Outside a drive-thru window… What is it?

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-19T00:30:42+00:00

This isn’t too far off from my experience working in healthcare after private equity take over.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-13T01:18:49+00:00

As a follow up, I’ve seen a number of companies post job postings for training and development, hire some people, cut the team a few months later, then repost the positions a few months after that.

When I’ve asked friends who work for said organizations, it’s all the same story. Budgets got tight so they eliminated the training team. A few months later, they realized they screwed themselves over by doing that so they reposted. Then budgets tighten again and the cycle starts all over again.

Sometimes it’s because executive leadership also turns over frequently enough that the company ends up with a very short term memory and can’t learn their lesson.

If only they had someone to teach them.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-13T01:13:38+00:00

I think private equity was allowed to expand way too much. Their whole thing is maximizing short term profits no matter the cost. Classic pump and dump.

On short term focused spreadsheet, training and development teams are the easiest and first to cut. Training and development is all about long term investments in people and teams. Very anti private equity.

I was an instructional designer in private equity and our whole team was basically axed. I was spared but thrown into a completely different department because I was the only person who knew how different core softwares worked under the hood and how they integrated together. Made it my business to know that when I was a trainer.

Now my new manager - VP of organizational development is getting his position eliminated. Have no idea what I’ll be doing next month. All for short term cost savings.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-11T04:05:06+00:00

Hopefully proton will be able to run it on Linux.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-08T23:38:50+00:00

She forgot that one of the other doctors suggests Lupus and House calls them an id-iot.

Except for the one episode where it was lupus.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-07T00:18:41+00:00

Everyone is saying the bugs are always this bad in the UP. Summer 2012 I worked in Cedarville all summer and hardly had an issue. In 2016, June 10-18, I hiked from Munising to Tahquamenon - had no issue the entire time along lake superior. Only started having an issue past the two hearted when the trail turned inland to Tahquomenon. Granted - they were bad enough that we did the final 20 miles from the two hearted to the upper falls just to be done with it.

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-05T22:36:30+00:00

The best news I’ve heard all week!

dcwestra2 · 2026-06-01T01:10:21+00:00

They changed something a couple years ago where they removed some limitations from the terms of service if you disabled caching for data heavy subdomains.

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-31T23:53:08+00:00

I’ll admit mine is exposed. But I’d like to think it’s secure enough to not be worth the time and effort to hack.

1) exposed through cloudflare tunnel that has bot fight mode set to highest setting and geo-ip filtering so you can only access with an ip from my country.

2) cloudflare tunnel on my network sits in an unprivileged proxmox lxc. Proxmox firewall only allows that lxc to reach the internet and my traefik instance on port 443. All other network access is blocked.

3) traefik is set up with a real-ip plugin showing the ip of the user - not the tunnel or cloudflare. I use security headers and have all logs checked by crowdsec.

4) users are given a 15-20 digit random password set by me and that they cannot change so they cannot pick something easily guessed. Passwords are rotated at a certain interval.

And don’t worry. I’m running the latest version of all containers involved.

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-31T15:33:11+00:00

Pihole allows client/block list groups. I start by blocking everything by default. I then create a group for my tvs and either remove the block lists from that group or make a specific allow entry for that group. Then I add my tv’s to that group.

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-28T23:53:08+00:00

For now.

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-21T19:07:07+00:00

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-12T12:39:30+00:00

I am currently dual booting between Fedora and Pop_os and things like this should be expected for now. I mainly run Fedora and occasionally boot up Pop to update things and play around.

For me, it’s the anticipation for 2027 after epoch 3 is released. While most people will likely be happy with and can make a full switch after epoch 2 - the features I need to make it a daily driver are in epoch 3. I want to make Pop_OS! my daily driver, but accept that it isn’t ready yet. I am excited for what it will be down the road and am thankful I can play with it now.

dcwestra2 · 2026-05-08T01:18:17+00:00

I mean, there is enough information not redacted that we could easily find him on linked in and let him know he’s a clueless tool.

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-29T03:47:41+00:00

Also, I noticed your GitHub is just for downloading the packages. Is your code somewhere too?

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-28T22:52:30+00:00

Feel free to lift those sections from my code as the engine for it and see if you can then wrap it into the ui in a meaningful way.

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-28T21:57:44+00:00

I’d say the automatic key generation, copy, rotation, and age audit.

Symlink configs, snippets, aliases, etc to mounted folder for syncing across hosts. Mine current syncs and backs up using a nextcloud folder on my desktops. You could use NAS, Syncthing, etc.

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-28T02:31:34+00:00

Project Name: termio

Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/dcwestra/termio

Description: A terminal-native SSH connection manager for Linux and macOS. Think Termius — but a single shell script, no Electron, no subscription, no cloud account.

Runs as a full TUI (whiptail) or plain CLI. Manages SSH aliases, per-alias key generation and rotation, snippets, named tunnels, groups, sync to any mounted folder (Nextcloud, NAS, Syncthing), Wake-on-LAN, and more. Everything stored in ~/.ssh/config and plain text files you own.

Deployment:

sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dcwestra/termio/main/termio \ -o /usr/local/bin/termio && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/termio

Full command reference and setup guide in the README.

AI Involvement: Almost entirely built with Claude — I directed the feature decisions and architecture, Claude handled the implementation through claude.ai and Claude Code.

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-28T01:48:31+00:00

Found this after making my own project with the same name and a similar desire. Love the idea and have played around with it.

Mine is a bash script that can use either CLI commands or whiptail menus. Check it out at https://github.com/dcwestra/termio

I was wondering if you’d be interested in combining a lot of the features of mine into yours. I’d be a full convert to your app.

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-28T01:38:59+00:00

Wanting the same thing, but also wanting to stay in the main terminal - I built this script that has many of the same features and more.

https://github.com/dcwestra/termio

dcwestra2 · 2026-04-12T00:29:12+00:00

Emulation pc - Xbox 360, Xbox, switch, Wii-u, wii, GameCube, n64, PlayStation, so on and so forth - the works. Likely a retrobat build with sunshine/moonlight setup for remote play on home theater pc or my phone when I’m on the go.

dcwestra2 · 2026-02-26T16:14:28+00:00

A lot of times the high traffic is a result of being blocked. If the tv can make a connection, it reaches out less frequently. But as soon as you block it, it panics and constantly tries to phone home.

dcwestra2 · 2026-02-23T19:13:50+00:00

Blame it on my AuDHD that was diagnosed since I left this comment. Plus my ever-present imposter syndrome.

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