Matthew GarrettWondering why a bunch of my network infrastructure was weirdly slow and finally discovered that the cable to one of my switches had come loose on my router and the eero plugged into that switch had lapsed back into wireless backhaul and was happily routing everything else plugged into that switch via wireless instead but my wireless backhaul is absolute dogshit so everything sucked
My network topology does not seem especially complicated but it's already complicated enough that things can break in ways that cause abject confusion so clearly I should just get into BGP because how could that possibly be worse
("Why do you post like this, Matthew" I hear none of you say, but I respond anyway. Because growing up I never saw people who knew things about computers talk about how everything was broken most of the time and so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, and now I am here to tell you that despite being *extremely* computer my stuff is randomly broken all the time and it takes me far too long to figure it out, so it's not you we just build things that humans are bad at handling)
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are
@ryanc Ok but printers are broken for *everyone*
@mjg59 My printer works fine, but I do keep a baseball bat next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.
@ryanc I recently introduced a printer I found on the sidewalk and I am astonished it has not tried to murder me in my sleep
@mjg59 How do you know it hasn't tried to murder you, though? Maybe it's trying really hard, but as a printer, the logistics of murder are very difficult.
@ryanc I mean honestly if a device wants to murder me but has no capability to do so do I even really care
@mjg59 Maybe it's slowly poisoning you?
Henryk Plötz@ryanc @mjg59 If I were a printer, trying to murder someone, I'd subtly alter the numbers on any printout, hoping to corrupt a medication plan or something.
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the “condensed time line” section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so. <iframe width="700" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c0O6UXrOZJo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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