Eleven billion dollars and no one knows how to format a float?

my goal in life is to make people search "<weird abbreviation containing slashes> meaning tech 2026" each and every time they interact with me

packets go in. packets go out. you can't explain that.

Meanwhile I'm over here announcing my own /36 via BGP, running NAT66 failover on my WG tunnels, and building anycast infra across continents -- all on IPv6. The bugs are real, the pain is real, but the answer is moar v6, not less. Come to the dark side Jeff, we have 128-bits and no NAT hairpinning.

Jeff Geerling@jeffgeerling.com · 3mo ago

Today I disabled IPv6 on my home router entirely. There are (sadly) too many devices and services with obscure bugs when it's enabled, and I'm tired of playing whack-a-mole sysadmin just to keep a full IPv6 stack. I'm not sure we'll ever see full IPv6 adoption.

Other apps: Yeah we are going to need... $500K in funding, so donate!! Padding Labs and Scan: a $5 dono to cover my coffee expenses will do, thanks, i love you

I feel like it can't be coincidence that the front console of my Chevy Bolt perfectly fits my 50W mobile radio...

pork butt

NASA can talk to astronauts in space but we can't do Simplex comms to a boat 20m away. Thats RF in a nutshell.

Telia Carrier can change their name as many times as they want. I'll always be able to spot them fucking my overseas connections.

Sleep well, Earthlings 🌔 ⭐ Make we all wake into a world of respect and unity 🧡

so uh... does this affect the antenna SWR?

I swear I was talking about putting dates on jira tickets

It should be illegal to change your seat into an empty middle seat on a flight. Like come on.

shrug.pw

if you guys spent half as much time on code review as you do on harassing random open source maintainers with pure vitriol then any concern you have about security would be obviated.

DevOps can't be dead if it never existed to begin with.

and i'm self employed

Demetri@phdemetri.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Should show this to my therapist

triscuits are just savory shredded wheat you don't put milk on

Pro tip: Use GitHub for software development so you too can spend time reviewing a change for a client and then have GitHub lose all your pending comments because they don't know how to use computers.

ffs azure is such a piece of shit platform

Sup

Fosdem '26 is around the corner and the greatest thing is that we (the rockylinux community, heh) will be there, so come visit us, rumour says we have extra fun swag to give away this year to our dear visitors! See you in Brussels! fosdem.org/2026/

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, and calling it anything else was considered a civic duty. Truth still existed, technically, but it had been reclassified as a nuisance--something to be managed, contextualized, and buried beneath statements reminding us not to jump

2026 is the year of LLMs achieving limited intelligence. ...just kidding, they still think it’s 2024.