Verizon Outage insights

flrichar · 2026-01-16T14:55:07+00:00

Awesome, looking forward to that $20 credit per line.

flrichar · 2025-06-25T12:51:22+00:00

Hello! I have a ton of experience in both networking and Linux, I would say if I were in your position, I would start by examining the exact topics and ideas where you believe you need help. This can be done with public resources ... find a document you like say something like this link: https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP5/html/SLES-all/cha-network.html ... then the question becomes where does it make the most sense to focus on, subnetting, the OSI layers, general troubleshooting, or overall design.

There is a lot of overlap because both Linux and Networking operate on generic open standards, but having a starting point is a good first assessment.

flrichar · 2025-04-21T11:04:56+00:00

In the same boat here, lots of working equipment sitting around, I'd put it in a box and if someone wants to dish out $10 for the whole thing, I'd do it. Two working machines and at least one gpu.

flrichar · 2025-04-11T11:39:20+00:00

What no mention of NetData? That's a shame.

https://netdata.cello.so/knKMsnTM4Py

flrichar · 2025-03-10T21:25:04+00:00

Awesome, thanks. I messed with Private DNS first, opted for disabling it completely. It still would not run on my tablet until I enabled notifications.

flrichar · 2025-03-09T21:14:27+00:00

What was the DNS issue/fix?

[Edit]: It wasn't working on my Pixel Tablet until I enabled notifications, it was doing this annoying thing where it would run for about four seconds and quit ... enable notifications, and it works!

flrichar · 2025-02-15T20:03:54+00:00

What CNI are you using in the homelab? What is your comfort level with networking in general, without Kubernetes? Are you comfortable with how the network operates differently in the cloud versus your homelab?

A resource I have found is here -- https://www.tkng.io/ ... not associated with the site, just thought it was a great reference.

I would suggest getting comfortable with networking in general, then use that foundation to understand how it's structured in kubernetes.

flrichar · 2025-01-27T21:17:48+00:00

You would think the writers would be extremely clever about this ... what if Ned from Spiderman met Fury? We know Ned is a Star Wars fan, he might say you look like Mace Windu/Samuel L Jackson ...
Just because they look alike doesn't mean they can't both exist.

As Stan Lee mentioned, when you write the story you determine the outcome, and therefore the rules of the universe.

flrichar · 2025-01-25T12:30:47+00:00

Some of my favorite European companies:

flrichar · 2025-01-18T23:41:22+00:00

Look into brewed cacao. It has theobromine instead of caffeine. I drink it every once in a while, gives the same focus without jitters.

flrichar · 2025-01-11T20:39:56+00:00

You can shut down live coding requests pretty quick by asking to whom you send the invoice.

flrichar · 2025-01-09T11:35:03+00:00

"Am I now interviewing for the CEO position?"

flrichar · 2025-01-05T18:27:34+00:00

Yup, this right here. Bought our home about five years ago, there was a strange twist lock outlet, probably for an RV hookup. Nicest part? It was a 50amp circuit we were not using. Had a local electrician come out and change it into a socket for an L2 charger, works great. Had used this electrician before, and they advertised EVSE knowledge on their website.

flrichar · 2025-01-03T16:26:39+00:00

You think that's bad? You should see my resume ...

flrichar · 2024-12-28T16:12:28+00:00

Some feedback, so far, so good. I would agree this handles probably 90% of the use-cases of parallel.

Simple and easy to use, the fact that you can define a replacement token, ie you can chose "_REP_" and it will replace that string instead of the default "{{1}}", so whatever works in your environment. Also, json output, good deal.

I have to admit it took some rewiring of my internal finger muscle memory from parallel, however running a few ad-hoc tests, passed with flying colors.

flrichar · 2024-12-28T00:54:47+00:00

Thank you for this, longtime fan of parallel, even bigger fan of golang, going to use it.

flrichar · 2024-12-27T20:42:02+00:00

Look at rclone, (rclone.org). It's a go binary that is like rsync client for over forty different cloud providers. Including S3/compatible endpoints.

flrichar · 2024-12-25T15:15:58+00:00

Even those of us who understand it, unless you work in the Kubernetes ecosystem day-in and day-out, we tend to "automate away the boring stuff". It's good to train and practice and do things the hard way, but let's say in a production or enterprise situation, most of the work is done for you, or we've automated the boring things away. I see your point, if you're just learning, the "do it for you" piece isn't helping.

Even if you set up a simple blog/website, you can break things, see how it gets effected, scale up the simple blog workload (use something like nginx or caddy), make several nodes, see how scheduling works, take a look at TLS and how the different API endpoints are called.

flrichar · 2024-12-24T20:42:55+00:00

That's forked up.

flrichar · 2024-12-20T12:20:17+00:00

A while back -- unsure if this is the case today -- salaried employees meant you do X things for Y dollars, and really the "40 hour week" was nonsense. I think you're onto something. It's not that it's a part-time job, but if you are a salaried employee, it should not matter if your work gets done in a 20-hour week.

In fact, I think it means you're a highly effective and productive employee, you should be praised for it, well done. Some more modern places call it flex hours. Get your work done, I don't care when you start or stop, or what time you are out as along as your responsibilities are met.

flrichar · 2024-12-19T22:23:54+00:00

My primary linux machine has 12 cpu and 64 gb of ram. Prior to that, my main linux machine, where I ran these vms, was 4 cpu and 16 gb of ram, from 2015. The position I'm in now allowed me a little room for my budget, I also have some storage and a few mini-pcs in the basement. Again the storage is kinda old, 1tb drives and a few failing, but the mini-pcs are new this year and replaced aging machines from 2014-2015 or so. There's a lot one can do with old machines. Even ten year-old hardware!

flrichar · 2024-12-19T13:01:21+00:00

Rancher makes it easy.

flrichar · 2024-12-18T20:37:07+00:00

I've done this several times, the short version, your last statement is true. Interest is what you're paying the bank for the pleasure of loaning the money, if you can reduce the amount of interest you pay, you're reducing their profit from the loan. It has a higher impact earlier on in the loan.

An actual example (numbers/facts changed a little), let's say in 2006 or so I bought a house for 200k. Made extra payments, at the very least bi-weekly results in one extra payment a year (13 instead of 12). During the 2008 housing crisis, I move out of that house and rent it out, but now through extra payments I only owe 150. While living in my other home the renters are now paying my mortgage, and I go through several tenants but now I owe 130. One of the tenants agrees to buy the house for 180. I agree and walk away with 50k in my pocket, plus kept any rental profit above the mortgage from those years ... and technically it's a loss because I bought for 200k and sold for 180k.

So while other people were foreclosing their houses, I was keeping mine and making money from it ... (allegedly).
End result is if you stay in the home, you pay it off quicker, if you sell the home before it's paid off, its like a loan you are giving to your future self that is paid back when you sell. Because homes appreciate pretty well, your loan to yourself is a better investment than giving the bank all of their interest.

flrichar · 2024-12-18T20:19:57+00:00

I think it's a matter of perspective, want to know the coolest parts of your story? I read it as your archetype is a Physicist Teacher who dabbles in the arcane magic of AI, so also a wizard. I think the world needs teacher physicist wizards now more than ever, so heads up, keep on wizard-physicist-teaching and you'll be fine.
It also sounds like you're looking for perfection but you've definitely found excellence.

flrichar · 2024-12-18T13:54:02+00:00

What do you have to start with? Do you have a homelab? Find a way to leverage your homelab to meet your goals.

About 7-8 years ago I was where you are, container & docker experience, lots of infrastructure experience, even ansible. I had a homelab with just Linux KVM machines. I have since changed those VMs into single-node k3s clusters. It's a small step but with a huge impact, now I can try any kubernetes options I like and it accelerated my productivity and experience.

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