It scares me that the US is horny for "offensive cyber operations" against China, as if they didn't lay off almost everyone responsible for coordinating cyber defense, decided not to pay the rest, and can't even get their critical infrastructure providers to patch 20 year old vulnerabilities.

Back in meet prep! Bobbled this 441 single a bit at the bottom but it still moved solidly. The next 12 weeks will go by quick.

pi5 running pihole and unbound. Took me a bit too long to get everything sorted due to user error - documentation seems like it was written for a flat network so there was some additional work involved. But the end result is simple and effective. Would recommend.

Data recovery on 20+ year old hard drives is fun. Found an old backup drive in a box in the attic, fully expected it to be dead (enclosure ports were) but it spin right up. Fun reminder of how cringy I was in HS lol

Moved my Ludus server into the 21st century finally using some recommended hardware from @badsectorlabs.com! Upgrade in rack footprint (and power) over the DL180gen9 it replaced, plus now I can run it without raising my office temp by 5 degrees and tripling the power draw on my UPS.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵

An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

August 4th 2020-August 4th 2025! Rewalked the same route I did on day 1 of this crazy ride I’ve been on. Well over 100lbs down and still going strong!

Opened up Instagram to see a number of friends clustered in Las Vegas.

This is a problem. No, not because Sin City. Because Instagram apparently opted in everyone.

Turn it off under chat.

This IG/Meta Map stuff is scary af. Not a fan.

Made some bomb tacos last week. Homemade roasted salsa and carne asada. Sorrebought tortillas cuz I’m lazy and I don’t own a press lol

The lab’s undergone some upgrades since I last posted it - pretty happy with the setup now!

Bought some new jeans today - down another waist size! I was a 44 in 2020 when I first started working on getting in better shape. Today I bought 36s!

IT. IS. ALIVE!!!!!!

When the rack doesn’t arrive til Saturday but you wanna play with the new toys now🤣

Starting down the homelab rabbit hole. So far I’VE decided I’m buying a NAS and building the compute layer. However I’m torn on the network layer - anyone have opinions between the Unifi offerings and Mikrotik?

Repurposing a chromebook turned out to be way more of a rabbit hole than anticipated lol

I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.

Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?

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The odds of being attacked by a #cat with a tank are low but never zero.

Happy Belated or Almost #Caturday!

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