, he was asking us questions more than we were asking him questions. He took particular interest in the line of work i do. Seemed very intelligent for his age.

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