brian_cunnie

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by brian_cunnie 7mo ago
> For me it's that writing code is really enjoyable, and delegating it ... This. On my fun side project, I don't accept pull requests because writing the code is the fun part. Only once did someone get mad at me for not accepti
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by brian_cunnie 9mo ago
My work has IPv6, and my home has IPv6. If I need to connect to my home Fedora machine from work, a simple "ssh fed.nono.io" works just fine — I don't need to activate my Wireguard VPN; I don't need to worry about addres
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by brian_cunnie 9mo ago
Thumbs up on Concourse CI: I like seeing all my builds at once on any easy-to-read dashboard. That’s why we switched from GitHub actions: the dashboard.
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by brian_cunnie 11mo ago
> ascetic tech monks where we did this for the love of the work and not purely for status or money And this is not limited to 2010s! My father worked as a software engineer in Poland in the 1960s, and the communist party had a problem: e
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by brian_cunnie 11mo ago
> not a single person has ever said to me "I'm doing this for the love of it". I'm doing this for the love of it. Maybe "love" is too strong a word, but I certainly "like" what I'm doing, and
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by brian_cunnie 11mo ago
Measuring oneself as an engineer by the title of the salary band you're in is a disservice. I remember at Bell Labs they had one title: MTS (Member of Technical Staff). You were an engineer, and that was that. (disclaimer: there were a
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by brian_cunnie 11mo ago
Sometimes I log into the root account to see the billing information. I created an "administrator" account, but apparently it can't see the billing information, including the very-important amount of remaining cloud credits.
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by brian_cunnie 1y ago
> [IPv6] only exists in datacenters My experience is different: Comcast has been doling out IPv6 addresses for at least a decade, at least in San Francisco. My T-Mobile phone gets IPv6 addresses. My work and my swim club also have IPv6.
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by brian_cunnie 1y ago
A year ago I changed my CONTRIBUTING document to say that I don't accept pull-requests on my very modest open source project (a special purpose DNS server) I like coding, but am not fond of reviewing other people's code. Also, the
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by brian_cunnie 1y ago
I typically get a takedown notice a couple times a week, usually from my registrar (Namecheap) or from Netcraft, about 100 so far. I keep a public (transparent) list of takedowns, on a public repo on GitHub. The commit messages are the logs
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
> I have personally been bitten once (about 10 years ago) by btrfs just failing horribly on a single desktop drive. Me, too. The drive was unrecoverable. I had to reinstall from scratch.
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
Agreed. It takes more than a few developers to support older operating systems. At my old job we supported only two versions of our software product, Tanzu Operations Manager versions 2.10.x and 3.0.y), and we cut new patch releases every f
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
> you can make a one-time donation of $5 to a charity of your choice ... The Alcoholics Anonymous San Francisco website had to implement CAPTCHAs on their website because scammers were making one-time donations to make sure their stolen
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
I don't think a modern firewall can MiTM HTTPS TLS without triggering a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" (Firefox) or "Your connection is not private" (Chrome). Edit: typo
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
Good point! I've also played almost a year's worth of World of Warcraft — it happened organically!
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
Thought-provoking piece, but I think it ignores one key item: we naturally gravitate to doing what we love. We don't need to write them down. I never wrote down, "build a dual-stack homelab with a handcrafted firewall and a 10Gbe
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
Fedora 45?! Dang, I only upgraded to Fedora 40 but days ago.
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
> As though students from different generations didn't do exactly the same thing about the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Wars. I remember protesting at Penn in '85 ('86?) to persuade the trustees to divest from compa
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by brian_cunnie 2y ago
My brother's college roommate became an actor instead of a lawyer. Now fifty-seven, he confided, "I think I made the wrong decision."
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
I consume about 67 mL of olive oil per day; I buy 6 liters of olive oil every 90 days. I'm type II diabetic, diet-controlled, which means I have to get my calories mostly from fats because I'm on a restricted carbohydrate diet.
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> unix being a thrown out the car window by AT&T at speed I beg to differ; when I was at AT&T in the late eighties we tried to enter the computer business, on the PC side with Olivetti, and on the UNIX side with the 3B2 minicompu
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> rules as written/rules as followed As a bicyclist in San Francisco, if I follow the rules as written, I cause traffic. Cars expect me to blow through four-way stop-sign intersections, and if I stop and wait for the cars, the drive
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> suggest a downward spiral involving substances first. Anecdotally, as a person in San Francisco who's been in recovery 23 years, all the people I know who were once homeless became homeless because they were abusing drugs and alco
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
I couldn't make changes to my USPS (United States Postal Service) account for years because it kept flagging my last name, "Cunnie", as an obscenity.
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> Regarding migrating to new issue tracking systems, "not maintaining history" is absolutely a critical fail at that org Sometimes it's not a critical fail; sometimes it's a permissions issue: only a small subset of d
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> doctors are prescribing it left and right while there is money to be made I think that's painting with a broad brush the motivations of doctors. Case in point: when diagnosed with diabetes, my doctor suggested attempting a modif
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
I must admit I'm at a loss about this IPv6 hate. I love IPv6. I love that (almost) every IPv6 subnet is a /64. Just this morning I assumed an IPv4 subnet was a /24, only to discover it was a /20, causing me to spend a co
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> there were like 5 updates of OPNsense in the last year where different IPv6 issues were fixed (and others have been introduced) That's a bummer. I've been using FreeBSD + pf at home for years now, and it's been smooth sa
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
I like the article, but I wish there had been an "Abstract" or "Executive Summary" at the top so that I'd be spared having to read the entire article to find out the results. I'd like to have seen something alo
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
I’m American, and as a kid I loved playing the game “Cream the Carrier” (tackle the ball-carrier). The closest analogue as an adult was rugby, and there are four rugby clubs in San Francisco, so I played for one of them.

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