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30 Years engineering and systems experience. Passionate about technology and solving problems.
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Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø4h ago
Badly-read literary snob7h ago
When I was young and naive I thought open source would protect us from the kind of abuse that has been proposed in California. Never expected it would provide a reference implementation
Show threadGrumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø7h ago
@strandbeutel @strandbeutel I suppose the right direction is going for no trains, so they will never be late.
Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø23h ago
Mediterranean sunset taken from hotel restaurant in Kusadasi, Turkey.
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Turkey #sunset #Mediterranean
Show threadGrumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø1d ago
@DoomsdaysCW @chis_r Basic electrical work is relatively simple. Taking care and checking your work is important. Buy a cheap multimeter so you can check that it is really off.
There is nothing complicated in a normal oven unless it is a modern enshittified wifi connected model.
Stay away from microwaves, they store energy for a long time.
I spent 10 years in a electronics repair workshop, I am still shit scared of microwaves and cathode ray tubes.
Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø3d ago
Wen3d ago

Researchers from Cornell University have developed what they call "the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale," a tool designed to measure how impressed people are by business school-style jargon that sounds strategic but says very little.

The findings, described in a recent study, suggest that employees who rate this sort of language as insightful are more likely to struggle with analytical thinking and workplace decision-making.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/15/corporate_jargon_research/

#Bullshit #IntelligenceTest

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

: Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth

The Register
Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø4d ago
Iā€™m contemplating another crazy idea.
I need/want to migrate a VPS in Europe to South Africa.
It is FreeBSD using ZFS so zfs send | zfs recv over ssh seems like a valid method, but it will probably take a really long time and you need to run as root. Anyway YOLO
#ZFS #FreeBSD #VPS
Show threadGrumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø4d ago
@rootwyrm
This is the wrong place to make up your own "facts" šŸ˜”
@catsalad @ramonfincken
Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø5d ago
A little video I picked up in r/shittysysadmin on reddit.
It speaks to me šŸ¤ŖšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜¬
#sysadmin #DNS #networking #routing #internet
Show threadGrumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø5d ago
@joyousjoyness Reminds me of our childhood border collie Flink (nimble,agile,quick) that was a brilliant fielder in our backyard cricket games. We mostly played one bounce, one hand for catches. Flink did proper catches but of course one bounce, one mouth also counted.
PS We played with soft rubber balls not real cricket balls in case you wondered.
Grumpy Old Techie šŸ•Šļø5d ago
Bison5d ago

Hello, I'm a woodcarver, and this is what I do āœŒļø

You can help me a lot by sharing my work, so people can buy or commission me sculptures.

Praying for octopus blessings on your life šŸ™šŸ™

#art