i might’ve gone a little nuts with the defcon bracelets

please god i need to work with more female embedded software engineers PLEASE HELP

come find me at defcon & i might give u a bracelet 💎🪿

working in aerospace means that every male software engineer i’ve ever talked to starts out by saying “i don’t know anything about networking, but” & then proceeds to argue with me for 20 minutes about why their idea of how the network should work is better than mine

found out recently that the protein powder i’ve been eating consistently for several years apparently has higher-than-safe levels of lead & arsenic in it. so maybe that explains some things huh

Mike & i recently tested 295 ft of uncoiled CAT6 for science TL;DR - the heat caused both coiled & uncoiled tests with the same cable to fail CAT6, but otherwise the results between them were so close we came to the conclusion that coiled vs uncoiled makes very little difference in performance 👍🏼

(shame sign hanging from my neck in the lab at work: ) my name is lexie ive been a network engineer for 7 years & i do not know how to remove a NIC from a server

i don’t think i’ll ever be fully done grieving my old girl, but i miss having a dog around so much. so i’m looking to rescue again. trying my best to do due diligence. Mae was lightning in a bottle, so keeping expectations low. would just love to have a wagging tail & cuddly snoot around again

Anyone know why RFC number 10000 was skipped? Is it still to come? Will it be a good one? Shall we have a house party for the big day when it goes live? We should have a house party for the big day when it goes live.

god i loathe the enshittification of the internet how about i just have whatever followers i have without trying to squeeze every last drop of $$ i possibly can from all interactions with other human beings. i know this is a privileged position to take but these emails piss me off so much

anybody got a hookup for some EX4300 or 4400s

dude this is so cool @lumafield.bsky.social sent over scans of those random ethernet cable connectors that Mike & i tested a while back… look at the (lack of) twisting in there! more to come soon

if working in aerospace has taught me anything it’s that any engineer who speaks in absolutes about hardware is full of it

the saga continues: testing suspicious amazon cables 👹

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guess what im doin today

people who use AI to make stuff 99% of the time announce loudly it to the rest of the world using language that implies THEY made the stuff, THEY coded it. ask them directly if they made that shit. it always comes out that they prompted it out of an LLM

Every time we discuss mass surveillance, these are the horrors that happen. Because the abusers are in the system, and use it to harm. Tech-enabled abuse, at mass scale, impacting real people, real lives. Violating the victim 100's of times.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

damn there are some amazing games coming out soon. new GoW, tomb raider, fable all look fantastic

real talk is cisco live now just white guys with beards interviewing other white guys with beards about AI

ngl i’m getting kinda exhausted from being expected to be various parts firmware engineer, electrical engineer, network engineer, software engineer. i do miss being just a network engineer

see some of yall at NANOG this week! i hope! :)

set up an ssh tunnel in mobaxterm for the first time ever everybody clap

i bill myself as a late riser & chronically distracted but it’s all a lie so people will leave me the f alone in the morning & not expect too much of me

i will be at NANOG 97 in bellevue next week with my colleagues. feel free to say hi! i have never been to a NANOG before 👁️〰️👁️

cybersecurity is hilarious bc a hacker will be known by a name like siD3w4ys_d4rKst4r or some shit & it’s just a middle aged dude w glasses who coaches his kids’ soccer team

man i really need to hug a dog

bought a bunch of “CAT7/CAT8” cables off amazon and, well… here are the test results of the first one. can’t pass CAT6a, debatable on CAT5e!! 🫣

anybody have any tips for this pal in kenya looking for hardware to practice on?

i love junos firewall filters so much omg