(And ashamed (because he thought his momma spanked the gay out of him))

I used to work with maritime electronics, both installation and maintenance, and I went through A LOT of ferrules. And now that I am building my personal tool collection I’ve come to appreciate the wurth quality.

Uh, no? It’s the opposite.

Source: I’ve used both at work. A larger diameter wire with square crimp will fit in a terminal block than a hexagonal crimp, and I prefer square crimp for this exact reason. The contact area inside a terminal block is flat, after all.

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For completely unrelated reasons, I just want to point out that it’s two months until Halloween… I think a masked person with a bayonet saw is what’s cool this year.

Having flown more than most, whenever I have downtime in an airport I make sure to find a good lounge (if available). Much better seating, calmer and quieter, and free snacks. I get to chill the way I prefer, and it’s generally a much better and less stressful atmosphere. Plus, they often have showers available if you feel like it.

So did Ultima Online almost a decade earlier.

Why is UO so often forgotten when people talk about early online play? I’ve even heard Everquest described as the first MMO.

Free except from the drive to get there. But the drive is a lot cheaper than those racks would cost.

Vent fans at the top and the bottom. But it can be next to my work desk without the hardware getting annoying.

Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.

Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.

Not much these days. While it used to be “everything”, now it’s:

• Http/https
• dns
• Wireguard
• Minecraft
• beegfs

Your electrical outlet looks horrified. Presumably because of the view.

Dullness trumps gender, so you’re good

I run the exhaust through the coffee for that extra cancerous flavor

That’d probably rattle some managers’ cages, yes.

Alternatively, a combination of find /, rand, xarg, and rm could also be fun; delete something random, and pray it was just a readme file

It won’t delete anything at all

This is actually safe to run, as --no-preserve-root is missing

My home servers have generally a lot smaller attack surface, as only a few ports are actually routed to them, so in theoey I could get away with a more relaxed approach. But I’m also a big believer in defense-in-depth, so I follow the same rules of thumb:

• iptables (or equivalent) that drops anything incoming that isn’t wanted. It also rejects anything going out that isn’t planned for.
• any public facing service (except ssh) gets its own user
• disable root login via ssh
• ssh login with key only on any user in sudoers

If I was on my laptop and not my phone I would post a screenshot with a P just for you

“…but at least I know I’m not free”