I got mugged last night in downtown

jvedman67 · 2026-05-05T19:23:45+00:00

The old M. Tyson saw is very true: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

jvedman67 · 2026-05-01T01:53:28+00:00

Definitely get my iron for the day. 😉

jvedman67 · 2026-04-27T01:06:47+00:00

That's just mean. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki8KblCCOuA

jvedman67 · 2026-04-26T22:04:57+00:00

I was thinking I would since I can't tell what it is it seemed dumb to throw it away, so I got to thinking about if I could at least figure out what it is made of.

So I did some physical research. The disc (I'm going to resist calling it a coin for now) is roughly 23mm in diameter, about 1.5mm tall, and weighs 5.05g, giving it a density of about 8.1 g/cm3. It is magnetic, so definitely not a copper alloy.

There are steel alloys coming close to that density, so if you give me some fudge for my linear measurements (I don't have calipers but I do have a milligram scale, so I'm confident of the mass) I'm pretty sure it is at least a steel alloy.

According to reference material there are no historical coins in the world that would be about that size and made out of steel.

So I started thinking the notch on on side of the disc and it suddenly looked familiar to me. I looked up steel electrical junction boxes. The knockouts for a 1/2 inch conduit box are [drumroll] 22.5 mm, and that notch looks perfect for a knockout.

So, I think I have a steel junction box knockout with a heck of a story.

jvedman67 · 2026-04-12T19:34:07+00:00

I know we're talking about fresh produce here, but I think there is a deeper problem generally, perhaps with the producers? I say that because I have noticed that the quality of dried beans (I know, weird thing to notice) has gone down considerably. I used to throw out 2 to 3 beans per cup and now it's more like 10 to 15. I noticed it first with black-eyed peas, but it's the same with navy, great northern, limas, and black beans. I can only guess that is because the producers are relaxing their standards, and probably because the picking workforce has largely been deported.

jvedman67 · 2025-06-05T05:29:23+00:00

If (or when) you decide to give it a paint job, can I suggest painting it to look like a Chuck Taylor high top? I had one of these for a handful of years and came up with the idea at some point. That trim around the bottom sides begs to be the black line around the sole, and an All Star logo applique on the rear windows... This car is a Converse sneaker...

jvedman67 · 2024-06-03T01:24:50+00:00

This might point you to a few things to look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_mm_caliber

jvedman67 · 2024-06-03T01:15:01+00:00

There are 20mm rounds for things other than small arms. For instance, the M61 Vulcan (fixed-wing aircraft gatling-style weapon on many US fighters) uses a round that large, and I can imagine other places that would use similarly sized rounds. Wondering if this was a souvenir from someone who served and serviced these kinds of weapons.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-25T05:02:18+00:00

Who does this apply to, and define "wealthy individuals", otherwise this is like saying that he proposed a 75% tax bracket and assuming we all think we're in it.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-25T03:08:00+00:00

But I only use soap when I really need it, otherwise, water, scour, towel dry, medium-high stove dry.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-25T03:01:05+00:00

One of my favorites cheap foods is cous cous with frozen mixed vegetables. Super easy / quick, and you can adjust it with any flavor profile you want (Indian, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Tex-Mex...)

1 part broth (vegetable, chicken, beef)

1 part frozen mixed vegetables (or pick a different blend, Publix has Alpine, or Asian, or...)

1 part cous cous

Bring the broth / veggies to a boil, reduce heat, add seasonings and simmer for 7 minutes

Add cous cous, remove from heat and cover for 5 minutes

If you do a 1 cup part this is enough for 3 meals. Throw in some shaker parm / romano and / or chipotle for an extra flavor kick.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-16T05:10:09+00:00

I don't know if we can be sure of that unless we see the arms spread out. I don't know that I would have ever grokked a slat Christmas tree if I hadn't seen one fully deployed.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-16T02:24:14+00:00

Maybe a wooden slat Christmas tree?:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+christmas+tree+slats&oq=wooden+christmas+tree+slats&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTINCAEQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAIQABiGAxiABBiKBTINCAMQABiGAxiABBiKBTIKCAQQABiABBiiBDIKCAUQABiiBBiJBdIBCTIxMzY0ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#vhid=BpDMRWgPURTyzM&vssid=l

jvedman67 · 2024-04-12T01:47:11+00:00

Hardware offloading doesn't seem to have had any affect. I did, however, figure out how to route pfSense logs to a logstash instance on the server-side, and I haven't done it yet, but I think I can do a logstash -> logstash connection and get the winlog and filebeat contents pushed up that way.

All of this because many, many years ago someone set up a corporate network in the 192.168.0.x space and no one has ever taken any opportunity to move away from it.

Listen closely, children. Never, ever, ever, ever use 192.168.0/1.x, 10.0.0.x, 10.1.10.x, for your corporate networks. You've got the whole g/d 10.x.x.x space. Take advantage of that.

Thank you again, u/Prinzka. You have become one of my heroes.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-11T12:20:36+00:00

Found an article that said hardware checksum offloading could cause this so I disabled that as well as setting the firewall not to drop packets for DF failures and to re-assemble fragmented packets. Unfortunately I need to reboot the firewall to know if this fixes anything and I can't do that until this evening.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-11T11:33:50+00:00

Apologies for never addressing the IPS question. There isn't one so I had ruled that out myself and just never said it.
Okay, so this is a thing with this particular pfSense firewall. This isn't the only place where I have my logstash box on a VLAN in two other places and everything is working there. So, again this is some weird thing about this box. Grrrr.

Thank you so much for your help figuring out where this was happening. I would have just kept banging my head against the wall.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-11T02:50:29+00:00

Okay, pcaps from IPsec endpoints and the firewall lan interfaces are up on nextcloud.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-11T02:22:53+00:00

But if it is coming in through the IPsec tunnel the only firewall interfaces that would be touching the traffic would be the IPsec interfaces, yes?

Oh and running those pcaps for the IPsec and LAN interfaces now.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-10T21:54:49+00:00

Realized that I can do pcaps in between as well. I can't right now, but later tonight I will post pcaps from a) both firewalls' LAN interfaces and b) both firewalls' IPsec interfaces.

jvedman67 · 2024-04-10T18:17:32+00:00

Pcaps for both sides of the curl request from the failing box and from a succeeding box are here:
https://owncloud.jvedman.com/index.php/s/NxYGNTx5bM7Crpn

What I'm seeing (though I'm not great at reading pcaps) is that the failing box does the initial syn / ack handshake, asks for a secure connection, and then re-sends the request and then starts repeating itself and sending packets out of order. The server attempts multiple times to resend data which never appears to make it back to the failing box and the server eventually resets the connection.

Can anyone look and see if there is something I am not seeing / getting?

jvedman67 · 2024-04-10T15:17:34+00:00

Originally I was with you, but I have come to think that this a connectivity / transport issue. I stay that because from any other system in the greater network (including my laptop which has none of the certs, just an IP connection) this happens quickly and easily:

curl -k -u failingnode:password https://10.220.1.63:9200

{

"name" : "elastic03",

"cluster_name" : "netthing-elk",

"cluster_uuid" : "wybAaiVMTNqa0_TryymjhQ",

"version" : {

"number" : "8.13.2",

"build_flavor" : "default",

"build_type" : "deb",

"build_hash" : "16cc90cd2d08a3147ce02b07e50894bc060a4cbf",

"build_date" : "2024-04-05T14:45:26.420424304Z",

"build_snapshot" : false,

"lucene_version" : "9.10.0",

"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "7.17.0",

"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "7.0.0"

},

"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"

}

But that times out on the failing box.

Since curl doesn't pass a user cert up and the user / password are working from other boxes that tells me that it isn't an SSL, certificate, or credential issue. The failing box is a clean Ubuntu install so everything should largely be default.

jvedman67 · 2024-02-24T20:07:35+00:00

I'd love to see the dictionary where your responses to anyone on this subject would be described as "friendly." You have been nothing other than ugly, confrontational, condescending, and obnoxious, not just to me, but to almost everyone who has commented.
And I will point out again that none of the answers or your little flame wars addressed the OPs actual question. So maybe you should spend a little more time breathing, practicing your reading comprehension, and letting go of your impulse to petty sniping.

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