--- Log opened Fri Mar 01 00:00:12 2024
09:52 -!- Dagmar [1000@user/dagmarx] has quit [Ping timeout: 268 seconds]
09:52 -!- Dagmar [1000@c-68-53-29-198.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has joined #se2600
09:52 -!- Dagmar [1000@c-68-53-29-198.hsd1.tn.comcast.net] has quit [Changing host]
09:52 -!- Dagmar [1000@user/dagmarx] has joined #se2600
09:52 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Dagmar] by ChanServ
10:02 -!- Dagmar [1000@user/dagmarx] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds]
11:19 < Synx_> i'm in need of some creative ideas for how to test throughput/performance of a sff pc 10Gbe interface. I dont have any other 10G on my network actually i dont even have 2.5G lol. This pc has dual 10Gbe nic running opnsense, I'm thinking of iperf3 on one interface running direct to the other interface.
11:21 < Synx_> I am looking to first test routing performance followed by vpn crypto (probably wireguard) performance
11:32 <@opticron> I don't have other ideas for you, but what machine did you get?
11:37 -!- Dagmar [1000@user/dagmarx] has joined #se2600
11:37 -!- mode/#se2600 [+o Dagmar] by ChanServ
11:38 <@Dagmar> *phew* Finally got everything squared away on the new connection
11:43 < Synx_> opticron, picked up a used lenovo 720q, its 1L form factor with a single PCIe slot thats usable if you buy a riser and special low profile card mount
11:43 < Synx_> its got an 8th gen i5
11:44 <@opticron> ah, fun
11:44 <@Dagmar> Thank goodness so many people still make low-profile backplats
11:44 <@Dagmar> er backplates
11:52 -!- hbtq is now known as eryc
12:45 < Evilpig> Dagmar: so you're all business now?  heh
13:01 <@Dagmar> Something like that
13:16 <@Dagmar> Wow there's definitely an ample supply of boot camp coders on Threads
13:17 <@Dagmar> Someone was carping about people leaving a block of commented code in place, and I suggested that it's generally faster than dealing with revision control in the short term
13:17 <@Dagmar> ...and all kinds of nitwits are coming out of the woodwork who think git > *
13:18 <@Dagmar> I'm like, "Sometimes people expect code to do more than just look pretty in a logfile, man."
13:18 <@Dagmar> I do not think these kids are ready to deal with someone with 40 years of experiecnce
13:19 <@Dagmar> Leaving a block in for a few days until you're sure it's an improvement is not a big deal.
13:19 <@Dagmar> Leaving it in forever is a skills issue because both the commented and uncommented blocks are probably shitcode at that point
13:23 <@Mirage> LOL... The "Florida Man" games... https://youtu.be/VaC1w7PmJVU
13:23 < PigBot> Florida Man Games players steal catalytic converters, duel in the mud with pool noodles, and more - YouTube (at youtu.be) https://tinyurl.com/26d3rj7t
13:27 <@Mirage> Damn, it was on the 24th.   Dolemite should have left early for the cruise and hit that shit
13:44 < Evilpig> https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1032486
13:44 < PigBot> Liarmouth — The Movie Database (TMDB) (at www.themoviedb.org) https://tinyurl.com/2389ht5y
13:44 < Evilpig> this is guaranteed to be weird
13:44 < Evilpig> john waters directing a new movie and it's going to star aubry plaza
14:07 <@Dagmar> That's how we can know it'll be fucked up
14:21 <@Dagmar> Ooo!
14:21 <@Mirage> Yeah, Aubrey Plaza is all that was required
14:21 <@Dagmar> I need to go check that the utilization on the home cablemodem is tonight and save that as a PDF
14:22 <@Dagmar> If it continues counting up then I'm going to be a kaiju-sized dick to Comcast when I return their X1 box
14:22 <@Dagmar> If their accounting processes are failing again, then I would just love to nail them to the wall over that
14:23 <@Dagmar> "I'll pay the utilization surcharge when you explain to me how a cablemodem that wasn't connected to anything magically downloaded 240Gb of content"
14:25 <@Mirage> Run smokeping or something to check/validate upstream and then email your rep constantly about outages.  They love that.
14:26 <@Mirage> Of course w/ Spectrum here when I told one of the Sr Mgrs about my having graphs showing the issues I was having a couple years back he immediately wanted access to them to use in trying to troubleshoot why their shit kept breaking.
14:27 <@Dagmar> No, I'm just going to be a dick.
14:27 <@Dagmar> I don't owe Comcast a damn second of my time troubleshooting their shit
14:27 <@Dagmar> Stepson has been doing stuff with Unity but now that I'm thinking about it us hitting almost 1.8Tb in a month smells fishy as fuck
14:28 <@Mirage> That was the massive packet drops problems I kept reporting and none of the moron techs could discover..so they obviously would just claim they found a bad crimp somewhere and leave. It took almost a month and them sending an actual engineer vs a tech out to finally find the problem.
14:28 <@Dagmar> We were heavy users in December because free games.  January it was 500Gb over.  February, despite us saying something about it, looks like it's going to be almost 800Gb over
14:29 <@Dagmar> Boy can be thick but he's generally not that thick
14:29 <@Dagmar> So, I'm going to see if the utilization keeps going up despite the cablemodem not being connected to anything
14:29 <@Mirage> Just set a quota on his connecton in the house and throttle him when he gets too high
14:29 <@Dagmar> If it does I'm not paying those utilization over charges until they tell me why it's supposedly us
14:30 <@Dagmar> I don't have to do that
14:30 <@Dagmar> I was _about_ to, but I decided to switch to a business plan (with no caps) instead because we were already paying fuckin $260/month
14:31 <@Dagmar> At one point I had to say something to him and his friends about being wasteful because we almost went over because they'd do dumb shit like sit there streaming anime on the 66" TV all night while simultaneously watching other shit in 1080/4k on their fuckin' phones
14:31 <@Dagmar> We _almost_ went over then
14:31 <@Dagmar> He's not being followed by a swarm of idiot kids now
14:32 <@Dagmar> It's just the three of us on the connection
14:34 <@Dagmar> I mean, which is more likely... that the kid would ignore his mom suggesting that I'm ready to rate-limit his shit to the floor (because I told her I would if he didn't chill) or Comcast's processes being a complete shitshow
14:35 <@Dagmar> It took them forever to do something about the terrible state of security on their wifi APs
14:36 <@Dagmar> I also had to do a password reset on my account last week, which is fuckin weird because i'm the only one who would have changed it and I definitely did not
14:37 <@Dagmar> It's possible that boy was dumb and one of his little gutterpunk friends stole it out of his phone and was using it for free wifi
14:37 <@Dagmar> ...but changing it would have been very stupid
14:38 <@Dagmar> But if they want a bunch of money out of me when I can prove they have a fuckin' failure of security, that's going to go poorly for them
14:40 <@Mirage> Arguing with a utility is like arguing w/ 99% of women.  Regardless of who's right, you're still gonna be wrong
14:46 <@Dagmar> And yet I'll still be able to shit in their eyes on /r/Comcast
14:47 <@Dagmar> Dealings with Comcast Business are also separate from Xfinity 
14:47 <@Dagmar> I'd used my own metrics to check their shit before because we had a usage spike that seemed suspect
14:49 <@Dagmar> Reddit idjits would surely want to argue about whether or not Linux can count packets, but there's nothing to argue with "THe cablemodem is sitting on a shelf by itself connected to nothing for two weeks, supposedly downloading 400Gb of data"
14:53 < Evilpig> Dagmar: 1.8Tb of traffic and 500gb over.  lol amateur
14:53 <@Dagmar> Pfft
14:54 <@Dagmar> If I wanted to be a mega-kaiju dick about this, I noticed they now have a place where you can set your personal pronouns
14:54 <@Dagmar> They would be referring to me as "your Highness"
14:55 < Evilpig> I wonder what my traffic has been this last month.  
14:57 < Evilpig> it's down.  15tb last month and only 8tb this month with 10 days to go
15:01 <@Dagmar> Oh my.  They no longer have any way to list devices associated with one's account
15:04 <@Dagmar> Somehow we've used 9Gb today already
15:05 <@Dagmar> We'll see if that number continues to rise over the next few days
15:11 < Evilpig> that's why I have all my stuff behind my own gateway that tracks traffic
15:11 < Evilpig> all their modem sees is my gateway
15:11 <@Dagmar> I'm one of those weird people who thinks I shouldnm
15:11 <@Dagmar> 't need to worry about my ISP being completely incompetent
15:12 < Evilpig> but they are
15:12 < Evilpig> and there's something to be said for having your network be provider agnostic
15:15 <@Dagmar> Either way, that my bill is unaffected if I return their equipment today or in two weeks makes this _easy_
16:53 -!- NotLarry [~NotLarry@066-190-177-036.res.spectrum.com] has joined #se2600
17:29 < Synx_> I was given Eero's as my ISP equipment and them seem to be firmware branded to Frontier. I immediately turned them off of router mode so now they sit behind my firewall. However Frontier can still send out a signal and touch them, must be the wifi ap's connecting to Frontier and maintaining the socket.
17:31 <@Dagmar> GAVE UPON THIS AND DESPAIR: sed -i "s@^[^ ]\+[[:space:]]\+\([^[:space:]]\+\)[[:space:]]\+\([^[:space:]]\+\)[[:space:]]\+\([^[:space:]]\+\)[[:space:]]\+\([^[:space:]]\+\)[[:space:]]\+\([^[:space:]]\+\)[[:space:]]\+\(.*\)@$((RANDOM % 60) \1 \2 \3 \4 \5  \6@" "$cronfile"
17:31 <@Dagmar> Damnit.  s/gave/gaze/i
17:31 < Synx_> my brain hurts
17:31 <@Dagmar> I'm trying to eliminate some of these self-ddos conditions so I'm putting stuff together that will randomize exactly when a cronjob is run
17:33 <@Dagmar> I accidentally dropped a ) too
17:35 <@Dagmar> I'm making sure I put this one where I WON'T FORGET
17:36 <@Dagmar> Earlier this week I wrote a script that will apply package updates to both Debian- and RHEL-derived systems but I have NO fucking clue where I put it now
17:36 < Evilpig> that's why you put all that crap in a single directory that's got some version control to it
17:36 < Evilpig> you know this
19:21 < Evilpig> sorry about the meeting.  apparently i've got a little bit on my plate and i've been depressed so my family has been randomly calling to make sure i'm not dead
20:14 <@Dagmar> So... Would I be a bastard if I put a "leaked 2fa codes" file up on Github that simply listed all six-digit numbers from 000000 to 999999?
--- Log closed Sat Mar 02 00:00:14 2024