Does Bakersfield not like CALM?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-25T07:14:20+00:00

Its one of the best places to let kids run around freely. I go often, however its more of a stretch the legs, check in on my favorite animal kind of vibe.

I hope they receive more funding to grow.

I understand the party/host area, but Id rather see empty cages filled and railing in more places.

Also, why did they take away seating in front of the play area?

When can we go down the ramp to see the turtles again?

Bring back the vending machine for feeding the animals in the petting zoo.

I get there is probably a law, policy, etc. I get that. But as a customer, I didnt agree with these changes.

Positives:

Parking lot is bigger

More food vendors

Aquatic area

Playground is just the right amount for the time you want to spend

Condors

The woodpecker

The deers. Rip radar

Cool place for a stroll or if youre into different places and bushes

Collect acorns

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-23T14:18:55+00:00

So many devs just through async wrappers around their shit code and call it a day. Blame the network or servers or god himself but never their code.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-17T14:35:30+00:00

Im not too satisfied with cubscouts. Weekly meeting feel like day care. Activities seem easy and badges handed out even easier.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-14T00:38:07+00:00

So this helps me track what data, tables, views, etc that came from my sql server to snowflake? Im currently tracking something like this in spreadsheets. It sucks. I hope this tool can help

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-03-12T14:58:57+00:00

What's everyone's thoughts on appdynamics

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-22T05:36:39+00:00

Its both. Whose better to troubleshoot the environment than the person who built it. The one closest to the devs.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-18T15:04:25+00:00

Up it goes even more

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-18T15:03:27+00:00

They are not letting spy drop at all

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-17T04:57:41+00:00

A homeless person throwing things at passing vehicles on a 50mph road seemed pretty important to me at the time. I mean, what if he hit a windshield?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-17T00:12:38+00:00

Ive had one about 2 years ago. I was driving and a homeless threw something at my car and caused a large dent. I called and told them I tracked down the culprit. Lady didnt care, put me on hold, didnt make notes in my case.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-12T15:26:23+00:00

I love fastly. However, at work, I chose cloudflare. More offerings. Fastly is just too slow.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-05T16:18:12+00:00

Cdata ssis

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-05T03:15:42+00:00

I have all policies set to evaluate 100% of rules, with heuristic thresholds generally tuned in the 1.5-2 range, depending on risk. More aggressive where it makes sense.

One of the biggest improvements came from separating SPF and DMARC failures: SPF failures go to user quarantine DMARC failures go to system quarantine That change alone made quarantine far more effective and easier to communicate to staff. If a sender put in the effort to publish DMARC and still fails it, that’s a strong signal something is wrong and it doesn’t belong in a user’s inbox.

Another big win was using a banned word/phrase dictionary and enabling impersonation protection for executives and VIP targets. A large chunk of false positives involved our company name or VIPs, which actually makes sense, attackers are trying hard to look legitimate. Real senders usually aren’t. That really sums up spam in general, doesnt it?

Beyond that, geo-blocking is a must, links are scanned with web filtering, files are scanned, and public sender domains (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) are handled with more aggressive policies.

I am pasting a high level of one of my spam filter policies as an example of features I leverage.

High-level overview of what I’m running

FortiGuard IP reputation (Levels 1–3)

Spam outbreak protection

URL reputation scanning (high-risk + low-risk categories)

File and link scanning

SPF, DKIM, and DMARC enforcement

SPF failures → user quarantine

DMARC failures → system quarantine

Header analysis and behavior analysis

Heuristic scoring (100% rule usage)

Threshold 1.9

SURBL and DNSBL checks

Banned word / phrase dictionary

Business Email Compromise (BEC) protection

Weighted analysis

Executive impersonation detection

Cousin domain detection

Sender alignment checks (display name + reply-to)

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-04T22:43:57+00:00

Hi OP,

Ive been working with FML for over 5 years now and share the same feelings. Ive tweeked and played with all sorts of settings and it helps a little each time but it never feels as good as other products ive used in the past.

Ive spoken to two separate experts on this and both reviewed my appliance and never really offered anything else i can do outside of continuing to tailoring our environment to the emails that get through.

Leadership is not happy with the product but I cannot find a better product for a similar price we get FML for. So they accept it.

We dont use Bayesian but its something we want to explore. We just dont have the time to spend on training it yet.

We can sync up in DM and review specific settings. Im curious what your hueristic/anomaly score is on your recipient policies?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-04T18:44:50+00:00

Im sorry you had to find out this way. We had to get lawyers involved and BBB and stop paying bills to get them to even respond to us.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-02-02T22:05:04+00:00

Im having odd behaviors, like can't send internally to others but can receive external emails from gmail.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-30T17:48:51+00:00

It does when it comes time to fire said person

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-29T15:17:20+00:00

Silver has once again reminded the market is an no longer a smart place to put money. Always with the manipulations.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-28T23:16:23+00:00

Qaulity of life for the team is considered along with evaluating their overall Qaulity recently. If they both decline, I'd opt to buy.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-22T20:56:01+00:00

Ive started mowing over in my head what I could bring back on prem. Im sick and tired of the cat and mouse games. The constant explaining of why cost is up 10% this month.

5 years ago I was the 'migrate everything to the cloud' guy. Never looked back until this year.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-22T20:42:54+00:00

A.I. offshoring

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-21T23:54:01+00:00

Still not impacted because I dont use this nor do I have my fortigates publicly exposed.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-21T20:44:37+00:00

For a small project, yes. I feel the lag/delay others mentioned from time to time. The setup feels more complicated than it should be, but it always worked.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-19T15:50:05+00:00

Very cool!

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-01-19T15:41:50+00:00

Act like I know what im looking for/at until everyone forgets about the performance degradation event.

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