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  • Like after specific Terminator models, or characters or…?

    Lol just had a funny thought:


    “What’s the server’s name?”

    “Max”

    T800@localhost: ping Wolfie
    PING Wolfie (192.168.1.10): 65 bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.123 ms
    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.110 ms
    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.115 ms
    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.118 ms
    64 bytes from 192.168.1.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms
    
    --- Wolfie ping statistics ---
    5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max = 0.110/0.117/0.123 ms
    
    

    “Your server is pwned…”


  • Slightly unrelated but when my family was remodeling our kitchen in the home I grew up in, we pulled the oven out and found the side of the cabinet had an interesting scrawl on it that must’ve been from one of the builders:

    “When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer.”

    I found it so amusing wondering what the motive behind that was. So I guess your hostnames kinda reminded me of hidden beer-related tradesman graffiti. XD


  • One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

    [monke, chimp, peanut]

    monke would be [0]

    chimp would be[1]

    peanut would be [2]

    Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p




  • "Scale with more ProxMox nodes? Don’t you mean

    S̸̡̗͉̰̭̬͙̲̩̖̫͔̹̓͛̓̈́̋̈́̊̂̕͡P̶̫̱̜͌́̒̐̄̈́́͐̒̅̆̎͋́͘A̴͙̬͇̐̋̓̋̇̋̒̏̀̀͒͡W̷̡̧̙̭̫̅̐͂̿̋̔̏͗͗̔̄͌̈́͝N̷̡̨̙͉̜̲̗̽͆̊̒̽̐̏̾̇̊̋̓̎͝ ̷̛̟͗̈́Ṃ̸̛͖̤̖̐̇́́̏̐́̋Ơ̶̼̤̣̊̎̔͑̈̈́̇̊͝A̸̧̢͇̣̰̫̙̼͈͈͈͉̼͙̻͑̽̿̊̌͝Ŗ̵̜̦͇̲̜̼͕̞̮̱̝̬̯̓͒̀͛̅͐̌͡͠ͅ ̵̧̺͕̖̘̟̭̥̳̪͖̗̤̞̎̈́̔͊͝O̴͓̼̥͆̈́̓̓͗̐̆̐́̀͂̕V̵̡͎͈͈̗̞̺̭̘͓̬̻̦̙͉̿̎ͅE̷̓̃̄̿̓̒̈́̇͋̑͘ͅŖ̵̛͖̣̼̘̜̹̻̜͍͉̫͍̞̉͆́̐̍̓̊̈͜L̴̛͉̜̩̞͇͕̞̟͎̱͛̇̎̓͝ͅO̸̡̧̢̯̭̟̝̺̩͔̬̜̼͚̬̽́̇̃̌̏̎̏́́̓͒̅̓͘R̷̨̫͍̹̗̮̹̯͆͗̕ͅD̶̨̡̪̼͕͇̻̲͊͑́͋̈̈́̔̅͠S̷̥̼̘̾̽̆̿̃̈́̾͆̾̏͝͡???"




  • For my ProxMox server stuff I went with Lord of the Rings. The idea being the servers would be locations and the VMs would characters.

    So right now my main server is Rivendell, and my PiHole on it is Gandalf (“You shall not pass!” Heehee eventually he’ll have OPNSense too…)

    If I get HomeAssistant at some point, obviously that’ll be Samwise!

    My Klipper VM for 3D printing is Celebrimbor, and the individual printers are named after various deities or myth figures of crafting/smithing/creativity like Brigid and Eitri.

    For my client devices, I name my personal hardware after BattleTech mechs and that works well. It’s intuitive because I can line up various roles and weight classes.

    So my main desktop is Timberwolf, and my laptops are named after light mechs like Kitfox or Mistlynx.

    Phones and tablets I don’t really care about, they usually just name themselves after their model anyway. :)



  • Wonderfully said!

    Indeed, when we’ve based our society around “get rich or die trying” and a constant state of misery is the motivator to work ever-demanding jobs with less compensation, and people are scared to lose the house over an ambulance ride…

    The US practically molded the cartels’ success from their own policies. A cartel is simply violent unfettered capitalism, after all. They are destructively “filling a need.”

    We could reduce or eliminate that need, but the State would rather crush their competition in the misery business.

    It’s no wonder we saw the serious rise of the cartels especially around the 1970’s and onward, and that’s when the working class started its increasingly rapid descent.


  • Lots of good responses here. That’d be a really scary find, OP, and I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. :(

    As much as I also long for justice, I also totally understand the inclination towards just nuking and paving the whole thing and moving on. Some factors that occurred to me:

    • Those posting it might be outside your nation’s jurisdiction.
    • They might just be bots set loose by unknown actors.
    • The above, plus they might be using “zombie” machines to bounce this material around unguarded servers wherever they can. It could be very difficult to ascertain who is behind this.

    I agree with others that you should only move forward under the guidance of a good lawyer, because you don’t want to be the most convenient potential suspect they have access to.

    If you could log their IPs or other identifying data and anonymously forward suspicions to authorities that would take action on them, that could potentially be a viable option. But again I’d ask a lawyer.



  • SpaceX without the evil.

    I dunno if there can be such a thing with a privatized space industry.

    At least NASA carried the hopes and dreams of people across the planet into space on their shoulders. Same with the cosmonauts before and alongside them, and all the other national space projects that lead to wonders like the ISS.

    (How telling that Musk is already running his dome about bringing the ISS down way ahead of schedule.)

    Privatized space exploration has finally managed to do space what corporations have always done: Make it depressingly boring and awful. There’s no wonder, no reverence, no awe. Just another unexploited opportunity for profits to a small group of sociopaths.

    And we’re supposed to be excited about this. Hooray.

    “Alrighty, boys and girls, if we get this rocket to space, daddy Elon gets stupidly richer and you get a pat on the back! Woo!”

    They dream of a world where people are working off lifetimes of debt but in zero-G, renting sleep capsules, subscribing to air, and seeing a night sky full of ad space, while they sail space yachts in high orbit.