Nerd That Talks Good

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Message therapist (not a typo), cybersecurity marketer, that guy with the glasses. 
I help founders and other smart people tell their stories even better. It pays to be a NERD who TALKS good.
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Nerd That Talks Good4d ago
Eric Alper4d ago
Before he lit guitars on fire, Jimi Hendrix lit up TV screens in 1965 playing backup for Buddy and Stacy on a cover of “Shotgun.” His journey started in the shadows—and even then, he stole the show. And there's video: https://zurl.co/bk7ZE
Jimi Hendrix Made His TV Debut in 1965 Playing Guitar for 'Buddy and Stacy' on 'Shotgun' - That Eric Alper

Before he became a guitar god, Jimi Hendrix made his TV debut in 1965 playing backup for Buddy and Stacy on Night Train. The song? A cover of “Shotgun.” The takeaway? Even then, you couldn’t ignore that sound.

That Eric Alper
Nerd That Talks GoodJun 1
BeyondMachines May 29
True definition of critical infrastructure
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 30

I just had the Nerds That Talk Good Podcast interview of my lifetime!

Can anyone guess with whom?

Nerd That Talks GoodMay 25
*glares in Scandinavian*
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 24

When you find out who I just booked for a podcast interview next week…

I am LITERALLY fan-girling right now. 😱

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Nerd That Talks GoodMay 21
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 21

lol, The Onion's still gottit!

https://theonion.com/june-2025-best-sellers/

#TheOnion #Satire #AISlop #AI

June 2025 Best Sellers

The Onion
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 20
Guys, I just found fourteen bottles of Dark Pashmina on the Dark Web.
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 18
David August ❌👑May 18
#USpol
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 18
Coach Pāṇini ®May 18

The most important thing to remember about creepy weirdos is that they are unserious people.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/25/the-most-important-thing/

The Most Important Thing

The Creepy Weirdos believe that rules should only apply to others, not to themselves. They think it’s okay to treat different people differently, even when it’s not fair. The most impor…

Inani Ludibrio
Nerd That Talks GoodMay 14
It’ll always be “Home Box Office” to me. 🥹
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BeyondMachines May 29
True definition of critical infrastructure
Show threadcynical melomaniac May 29
@beyondmachines1 "Touch and die" that about sums it
Show threadBjörnMay 29
@cynical_melomaniac @beyondmachines1 But there is a fan. So, there must be experts too 😁
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@funqr @cynical_melomaniac I won't mention names, but something not unlike to this similar saved my (and a large company's ass) one night when the storage crashed.
Show threadJohn Francis 🦫🇨🇦🍁💪⬆️May 29
@cynical_melomaniac @beyondmachines1 I prefer to retrieve death by slowly drizzling coffee into a stack of loose power supplies
Show threadDemonHouserMay 29
@beyondmachines1 a temporary fix will become a permanent solution.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@DemonHouser always
Show threadGrumpy Old Techie 🕊️May 30
@beyondmachines1 @DemonHouser I've seen way too many faulty sensors bridged in Industrial plants to stop false alarms and never replaced. Out of sight out of mind.
Show threadAlerta! Alerta!Jun 2
@DemonHouser @beyondmachines1 Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution!
Show threadCenobyte May 29
@beyondmachines1 I have one of these but the lid can be closed
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@cenobyte so it's no longer a temporary solution?
Show threadCenobyte May 30
@beyondmachines1 Nope being run as a research and dev server. Sagemath and a znc and a couple of other things
Show threaddragonfiMay 29
@beyondmachines1 Don't worry. As a software engineer, I can confidently say that the code that runs on them looks the same, it's just not as obvious.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@dragonfi as long as the code runs, it's fine!
Show threadMafaldaMay 29

@beyondmachines1

Out of curiosity the 3rd image, Técnico Lisboa, is the Lisbon School of Engineering. They probably made it themselves.

Show threadDavid HaighMay 29

@beyondmachines1 I had one of these at old job...it was only responsible for a daily report that drove $10MM in daily inventory purchases.

We chased that into the cloud in 2 weeks.

Although part of me will always worry, it's on that rack held up by 2 cardboard boxes...

Show threadSpaceLifeFormMay 29

@beyondmachines1

Cats report that it is not up to modern infrastructure standards due to the lack of a cardboard box.

Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@SpaceLifeForm
Show threadspiegelmamaMay 29
@beyondmachines1 Oh god. Sweet memories of college in the 1990s, when my tech-spertise was better than my sysadmin's.
Show threadxchangeeeMay 29
@beyondmachines1 I bet all those patch cables could hold the switch and the cardboard box is not actually needed
Show threadFoolishOwlMay 30
@xchange @beyondmachines1 You will certainly not regret putting 30 to 40 pounds of strain on your patch cables.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@foolishowl @xchange this should be fine...
Show threadGeoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿May 29
@beyondmachines1 The term is "Snowflake Server".
Show threadJoe's Computer MuseumMay 29
@beyondmachines1 I once had to power a voicemail server with a bench power supply because it would take too long to get the proper supply for it. This seems rather normal to me. :D
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@MuseumJoe one has to chase that uptime!
Show threadSörenMay 29
@beyondmachines1 @nivrig we have a Mac like that in a server closet. Exact same case design even, I think. It acts as a build host.
Show threadFrederik SeiffertMay 30
@chucker Until the day when the battery expands from being continuously charged and you buy a Mac mini. @beyondmachines1 @nivrig
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@fseiffert @chucker @nivrig or switch to RPi, like Technico Lisboa did 🤷‍♂️
Show threadLeelooJun 1

@fseiffert @chucker @beyondmachines1 @nivrig
The battery should not charge continously unless the charging circuit is broken. And my MacBook has lasted longer than half the Minis we had at work.

(Ok, we had two, one of them stopped working).

Show threadkajerMay 29
@beyondmachines1 i have done one of those things.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@kajer You still have ways to go then :)
Show threadTristanMay 29
@beyondmachines1
Ive done all of these in production. 
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@Tristan let the one who hasn't dropped a database in production cast the first stone!
Show thread Stellar 🇫🇷  May 29
@beyondmachines1 the first one... damn... even me as a total linux noob i managed to disable lid behavior when making a server out of a laptop
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@Stellar Yes. But: "this is temporary", just make it work.
Show thread🎸 POSS 🏁May 29
@beyondmachines1 who leaked pics of my infra??? lol
Show thread🎸 POSS 🏁May 29
@beyondmachines1 hey, at least i migrated 60TB of data today bc i moved the rack by a centimeter
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@Crimekillz@⚧.fm Achievement unlocked!
Show threadXenotarMay 29
@beyondmachines1 True
Show threadPaul_IPv6May 29

@beyondmachines1

at one point in my career, doing backbone for one of the largest ISPs at the time (50-60% of internet traffic), we had routers that were webbing strapped to shelves because we couldn't get rack mount kits for the gear.

i remember walking into 1 wilshire and seeing a CSU/CSU dangling from it's cable in the air in a competitor's rack.

critical infra does not guaranteed robust infra. :)

Show threadThe Psychotic Network FerretMay 30
@beyondmachines1 People do know it is trivial to disable power/sleep functions that occur on lid closure, right?
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@nuintari probably, but like the rest of the idea it was supposed to be temporary, so they didn't bother.
Show threadThe Psychotic Network FerretMay 30
@beyondmachines1 Nothing is so permanent as the temporary solution.
Show threadAnonomouse13May 30

@beyondmachines1

@PicardTips
This should be illegal.

Show threadVelvet (P R O U T)May 30
@beyondmachines1 "TOUCH AND DIE"
Show threadMichael BaudisMay 30
@beyondmachines1 Can be improved by stabilizing the lid with a (full) cup.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@mbaudis coffee, uknown days old.
Show threadJeffMay 30
@beyondmachines1 protip: make sure the internal speaker is connected, so that when you have a stack of these possibly hidden under another stack of papers and you need to find the physical hardware corresponding to what you can ssh into, you can make it beep. Or talk ("say" is pretty handy)
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@evilotto spoken like a true veteran
Show threadRunawayDanishMay 30
@beyondmachines1 The mysterious box with a USB that glows coming out of it is how we kept our home surveillance system functional. I had donated a 16gb flash drive from highschool that looked like it'd been through at least one war, it was quite the sight.
Show threadvollkorn (DECT 5676/"korn")May 30
@beyondmachines1 I like the last one: 'Touch and Die'. Security by threat of life.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@vollkorn depending on what will fail if it's touched and how much time one will need to work to recover the failed components, death threats may be warranted 🤷
Show threadvollkorn (DECT 5676/"korn")May 30
@beyondmachines1 Or it may just be a description of what will happen. For example, when it's critical infrastructure of an airplane you're on.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@vollkorn i'm imagining a Boeing 737 Max with a RPi somewhere in the avionics marked "Do not touch"
Show threadvollkorn (DECT 5676/"korn")May 30
@beyondmachines1 I'm afraid something to the same effect ist considered normal in other areas.
Show threadBeyondMachines May 30
@vollkorn looking at the series of unfortunate events that befell Boeing, it seems that it was (at least for a time) considered normal there as well...
Show threadKarstenMay 30
@beyondmachines1 this brings back memories... Once we dampened a fiber connection by twisting it around a pen because wrong transceivers and we needed to interface single and multi mode. It worked, and I can't tell you how long it did. We stuck a P-touch label saying "don't remove" to it 😸
@jwz