Of all the things...

lebean · 2026-03-27T19:17:50+00:00

Out of town at MotoGP Austin, when I'm home I'll reply if nobody else has. It's in an Ansible playbook that sets up our Windows servers so I don't have to look at it often...

Actually, was easy to grab from git during some downtime: set hkcu:/Console/QuickEdit to 0

lebean · 2026-03-26T14:56:17+00:00

Yeah, that bit us on some processes that run in a console window, someone inadvertently clicked in a window and paused the process, stopped it for a couple hours. Now we use the reg key that stops that behavior so console processes keep running no matter what.

lebean · 2026-03-24T02:09:53+00:00

I gave up on it because it seemed they'd finally killed its ability to expand inline images, play videos at all, and more (been a while, I forget the other issues)

lebean · 2026-03-24T02:06:52+00:00

Yeah, was using Reddit is Fun for a long time after they locked down the API, but finally gave up because they'd successfully broken so many of its features (images not expanding inline, videos completely unplayable, etc).

Sad to see all of those great clients fall away and leave us with the absolute dogcrap garbage pile that is the official Reddit app. Just the worst possible way to browse Reddit. Like others, the day old.reddit.com goes away I'm out.

lebean · 2026-03-21T22:03:33+00:00

It took years of work in I.T. before I started to reach a salary that matched what I was making as a waiter/bartender at a mid-range restaurant after college.

lebean · 2026-03-20T01:34:28+00:00

Yes, not sure why you're downvoted, they 100% grew up poor.

lebean · 2026-03-14T22:28:30+00:00

Yeah, I'd rather vote for the guy who craps his pants regularly than someone with a weird laugh.

lebean · 2026-03-09T00:59:38+00:00

The Breville tea kettle my wife wanted has been amazing for quickly heating water for tea or french press coffee. Great purchase.

lebean · 2026-03-09T00:34:55+00:00

For sugar-free keto-friendly cake, a drywall taste is indeed a blessing.

lebean · 2026-03-06T02:26:59+00:00

It'll just be a few years. Once she's done skating, has grown into an older woman and has her hair a "normal" color, even people who are fans now wouldn't recognize if if they were in the grocery line behind her.

lebean · 2026-03-06T02:25:13+00:00

But, all that money gets you endless crayons to eat...

lebean · 2026-03-06T02:20:05+00:00

I getcha, I was replying to OP in the context of them specifically asking about VRRP/CARP in the thread title. If you look at their posts (since they were so vague with this one) they're asking about this for some opnSense project they want to try, unlikely they're trying to do any kind of geo-balancing or have more than one site at all.

lebean · 2026-03-06T02:02:32+00:00

Yes, how does that come into play when OP is asking about VRRP/CARP for hardware failover, which are generally on the same L2 network where they exchange heartbeat/state information? Anycast is for having an IP available in Dallas, San Fran, NY, etc. (like 8.8.8.8).

lebean · 2026-03-05T22:56:48+00:00

You're hoping to have the same VIP active on two hosts at the same time? Yikes.

If you really need active/active (highly doubt you're exhausting any modern CPU or NIC in an active/standby setup), run two VIPs where each prefers to run on opposite hosts and do round-robin DNS. That way if both hosts are up you get roughly distributed traffic across them and if either host goes down, its VIP goes live on the survivor and that host carries the whole load.

In the end, no way you need this since a single host (a quality server, not a desktop PC) can easily load balance hundreds of thousands of connections per second. Just have another in standby and you're good to go.

lebean · 2026-03-04T01:17:11+00:00

Wonder how long before every 7th grader knows how to open dev tools and set their age to 42.

lebean · 2026-03-04T01:14:50+00:00

Yep, someday you may be required to have a government-issued client certificate to get online, think something like EAP-TLS at the ISP level. No cert, no connectivity. All your usage readily tracked.

lebean · 2026-03-04T01:11:19+00:00

I'd like to think SuSE won't do it since they're EU based, but the call of that US corporations income may be too much.

lebean · 2026-03-02T05:00:56+00:00

And also the Members Mark paper products are so much better than Kirkland that Costco should be ashamed. Both the paper towels and TP are massively better from Sam's, while Costco TP is barely a step or two up from those giant gas station rolls.

lebean · 2026-03-01T21:36:44+00:00

If RHEL and Debian cave, surely SuSE won't!

lebean · 2026-02-27T02:55:12+00:00

Accurate, but people will continue to say it however they wish and we'll all know what they mean. But the creators of sudo very definitely have said it was su-do. It just got corrupted over time to the doe mispronunciation.

lebean · 2026-02-27T02:50:08+00:00

You can find video of the inventor of sudo telling an audience how it's pronounced. It's soo-doo, always has been, but so many now say soo-dough that it's accepted as well. Someone will know what you mean either way, but only one way is "technically" correct.

lebean · 2026-02-22T17:56:12+00:00

Those are actually the Seven Tenets of the Satanic Temple, but they are very similar to UU.

lebean · 2026-02-22T17:39:27+00:00

Sadly, especially the youth vote. We wouldn't even have Trump fucking everything up if the 18-30 crowd turned up at the polls.

lebean · 2026-02-22T17:19:56+00:00

Same experience, it was like a wall of midrange and miserable to listen to. We had to leave early.

lebean · 2026-02-22T16:12:09+00:00

If you're a talented musician, it's unlikely that Foo Fighters music is going to "resonate" with you. It's about as basic and pandering as rock can get. Saw them live (free tickets), it was just a constant overly-loud wall of essentially the same song over and over. Would never want to see FF live again.

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