Telia Carrier can change their name as many times as they want. I'll always be able to spot them fucking my overseas connections.

Sleep well, Earthlings 🌔 ⭐ Make we all wake into a world of respect and unity 🧡

so uh... does this affect the antenna SWR?

I swear I was talking about putting dates on jira tickets

It should be illegal to change your seat into an empty middle seat on a flight. Like come on.

if you guys spent half as much time on code review as you do on harassing random open source maintainers with pure vitriol then any concern you have about security would be obviated.

DevOps can't be dead if it never existed to begin with.

and i'm self employed

triscuits are just savory shredded wheat you don't put milk on

Pro tip: Use GitHub for software development so you too can spend time reviewing a change for a client and then have GitHub lose all your pending comments because they don't know how to use computers.

ffs azure is such a piece of shit platform

Sup

Fosdem '26 is around the corner and the greatest thing is that we (the rockylinux community, heh) will be there, so come visit us, rumour says we have extra fun swag to give away this year to our dear visitors! See you in Brussels! fosdem.org/2026/

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, and calling it anything else was considered a civic duty. Truth still existed, technically, but it had been reclassified as a nuisance--something to be managed, contextualized, and buried beneath statements reminding us not to jump

2026 is the year of LLMs achieving limited intelligence. ...just kidding, they still think it’s 2024.

2025 recapped

infrastructure is a shared hallucination that occasionally stops hallucinating. plan accordingly. I helped bedford cert update emergency prep guidance because the most recent fiber cut proved we're optimized for normal, and normal is temporary at best article: thebedfordcitizen.org/2025/12/bedf...

AI "training" is a misleading term and should be retired. These models aren’t learning, understanding, or getting smarter. They’re optimizing loss functions via curve fitting in a high-dimensional space. Stop anthropomorphizing statistics. It’s getting embarrassing.

if the pay range for your "SRE III" role at a bank with $3.7T AUM is $65,000 (about a 50% variance), and the other train is approaching at 75 kilometers per mm^2 from the east.... why does no one want to work anymore?

Recruiter: *calls 3x from random numbers, no message* Recruiter: *sends guilt-trip email* Me: "what's the comp?" Recruiter: "somewhere between $130k and $195k" Me: "that's a $65k range" Recruiter: "yes" this is why people ghost interviews

my bank is denying my Anthropic credit refills because the charges don't match the merchant--Anthropic. i have so many theories and I bet they're all wrong but I'm so curious.

My social media manager (i.e., my cat, Noella) says I should've done a Cyber Monday post. She's right, but I had to release Rocky 9.7. In honor of Noella: get in touch this week for discounts on hosting or consulting: a few months free on annual hosting at shrug.host, and up to 30% off consulting.

new GPU (RX 7800 XT) and RAM (2x32G) kit waiting for me at Microcenter. It's gonna be really funny if/when I still have stability issues though I am hoping driving my two 1440p displays with anything other than a GTX 1060 will help a lot.

10.1 IS RELEASED. rockylinux.org/news/rocky-l...

is a new graphics card an Ordinary and Necessary expense for my business if my nvidia driver crashes every few minutes and makes KDE restart?

man why is azure

note to self: don't use cheap cr2032's in your car keyfob unless you want to accidentally strand your wife.

yoloing unifi and vyos upgrades at home tonight live on the edge. no one can stop you

When you play stupid games, don't be surprised when I award you stupid prizes.

America may run on Dunkin, but Dunkin' runs on Linux, soooo....

buying cyber security insurance would be so much more fun if my broker messaged me like > wanna cyber?

Cursed product idea: a vape that requires YubiKey 2FA before every hit. Market it to security professionals as "MFA-enforced harm reduction."

mfw i'm somehow subscribed to a listserv.state.ma.us list with no public DNS

I'll admit it: I didn't really understand default vs. alternative ACLs in Linux until a client asked me about them last week. So I did what I always do--pulled up a terminal and figured it out in real time, with them watching. (Also, getfacl and setfacl are cooler than I gave them credit for.)

No, docusign... I don't want an AI summary of a legal document.

has science gone too far? more at 11.

Best question from Texas LinuxFest: "If everything is a file in Linux, what kind of file is imposter syndrome?" Answer: /dev/null - you keep writing to it but nothing actually persists. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Rocky booth. You reminded me why I love this weird, wonderful world.

Linux makes you happy. 🤗

Day 1 at #TexasLinuxFest! Already heard one whole manifesto about why everything should be a flatpak (barf). Stop by the Rocky booth if you need: • To argue about init systems • Stickers (while they last) • Honest infrastructure consulting perspective See you there!

🎼 cross-PoP packet-loss 🎶

Off to Logan to head to #TexasLinuxFest today! See y'all there.

Heading out tomorrow to Texas LinuxFest this Friday with Rocky Linux! 🐧 If you're in Austin, come find me at the Rocky booth. Happy to talk about what Rocky's been up to or just grab a sticker and complain about something :) Who else will be there? Let's connect! Drop a comment or DM me.