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07:04 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
07:06  * aestetix hugs Dolemite 
07:14 <@Dolemite> Well it took me a lot less time than I expected to get my setup working to move away from Google Apps.   I just have to wait for my parents to come back up from Florida in April to do the final move.   Trying to explain to them how to configure their phones to use IMAP - all remotely - would be too painful to bear.
07:15 < Evilpig> aint that the truth
07:16 <@Dolemite> But the iRedMail project does a great job of going ahead and setting up all the right packages and integrating them
07:17 <@Dolemite> And since it's using the packages instead of just grabbing source, they'll update with security updates as needed
07:18 <@Dolemite> Mirage_: Austin City Limits s47e11 - Duran Duran
07:19 <@Dolemite> That just bubbled to the top of my 'Watch Next' list
07:26 <@Dolemite> Fortunately Simon Le Bon still sounds the same.   No cracked voice like when Sting kept trying to sing Roxanne in concert.
07:27 <@Dolemite> Spoke too soon.   His voice cracked trying to hit the high on View To a Kill.
08:19 <@Dolemite> ok, that was an excellent episode
08:28 <@Mirage_> Hrm, new account that is "US Support Only" requires anyone supporting the account to pass an "IRS Background Check".  I wonder what that entails.
08:29 <@Dolemite> No red flags on your credit history, no financial crimes on your record
08:29 <@Dolemite> It's what Pamela used to have to do when she was working in securities
08:42 <@Dolemite> Evilpig: You gonna stick with 1 Gbps or upgrade your connection?  https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-new-fiber-plans-promise-some-of-the-fastest-home-1848412359
08:42 < PigBot> AT&T's Faster Fiber Internet Plans: Speeds, Price, and More (at gizmodo.com) https://tinyurl.com/y85s6yf7
08:44 < Evilpig> stick with 1
08:44 < Evilpig> to take advantage of higher I would have to upgrade pretty much my entire network stack
08:45 < Evilpig> I don't max out the gig often and just wouldn't justify the cost
08:45 <@Mirage_> By the correlation of times between when I request a validation code and when I see an error in maillog, It looks like equifax uses Amazon and that their outbound mail server is on a dnsbl list.
09:10 <@Mirage_> Just got my free yearly credit reports and checked my credit score.  Exceptionally boring, nothing outstanding, nothing that doesn't belong.  Credit score 807.  Think I need to work on that a bit.
09:11 <@Mirage_> "Your score was impacted because your credit report shows no recent non-mortgage installment loans or insufficient recent information about your loans."
09:17 <@opticron> Evilpig, I'm in the same boat with GF's 2gig service. I think I'd even be happy with the 500Mbps service
09:18 <@Mirage_> I learned my lesson back when I was first trying to buy a house about not having a credit card and beingt 100% debt free, which is that it makes you a financial leper and worse off than someone who's filed bankrupcy in the last 7 years.
09:18 <@opticron> my scores started dropping when I paid off the house and one of the cars
09:18 <@opticron> still >800, but only just barely
09:19 <@Mirage_> So I have 2 credit cards that I use.  One for online shopping and one for utilities.
09:19 <@Mirage_> opticron: never had a car payment, and we paid off the house last Jan
09:21 <@Mirage_> What kills me is ppl like my aunt/uncle and neighbor who view paying off a vehicle as a reason to trade it in on a new one so they can start the cycle all over again.
09:23 <@Dolemite> Heh, I will keep driving my Town & Country minivan until the wheels fall off.
09:23 <@Dolemite> Haven't paid for more than maintenance/fuel in uh...   I guess a decade, because I did a nearly even swap with my Ford Escape for it, which had been paid off for 5 years, already.
09:33 <@Mirage_> patching reboot, brb
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09:37 <@Mirage_> Being the DNS server, I should remember to connect to vcenter BEFORE doing a reboot, just in case there's an issue.
10:38 <@Mirage_> I guess what I really should do is turn the old firewall that's been sitting on the shelf for a while into a physical secondary dns and linux desktop connected to the KVM in the rack so that I can work on stuff if anything goes down, given that I virtualized all my other servers besides plex
10:55 <@Dolemite> woot.   Finally got my IP unblocked from outlook/msn/hotmail.
10:57 <@Mirage_> I take about 90% of what I read about COVID w/ a grain of salt anymore w/ the vast amount of uncorrelated/verified/validated "studies", but this is interesting and could explain a lot about the weirdness of COVID-19.
10:58 <@Mirage_> https://phys.org/news/2022-01-sars-cov-spike-protein-human-endogenous.html
10:58 < PigBot> Sars-CoV-2 spike protein activates human endogenous retroviruses in blood cells (at phys.org) https://tinyurl.com/ybgo5tvz
11:02 <@Mirage_> I like the commentary on this 'scandal'.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60091590
11:02 < PigBot> Netflix: First Arabic movie sparks morality row - BBC News (at www.bbc.com) https://tinyurl.com/y7reyytn
11:02 <@Mirage_> "We cannot ban the movie in Egypt and those against it have the right not to watch it," she added.
11:02 <@Mirage_> If only more would take that stance on other subjects...
11:04 <@Mirage_> Dolemite: Here's what you can trade the mini-van in on:  https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60072194
11:04 < PigBot> Flying car wins airworthiness certification - BBC News (at www.bbc.com) https://tinyurl.com/yb3rl4nd
11:05 <@Dolemite> Yeah, too bad the minivan won't have that much trade in value ;)
11:14 <@Mirage_> ok, so we've had random chickens each evening for the past few days which decide to hang out on the roost bar in the pen vs going into the coop (house).  I contend that it's because a bird's natural tendency during cold weather is to roost, which they can't really do in the coop.  The wife decided that it must be mites or something in the coop that are irritating them.
11:15 <@Mirage_> She just went out to check them for mites and reported back that, "Apparently the chickens don't like being handled and molested."
11:59 <@Mirage_> fuck nationalgeographic.  Not sure when it started, but now you have to subscribe or provide your email to read an article.. with no way to opt-out of the 'we will send you shit and share your email address w/ anyone who will pay us" immediately available.
12:01 <@Mirage_> Ranks up there with home depot/lowes regarding "would you like an email copy of your receipt?"  At least at Academy Sport they blatantly tell you up front that they share that and will send you marketing stuff.  HD/Lowe will admit it if pressed, but they aren't up front about it.
12:12 <@Mirage_> Don't rememeber seeing anything about this, "On September 9, 2015, the Society announced that it would reorganize its media properties and publications into a new company known as National Geographic Partners..."
12:13 <@Mirage_> Which is of course owned by Disney
13:09 <@Mirage_> Ugh, gotta do my self-eval before my EoY 1:1 w/ my manager tomorrow.   blah
13:25 < Evilpig> give us the questions,  we'll answer them
13:25 < Evilpig> you can't go wrong with that plan
13:26 <@Dolemite> ++
13:50 <@Mirage_> I suggested Wilbur's "Don't get fired" goal, but that didn't sit too well.
13:58 <@Mirage_> Hope we don't get the "obtain a technical certification" as a goal for this year.  I got lucky last year and was able to just give MS some $$ to extend my Azure Solutions Architect cert for a year, but I don't think I'm able to do that again w/o having to go take a test.   Haven't touched it AT ALL since doing the training and taking the test a to get it in the first place back before all the crazy 
13:59 <@Mirage_> started.
14:06 < Evilpig> I'm in the middle of an argument about patching our upcoming container platform and one of the arguments against patching regularly is "red hat is treating this like dev ops"  to which I asked which part of containers aren't devops?
14:19 <@Dolemite> DerpOps from the sound of it
14:21 <@Dolemite> Unfortunately Docker (the company) at one point was pitching the idea that containers were a way to preserve your legacy app in an environment that was insulated from patching
14:29 <@Dolemite> But even so, your host platform needs patching
14:30 <@Dolemite> You just have to make sure that you exclude your containerd from auto patching since updating it will restart your containers
14:31 <@Dolemite> Or whatever container env redhat is using these days.   I can't remember the name of it.
14:32 <@Dolemite> Mirage_: You should get your CompTIA certifications, again.   Surely any old ones you had have lapsed by now.
15:13 <@Mirage_> I thought about that last year before MS sent the email giving me the "pay money to extend and not have to do anything else" cop-out, which I jumped on
15:18 <@Dolemite> Yeah, I already told my manager that if they tried another crazy thing like saying everybody needed to get a new certification then I couldn't be held responsible for the words coming out of my mouth.   I'm 51 years old.   I just want to keep doing my job until I retire.   Fuck the ladder, let me stay on the rung I'm on.
15:20 <@Dolemite> Especially since we all know they'll want us to do it online with self study.   In that case certification is a crock-o-shit.
15:20 <@Mirage_> agreed
15:25 <@Mirage_> Just got out of an extremely painful zoom...training a new guy on a process that they customer trained me on and I documented and handed off to our L2's last Arpil.   Like I remember much of that...wtf
15:27 <@Mirage_> One thing came out that annoys me, which is that for the ASM disks for GRID the customer was extremely adament that the new disks needed to be spread out between 3 virtual SCSI controllers...and apparently the L2's aren't doing that now for whatever reason.
15:28 <@Mirage_> Personally I can't see that it really would make any difference, but the customer claims that it improves performance.  When/if they realize that hasn't been followed there may be a shit storm that I want no part of
15:30 <@Mirage_> Though I really don't see how it makes a bit of difference w/ _VIRTUAL_ SCSI controllers for _VIRTUAL_ disks off the same vSAN.
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